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British World to expand fleet
BRITISH WORLD Airlines is considering expanding its fleet early in 1996, to meet increasing demands in the UK charter market for aircraft in the 130-seat range. The Southend, Essex-based firm is believed to be looking for three aircraft in the Boeing 737-200 class, having had its fleet of ...
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Boeing wins first round of JAA certification row over new 737
David Learmount/LONDON BOEING HAS WON the first round of a battle to have its new 737 family of aircraft declared as derivatives by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The move will allow the US company to claim "grandfather rights" and avoid having to meet current safety regulations ...
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Vnukovo forms link with ARIA
MOSCOW-BASED Vnukovo Airlines has announced a deal with Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) to co-operate on Russian domestic, intra-CIS routes, and some international services. The international destinations are those in Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Co-operative arrangements are intended to improve passenger services, enable sales-office sharing, ...
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AMO sells more 146 leases
BRITISH AEROSPACE'S Asset Management Organisation (AMO) has placed six more BAe 146s with European and Australian operators. Swedish regional carrier Malm" Aviation is acquiring a ninth aircraft, a 146-200, on a five-year lease from September; Mistral Air has already taken delivery of a Series 100 for scheduled passenger ...
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Air Foyle plans to plug gap in cargo capacity
UK CHARTER AIRLINE Air Foyle is poised to enter the scheduled long-haul cargo business for the first time later this year. The Luton-based carrier is negotiating the dry-lease of a Boeing 747-200F freighter to begin services from London - possibly Stansted - to destinations in South-East Asia, South ...
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Monarch to take on Alitalia leases
Gnter Endres/LONDON MONARCH AIRLINES is on the verge of taking over the contentious wet-leased Boeing 767-300ER operation, now provided by Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services on behalf of Alitalia. The new deal is an extension of a long-standing agreement between Monarch and Ansett, under which the UK ...
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Eurocontrol 'on target' with ATC goals
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS EUROCONTROL HAS inaugurated its new ECU 117 million ($87.5 million) Brussels centre with assurances that measures to improve Europe's air-traffic-control (ATC) system are "very much on target". Located near the Brussels airport at Haren, the building brings together Eurocontrol's headquarters, the Central Flow Management ...
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VASP to expand MD-11 fleet
BRAZILIAN AIRLINE VASP has placed firm orders for two McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-11s and announced long-term plans to operate a fleet of up to ten of the tri-jets. The Sao Paulo-based carrier took delivery of its first MD-11 in February 1992 and is revising its fleet plans after ...
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Pacific first for Saab 2000
AIR MARSHALL ISLANDS' FIRST Saab 2000 arrived in Majuro, the island nation's capital, late in June. The delivery was the first in the Pacific region, although Australian carrier Kendell Airlines has two options which could be converted to firm orders later this year. The Saab 2000 will replace Hawker-Siddeley 748s ...
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Transwede is forced into radical change
INCREASINGLY unsustainable losses have forced independent Swedish airline Transwede to initiate a radical restructuring programme centred on the establishment of three separate business units. From this month, scheduled, charter and maintenance activities will be operated as independent profit centres. The move, which involved 160 redundancies at the end ...
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Continental and Air Canada agree to extend code-share deal
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES and shareholder Air Canada have announced new code-share services, beginning on 8 July. Rival Canadian Airlines International and American Airlines launched their code-sharing agreement on 1 June. The US-Canada "open-skies" aviation pact, signed in February, allows unlimited code-sharing between the countries' airlines, with temporary limits on ...
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Aircraft news
Continental Express has ordered 25 Beech 1900Ds. The contract is worth $105 million with deliveries due to start in July and continue through to mid-1996. Qantas has ordered three B737-400s and two 767-300ERs, worth $325 million. Maersk Air has ordered six Boeing 737-500s with options on ...
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India's giant
NEPC Airlines has bought rival Damania Airways to become the largest privately owned carrier in India. Damania operates mainly in western India, using four Boeing 737-200s. NEPC operates five Fokker F27s on feeder routes in southern India. Source: Airline Business
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Canadian spread
Air Canada and United Airlines have tightened their marketing alliance, and now plan codesharing to six US and four Canadian destinations. Air Canada also has been granted route rights to Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, Haiti, Israel, Russia, Singapore and Spain. Flights to Israel start end of June. ...
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New entry to Oz
Cathay Pacific has filed with the Australian Federal Court asking for the Australian government's ban on flights from 30 June to be quashed. Talks on the Australia-Hong Kong bilateral have broken down and Cathay's licence to operate to Australia finishes at the end of June. The HK carrier says the ...
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Managing Asia's growth
Aeropolitics, rising costs and physical impediments to growth are the biggest challenges posed by the tidal wave of growth forecast for the Asia-Pacific region. David Knibb reports from the Airline Business/ Reed Exhibitions conference on 'Managing Airline Growth in Asia', held in Singapore.Asia's growth defies superlatives. ...
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The yen factor
The strength of the Japanese yen is having major repercussions throughout the airline business. David Knibb looks at the impact.The Japanese even have a word for it. Endaka describes the inexorable rise in the value of the yen. It's not a new phenomenon; the yen has been appreciating for at ...
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Clearing the cost block
Continental Airlines' president, Gordon Bethune, says the airline must focus on revenue gains rather than cost cuts, and must improve its poor reputation. Mark Odell reports from Houston.Gordon Bethune, the president and chief executive of Continental Airlines, doesn't mince his words. His energetic and hands-on management style has ripped ...
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Routing for growth
Airlines have added and abandoned new routes at a substantial rate in the past two years, but US carriers and those based in more liberal markets dominated the picture. Report by Reed Travel Group Market Analysis and Airline Business. Market expansion is one of the most pertinent ways to ...
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Pyramids in the sky
Egyptair has seen off domestic competition and traffic is returning after a couple of years of decline. Chairman Mohammed Rayan talks to Sara Guild about his lofty plans for the carrier's future. There appears to be a discrepancy between the plans and ideas of Egyptair's chief executive and those of ...