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Gemini buys LTU MD-11s
Gemini Air Cargo is to purchase LTU's four Boeing MD-11s for conversion to freighters, to operate alongside its growing fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s. The US-based all-cargo supplemental carrier has signed a letter of intent to purchase the four aircraft from LTU, with deliveries beginning at the end ...
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China bilateral
The USA and China have agreed to enter into informal consultations aimed at expanding the US-China aviation bilateral. The current pact restricts the number of carriers serving the market, and was last modified in 1995. It limits to three the number of airlines from each country which can serve the ...
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Routes
++ Qantas plans to codeshare on Reno Air services, connecting with its flights from Los Angeles to Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland, starting in January 1998. Qantas says that the deal will improve links between Los Angeles and San Francisco. ++ Pan American World Airways has filed for approval to codeshare ...
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Japan Airlines surges ahead in domestic market
Japan Airlines (JAL) appears to have emerged as the leader in the first round of competition following partial deregulation of the Japanese domestic market, posting a sharp increase in profits over the first six months of its financial year. By contrast, the profits of Japan's dominant domestic player, ...
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US airlines continue to surge
The major US airlines again surprised the markets with another record round of profits for the third quarter, including encouraging result from troubled Trans World Airlines, which now promises it has enough cash to carry it through the winter season. There had been speculation that the unprecedented run ...
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Passengers on the rack
If airlines and aircraft manufacturers were to characterise just one physical property of aeroplanes as the ultimate enemy, it would be weight. Weight increases drag and fuel consumption and reduces payload, so carriers and builders fight all the time to reduce it without sacrificing friendly properties such as strength, durability ...
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Saab sacks sales team in marketing shake-up
Saab Aircraft is to close its international sales and marketing bureau at Windsor, in the UK, as the company cuts back its sales and marketing operation and moves towards a more lease-management orientated role. The closure, which will take place at the end of November, follows the Swedish ...
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Regional-aircraft risks
November 3 should have been a defining date for regional-jet manufacturers. Most feared that Boeing would announce plans to develop an 80-seat derivative of the MD-95 as part of a wider declaration on the future of the aircraft it had acquired with the purchase of McDonnell Douglas. In the event, ...
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FAA orders skin-panel inspection for old 737s
As part of its continuing ageing-aircraft initiative, the US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered new inspections or modifications of fuselage skin-panel lap joints on 33 US-registered Boeing 737-100/200s with more than 60,000 flights. A further 34 737s owned by foreign airlines are affected by the airworthiness directive (AD), ...
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AB Airlines takes AIM for expansion funds
AB Airlines is planning a listing on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) early in 1998 to fund an expansion of its network and fleet renewal. The Stansted, UK-based airline is negotiating the acquisition of four new Boeing 737-300s, configured with two-class cabins, in January 1998 to replace its ...
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Spinetta selects Lyon location for Air France's second hub
New Air France president Jean-Cyril Spinetta has chosen Lyon Airport, in the south of France, as the national airline's second hub, after Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. In his first public statement since being confirmed in the job at the end of October, Spinetta says that Lyon is ...
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BA nears low-fares decision and re-equips regional unit
British Airways is expected to finalise plans before the end of the year to launch a European low-fare operation at London Stansted, using Boeing 737-300s. At the same time, the airline has begun an interim replacement of its BA Regional 737-200s. Earlier this year, BA commissioned the UK-based ...
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Brazil looks for airport infrastructure investors
Brazil's state-owned airports company, Infraero, is looking for foreign investors prepared to back a massive modernisation programme for the country's airport network. The programme, valued at $2.9 billion over the next three years, covers five major new airport developments at Fortaleza, in the north east of Brazil; Porto ...
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Milan switch upsets airlines
Nine major European airlines have complained to the European Commission over Italian Government demands that all services on routes carrying fewer than 2 million passengers a year be transferred from Milan Linate airport to Milan/Malpensa 2000, starting from October 1998. Air France, British Airways, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Olympic, ...
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KLM plans regional changes
KLM will finalise plans by the end of the year to re-organise its regional-airline partners under one umbrella operation. Details of the initiative, which is being led by Air UK at London Stansted, are still being thrashed out, but in one option a single identity could be adopted. ...
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Maersk orders CRJs to provide 70-seat option
Maersk Air's UK subsidiary will replace its ageing fleet of BAC One-Elevens in 1998 with the first of up to 15 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs). The selection hinged on Bombardier's ability to supply both 50- and 70-seat versions, which Embraer could not offer. Maersk Air, which operates ...
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Thailand's PB Air is ready for 1998 launch date
Thai start-up operator PB Air is planning to launch its first charter/scheduled domestic service in 1998, initially using a recently acquired Fairchild Dornier 328 30-seat turboprop. The 12-month-old carrier hopes to fly daily from Bangkok to Hattyai via Chumporn Airport in southern Thailand, says PB Air chief pilot ...
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Discount airlines gain access to congested US airports
Five US low-fare airlines have been given permission to begin serving slot-controlled Chicago O'Hare International Airport and New York's La Guardia Airport, marking a first victory for the sector in its battle against the major network carriers. The permissions, granted by the US Department of Transportation (DoT), are ...
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Sabena springs surprise by taking City Bird stake
Sabena has taken a stake in Belgium start-up City Bird, adding a surprise twist to the low-cost carrier's flotation, and the airlines have unveiled a co-operation deal to cover new long-haul services. The listing had been delayed as news of the deal was released, but went ahead on 30 October, ...
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SIA sees profits rise, but warns over Asia's financial 'drama'
Singapore Airlines (SIA) says that the recent spate of Asia-wide currency and stock-market upheavals could affect air traffic in the region. The warning comes despite a healthy jump in the group's profits for the first six months of the financial year. SIA's second-half forecast notes that traffic "-may ...