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Solo act in Doha
Now two years old, Qatar Airways has survived the pain of its launch period. But the carrier still has to transform Doha from a regional outpost into a global hub able to compete with Dubai and Bahrain. Report by Sara Guild. One expects to find a sheikh up front, but ...
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Hubs and partners
Since being spun off into the world's first separate airline cargo subsidiary last January, Lufthansa Cargo has been free to pursue its aggressive global network strategy. Jackie Gallacher reports.As the biggest non-integrated cargo carrier in the world and the second largest air freight carrier after Federal Express, Lufthansa Cargo Airlines ...
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New chapter of growth
A year after emerging from bankruptcy, America West is resuming growth, but this time the carrier plans to do things differently. By David Knibb.America West Airlines has unveiled a business plan designed to leave its checkered past behind and set a smooth course for at least the next two years. ...
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Financial results
Air Canada's international passenger sales jumped 25% and operating income rose 14.4%. There was a US$43m gain on the sale of warrants. The move into profit was helped by lower debt, but comes before a charge for cabin crew redundancies. A full-year loss of $240m is expected. ...
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Surfers take to the air
Users of the Internet's World Wide Web spend around $40 billion a year on air travel, equivalent to the annual passenger revenues of the top three US majors combined, according to San Diego-based market research company CIC Research. Moreover, the majority are interested in using the Web to get travel ...
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Trouble in store despite recovery
Some majors face alliance upheaval, more startups and threats to costs. Did you think that stability had returned to the airline business? Were you lulled into a sense of security by a return to profits? Did you think that most carriers had now defined their long-term strategies and established their ...
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ANZ waits on Oz poll
The future of Air New Zealand's bid to take a 50 per cent stake in Ansett Australia could hinge on the outcome of the finely balanced Australian federal election scheduled to be held before March. Victory for the opposition Liberal Party will see a swift resumption of policy to complete ...
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FAA issues regional rules
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration issued final rules on 14 December, bringing Part 135 regional carriers operating ten- to 30-seat aircraft up to the same safety and training standards as those of Part 121 major long-haul US airlines. The harmonised rules are contained in new Part 119 carrier certification requirements. ...
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The Viscount: still darting about
Harry Hopkins, who flew Vickers Viscounts in the 1960s, renews his acquaintance with one of the last passenger versions. IT WAS ALL THERE, in black and white. The cockpit instruments lacked colour coding, or pastel panels - but then I was going back 30 years. Vickers Viscounts were once flown ...
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Lufthansa and BAe set up joint-venture company
Andrzej Jeziorski/BERLIN LUFTHANSA AND British Aerospace have established a new joint-venture company to run Avro RJ85 regional-jet simulator and classroom training at Lufthansa's Flight Training Centre at Berlin-Schonefeld Airport. The company, established on 12 December as City Line Avro Simulator and Training, will offer training for ...
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High development costs take the shine out of GEC profits
UNEXPECTEDLY HIGH development costs again left GEC's defence and electronics division showing flat profits over the first half of its financial year. The division, most of which falls within GEC-Marconi, held pre-tax profits at £80 million ($120 million) for the six months to the end of September, while ...
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Pilots pave way for Delta low-cost plan
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA DELTA AIRLINES has reached a tentative agreement with its pilots' union, which would enable it to establish a low-cost, short-haul, operation to compete with carriers such as ValuJet Airlines. The accord is contingent on the pilots signing a wider agreement designed to reduce Delta's overall costs, ...
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JAA group will define tests for evacuations
JAA group will define tests for evacuations NEW CRITERIA for cabin emergency-evacuation tests are to be defined by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) to enable the safety of a greater variety of exit configurations to be accurately assessed, according to JAA secretary-general Klaus Koplin. After a 12 ...
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United hushkits to extend service lives
Kieran Daly/LONDON UNITED AIRLINES has decided to hush-kit its Boeing 727 fleet and some of its 737-200s, allowing the aircraft to remain in service into the next century. The carrier, which earlier cancelled its options on a second batch of 50 Airbus A320s, is also ...
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Boeing defines plans for a 'simple' 777-300 stretch
Guy Norris/SEATTLE DETAILED PLANNING for the design of the stretched Boeing 777-300 is to be completed by mid-February 1996. Half of the design will be released to manufacturing by September, and major assembly is due to begin in late March 1997. Boeing is keeping the ...
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NZ sidesteps ICAO rules in ATC strike
Paul Phelan/CAIRNSDavid Learmount/LONDON NEW ZEALANDS privatised air-traffic-control (ATC) service sidestepped International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) procedures during a 4-6 December controller strike says, the international aviation organisation. The strike, which seriously disrupted domestic and international schedules, was due to be repeated on 12-15 December. The ...
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Alpha Space Station faces a new crisis
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA IS TO REJECT Russian proposals to include the Mir 1 space station as part of the Alpha International Space Station programme (Flight International, 6-12 December). The US space agency confirms that Russia has made the proposal, but says: "We do not want ...
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SOHO launched on Sun-watch mission
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency's 1,850kg Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), built by Matra Marconi Space, was launched successfully on 2 December by a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida. From its vantage point in solar orbit 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth, called the Lagrangian Point, where the ...
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Iberia row escalates
TENSIONS ARE rising between the Spanish Government and the European Com- mission (EC) over the long-awaited decision on state aid for Iberia, with Spain raising the threat of legal action if Brussels continues to withhold approval. The issue hit the headlines, after transport minister Juan Manuel Eguiagaray suggested ...
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European airlines press for fast ground-handling reform
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS EUROPE'S AIRLINE chiefs have called on the region's politicians not to drag their feet over plans to liberalise the airport ground-handling market. The warning came from the Association of European Airlines (AEA), two days before Europe's air-transport ministers were due to meet on ...