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AA's China tie
American Airlines has signed an MoU with China Eastern Airlines envisaging codesharing on the Chinese carrier's services from Beijing and Shanghai to Los Angeles and its planned flights to San Francisco. China Eastern will also put its code on American domestic flights from the west coast. ...
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Freight frighteners
After persistently failing to ensure on-time delivery of its product to Japan by air, a major European pharmaceutical company was forced to take a multi-million dollar stake in a local Japanese drug company to ensure consistency of supply in a last desperate bid to retain a foothold in this lucrative ...
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Shares rise in the east
Four days before the Chinese New Year, China Eastern Airlines made an auspicious debut on the world's markets by raising an estimated US$250 million. The success of the issue should pave the way for the other Chinese majors to follow suit, although holding company China National Aviation Corp may well ...
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Global watch put on nations at risk
In these days of globalisation and robust economic growth in almost every region of the world, it is tempting to believe that nothing can go wrong. But in many respects this is the most dangerous phase of the economic cycle when businesses, whether they be banks, manufacturers or airlines, are ...
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People movers
Hang on. The flight attendant in the blue Delta Air Lines uniform has an unmistakable Dublin accent, akin to that of her green-clad colleagues on the Aer Lingus Dublin-JFK flight. Either 100 years of Irish immigration to the US have failed to alter speech patterns or airline alliances are taking ...
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Easy ride on the Hill for mega-deal
The face of special-interest politics in Washington is changing, and American Airlines is wearing a smile. An overhaul of the Senate Commerce Committee means the airline finds itself with new-found clout. The rise of Arizona Sen John McCain to chairmanship of the committee is a big win for American Airlines. ...
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Much ado about nothing?
The countdown to full European deregulation has begun, so where's the rush to the starting post? When the final hurdle to full deregulation is swept away on 1 April all airlines in the European Economic Area gain access to cabotage rights, enabling them to fly between any two domestic points ...
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Airline News
British Airways will transfer flights to St Petersburg and Pisa from London/Heathrow to Gatwick in March and introduce a four weekly Gatwick to Riga service, subject to government approval. The UK carrier is withdrawing its twice daily Heathrow-Turin service. Japan Airlines will codeshare with Air France on the ...
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Dress rehearsal
The critical "free-flight" evaluation in Hawaii and Alaska, planned for 1999-2000, will serve as the precursor for implementation of the USA's future air-traffic-management (ATM) system. The brain-child of George Donohue, the US Federal Aviation Administration's associate administrator for research and acquisition, the so-called Ha-laska Project was given ...
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Noman take-over
Air One has received approval from the Italian transport ministry to take over the routes and aircraft of defunct Italian airline Noman (Flight International, 22-28 January). The agreement will not involve the outright purchase of Noman, but rather the acquisition, through a three-year lease, of the airline's scheduled arm. ...
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Air New Zealand in regional revamp
As part of a major cost-cutting exercise dubbed "Project Save", Air New Zealand is believed to be considering consolidating its two wholly owned regional subsidiaries and transferring some of their central management functions to the parent company. Attention is focusing on "Air NZ Link"-branded subsidiaries Air Nelson and Eagle ...
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Alitalia and Honeywell/Racal to run Aero-1 satcoms trial
Alitalia is to run a single-aircraft trial of new-generation satellite-communication (satcom) avionics intended to reduce call charges drastically. The Italian flag carrier has agreed with the Honeywell/Racal Avionics satcom team to put the Aero-I equipment on a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 once the new service is implemented by Inmarsat - ...
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Lufthansa and SAS extend partnership to cargo flights
Lufthansa Cargo and SAS Cargo have prepared a plan to extend the Lufthansa/SAS strategic partnership - which has to date concentrated on passenger operations - into the cargo field. From the end of March, the airlines' cargo sales teams will offer both companies' products and services. Integration of ...
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Sabena discusses Nationwide alliance
Sabena is in talks with South African domestic airline Nationwide Air Charter over a possible strategic alliance. An agreement is expected soon. It is understood that the two carriers are looking at codesharing on several domestic routes in South Africa which would connect with Sabena's long-haul flights to ...
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AEA up 10 million
The Association of European Airlines (AEA) carried some 148 million passengers during 1996, up almost ten million people on the 1995 total. A record load factor of over 70.4% was recorded, bettering 1995's 70.1%. Load factors on intra-European routes were down to 61%. Source: Flight International
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Miss Sarajevo
Crossair is to revamp its flight schedules for its summer 1997 timetable which takes effect on 30 March, because of "changing market conditions". Plans to operate services between Zurich and Sarejevo have been dropped. Source: Flight International
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Qatar finalises fleet renewal plan
Qatar Airways has arranged to lease two Airbus A300s to replace its fleet of Boeing 747s on long-haul services from its base in Doha. The airline, which underwent a major management and strategic revamp late in 1996 (Flight International 11-17 December 1996, P10), will introduce two ex-Garuda Pratt & ...
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Lufthansa
Lufthansa has named the six-man executive board which is to take charge of the restructured passenger division of the company from 1 April. The company's current executive vice-president for marketing, Frederick Reid, will become head of marketing and network management, as well as being board spokesman. Lufthansa's current sales director ...
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'Amicable' Viasa liquidation agreed
Shareholders in Venezuela's Viasa have agreed to go ahead with an "amicable" liquidation of the failed flag carrier, which leaves the door open for a relaunch. Viasa was forced to cease operations at the end of January, in the face of mounting losses and lack of cash, while ...
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Manx Airlines selects EMB-145
Manx Airlines has finalised its long-awaited regional-jet order with a contract for up to five Embraer EMB-145s, the first of which will be delivered in June for operation on the airline's British Airways Express franchise services. The airline selected the Brazilian regional jet after a three-way fight involving ...