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British Regional gets ready for June flotation
British Regional Airlines (BRAL) is gearing up for a stock market listing by the end of June, in a move which managing director Terry Liddiard says will help it make a final break from its former sister airline British Midland as it develops its role as the largest British Airways ...
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Marketplace
-International Aero Engines (IAE) has confirmed that it has won a $2.3 billion engine order from TACA, LanChile and TAM Brazil to power the 88 aircraft under firm order and 87 on option for the Airbus A320 family. TACA has orders and options for 60 aircraft, LanChile for 40 and ...
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Low fare battle brews between ANZ and Qantas
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Air New Zealand (ANZ) and Qantas are preparing their positions for a major battle to secure market share on high frequency, low cost trans-Tasman services. The two carriers are also shoring up their competing services through to Europe. The Qantas strategy of gradually lifting frequency to ...
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Czech Government allows Ayres to have Let
US agricultural and cargo aircraft builder Ayres is set to purchase Czech manufacturer Let Kunovice after agreeing terms with the Government in Prague. A deal is due to be signed by the end of May. Ayres is expected to take a 93% stake in the Aero Holdings-owned company. Fred Ayres, ...
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Airbus tilts at South African Airways' 777 order
Continuing uncertainty over the status of South African Airways' (SAA) order for four Boeing 777-200s is providing Airbus Industrie with an ongoing opportunity to pitch the new A340-500 and -600 to the South African flag carrier. Airbus senior commercial vice-president John Leahy took the opportunity of the show to make ...
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Regional Airlines Survey
Rank Airline Pass 000 Emp Revenue US$ 000 Net Result US$ 000 Year end Regional fleet details (In service + On order + On option) Significant shareholders Alliances Rank 1 American Eagle ...
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DOT puts the clock back
A US Department of Transportation inspector has called for a standard definition of 'arrival' as on-time arrival becomes the latest hotly-contested issue among US majors. The call for a clearer policy came as some majors accused other airlines - most notably Southwest Airlines - of fudging the manually collected ...
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JAL takes big write-down
Japan Airlines has turned the year of the tiger into the year of cleaning up its balance sheet. JAL ended its financial year with a massive write-off which aims to speed its return to profits. Without the write-off of US$1.2 billion on 31 March, JAL would have reported a ...
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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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Shooting stars
The world's regional airlines grew strongly in 1997, and this sector remained the most profitable. Survey compiled by Tim Welch of Air Transport Intelligence and Richard Whitaker. The regional airline industry continues to be the healthiest sector in the business, judging by the results of this year's Airline Business Regional ...
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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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FedEx MD-11 fleet swells to 60 after Swissair and LTU deals
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC FedEx is raising its reliance on the Boeing MD-11 freighter, with a decision to almost double its planned fleet of MD-11Fs to 60 through deals for more new and secondhand aircraft. The US parcels carrier, which now operates 20 MD-11Fs, last week disclosed that it ...
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Airbus ponders commercial market prospects for Beluga
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Super Airbus Transport International(SATIC) and Airbus believe that the growing success of the Beluga's third party cargo charter business could see an external market develop for the aircraft with outsized cargo carriers. The A300-600 based Beluga was designed, built and certificated for Airbus by the Toulouse-based Aerospatiale/Daimler-Benz Aerospace ...
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Marketplace
-Olympic has added its second Boeing 737-300, an ex-Western Pacific aircraft on lease from Boullioun Aviation Services. -Northwest Airlines has concluded a deal with Fortis Aviation's Alliance AirInvest to acquire three ex-Thai International McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30ERs. The three aircraft have been delivered and will enter service later this year after ...
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Quiet Wing 727 modification gets FAA approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a supplemental type certificate (STC) to DuganAir Technologies for a modification package which allows Boeing 727-100 and -200s to meet Stage 3 requirements without hushkits. The "Quiet Wing System" has been under development for four years. It combines winglet technology developed by ...
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TWA firms up plans for more MD-83s
Trans World Airlines (TWA) has firmed up its plans for additional Boeing MD-83s with the signing of a $1.1 billion order for 24 aircraft. It emerged earlier this month that the carrier was discussing an order with Boeing for 24 MD-83s, which would see production of the former McDonnell ...
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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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More room on top
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON On 24 October 1997, Airbus Industrie retired the last Boeing Super Guppy from service, bringing to an end some 26 years of the outsized cargo turboprop's operations ferrying subassemblies between the consortium's European plants. At its peak, the fleet of converted Boeing 377s/C-97s totalled four aircraft, but in ...
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Polar challenge
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Polar Air Cargo and its older competitors are facing tough times. The Asian economic engine that helped pump Polar rapidly into life is faltering and cargo traffic is down by almost one-third compared to 1997. Yet the five year old carrier is in good shape ...