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Low-cost carriers lose out in Haneda Airport slot lottery
Japan's major existing airlines and the country's planned start-up carriers have all signalled their dissatisfaction with the transport ministry's allocation of 40 new slots at Tokyo's overcrowded Haneda Airport. The decision has done little to satisfy competing demands from Japan's three main carriers, and has dealt a major ...
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Irish lease company orders 12 new 737s
Irish lease-management company Pembroke Capital, of Dublin, has ordered 12 Boeing 737s valued at $504 million. The company, which was formed in November 1993 by ex-GPA employees, will take delivery of four 737-300s and eight -800s between June 1998 and April 1999. Pre-delivery financing for the order will ...
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Doganis re-opens subsidies argument
The controversial debate about whether government subsidies to European state airlines should be allowed under European Commission regulations has been re-opened by Professor Rigas Doganis, a former Olympic Airways chairman who is now head of the Air Transport Group at the UK's Cranfield University. Speaking during a lecture ...
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DeutscheBA
David Noyes has been appointed regional director for the UK, Africa and the Middle East at British Airways. He succeeds George Cooper, who became regional director for Europe in early February. Martin George is named marketing director, having held senior posts in the airline's UK and Ireland sales. Source: ...
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Sabre manages yields
Sabre manages yields Hawaiian Airlines is to implement Sabre Decision Technologies' Airmax automated yield-management system to optimise the allocation of seats and pricing flight-by-flight and increase revenues. Source: Flight International
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Air Canada
Air Canada saw profits more than double in 1996 and reports that its international services accounted for more than half of passenger sales for the first time. The airline's net profit hit C$149 million ($110 million) was helped by a further C$72 million gain on the sale of its stake ...
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Kuwait Rebuilds
Losses at Kuwait Airways (KAC)reached $100 million in the last financial year to June 1996, as the airline continues to repair the damage to fleet and infrastructure caused by the Iraqi invasion of 1990-1. KAC chairman Ahmed al Mishari says that the true costs of the invasion "-are not yet ...
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Who wants to work that long?
Sir - I have followed with interest the discussion about retirement age for pilots. What I find difficult to understand is why someone would want to work to the ages suggested. Firstly, evidence indicates that life expectancy is significantly reduced as one extends a career beyond 60 (or ...
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Pilot's JAR-FCL: agreement needed
Sir - Mr Payton's letter "Delaying JAR-FCL is not feasible" (Flight International, 15-21 January, P44) leads one to believe that the new licensing system is agreed and that it merely requires conformity by a certain date. The 26 member states of the European Joint Aviation Authorities have yet ...
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Kiwi Airlines
Jack Warren has been named system director of maintenance and engineering for Kiwi International Airlines, of Newark, New Jersey, which restarted scheduled domestic services in January. He was formerly director of maintenance for Polar Air Cargo and, before that, spent most of his career with Pan Am World Airways. ...
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GAMA
Washington DC-based US national trade organisation, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), has named Darby Becker director of government and international affairs. Becker was formerly legislative director in the office of US Representative Jerry Costello. Source: Flight International
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Western
Fixed-base operator and US-certificated repair station Western Aircraft, of Boise, Idaho, has appointed Doug Hart chief executive. He also becomes vice-chairman of the overall board for all companies owned by Western owner and chairman Al Hilde. Hart has re-organised the firm into three operating groups: Aircraft Sales, Aircraft Operations and ...
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Boeing
Larry Clarkson, senior vice-president of planning and international development at Boeing, has been named president of newly created company Boeing Enterprises, based at Renton, Washington, which will establish and direct new commercial-aircraft-related business entities. Source: Flight International