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Follow the leader or fix?
Did US airlines agree to cap travel agent commissions and then stage their announcements to make it look as if they were simply following the leader as usual? That is the key question in an antitrust class action filed by US travel giant Travel Network against the major ...
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BM acts on code control
British Midland is trying to preempt possible regulation of codeshare agreements by the European Commission with a proposal to produce its own code of conduct in consultation with its seven codeshare partners. Speaking at an Airline Business conference in London, the UK independent's managing director Austin Reid said ...
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Sabena aided in opt-out?
The momentum built up around Swissair's plans to take a 49 per cent stake in Sabena after the Belgian government granted an exemption on part of its flag carrier's social cost obligations, could yet falter as the opt-out comes under the scrutiny of the European Commission. Sabena stands ...
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Make believe airline
Airline Business editor Richard Whitaker learned from his mistakes when he helped run an airline for four years. But the shareholders were not pleased with the result. 'We saw it coming . . . We took too long to do anything . . . We turned it around ...
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DGPS demonstration is a success for Daimler-Benz
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has successfully demonstrated its differential GPS (DGPS) automatic landing system, using a Dornier 328 turboprop at Braunchweig, Germany. Four flights were carried out, each including one touch-and-go landing, during which 60 international observers had the opportunity to monitor guidance information in the aircraft cabin. The ...
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Oxford Cartographers develops new route-mapping concept
OXFORD Cartographers has developed a new concept in map imagery, which offers airlines a three-dimensional alternative to conventional "flat and featureless" route maps and inflight route-tracking displays. The UK mapmaker has based its "space" view of the Earth, on the photographic reproduction, of a specially modeled globe. ...
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Australians buy Honeywell/Pelorus DGPS
HONEYWELL AND Pelorus Navigation Systems have sold an SLS-1000 satellite landing-system for installation at Armidale Regional Airport in New South Wales, Australia. With certification planned for the second quarter of 1996, this will be the first local-area differential global-positioning-system (DGPS) in Australia, says purchaser Dumaresq Shire Council. ...
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Atlanta plans to try out Olympic heli-route network a year early
A JOINT US government/ industry project to develop a low-level airspace system for Atlanta, Georgia, is expected to be demonstrated by July, one year before the city hosts the centennial Olympic Games. The aim is to have a network of helicopter routes over Atlanta's freeway system by July ...
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Ansett Australia to retire F28s
Ansett Australia is to begin retiring its Fokker F28 fleet, scrapping five 1000- and 3000-series aircraft by the end of the year. Seven Fokker F28-4000s and five Boeing 727-200s, all due for retirement under Stage 3 noise rules in 2002, will remain in the fleet, but their earlier ...
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French firefighters reject upgraded Canadair CL-415
BOMBARDIER IS to modify its Canadair CL-415 water-bomber, following the refusal of French fire-fighting pilots to accept the first of 12 due for delivery. French Ministry of the Interior crews are refusing to fly the aircraft and it is effectively grounded. The official delivery ceremony has been cancelled. ...
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Europe and USA fail to avert showdown over landing aids
DEEP DIVISIONS, between US and European authorities, seem unavoidable at the key international meeting, to decide the future of precision-landing systems, now under way in Montreal. A US Federal Aviation Administration team has been visiting European authorities in a search for areas of agreement, but papers presented at ...
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Marshall Islands order drives Saab to tackle ETOPS
SAAB AIRCRAFT is working to achieve extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) certification for its Saab 2000 turboprop to allow extended flight over water. Executive vice-president Johan Oster says that 90min ETOPS qualification is needed for Air Marshall Islands, which has ordered two aircraft for operations over the Pacific. ...
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Air Inter strikes threaten Blanc restructuring plan
CONTINUING STRIKES at French domestic carrier Air Inter are threatening the restructuring plan for the entire Air France Group. The trouble centres on the loss of up to 660 jobs, as part of the restructuring plan under which in 1997 will be merged Air Inter's European operations, with ...
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Asia-Pacific firms cautioned on markets
AIRBUS HAS WARNED that emerging Asia-Pacific aerospace industries may be attacking the wrong market with their emphasis on regional jets. The warning is based on the latest Airbus long-range forecast, which shows that airlines in Asia-Pacific will account for only 10% of airliner deliveries in the 100-seat class. ...
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Bilateral Impasse
As US air-services negotiators, return from an apparently promising meeting with their British counterparts, and the European Commission (EC) suddenly discovers that it doesn't like what the US negotiators have agreed with the rest of Europe, a new question arises. Who really talks for Europe, and who really talks for ...
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Ozone watcher
The European Space Agency's latest satellite will monitor the Earth's ozone layer. Tim Furniss/ LONDON Europe's most complex environmental-monitoring satellite yet is scheduled for an Ariane 4 launch in April. The ERS 2 is the second of the European Space Agency's (ESA) remote-sensing satellites and, in ...
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Keeping in touch
Air-to-ground telephones for airline passengers are becoming more commonplace. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Passengers on certain British Airways flights are the first in the UK to enjoy something US air travelers have come to expect - air-to-ground telephones on aircraft. BA is the first airline to put ...
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Paradise found by Navcom Aviation
NAVCOM AVIATION is attempting to launch a scheduled airline called Paradise Air, using the assets and certificate of the former UltrAir. Scheduled and charter services are due to begin soon using one Boeing 727, possibly flown by ex-UltrAir pilots, linking Washington Dulles and New York Kennedy airports. Houston-based ...
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Air France opens talks on fleet restructuring
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR FRANCE has opened talks with Boeing and Airbus over its fleet restructuring, says chairman Christian Blanc, warning the European consortium that its place is not guaranteed. Air France is committed to carrying out a heavy rationalisation of its fleet under the three-year restructuring ...