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Crossing into the EU
The launch of its French subsidiary will give Crossair greater access to southern European markets and boost its Basle hub. Tom Gill reports. 'Some guys talk about the Star Alliance; well, we have our own new born star.' The star Crossair's president and CEO Moritz Suter is hailing is a ...
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Two Bobs stir the immunity debate
Could the two Bobs - Ayling and Crandall - have had an inkling of the amount of controversy they would raise when they first aired their plan to forge an alliance between their airlines? That controversy took yet another turn in March when Robert Ayling, chief executive of British ...
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Delta's quick fix?
Delta Air Lines' new chief executive Leo Mullin is getting to grips with the idiosyncrasies of the airline industry and rapidly addressing issues like service and low staff morale. But his options on the alliances front look limited. Karen Walker reports. 'This is a very strange industry,' remarked Delta ...
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Poles apart from capital?
A proposed change in Polish state ownership law could further delay a vital capital injection for cash-starved LOT Polish Airlines, just as the Polish government lines up potential investors. The Polish government was due to shortlist consortium bidders for LOT in April and declare a winner by the end ...
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Continental leads CRS bypass move
The continuing battle between airlines and computerised reservations systems over rising costs took an unexpected twist in late March when Continental Airlines forced Galileo International to rescind a new fee it planned to impose on electronic tickets. Continental also announced that it planned to cut its distribution costs further by ...
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Swiss qualify new partners
Swissair has expanded its European alliance to include TAP Air Portugal, THY Turkish Airlines and AOM of France and agreed to buy up to a 20 per cent stake in TAP. TAP, Turkish Airlines and AOM will join Swissair's existing partners Austrian Airlines and Sabena in an alliance to ...
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French open gates to US
Both Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines were swift to respond to the new US-French bilateral by declaring their intentions to formalise codeshare agreements with Air France. The bilateral, initialled in Paris on 8 April, will allow full open skies to be phased in over five years, and immediately ...
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Suffering from exposure
As the Asian crisis bites deeper, the potential impact on the values of widebody aircraft in particular is only just beginning to become apparent to investors. Report by Angus Williamson. The financial and economic crisis affecting several of the East Asian 'tiger' economies has so far produced muted repercussions ...
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Airbus lowers A3XX numbers
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Airbus Industrie's latest long range market forecast has maintained a bullish outlook for jet airliner demand over the next 20 years, despite the present Asian economic crisis, but its analysis has shifted towards greater demand for smaller aircraft compared to 1997 predictions, and reduced the size of ...
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China demands CAAC shake-up
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has been instructed to submit proposals by the end of April on drastic reductions to the size of its organisation, in line with a wider Chinese Government push to cut the country's bloated bureaucracy. China's newly installed premier Zhu ...
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Single Mandate
British Airways and American Airlines appear on the verge of securing the long-awaited competition approval for their alliance from the European Commission (EC) with Brussels insiders set to give a mid-May date and a painful but probably realistic demand for slot surrender at London Heathrow. With some irony, however, ...
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Japan considers SARV-22 tiltrotor
Japan's Defence forces and its Maritime Safety Agency (MSA) are showing growing interest in a search and rescue (SAR) version of the V-22 Osprey, which Bell and Boeing are promoting as one of several future military variants of the tiltrotor. Japan has opened tentative discussions with Bell Boeing on ...
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Laser link lined up
Tim Furniss/LONDON The European Space Agency's (ESA) Artemis project is now well on its way after cost and technical problems combined to delay the satellite, which had been originally due to be in orbit now. The flight model has been completed by Alenia Spazio in Rome and will soon ...
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Tri-jet transformation
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES On the surface it sounds relatively straightforward. Boeing is converting ex-airline DC-10s to freighters for FedEx, and for any other operator that wants it. The real story is quite different in terms of scale, timetable and technical challenges. "It's been an enormous undertaking," says Boeing MD-10 deputy ...
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The vital combinations
Shahe Ouzounian/LONDON and FRANKFURT, Brent Hannon/TAIPEI ACCORDING TO Wilhelm Althen, chairman of the executive board of Lufthansa Cargo, the revolutionary break in January 1995 with the passenger side of Lufthansa's business was "-a process that hasn't just been about the last three years, it's a 20 year old road ...
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Japan promotes unmanned helicopters for crop dusting
Paul Lewis/GIFU, JAPAN Two Japanese aerospace manufacturers have begun to promote the commercial use of unmanned helicopters for agricultural crop dusting and airborne surveillance missions. Kawada Industries has developed the RoboCopter 300 based on the Schweizer 300CB and had accumulated 40h of flight time by mid-April. The company hopes ...
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Mitsubishi tackles vibration problem
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is working to reduce vibration levels in its new MH2000 helicopter, as part of several design refinements targeted at securing full Type A airworthiness certification for the civil machine. Company efforts are focused on improving the twin-turboshaft helicopter, including better dynamic system damping and demonstration ...
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RTCA wins debate on GPS risk evaluation
The US Federal Aviation Administration is to fund an assessment of the risk which is associated with using the global positioning system (GPS) as the sole means of navigation. A special committee, including representatives of the air transport and general aviation sectors, will report back to the FAA by ...
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FSBTI picks CAE
FlightSafety Boeing Training International (FSBTI) has selected CAE Electronics to supply a Boeing 737-700 Level 5 flight training device for delivery to its Seattle simulator centre in August, where it will be used as a classroom-based maintenance trainer. Source: Flight International
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K-C gets avionics ok
K-C Aviation has received supplemental type certification for installation of the BFGoodrich Avionics Systems GH-3000 electronic standby instrument system in the Bombardier Challenger 604. The flat-panel display is already installed in several other business jet types. Source: Flight International