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Legend take-off renews Love battle
CAROLE SHIFRIN WASHINGTON DC Legend Airlines, a new business-traveller oriented airline, has been cleared for take-off by a US Circuit Court of Appeals after a two-year wrangle over its plan to operate from restricted Dallas Love Field. The carrier's services, which will bring long-haul scheduled flights to Love ...
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BA gambles on business class seating strategy...
COLIN BAKER LONDON The bloodletting on the North Atlantic has forced British Airways to take a gamble with a radical alteration of seating plans in favour of business class. An average of 15%of economy seats will be taken out of BA's transatlantic fleet to give more space for a ...
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Avensa flights suspended
Avensa's financial condition has forced it to suspend all flights to Europe. The Venezuelan airline returned its two McDonnell Douglas DC-10s to their lessor in early February. By some accounts the lessor seized them, but Avensa insists it returned the jets as their leases expired. Either way, this is ...
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Routes, Asia/Africa
Oneworld links American Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways have applied for US Department of Transportation approval for a wide-ranging codesharing agreement. The air services arrangement between the USA and Hong Kong does not allow codesharing but the oneworld alliance partners say they expect a new accord finalised in April ...
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ANZ takes control of Ansett Australia
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Ansett Australia has finally become a wholly owned subsidiary of Air New Zealand (ANZ) following agreement by News Corporation to sell its half share. ANZ will acquire the half interest in Ansett that it blocked Singapore Airlines (SIA) from buying last year. The New Zealand ...
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In Brief, Americas
Ecuador's SAETA grounded Ecuador's financial and political crisis has claimed SAETA and its domestic subsidiary, SAN, as victims. Both carriers cancelled all flights in early February amid reports that they were unlikely to recover. SAETA's condition worsened a year ago when an investor group discontinued its support for the ...
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American gives more room to stretch
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC In a move designed to steal more high yield market share and publicly address growing dissatisfaction among passengers with US airline service, American Airlines will increase leg room in the economy cabin across its entire fleet. Even if the percentage of business travellers who switch ...
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All change at Kennedy terminals
CAROLE SHIFRIN NEW YORK Swissair and Sabena are moving operations at New York's Kennedy Airport from the terminal of former partner Delta Air Lines to the new Terminal 4. The Qualiflyer alliance partners' move will take place on 26 March, with the change of winter-to-summer time flight schedules. ...
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KLM pushes Alitalia on Malpensa
KLM chief financial officer Rob Abrahamsen has given alliance partner Alitalia three months to complete its long-planned move from Milan's Linate Airport to its new Malpensa hub. Should Alitalia fail to meet the deadline, KLM could dissolve the alliance between the two carriers. Alitalia originally told the Italian Government ...
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Indian Airlines stake attracts interest
RAVI PRASAD NEW DELHI The Indian Government's latest plans to sell an equity stake in Indian Airlines this year has drawn interest from major Indian corporations. These include Sahara Group of Industries, parent company of Sahara Airlines; the Tata Group, which had planned to launch an airline in a joint ...
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Air Canada tightens grip on Canadian
David Knibb Seattle Canadian Airlines is disappearing as an independent company as Air Canada proceeds to convert it into a wholly owned subsidiary under a new management team and brand. Air Canada has appointed Paul Farrar, a restructuring specialist, as Canadian's new chairman. Paul Brotto becomes chief operating officer. ...
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Air France develops hub and invests in regionals
ANNIE REDMILE PARIS COLIN BAKER LONDON Air France plans to take advantage of capacity restraints at rival European hubs with an expansion of Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG). It has also been busy investing in regional airlines which will feed traffic into the airport. Over the past ...
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Taiwan/Philippines heal rift with new air agreement
NICHOLAS IONIDES ATI SINGAPORE Scheduled flights between Taiwan and the Philippines were restored last month after the two sides forged a tentative agreement on new air services. It ends a dispute lasting more than four months. The agreement was signed on 28 January in Manila, allowing for flights to ...
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BA underscores its African presence
ROGER MAKINGS JOHANNESBURG British Airways and its oneworld alliance could be about to strengthen its challenge in sub-Saharan African, following the UK carrier's decision to buy into regional partner Comair. BA plans to take an 18% stake, worth around R168 million ($28 million) in Johannesburg-based Comair, which signed as a ...
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Northwest adds new fare
Jane Levere New York Northwest Airlines is gambling on attracting a larger share of the US business traveller market by creating a new type of discounted advance purchase fare that does not include overnight an Saturday stay requirement. The new tariff, available only on US and Canadian routes, features ...
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SAirGroup buys 39% of TAP Air Portugal
BARRY CROSS LONDON Following months of delay, the SAirGroup has finally purchased a stake in financially troubled Portuguese flag carrier TAP Air Portugal. The size of SAir's holding - 39% - is much larger than the previously mooted 20% stake that the Swiss negotiated in the summer, reflecting the parlous ...
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Technically speaking
Max Kingsley-Jones/LUTON The original Boeing 757-200 was a "sleeper" in sales terms. Boeing will hope that the new model is the same. After launch orders in 1978 for the 757-200, new contracts ran at a trickle until the mid-1980s. It has been a similar story for the -300, which has ...
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Routes
Ryanair will expand its network from London Stansted this summer with new services to Lübeck (Hamburg), Malmö, Sweden, Nimes and Perpignan in France, and three Italian points: Brescia (Verona/Milan), Lamezia and Alghero (Sardinia). A new Prestwick-Hahn (Frankfurt) service is also starting. Portugalia is introducing three new routes from Lisbon and ...
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On the rack
Flight International flight tests Boeing's latest 757 model, the stretched 240-seat -300 which entered service last MarchPeter Henley/LUTONOne of Boeing's marketing slogans is that it has a family of airliners for every market. The 757 and 767 family members are intended to complement one another in range and capacity. The ...
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Marketplace
St Petersburg-based Pulkovo Airlines is acquiring two additional Tupolev Tu-154s and two Tu-134s, increasing its fleet of the two types to 21 and 10 aircraft, respectively. The airline plans to begin phasing out its Tu-134s from 2002 and replace them with new Tupolev Tu-334s. Evergreen International Airlines has placed a ...