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Air La Expands
Air LA says that it is close to finalising a $6 million deal to acquire Conquest Airlines, a Texas-based carrier with a fleet of Fairchild Metro-liners. The deal comes only weeks after Air LA acquired Capitol Airlines based in St Paul, Minnesota. When both acquisitions are complete Air LA will ...
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USAir cuts point-to-point routes as it retreats into primary hubs
USAIR PLANS TO retreat from low-cost point-to-point competition and re-focus operations around its major hubs. The re-organisation will result in a 5% cut in capacity across the carrier's route system. The beleaguered airline, which is still trying to win labour concessions from union workers, will retrench ...
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BA considers A330 for medium-haul fleet update
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS plans to make a decision on updating its medium-haul fleet within the next 12 months, with the Airbus A330 among the contenders. The airline says that in a year's time it will be in a position to begin "seriously considering" acquisition ...
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Latavio tries to wreck SAS Latvian venture
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LATVIAN FLAG CARRIER Latvian Airlines (Latavio) is mounting a last-ditch attempt to sink the proposed joint venture between Baltic International USA (BIUSA) and Scandinavian Airline System (SAS). Latavio is now being backed by the privately owned Banka Baltija - the largest bank in ...
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Garrett
Christopher Crum has been named, operations manager at maintenance company Garrett Aviation Services, of Phoenix, Arizona. He will be based at Houston International Airport, Texas. He was formerly director of customer support for regional airlines at AlliedSignal Engines. Source: Flight International
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Swissair
Swiss national carrier Swissair has appointed Eberhard Suhr to head district management for the south-eastern USA and Mexico, based at Atlanta, Georgia. He is replaced as the London-based general manager for the UK and Ireland by Hans-Ruedi Fehr, who was Swissair's country manager in Japan. Source: Flight ...
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Intertrade
Rick Sine has been appointed vice-president, engineering services and quality assurance, at Intertrade, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sine was an executive-level maintenance/operations leader with United Parcel Service Airlines. Intertrade has also appointed Perry Rebhuhn as senior accounts executive and Bruce Gross as senior accounts manager. Rebhuhn was formerly senior trading ...
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Aviation Sales
Aviation-parts company Aviation Sales, of Miami, Florida, has named Paul Hawthorne vice-president of quality control. He was formerly with freight carrier FedEx, of Memphis, Tennessee. Mario Levy becomes manager of the subcontract repair department. He was previously with the AGES Group, having formerly worked for Aviation Sales in the 1980s ...
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Belfast Air starts
A new airline, connecting Belfast with London-Stansted, started on 1 March, linking the two airports five times daily in each direction. Air Belfast is flying two BAC One-Elevens in a low-cost operation which aims to undercut fares charged by rivals British Airways and British Midland. Source: Flight International
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Ukraine International looks for European equity share
UKRAINE International Airlines (UIA) is in advanced talks with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and three foreign airlines over the possible sale of up to one-quarter of the carrier. Deputy president Dick Creagh says that the airline, 11.3%-owned by lessor GPA, with the rest held ...
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Providing the answers
The causes of accidents are often not found because of inadequate flight-data recorders. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES The United Airlines Boeing 737-200 which rolled on its back and crashed for no apparent reason on the approach to Colorado Springs in March 1991 carried a six-parameter ...
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Aeroflot looks West for its fleet renewal
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) has confirmed plans to lease further Western aircraft until upgraded Russian aircraft become available. Replacement of ARIA's 116-strong fleet of ageing and fuel-inefficient aircraft is a priority, acknowledges airline chief executive Vladimir Tikhonov, giving his report on the airline's performance ...
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PWA scales back profit forecast
PWA, THE PARENT OF Canadian Airlines, has scaled down profit forecasts for this year, following a higher-than-expected net loss for 1994. The group still expects to swing back to a net profit in 1995, but warns that this is likely to be in the region of C$52 million ...
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Midway plans to lease A320s to operate from Raleigh-Durham
MIDWAY AIRLINES is to operate a fleet of Airbus Industrie A320s from its new hub operation at Raleigh-Durham Airport, North Carolina, recently acquired from American Airlines. The Chicago-based carrier is initially leasing four International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500-A1-powered A320s from Orix. The first two A320s will arrive in ...
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Canada will introduce charges for overflights
THE CANADIAN Government is to introduce overflight charges to airlines using its airspace, as part of a restructuring in advance of the privatisation of its Air Navigation System (ANS). The Government confirms that it will privatise its C$800 million ($575 million)-a-year ANS when it releases its plans for ...
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Swissair in regional/charter shake-up
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH SWISSAIR HAS HANDED over its regional-jet operations to its Crossair subsidiary. In a second strategic move, Swissair and Crossair will absorb the loss-making charter flights of Balair/CTA - effectively ending the latter's operations. Both moves are aimed at cutting costs and restoring group profitability. By the ...
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ARIA faces privatisation
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW PRIVATISATION AND fleet renewal remain at the top of the agenda for Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA), says chief executive Vladimir Tikhonov. He adds that the first step in the privatisation process will take place shortly with the issue of shares to airline's staff. Employees ...
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Appointments
Ian Shiu has been named as general manager marketing and sales at Dragonair. Tom Davenport has been appointed to head up the Pratt & Whitney and MTU mid-thrust family engine project. Edmond Soliday has been named as United's vice president corporate safety and security. ...
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United Thai up
United Airlines and Thai Airways International have linked their frequent flyer programmes, but a fully fledged alliance is still dependent on settling the stalled US-Thai bilateral. Source: Airline Business