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++ Qantas plans to codeshare on Reno Air services, connecting with its flights from Los Angeles to Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland, starting in January 1998. Qantas says that the deal will improve links between Los Angeles and San Francisco. ++ Pan American World Airways has filed for approval to codeshare ...
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Regional-aircraft risks
November 3 should have been a defining date for regional-jet manufacturers. Most feared that Boeing would announce plans to develop an 80-seat derivative of the MD-95 as part of a wider declaration on the future of the aircraft it had acquired with the purchase of McDonnell Douglas. In the event, ...
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Passengers on the rack
If airlines and aircraft manufacturers were to characterise just one physical property of aeroplanes as the ultimate enemy, it would be weight. Weight increases drag and fuel consumption and reduces payload, so carriers and builders fight all the time to reduce it without sacrificing friendly properties such as strength, durability ...
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Saab sacks sales team in marketing shake-up
Saab Aircraft is to close its international sales and marketing bureau at Windsor, in the UK, as the company cuts back its sales and marketing operation and moves towards a more lease-management orientated role. The closure, which will take place at the end of November, follows the Swedish ...
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SIA flies to Star position
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on bilateral co-operation shortly with Lufthansa, as an initial step to becoming a full member of the rapidly expanding Star Alliance. According to industry sources, the two airlines could sign an MoU on 24 November, although this could ...
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Fiji International is prepared for January launch
Start-up carrier Fiji International Airways has reached agreement with London Stansted Airport to begin scheduled flights from Nadi, in Fiji, Mumbai, in India, and Singapore from early January 1998. The airline will operate Boeing 747-300s. The carrier originally intended to launch services to Manchester in the UK, but ...
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China bilateral
The USA and China have agreed to enter into informal consultations aimed at expanding the US-China aviation bilateral. The current pact restricts the number of carriers serving the market, and was last modified in 1995. It limits to three the number of airlines from each country which can serve the ...
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US airlines continue to surge
The major US airlines again surprised the markets with another record round of profits for the third quarter, including encouraging result from troubled Trans World Airlines, which now promises it has enough cash to carry it through the winter season. There had been speculation that the unprecedented run ...
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All clear for Fine Air
The US Federal Aviation Administration has authorised Fine Air to resume flying. The US cargo carrier expects to restart operations to Latin America within the next several weeks. Fine Air was grounded after the fatal crash in August of one of its McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61 freighters during take-off ...
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Japan Airlines surges ahead in domestic market
Japan Airlines (JAL) appears to have emerged as the leader in the first round of competition following partial deregulation of the Japanese domestic market, posting a sharp increase in profits over the first six months of its financial year. By contrast, the profits of Japan's dominant domestic player, ...
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Alliance spreads into Central Africa
Alliance Express, the regional arm of East African multi-national carrier Alliance Air, has taken over the operations of Government-owned Air Rwanda. Meanwhile, completion of the planned merger of Alliance with the two national airlines of its shareholders, Uganda and Tanzania, is now looking unlikely. Alliance Express ...
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Gemini buys LTU MD-11s
Gemini Air Cargo is to purchase LTU's four Boeing MD-11s for conversion to freighters, to operate alongside its growing fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s. The US-based all-cargo supplemental carrier has signed a letter of intent to purchase the four aircraft from LTU, with deliveries beginning at the end ...
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Fliers who lose the way
According to the US General Accounting Office (GAO), some licensed professional pilots should never have been given their jobs, and no amount of training will rectify this situation. While many in the industry would agree with that, there are real differences of opinion on just how those pilots' deficiencies should ...
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KLM plans regional changes
KLM will finalise plans by the end of the year to re-organise its regional-airline partners under one umbrella operation. Details of the initiative, which is being led by Air UK at London Stansted, are still being thrashed out, but in one option a single identity could be adopted. ...
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Domestic bliss?
Next year will mark a watershed in Japanese civil-aviation history: for the first time in 43 years, the country will see the emergence of new domestically owned airlines. In all, there will be six new carriers - four start-ups and two subsidiaries belonging to two of the three major incumbent ...
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Sabena springs surprise by taking City Bird stake
Sabena has taken a stake in Belgium start-up City Bird, adding a surprise twist to the low-cost carrier's flotation, and the airlines have unveiled a co-operation deal to cover new long-haul services. The listing had been delayed as news of the deal was released, but went ahead on 30 October, ...
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BA nears low-fares decision and re-equips regional unit
British Airways is expected to finalise plans before the end of the year to launch a European low-fare operation at London Stansted, using Boeing 737-300s. At the same time, the airline has begun an interim replacement of its BA Regional 737-200s. Earlier this year, BA commissioned the UK-based ...
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Matra BAe ASRAAM hits targets in Eglin firings
Matra BAe Dynamics has carried out two successful test firings from a Lockheed Martin F-16 of the Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM) at the USAir Force's Eglin AFB, Florida. The first firing was the final dispersion round in the ASRAAM trials programme, which was completed on 20 September. ...
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SIA sees profits rise, but warns over Asia's financial 'drama'
Singapore Airlines (SIA) says that the recent spate of Asia-wide currency and stock-market upheavals could affect air traffic in the region. The warning comes despite a healthy jump in the group's profits for the first six months of the financial year. SIA's second-half forecast notes that traffic "-may ...
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Brazil looks for airport infrastructure investors
Brazil's state-owned airports company, Infraero, is looking for foreign investors prepared to back a massive modernisation programme for the country's airport network. The programme, valued at $2.9 billion over the next three years, covers five major new airport developments at Fortaleza, in the north east of Brazil; Porto ...