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Garuda pushes to renegotiate 737 leases
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Garuda Indonesia is in talks with the US Export-Import Bank, Boeing and General Electric to renegotiate leases on six Boeing 737s. The airline says talks attended by airline president Abdul Gani and president commissioner Robby Djohan began on 11 December in Seattle, focusing on credit terms ...
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Alaska Air plans marketing pact with American
Alaska Airlines and regional affiliate Horizon Air have signed a letter of intent to enter a marketing partnership with American Airlines and American Eagle. Despite the tie-up, Alaska hopes to maintain its partnership with Northwest Airlines. Bill Ayer, president of Alaska Airlines, says the deal "considerably strengthens Alaska's and ...
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Japan Airlines edges towards oneworld tie-up with BA talks
Andrzej Jeziorski/TOKYO Japan Airlines (JAL) is to explore a passenger codeshare agreement and a merger of frequent flier programmes with British Airways as another step towards eventual possible membership of the growing oneworld alliance. According to airline sources in Tokyo, a verbal agreement to hold talks on passenger ...
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El Al steers course towards profit and privatisation
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON El Al is on target to record its first profit for two years as it aims to begin its privatisation process by the middle of 1999. The airline is also close to finalising an order for up to five long haul aircraft. The airline's president, Joel ...
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Finnair's northern links bolster global alliance
The British Airways/ American Airlines-led oneworld alliance has added its second European member, with the confirmation that BA partner Finnair has joined the group. The global alliance also includes Canadian Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways and BA associate Qantas. The introduction of Finland's Helsinki-based flag carrier provides oneworld with important ...
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Boeing to revise twin-aisle development strategy
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing Commercial Airplanes is revising its twin-aisle development strategy because of the collapsing Asian market. The board is due to be briefed on the plan by 18 December. Product development cost cuts ordered as a result of the downturn will affect key programmes, including the ...
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The spectrum challenge
Chris Yates/MANCHESTER The aeronautical community must pool its resources and protect its strategic interests if it is to avoid losing the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in satellite navigation. The threat comes from an Inmarsat-sponsored proposal, currently before the International Telecommunications Union-World Radio Council (ITU-WRC), to share frequencies ...
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PAL creditors to study rescue plan
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE The 9,000-plus creditors of Philippine Airlines (PAL)have been given 15 days to respond to a new rehabilitation plan filed by the airline, after the collapse of rescue talks with other carriers. Despite the withdrawal at the beginning of December of Cathay Pacific Airways from advanced talks, ...
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TWA twin-source deal surprises market
Trans World Airlines' decision to set up deals with Airbus Industrie and Boeing for competing 100-seaters - totalling 250 aircraft, including options - has raised questions over the US airline's future strategy. The deal remains to be finalised, but TWA has signed letters of intent (LoIs) for 50 717-200s, ...
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Star picks managers as it gears up for fight
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH The six airline members of the Star Alliance have appointed a dedicated management team to take over the day-to-day running of their operation in a bid to achieve more effective co-operation in key areas. The move forms part of aggressive plans by Star, the largest members ...
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Marketplace
-C-S Aviation Services has placed five Airbus A300B4 freighters with Grupo TACA, for delivery at the end of this year, plus lease options for two more aircraft. C-S has also placed an A300B4F on a five-year lease with International Cargo Charters of Canada. The airline operates Emery Worldwide services from ...
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Routes
-Jersey European Airways is introducing three daily flights between Edinburgh and Paris for Air France, which will be operated by British Aerospace 146s. -India's Jet Airways will introduce services from Chennai (Madras) to Port Blair in the Andaman Islands from January, using Boeing 737s. -US Airways will begin services with ...
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AirOne results
Italian airline AirOne has reported a turnover increase of 40% for the first nine months of this year, to L226.7 billion ($135 million) compared with the same period last year. The carrier has also recorded an operating profit for the first time in its three years of operation. The L5.8 ...
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PS-90A overtakes 6,000h milestone
The lead Aviadvigatel/ Perm Motors PS-90A turbofan passed the 6,000h on the wing mark at the end of November, on an Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-96-300 flying a regular scheduled flight. Aviadvigatel general director Yuri Reshetnikov says that the engine will shortly be removed and given a full stripdown examination, a ...
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Aer Lingus will sign up strategic partner 'by the first half 2000'
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Aer Lingus should be ready to decide on its strategic partner by the end of the first quarter of 1999, enabling a firm agreement to be finalised during 2000. The airline's executive vice-president for Europe, Richard Luchente, says that the carrier is discussing a strategic partner ...
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ATR holds 728JET partnership discussions
Julian Moxon/PARIS ATR is holding discussions on a possible regional jet partnership with Fairchild Dornier, as it postpones plans to launch its proposed ATR Airjet 70 into 1999. The Aerospatiale/Alenia partnership is also continuing talks on a tie-up with Embraer. Industry sources say the surprise talks between the ...
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Moscow court case brings end to Aeroflot/Transaero union
Alexander Velovich and Paul Duffy/MOSCOW The two-year-old alliance between Aeroflot Russian International Airlines and Transaero has ended, following a Moscow court ruling that Aeroflot must pay Transaero R3 million ($176,000) as a balance of mutual financial claims by the two airlines. In early September, Aeroflot officially informed Transaero ...
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African dawn
Lois Jones/DAKAR David Learmount/CAPE TOWN Air traffic services (ATS) in many parts of Africa are already unable to cope with current traffic levels, never mind increased demand. Meanwhile, wars and political instability raging in parts of the continent mean that basic air traffic control (ATC) is often neglected and ...
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Government saves Air Namibia
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN The Namibian Government has injected N$20-million ($3.7 million) into Air Namibia and has appointed a Malaysian financier to restructure, and re-capitalise the troubled national carrier as a state-owned company. The move takes the airline out of the control of state holding company TransNamib, which has ...
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Air France plans US link to pave the way toward a global alliance
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France expects to join a global airline alliance based on an agreement with one of its two US partners, "before the end of 1999", according to the airline's president Jean Cyril Spinetta. The signing of the co-operation pact between KLM and Alitalia on 27 November ...