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Executives to go in Argentine rescue
Guy Norris/BUENOS AIRES Paul Lews/WASHINGTON DC Aerolineas Argentinas' majority owner SEPI will present a new business plan to the Argentine Government to revive the financially ailing carrier. This follows SEPI's rejection of American Airlines parent AMR's restructuring proposal and the removal of key US national managers. The airline's ...
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Airports
The completion of a $250 million reconstruction of Domodedovo Airport in Moscow is due by the middle of this year, says the airport's operator, East Line group. The reconstruction includes nearly doubling the size of the passenger terminal. The international section of will be opened next month, to be followed ...
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Virgin picks Brisbane as new airline HQ
Brisbane has been selected over Melbourne for low-cost start-up Virgin Australia's A$200 million ($133 million) operational, reservations and administrative headquarters. Virgin chairman Richard Branson says Melbourne lost because of a dispute over terminal space and the design and costs of a proposed A$7 million common-user terminal, which would be ...
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American eyes aircraft for Asia
American Airlines is looking at its aircraft acquisition options to extend the range of its fleet to open planned new non-stop routes from Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth to Asia. The US carrier has applied to the US Department of Transport to operate to Beijing and Shanghai under a revised ...
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Air France hopes for more hub space
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France is to reap the benefits of the expansion potential at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport with a new plan by Aéroports de Paris (ADP) to add two new satellites at its terminal 2 hub. While described as "only a study" by ADP, Air France has ...
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BM acts as US/UK bilateral talks fail
Chris Jasper/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Airlines in the UK and USA are coming to terms with the failure of bilateral air services talks. British Midland (BM) - worst hit by the collapse of negotiations - has responded by filing a joint codeshare application with partner United Airlines that suggests it ...
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Start-up SolAir signs for 328/728JETs
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Italian start-up SolAir has become the second announced airline customer for the Fairchild Aerospace 728JET, with a letter of intent for two aircraft, plus two 34-seat 328JETs. The Naples-based carrier plans to begin operations with the two 328JETs from next January, serving Barcelona, Paris, Tirana and ...
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Airbus slips delivery plan for A3XX
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Airbus Industrie is targeting October 2005 for first production delivery of the A3XX-100 if it can muster sufficient market support by mid-year for the consortium's supervisory board to commit to a simultaneous launch offer of passenger and cargo variants of the ultra-large aircraft. The October ...
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Kiev-based Ikar orders five An-140s
Ikar Airlines has ordered five Antonov An-140 twin turboprops. Deliveries start this year. The 50-seat regional aircraft will join the Kiev-based airline's fleet of Antonov An-12/24/26s, Let L-410 turboprops and an An-74 twinjet. Meanwhile, the first production An-140 has joined the flight test programme, which should be completed ...
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Routes
Calgary-based low-cost carrier WestJet Airlines has revealed details of its new east Canadian operation, based in Hamilton, Ontario. Launch routes will serve Thunder Bay and Winnipeg from 9 March, with Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax to be added by mid-2000. Sabena has added the Slovenian capital Ljubljana to its network, with ...
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Regional rumba
BRIAN HOMEWOOD RIO DE JANERIO South America's regional scene is shifting rapidly; regional jets, economic upheavals, loosening of government restrictions and the scramble to secure partnerships with major carriers are all having an impact. The idea of travelling on a regional airline in South America usually evokes thoughts of ...
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Reform minded
NICHOLAS IONIDES TOKYO Kichisaburo Nomura's appointment as ANA president surprised many observers two years ago and the shocks have continued as he has reshaped Asia's largest passenger carrier. It is probably an understatement to say that Kichisaburo Nomura has surprised observers since his appointment over two years ago as president ...
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Marketplace
British World Airlines has begun replacing its ageing BAC One-Elevens, with the delivery of its first Boeing 737-300, an ex-Garuda aircraft on lease from Babcock and Brown. A second aircraft is due for delivery in April, with four more to arrive in 2001-2. Turkish charter airline Pegasus Airlines will take ...
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Maintaining the margin
In the maintenance industry, the big are getting bigger Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC North America's maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry enters the new millennium in a healthy condition, having changed shape substantially in the closing years of the 20th century. In South America, recovering economies and increasing liberalisation of ...
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Lending a hand
JACK SELLSBY LONDON Fuelled by intense competition, financing from Airbus and Boeing, backed by the export credit agencies, is running at record levels. Europe and the USA have been squabbling for years over the support given to their rival civil aerospace champions Airbus and Boeing. With the manufacturers now neck-and-neck ...
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KLM uk sets off for low-cost growth
COLIN BAKER LONDON KLM uk has joined the low-fare club as its new buzz brand took to the air in January. It backs predictions that low-cost traffic will triple in the next four years. Floris van Pallandt, KLM uk's chief executive, dismisses suggestions that the London Stansted-based carrier has been ...
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Sans frontiers?
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Transportation'sChicago conference caused a stirback in December, but will aviation barriers now finally begin to fall? And how feasible is the proposal for a transatlantic common aviation area? The French have a succinct expression for summing up life's tendency to stay ...
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Routes - Europe
Southampton to Frankfurt British Airways franchise British Regional Airlines has introduced a daily service between Southampton and Frankfurt in a bid to attract business travellers looking for an alternative to the main London airports. Air France has doubled its capacity from Southampton to Paris Charles de Gaulle, meanwhile, with ...
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Dragonair plans massive order
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Hong Kong airline Dragonair is to add 26 aircraft to its fleet by 2005 in an expansion connected to air services negotiations between Hong Kong and Beijing. The first step will be an order for one Airbus A330-300 widebody, with two options, and five Airbus A320 ...
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In the right direction
The virtuous trend towards capacity constraint with which the industry ended last year appear to be holding steady. Kevin O'Toole and Chris Tarry of Commerzbank look for early signs. A couple of months into the new decade and it seems that the industry's resolve is holding. Towards the end ...