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    AJAS takes off

    1995-01-01T16:55:00Z

    Alliance Airways, the African Joint Air Services carrier, is to begin services on 1 March from its base in Entebbe, Uganda. The carrier will operate a leased SAA Boeing 747SP and Christo Roodt, an SAA executive, has been appointed managing director. The carrier, a joint venture between the Ugandan and ...

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    Appointments

    1995-01-01T09:46:00Z

    Gordon Bethune has been named to the new position of president and chief executive officer at Continental Airlines. Floris van Pallandt will take over as managing director KLM Cityhopper on 1 January. Hans de Bruijn has been appointed manager general affairs and deputy to van Pallandt. ...

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    Orders/Leases

    1995-01-01T09:45:00Z

    Trans States Airlines has ordered 25 Jetstream 41s, with options on a further 35, for a total cost of $420 million. The St Louis-based carrier will take its first J41 in January 1995. Regional Airlines has ordered three Saab 2000, with delivery beginning May 1995. The French regional ...

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    Suppliers

    1995-01-01T09:42:00Z

    The MD-90 has received US certification from the Federal Aviation Administration. Rolls-Royce has agreed to buy Allison Engine Company for $525 million. Boeing will hold current prices on spares until mid-1996. Airbus Industrie has frozen the price of spare parts at 1994 prices for 1995 orders. ...

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    Governments

    1995-01-01T09:42:00Z

    A change in the VAT status of the UK Civil Aviation Authority should work through as a drop in air traffic control charges, according to accountants Ernst & Young. The Eurocontrol enlarged committee for route charges has frozen work on proposed changes to route charges for up to ...

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    US sweats over Saudia

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Delays over Saudi Arabia Airlines' expected huge orders for Boeing and McDonnell Douglas aircraft are linked to the Saudis' need to spread the cost of heavy national capital expenditure projects in the power, telecommunications and transport industries. At presstime, the Saudis were not expected to place firm aircraft ...

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    US opts for China parity

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    In allocating new US frequencies to China, Washington has chosen to adhere to the parity principle, rather than favouring an application that would have opened an important Chinese economic centre. The US-China bilateral allows incumbent US carriers to add seven new weekly frequencies from 1 January 1995. All ...

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    Canada: it's in the timing

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The two Canadian majors are prepared to support the concept of US-Canada open skies, but are split on the phase-in period and remain doubtful whether their US alliances will help put them on an equal competitive footing with the larger US carriers. US and Canadian negotiators appear set ...

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    Asia airports' mixed bag

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A flurry of airport activity in Asia following the opening of Osaka/Kansai should encourage airline planners worried about growing congestion in the region, but the news is not all good. On the down side, Chinese and UK negotiators still have not resolved all the issues surrounding Hong Kong's ...

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    Airlines, take your partners - again

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Many airlines are re-evaluating policy on strategic alliances. They'd better get it right. Alliance fever is hotting up again. Airlines that don't have strategic partners are rushing to find them. Some existing partnerships are collapsing or looking shaky. And even airlines which are happily married are continuing to court ...

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    New year, new partners

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The alliance structure of Europe's carriers is set for a dramatic reshuffle in 1995. Lufthansa appears to have succeeded in disrupting the European Quality Alliance of Swissair, Austrian and SAS. As SAS prepares to leave the EQA, the effects are likely to spread throughout the European airline industry. ...

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    Orly open early

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The French government has bowed to pressure from the European Commission and will partially open Paris/Orly to intra-European traffic from 2 January 1995, three months earlier than expected. The move follows complaints to the Commission from Lufthansa, KLM, SAS and Lauda Air. But the matter is not yet closed with ...

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    Coded warnings

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Aeropolitics The industry should be sending clear signals to the US government to leave codesharing alone. Michael F Goldman argues the case for its deregulation. Codesharing policy is taking centre stage again. In early December both the US Department of Transport ation's outside consultants and the General Accounting Office ...

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    A new Latin breed

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The major carriers in Latin America and the Caribbean are still plagued by heavy losses, but private enterprise is beginning to make its mark. Richard Whitaker reports from the Airline Business/SH&E conference held in Miami. Innovation, attracting private sector funds, and coping with growth were the main themes of the ...

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    Paperless journey

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The increase in self ticketing and ticketless air travel will cut the costs of distribution and bring a much needed reduction in airline operating costs. By Jane L Levere. A distribution revolution that began quietly in the United States late last summer could ultimately yield wide-ranging cost savings for ...

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    Slipping profits

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The world's airports have begun to feel the pinch at a time when many airlines finally are seeing an economic upswing. In 1993 revenues for the 45 airport authorities reporting increased by only 2.7 per cent on 1992, and the group recorded a 5.8 per cent fall in net ...

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    New order plans change

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    US transportation officials see 1995 as highly significant for aviation. The air traffic control system may be privatised after all, and taxes, airport funding, and reform of the Federal Aviation Admin istration are all issues likely to be in play, with the new Republican majority in Congress trying to dictate ...

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    US drives in Euro wedge

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The US offer of open skies dialogue to nine European states has not only highlighted the European Commission's inability to obtain a mandate from EU member states to negotiate external aviation agreements, but is also attracting interest from other countries. The European countries that expressed initial interest in ...

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    Tough times for US Lites

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Growth problems are hitting the short-haul, low-cost sector of the US airline industry. Earnings are down at Southwest Airlines, and Continental Airlines is restructuring its Lite operation, as well as streamlining its widebody fleet, inclu ding the retirement of its A300s. Southwest shocked the markets in early December ...

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    China signs off on MDC

    1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

    President Clinton's attempt to capitalise on China's decision to shift part of the production of its Trunkliner aircraft order from Shanghai to California ignores fundamental changes in China's position that do not bode well for McDonnell Douglas. Three days before US Congressional elections, Clinton said that the revised ...