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US Court threatens GAIN safety system
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC David Learmount/LONDON A COURT DECISION ordering USAir to provide lawyers with internal safety-audit data which the airline thought was protected from compulsory public release by the Federal Aviation Administration could seriously damage US efforts to set up an international safety programme. The Supreme ...
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Iberia cuts
Iberia has cut fares on major domestic trunk routes by 20-25% from 1 October. Rival Spanair matched the new fares almost immediately and Air Europa is planning a similar move. The European Comunity independent airline organisation ACE says that it is considering complaining to the European Commission on the grounds ...
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Sun seeks strategic overseas partner
Andrew Doyle/JOHANNESBURG THE SOUTH AFRICAN Government's plans for privatising domestic carrier Sun Air could get the go-ahead later this month, clearing the way for a sale by mid-1997. Trade-union representatives on the Government's transport sectoral task team, which is charged with evaluating restructuring options for the ...
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Airbus Industrie creates freight airline for Belugas
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has set up a subsidiary to operate its A300-600ST (Super Transporter) "Beluga" outsized transports on commercial cargo charters. It is estimated that the new division, Airbus Transport International (ATI), could earn the consortium up to $15 million-worth of revenue each year using spare capacity on the Beluga fleet. ...
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Germany to lead free-flight trials in Europe
GERMANY'S civil-aviation authority, the DFS, is working with Lufthansa to carry out trials of free-flight technologies in Europe. "We're looking at how to implement free flight in Germany as soon as possible," says Dr Klaus Dieter Ehrhardt, responsible for CNS/ATM planning in the DFS. "We will look at ...
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SAS to begin using ADS-B system in 1997
Scandinavian carrier SAS is to equip "at least" ten commercial aircraft, and ground vehicles, with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) systems in 1997, and plans to equip its new Boeing 737-600s in 1998. The trials are part of the European-Commission-funded North European ADS-B Network programme, which has established a ...
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Airlines are 'confused' over European free-flight issues
Julian Moxon/AMSTERDAM A MAJOR INITIATIVE to prove the cost benefits of flying in a "free-flight" air-traffic-management (ATM) environment must be mounted if the system is ever to become reality, say leading industry officials speaking at the Flight International Airline Navigation '96 conference in Amsterdam on 9 -11 October. ...
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Merpati concludes BAe 146 lease agreement with NJS
NATIONAL JET Systems (NJS), of Australia, has signed an agreement to sublease up to ten BAe 146s to Merpati Nusantara Airlines. The aircraft will partially replace the Indonesian domestic carrier's ageing Fokker fleet of 15 F27s and 25 F28s on regional routes, beginning in November. Adelaide-based NJS, which ...
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Deutsche BA will sell turboprops to French carrier
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DEUTSCHE BA IS TO sell its loss-making turboprop activities to French carrier Regional Airlines, leaving the German British Airways daughter to focus on its jet-airliner operations. The sale comes just a month after BA announced that it was to restructure its European operation as part of ...
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Suitors consider Air Liberte bids as deadline approaches
BIDS FOR STRUGGLING French independent airline Air Liberté, were due to be deposited with legal administrators at a Paris court on 14 October. British Airways, Virgin Express and Corsair owner Nouvelle Frontiéres were all considering whether to make offers. Foreign airline interest centres mainly on the valuable slots ...
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No-gain pain
AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS ARE effective, if often tragic, teachers, and the aviation community always learns greatly from them. Incidents - the accidents which didn't quite happen -- can be just as effective teachers, but the aviation community learns far less from them. The reason is fear of disclosure- a fear which ...
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Good business
Scottish regional airline Business Air is to add two ex-American Eagle Saab 340As to its fleet, bringing the total to ten. The airline wants to develop further its Manchester-based routes and take advantage of its new code-sharing agreement with Continental Airlines. Business Air, which recently became part of the Airlines ...
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Cargo change
Swissair is to take over Sabena's cargo operations as part of a programme aimed at radically cutting costs at the Belgian airline, in which the Swiss carrier has a 49.5% share. Swissair will integrate Sabena's operations with effect from 1 January, 1997 (Flight International, 28 August-5 September). ...
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Mesa plans Texas regional
US REGIONAL carrier Mesa Air Group plans to begin a high frequency, low-fare jet service from Fort Worth's Meacham Airport in Texas on 5 May, 1997. The service, which will be operated as Mesa Airlines, will use 13 of the 16 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets ordered in August and will ...
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Cathay Pacific boss heads for Ansett Australia
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways managing director Rod Eddington has been named as the new executive chairman at Ansett Australia, charged with seeing through a major shake-up at the loss-making carrier. The announcement, which comes in the wake of the Air New Zealand (ANZ) acquisition of ...
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Dragonair boosts fleet for China
Dragonair of Hong Kong is to increase its fleet of Airbus A320s and A330s to expand the airline's regional service and take advantage of recently approved new routes into China. The airline has placed orders for two International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered A320s and concluded the lease for a ...
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Eurowings protests over teaming of Augsburg Airways and Lufthansa
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Eurowings has accused Lufthansa of misusing its partners in a "senseless" attempt to suppress competition, after the announcement of the German flag carrier's new partnership with Augsburg Airways. South German regional carrier Augsburg is to become Lufthansa's first Team Lufthansa franchise partner, flying from ...
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Air Liberte restructures network with route reductions
Air Liberté has revealed major changes to its route structure as part of its plan to avoid bankruptcy (Flight International, 2-8 October). Routes between Paris Orly and Montpellier and Bordeaux-Nice will be suspended immediately, along with several international routes, including Toulouse-Dakar and Bordeaux-Abidjan. Frequencies will also ...
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Pakistan profit pledge
Pakistan International Airlines has pledged to pull itself out of losses over the next year through a mix of spending cuts and expansion. A new service to Chicago is pending, and there are plans to serve five other US cities, as well as possible destinations in Australia, South Africa and ...
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Kiwi files for Chapter 11 as ValuJet resumes flights
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Kiwi International Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming rising debts and the fall-out from the ValuJet crash and the grounding of Kiwi aircraft. Ironically, the filing took place on 30 September, the day that ValuJet returned to the air and at ...