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New wave hits Mexico
The reversal in Mexican economic fortunes, dragged down by the slump of the peso, is at least restoring some equilibrium in the airline industry. But the economic crisis could yet precipitate a reversal in policy, with the government pushing to re-regulate pricing and infusing both Aeromexico and Mexicana with new ...
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Latin sales close to end
The opening of the bidding for Bolivia's LAB and what remains of Ecuatoriana should bring to a close the troubled airline privatisation process in Latin America. Consolidation could be the emerging trend, as evidenced by events in Chile and Peru. Advisers for both LAB and Ecuatoriana are placing ...
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Ghosts, phantoms and funnel flights
Some airlines are manipulating schedules to get improved marketing visibility.When is a new route not a new route? Answer: When it's a codeshare, funnel flight, ghost flight, change of gauge, or yet another figment of a marketing executive's fertile imagination. The intention behind the survey of new route developments in ...
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Merger plan draws blank
Yet again political expediency is muddying the debate over Air Inter's future, as its merger with Air France Europe looks set to be sidelined to minimise social unrest. Christian Blanc, who took over the chair of Air Inter when Michel Bernard unexpectedly resigned in mid-May, has proposed an ...
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US-UK slow movement
Although the early June US-UK 'interim' agreement found favour with United Airlines and British Airways, the US Department of Transportation now faces considerable pressure from rivals American Airlines, Continental Airlines and TWA to broaden Heathrow rights in the next round of negotiations. However there has at least been ...
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USAir boost: BA doubts
The winding down of Continental Lite has helped USAir increase yields and bounce back into profitability, and the airline now has agreements with three out of its four unions. However, the proposed employee board representation has thrown up a potential conflict with partner British Airways. Investors in USAir, ...
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Africa's Alliance prepares to launch scheduled services
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON ALLIANCE, THE NEW African long-haul venture led by South African Airways (SAA), is gearing up for the launch of scheduled services in July, and says that new routes and aircraft are likely to follow. The venture has its origins in protracted talks between ...
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Impact of high-speed competition: the real threat
Sir - Andrew Chuter is right to warn the airlines of the impact of high-speed rail services (Flight International, 7-13 June, P94). The real danger threatening domestic and short-haul European services, does not come from the TGV high speed train, however, but from the willingness of governments to sink ...
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BA poised for Gatwick relaunch
David Learmount/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS IS TO base an additional eight wide bodied aircraft at London Gatwick Airport, to fly routes transferred from the carrier's premier international hub, Heathrow. Robert Ayling, BA's managing director, says that, with a growth rate of 6% a year and severe ...
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Back to break-even
The world airline industry ended 1994 close to break-even, but cost of reduction is still top of the agenda. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON At times, it seemed that it would never happen, but the world airline industry at last appears to have ended its record run of ...
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Row delays FedEx Subic Bay opening
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC FEDEX HAS DELAYED by 30 days the scheduled 3 July opening of its Subic Bay, Philippines, hub because of a bilateral-air-services dispute between the USA and Japan After a hiatus in talks between the two nations over Japan's refusal to let FedEx ...
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Europe on course for TCAS by year 2000
Julian Moxon/PARIS Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC EUROCONTROL IS TO recommend mandatory introduction to Europe of an aircraft collision-avoidance system from the 2000, after a 26 June meeting of its committee of management. The move had been expected, and is supported by the European Joint Airworthiness ...
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Fokker reveals regional-twinjet configuration
FOKKER HAS revealed the configuration of the new 120-seat regional twinjet it is now studying with Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), Aviation Industries of China and South Korea's Samsung. The Dutch manufacturer says that the aircraft would supplement the lower end of the Airbus family and the upper end of ...
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Wings West
American Eagle carrier Wings West, of Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Mary Jordan president. She was vice-president of human resources at American Airlines. Source: Flight International
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British Airways
Ford Ennals has been named director of marketing at British Airways, from mid-July. Ennals, executive vice-president of marketing and business operations for international clothing firm Fruit of the Loom, succeeds Mike Batt, who has become executive vice-president of sales and marketing for Alamo Rent a Car in the USA. ...
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United trials ERS
For One-Step FANS UNITED AIRLINES has begun a six-month evaluation of a computer-based electronic-resource system (ERS), developed by Minnesota-based Computing Devices International, on 5 June. The ERS, fitted to a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, is "basically the pilot's interface to the FANS [Future Air Navigation System]," says ...
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Alitalia pilots' dispute gains momentum
THE BATTLE BETWEEN Italian flag carrier Alitalia and its pilots is intensifying, with another round of strikes announced for 23 June. This will have a further impact on Alitalia's balance sheet, which, so far this year, has suffered a reversal of some L50 billion ($30 million), according to ...
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BATA claims UK capacity sufficient
RUNWAY CAPACITY at the UK's two prime international airports, London Heathrow and Gatwick, is "close to gridlock", according to a capacity index published by the British Air Transport Association (BATA). BATA chairman David Hopkins says that the figures give a warning to BAA, the operator of London's three ...
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GE confident of fan blade answer
Graham Warwick/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC Aircraft Engines has developed a solution to the fan-blade failure which has grounded GE90-powered Boeing 777 flight-test aircraft (Flight International, 14-20 June, P4). GE has until mid-July to restage the 3.6kg birdstrike test successfully, if Boeing is to deliver the first GE90-powered 777 ...
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American Airlines Cargo
American Airlines has appointed Mary Jordan president of its Wings West Airlines subsidiary, an American Eagle carrier on the USA's west coast and at Dallas/Fort Worth. Jordan was previously vice-president of American Airlines' human- resources department. Source: Flight International