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Virgin Express plans to join public bandwagon
Virgin Express is to become the latest of Europe's low-cost carriers to seek a public listing ,with plans to launch on the Brussels stock exchange and the USNASDAQ exchange. Start-ups UKDebonair and Belgian's City Bird have sought listings on Europe's EASDAQ, while Ireland's Ryanair has also recently floated. ...
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Rada places Smart Cats in Los Angeles
Israeli test-equipment company Rada is expanding its network of testing sites, with a second US centre, at Los Angeles International Airport, to be established in co-operation with Hong Kong company New Reef. The first US testing station at Miami is now operational, and the two centres will together ...
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Varig entry boosts number of Star Alliance destinations
Brazil's Varig Airlines has joined the growing list of Star Alliance members, with Lufthansa's president Jürgen Weber promising further signatures from "at least one" Asian carrier before the end of the year. The entry of Varig, which flies to every major South American destination, is initially restricted to ...
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Airkenya doubles Dash fleet
Airkenya is about to introduce its second de Havilland Canada Dash 7 turboprop. The aircraft are replacing Douglas DC-3s, providing much-needed extra capacity on services into remote dirt airstrips which are not suitable for use by Airkenya's other large turboprops - a Fokker F27 and a Shorts 360. Airkenya's first ...
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Airbus supplement: Restructuring
Wherever aerospace executives gather to discuss consolidation of Europe's aerospace industry, it will not be long before the talk turns to Airbus Industrie and its anxiously awaited restructuring. Whatever other pitfalls may yet befall Europe on the way towards the holy grail of consolidation, it has become an ...
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Airbus supplement: Airbus history
When the seeds which were to spawn today's Airbus Industrie were first being sown in the mid-1960s, the term "air bus" was a generic expression adopted by the industry to describe a short- to medium-range airliner proposed to meet increasing demand on busy European air routes such as London to ...
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Alliance finalises merger plans with Uganda and Air Tanzania
Chris Yates/LONDON Uganda Airlines and Air Tanzania have finalised plans to merge during 1998 with Alliance Airlines, the multi-national carrier led by South African Airways (SAA). Alliance was formed in 1995, serving London Heathrow from the three countries with a single Boeing 747SP wet-leased from SAA. ...
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Spinetta gets 'free hand' for more-commercial Air France
Julian Moxon/paris The French Government has confirmed the new president of Air France, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, in his post and given him unprecedented control over the running of the airline. It has also asked him to prepare for a "partial" opening of capital to the workforce and outside investors ...
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Hamburg Airlines to fold after partner talks fail
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Hamburg Airlines managing director Udo Klien confirms that the carrier will fold at the end of the year, after the failure of partnership talks with regional carrier Augsburg Airways. Augsburg is now planning instead to extend its Hamburg operations within its existing Team Lufthansa ...
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Balancing Act
Boeing is losing money because it's making too many airliners; Saab is losing money because it's making too few. Both are victims of a market which refuses to conform to the normal laws of economics - but each could benefit from the other's woes. Boeing's ...
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Qantas considers A340/777 competition
Qantas' new order will lift its 747-40 Qantas is evaluating the Airbus and Boeing 300-seat models, and has confirmed orders for three additional Boeing 747-400s, worth some A$650 million ($478 million)including engines and spares. According to chief executive James Strong, Qantas has been studying closely its ...
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Airbus supplement: A330 A340
When Airbus first discussed the A340 seriously with potential customers in the mid-1980s, "...the maximum range requirement was not much more than 6,000nm [11,100km]," recalls Airbus vice president strategic planning Adam Brown. "By launch in 1987 this had grown to 6,600nm [12,200km], and the A340-300 now in production can fly ...
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US Airways selects engines and secures deliveries for A320s
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTONDC US Airways has moved closer to finalising its long-standing commitment for up to 400 Airbus A320 family aircraft, with the selection of CFM International CFM56 engines, and an agreement over the delivery schedule for the first 30 aircraft. Some of the early delivery positions ...
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Airbus supplement: A3XX
When it enters service in 2003, the A3XX will be the world's biggest civil aircraft. Perhaps more significantly, at least from the commercial point of view, the European giant will complete the Airbus range and remove at a stroke Boeing's long-held monopoly in extra-large people carriers. For three ...
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Airbus supplement: Airbus; 25 years after take-off
Airbus Industrie has come a long way since its first aircraft, the A300, took to the air 25 years ago this week, on 28 October, 1972. What was once regarded as something of a curiosity by its rivals across the Atlantic has emerged as the only world challenger to the ...
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Ryanair reveals plans to double fleet by 2002
Ryanair has revealed plans to expand its fleet as part of a wide-ranging strategy to push its low-cost services further into the mainstream European market. Michael O'Leary, chief executive of the Dublin, Ireland-based carrier, says that the airline is "-actively negotiating with Boeing and Airbus" for new aircraft ...
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BA boosts Gatwick by transferring 777-200s
British Airways is to widen the role of Airline Management (AML), its low-cost joint venture which operates long-haul routes from Gatwick Airport, as part of an expansion which will see BA's capacity from London's second airport increase by 25% from mid-1998. It has confirmed plans to transfer five ...
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Debonair and Azzurra
European regional airlines, Debonair and Azzurra Air, are set to announce an alliance on routes between the UK and Italy. An announcement is scheduled to be made on 22 October. Debonair, based in Luton, serves Rome and connects to Copenhagen via Munich. It operates seven British Aerospace 146-200s. Azzurra Air, ...
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Open skies
Singapore and New Zealand have signed an open-skies agreement, clearing the way for unrestricted services and frequencies between the two countries. Singapore Airlines flies daily and Air New Zealand five times a week between Singapore and Auckland. Source: Flight International
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Spanish omelette
Spanish national carrier Iberia will join with domestic carrier Aviaco and privately owned Eastern Spain airline Air Nostrum on 26 October to operate codeshared domestic and international services with a combined fleet of 160 aircraft flying 700 services daily. Source: Flight International