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Milan switch upsets airlines
Nine major European airlines have complained to the European Commission over Italian Government demands that all services on routes carrying fewer than 2 million passengers a year be transferred from Milan Linate airport to Milan/Malpensa 2000, starting from October 1998. Air France, British Airways, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Olympic, ...
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American Airlines visuals order boosts market leadership
American Airlines has selected Evans & Sutherland (E&S) to supply visual systems for five full-flight simulators recently ordered from CAE Electronics. The deal follows the announcement at the end of September that E&S had won a United Airlines contract for six systems. The two large orders boost E&S' ...
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Spinetta selects Lyon location for Air France's second hub
New Air France president Jean-Cyril Spinetta has chosen Lyon Airport, in the south of France, as the national airline's second hub, after Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. In his first public statement since being confirmed in the job at the end of October, Spinetta says that Lyon is ...
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Discount airlines gain access to congested US airports
Five US low-fare airlines have been given permission to begin serving slot-controlled Chicago O'Hare International Airport and New York's La Guardia Airport, marking a first victory for the sector in its battle against the major network carriers. The permissions, granted by the US Department of Transportation (DoT), are ...
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AB Airlines takes AIM for expansion funds
AB Airlines is planning a listing on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) early in 1998 to fund an expansion of its network and fleet renewal. The Stansted, UK-based airline is negotiating the acquisition of four new Boeing 737-300s, configured with two-class cabins, in January 1998 to replace its ...
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FAA orders skin-panel inspection for old 737s
As part of its continuing ageing-aircraft initiative, the US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered new inspections or modifications of fuselage skin-panel lap joints on 33 US-registered Boeing 737-100/200s with more than 60,000 flights. A further 34 737s owned by foreign airlines are affected by the airworthiness directive (AD), ...
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Maersk orders CRJs to provide 70-seat option
Maersk Air's UK subsidiary will replace its ageing fleet of BAC One-Elevens in 1998 with the first of up to 15 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs). The selection hinged on Bombardier's ability to supply both 50- and 70-seat versions, which Embraer could not offer. Maersk Air, which operates ...
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Fairchild orders CAE simulator for 328JET
Fairchild Dornier has ordered a full-flight simulator for its 328Jet, marking another in a series of regional-aircraft orders for CAE Electronics. The 328Jet simulator is to be ready for customer training in February 1999, a year after the planned First flight of the prototype. American Airlines, ...
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Thailand's PB Air is ready for 1998 launch date
Thai start-up operator PB Air is planning to launch its first charter/scheduled domestic service in 1998, initially using a recently acquired Fairchild Dornier 328 30-seat turboprop. The 12-month-old carrier hopes to fly daily from Bangkok to Hattyai via Chumporn Airport in southern Thailand, says PB Air chief pilot ...
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Sole survivor
Canada has rapidly lost two of its low-cost airlines, leaving WestJet as sole survivor. David Knibb looks at the lessons which should be learned and examines the prospects for any future Canadian new entrants. Like a tree shedding leaves in autumn, two of Canada's three low-cost airlines - Greyhound ...
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Schiphol on top
Amsterdam/Schiphol won the overall Airport Marketing Award at the Airline Business/ASM Routes conference in Oslo. Specialist award winners were Manchester, for best trade advertisement; Dubai, for best print material for the trade; Birmingham, for best consumer advertisement/poster; and Stansted, for best consumer print material. Source: Airline ...
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US targets predators
It has been a long time coming - some think too long - but the US Department of Transportation is promising to open up some of the key US hub airports and to get tough on carriers that behave anticompetitively. Predictably, the low-cost airlines applaud the move while the majors ...
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Wolf secures pilots' seal
Stephen Wolf cut it close but his tough approach towards US Airways' pilots has paid off. The carrier's chairman and chief executive officer brokered a deal after 18 months of frustrating stalemate just in time to secure production slots for the first of 400 Airbus A320s on order. ...
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Second to none ?
Following its relaunch this year, Qatar Airways is ahead of its forecasts and plans to assume a major role in the region over the next few years. Richard Whitaker reports from Doha. When it comes to service standards, Akbar Al Baker is not easily satisfied. The chief executive of ...
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Moscow hopeful
Transaero has opted to curb its wider ambitions in order to focus on stimulating a rebound in the moribund Russian domestic market. Douglas Cameron reports from Moscow on the airline's chances. Transaero has not quite shaken off the past. A strategy which has flirted with the purchase of TWA and ...
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US holds out for more from Japan
High expectations for a treaty between the US and Japan, that might at least have paved the way towards full open skies, collapsed with a resounding thud in Washington DC during the September round of bilateral negotiations. And there has followed much finger wagging at Northwest Airlines, which is accused ...
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Swiss offer Geneva hope
Swissair may still come to regret its decision to drop intercontinental flights from Geneva after the Swiss parliament mandated limited special treatment for regional airports in new bilateral agreements. But critics say the measures don't go far enough. The parliament bowed to pressure from the western cantons by ...
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Flyers in the ointment
High average load factors are leading US airlines to clamp down on multiple bookings which play havoc with their yield mix. But some more advantageous solutions should be considered. By Bill McKnight, Geoff Murray and Patrick Meynial. Plan ahead. Leave yourself plenty of time. Always check in at the ...
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German FFP spoils shared
Lufthansa's links with the public sector appear alive and well despite the sale of the German government's remaining 37.5 per cent stake in the carrier in October. Two rivals claim the German flag carrier had prior knowledge of decisions by federal authorities affecting their businesses and cite a ...
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Europe joins the hunt
The European Commission plans to launch a major crackdown on anti-competitive practices in the EU. The move represents a tacit admission that four years of liberalisation have failed to remove a number of barriers to entry in the European market. KLM may be the first to feel the ...