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Stretched to the limit
Vasp's ambitions spread far and wide, but are its financial resources equally expandable? Lois Jones reports. Vasp chairman and president Wagner Canhedo Azevado is a man who likes to think big and be in control. The chairman likes to consider South America, and not just Brazil, as a single ...
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Caracas fails to fill vacuum
While Caracas prevaricates over how to re-allocate Viasa's international routes, foreign airlines are racing to fill the vacuum left by the flag carrier's demise. This leaves any Venezuelan carrier eventually granted the dormant route authorities with the daunting challenge of having to establish itself in a market dominated chiefly by ...
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easyJet's complaint
The European Commission has opened an enquiry into allegations by UK low-cost airline easyJet of anti-competitive practices by KLM. The action follows a complaint made by easyJet in October 1996 that KLM was lowering its fares artificially on the Amsterdam-London route in order to compete with easyJet's tariffs. ...
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Dash 8-400 favourite at SAS
Kevin O'Toole/Stockholm An official announcement on the selection of a new 70-seat turboprop for the SAS Commuter fleet is imminent, says the Scandinavian airline, with an order expected for as many as 20 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400s, to be used alongside the existing Saab 2000 50-seaters. ...
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Lockheed tests F-22
Lockheed Martin has begun taxi trials in preparation for the first flight of the F-22, possibly by the end of this month, after testing the fighter's 156kN (35,000lb)-thrust Pratt & Whitney F119 powerplants at full afterburner, with the aircraft tied down. A series of minor software problems, including over-sensitive sensors ...
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Continental is revealed as EVA's US partner
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI EVA Airways has agreed an alliance with Continental Airlines of the USA. The deal struck between the two carriers, which is expected to be announced on 26 August, will cover a range of activities which includes a frequent-flyer tie-up (Flight International, 6-12 August). The ...
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KLM pursues European plans
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM says that it will continue to press ahead with plans to increase its presence across Europe, having signed its latest partnership deal with Norway's Braathens SAFE- backed with a 30%equity stake. KLM, which took full control of Air UK earlier this year and ...
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Olympic will buy 737-800s
Julian Moxon/paris Olympic Airways is to acquire a fleet of Next Generation Boeing 737s and Airbus A340s. The airline is close to resolving its long-running dispute with the European Commission (EC), which has held up payment of the last two tranches of its state aid. Resolution of the ...
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United buys time for regional-jet deal with Atlantic Coast Airlines
United Airlines has agreed to reimburse the aircraft-lease and flight-crew costs for Atlantic Coast Airlines' (ACA) Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJ) until the end of the year, giving the carrier more time to reach an agreement with its pilots . ACA had planned to begin an independent regional-jet ...
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Europe's B-RNAV plans in 'chaotic mess'
Julian Moxon/PARIS The attempt to introduce the new basic radio-navigation (B-RNAV) standards into European airspace by January 1998 has been termed a "chaotic mess" by the avionics industry as it faces a last-minute change of speciÌcation from the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). B-RNAV avionics will be required to enable ...
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Marketplace
++ Virgin has confirmed that it will add two new Airbus A340-300s in 1998 (Flight International, 13-19 August ) but that one of the aircraft will be acquired on a four-year operating lease from International Lease Finance (ILFC). The aircraft will be delivered in March 1998, and will be joined ...
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Mesa Air regional-jet operation experiences a sluggish start
Mesa Air Group says that its Texas-based regional-jet operation, started in May with two Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs), is growing more slowly than anticipated. Marketing of the initial Fort Worth-Houston service is being intensified, and Fort Worth-San Antonio flights will be added in September, with a San Antonio-Colorado Springs ...
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NavCanada softens user-fee proposal
Canada's privatised air-traffic-services provider NavCanada has modified and deferred planned user fees after consultation with aircraft operators. The changes will delay the transition from an air-transportation tax to full cost-recovery by user fees to 1 November, 1998. NavCanada says that the revised proposal will give airlines more time ...
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Japanese consortium prepares plans to launch regional airline
An Okinawa-based Japanese business consortium is drawing up plans to launch an airline within three years, to operate domestic routes and, possibly, international services in the longer term. A group of 32 island investors led by Okinawa Electric Power has established a new company called Southern Cross to ...
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Canada's Royal takes over CanAir cargo
Montreal-based Royal Aviation has acquired the assets of CanAir Cargo, and added the Ontario-based overnight-freight carrier's six leased Boeing 737-200 freighters to its fleet. Royal plans to maintain CanAir's coast-to-coast cargo network, which produced revenues of C$49 million in 1996, and will convert at least three additional 737s ...
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Qantas steps up battle to cut costs and raise yields
Kevin O'Toole/LONDONPaul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas chairman Gary Pemberton, unveiling a modest increase in profits for 1996/7, has warned that the carrier will have to step up its drive to cut costs and improve yields if it is to have a chance of further improvements over the coming financial year. ...
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Cathay to place orders with Airbus and Boeing
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is planning to place orders for up to 20 additional new Airbus Industrie and Boeing widebody aircraft, as part of a large-scale expansion of its international operations. The airline is opening up the engine side of the competition to all three potential suppliers. ...
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Europe's B-RNAV plans in 'chaotic mess'
Julian Moxon/PARIS The attempt to introduce the new basic radio-navigation (B-RNAV) standards into European airspace by January 1998 has been termed a "chaotic mess" by the avionics industry as it faces a last-minute change of specification from the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). B-RNAV avionics will ...
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Air UK's ATR 72s
Air UK is in final negotiations with Aero International (Regional) to acquire four ATR 72s, which it aims to introduce into service in early 1998, if the order can concluded soon (Flight International, 8-14 August). The airline is understood to be negotiating to buy the -210 version of the ATR ...
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Ireland leases ATPs
Ireland Airways has re-activated plans to expand its domestic network, and expects to take delivery of the first of two British Aerospace ATPs on lease from Aero International (Regional) in late October. The airline plans to introduce them on a new Dublin-Sligo service in January 1998, with additional domestic routes ...