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Cockpit inadequacies
David Learmount/LONDON Those who argue that there is a degradation of basic flying skills in line pilots ascribe it to many things, the favourite being flightdeck automation. Parc Aviation consultant Capt Russell Kane, a former Aer Lingus captain, says that there is evidence that giving undue importance to cockpit ...
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British Airways is ready to Go with no-frills contender
British Airways is to launch its London Stansted based "no-frills" division under the name Go. The launch is set for early in the second quarter of 1998. Go's chief executive Barbara Cassani denies that the new airline's remit is to eliminate new low-cost entrants such as easyJet, but warns that ...
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Northwest and Continental tie-up raises Alitalia/KLM hopes
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Julian Moxon/PARIS The tie-up between Northwest and Continental Airlines has been welcomed by European partners Alitalia and KLM, offering the prospect of a global alliance within five years. "The deal opens the door to a much wider co-operation," says Fausto Cereti, chairman of Alitalia, which already ...
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American/BA may give up Gatwick slots
Alan George/LONDON The proposed British Airways/American Airlines alliance may be allowed to include London Gatwick Airport slots among the concessions it needs to make to gain approval from the European Commission for the tie-up. Previously, it was thought that all of the slots to be sacrificed would be at ...
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Robin runs smoothly
Julian Moxon/DIJON Drive out of Dijon on the N71 and, after a few kilometres of winding road, you come to a place called Darois, where you may have to stop, or at least slow down, while an aeroplane is taxied across the road from where it was built to where ...
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Do not pass 'go'
So British Airways' no-frills start-up is "Go"; but will it - and what sort of response will it attract from powerful European competitors like Lufthansa? Even more important, from where will the passengers come to make these no-frills airlines work? The justification for an existing airline to launch a ...
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Las Vegas loser
British Airways has beaten Virgin Atlantic to the last US gateway from the UK under Bermuda 2. The CAA chose BA's London-Denver route over Virgin's London-Las Vegas proposal. Source: Airline Business
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Rwanda rosette
Alliance Air has taken over Air Rwanda's operations and will start services to Kigali on 1 March. The new airline, to be called Alliance Express, will offer a regional network, taking in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, and dovetailing into Alliance Air's international services. Source: Airline Business
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London Routes
Over 50 airlines have already committed to attend Routes in London, the 1998 route development forum organised by Airline Business and ASM and sponsored by BAA plc. British Airways is the official carrier for the event, which takes place on September 21-22. Contact ASM on tel +44 161 839 0747, ...
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DOT spotlights fare changes
The US Department of Transportation began publishing its domestic airline fares consumer report in response to an increasing number of inquiries about ticket prices. The first report, for the third quarter of 1996, was released in June last year and the latest report is based on data for the second ...
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French stick over partner
Doug Cameron Investment bankers are sharply split over Air France's ability to secure a strategic airline investor and Air France's advisers have retreated from supporting a trade sale after the collapse of its planned Alitalia agreement. Air France plans an equity issue of FFr18 billion (US$2.9 billion) in ...
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Eye of the tiger
National flag carrier Air India is being readied for a merger with its domestic partner Indian Airlines and at least partial privatisation. But once again political change threatens to scupper the progress made so far. Tom Ballantyne reports from Mumbai. If anyone had doubts that Mumbai-based flag carrier Air-India was ...
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ACI feels out of pocket
Karen Walker Girding itself for a battle with the airlines and with Congress, the Airports Council International, North America, will raise its profile in 1998 with hopes of increasing pressure on those who control its members' funding sources. The ACI is sticking to its controversial claim that US ...
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Brazil cracks the fare nut
Brian Homewood Brazil, a country with some of the highest internal air fares in the world, has taken the first tentative steps towards deregulation by allowing unrestricted charter flights. The Civil Aviation Department (DAC) has given the go-ahead for any nationally-owned company to operate charters on any route ...
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Islands apart
A grand plan for Air Jamaica to be the focus of closer cooperation in the Caribbean region has failed to materialise, and instead would-be partners like BWIA continue to pursue their own separate strategies. Karen Walker reports. According to a joke that circulates in the Caribbean, St Peter allows newly ...
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No more red China blues?
Tom Ballantyne China's airlines are getting their first taste of capitalism as the country's carriers drastically slash their air fares and liberalisation hits the region. The Civil Aviation Administration of China has given its 27 CAAC-approved airlines the go-ahead to cut prices by up to 40 per cent ...
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Airline News
American Airlines is to launch daily services from Dallas-Fort Worth to Manchester on 6 April and from Boston to London/ Gatwick on 22 May. American Airlines expanded ticketless travel to all its north Atlantic flights on 17 January. Delta Air Lines plans to start daily services from Atlanta ...
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Asia's crisis: a rude awakening
Asia's financial crisis is now threatening to start another global airline recession. What goes up must come down. Of all people, participants in the aviation business should understand this most basic phenomenon. After all, the one certainty of every flight is that gravity will bring it down eventually. All that ...
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Higher US fares are hitting home
As US domestic fares continue to rise, more business travellers are making concessions in order to obtain lower fares, or are switching to low-cost carriers. Report by Karen Walker. The New Year had barely been rung in when both American Express and the US Department of Transportation confirmed what most ...
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Asia's new era
Asia's economic turmoil is going to accelerate long-term structural change as the carriers in the region respond to the challenges. Doug Cameron looks at the impact on aircraft renewal, funding, alliances and liberalisation. Asian executives must be wondering what other calamities fate can possibly have in store for them. ...