All Networks news – Page 1192
-
News
Aer Lingus will sign up strategic partner 'by the first half 2000'
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Aer Lingus should be ready to decide on its strategic partner by the end of the first quarter of 1999, enabling a firm agreement to be finalised during 2000. The airline's executive vice-president for Europe, Richard Luchente, says that the carrier is discussing a strategic partner ...
-
News
Air France plans US link to pave the way toward a global alliance
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France expects to join a global airline alliance based on an agreement with one of its two US partners, "before the end of 1999", according to the airline's president Jean Cyril Spinetta. The signing of the co-operation pact between KLM and Alitalia on 27 November ...
-
News
BA's CityFlyer buy bolsters Gatwick hub
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON CityFlyer Express says that no significant changes will result from the £75 million ($124 million) take-over by its franchise partner, British Airways. The London Gatwick based regional airline has a conditional agreement with BA to purchase the entire company. The deal is subject to formal approval ...
-
News
Boeing delivers 100th Japan Airlines 747
Japan Airlines (JAL) has taken delivery of its 100th Boeing 747, cementing its position as the world's biggest customer for the type. The delivery comes amid fears over the its future fleet plans. Commenting on how Asia's economic downturn is affecting JAL's fleet planning, airline president Isao Kaneko says ...
-
News
Routes
-Air Kilroe is to open direct flights from London Luton Airport to Galway in the west of Ireland on 23 November with 18-seat British Aerospace Jetstreams. -Canada 3000 is expanding its summer 1999 schedule to include two additional flights from Dublin to Toronto and and an extra weekly service from ...
-
News
Shuttle America launches services
Regional start-up Shuttle America has begun operating at Bradley Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Three secondhand 50-seat Bombardier Dash 8-300 turboprops leased from the manufacturer are in operation and the fleet will grow to six aircraft by mid-January. Shuttle America holds lease options for 18 more Dash 8-300s. The ...
-
News
Lawsuit fails to stop Northwest purchase of Continental stock
Northwest Airlines has completed its $311 million purchase of 51% of Continental Airlines' voting stock owned by David Bonderman's Air Partners investment house, despite anti-trust objections from the US Justice Department. The transaction will lead to a so-called "virtual merger" of the airlines, linking route networks through codesharing and ...
-
News
Alitalia and KLM sign unity
Julian Moxon/AMSTERDAM KLM and Alitalia signed a far reaching "master cooperation agreement" on 27 November, which, although it stops short of equity exchange, commits the two airlines to "uniting as deeply as possible". Alitalia managing director Domenico Cempella warns, however, that the airline, which is still majority government-owned ...
-
News
Germany's Flying Dutchman
Germany's regional Eurowings and KLM have sealed their long-term alliance by signing a contract for an expansion of their current co-operation. As well as joining KLM's Flying Dutchman frequent flyer programme, the two airlines are planning to increase their share of the German market from the current 7% to 15 ...
-
News
Airports Gearing up to grow
An unprecedented enthusiasm for commercialisation is sweeping the world's airports. Old public service concepts are out. The new creed is cost containment, private finance, aggressive marketing and even acquisition strategies. But before the airline customers start to celebrate, there are potential penalties as well as gains from this latest trend. ...
-
News
ROUTES
Aloha flights - Canadian Airlines, in partnership with Air Pacific of Fiji, will begin a three-times weekly service from 7 December between Auckland and Honolulu that will dovetail with Canadian's daily Toronto-Honolulu and Vancouver-Honolulu services. Nonstop Mardi Gras - Air Canada has begun a daily nonstop service between Toronto ...
-
News
Star attracts a galaxy
The Star Alliance will expand to nine full members before the end of 1999, following All Nippon Airlines' (ANA) decision to join. ANA president, Kichisaburo Nomura, says his company will take up full membership at the start of October 1999, following the example of Ansett and Air New Zealand, ...
-
News
Transbrasil reshapes
Transbrasil, which admitted earlier this year that it was the Brazilian carrier most vulnerable to the effects of the country's partial deregulation, has announced a series of changes aimed at regaining the local market share it has lost over the last three years. Founded by Omar Fontana 40 years ...
-
News
Newsline Asia
Mandarin merger - China Airlines has set a June 1999 target date for the merger of its subsidiaries Mandarin Airlines and Formosa Airlines. The merged carrier will retain the Mandarin name, but will focus entirely on domestic services. Garuda shake-up - Debt-ridden Indonesian airline Garuda has appointed a new ...
-
News
ROUTES
Indian inauguration - Air Madagascar has begun a weekly Boeing 767 service between Antananarivo and Singapore. Emirates share Emirates has increased its codeshare flights between Dubai and Melbourne to daily frequency. Emirates has also signed a codeshare deal with British Airways for flights between the UK and the UAE. ...
-
News
Seoul cuts Korean flights
South Korea's transport ministry has spanked Korean Airlines (KAL) with a cutback of 20% in domestic flights. For the next six months, KAL cannot operate 138 weekly flights on 10 of its best domestic routes and must suspend two of its 28 weekly flights to Tokyo. The carrier stands to ...
-
News
Royal Air Maroc gets back on track with record
Royal Air Maroc has staged a dramatic turnaround, underlined this year by what promises to be a record haul of profits and some ambitious expansion plans. Official figures have yet to be published for the Moroccan flag carrier's latest 1997/8 financial year to October, but it is confident that ...
-
News
Russian rates hit North Korea income
"Open your skies and they will come." That was the message North Korea heard when it agreed with the International Civil Aviation Organisation to allow commercial flights through its heavily guarded airspace. Yet, since that agreement took effect in April, use of North Korean airspace has been below projections. ...
-
News
SAA dumps sale guidelines
Widely accepted guidelines for the privatisation of South African Airways (SAA) have been turned on their head by chief executive Coleman Andrews. The South African Government had said that it would sell off 49% of SAA, with 30-35% going to a single foreign partner and the balance finding its ...
-
News
Preparing for downturn
Any analysts keen to spot signs of an end to the boom, will have found much to whet the appetite as the major US airlines posted their third quarter financials. Even before the results were fully out, nervous equity markets had begun to downgrade earnings estimates for next year. It ...