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Manchester approval
The UK Government has granted Manchester Airport permission to construct a second runway. The new 3,050m (1,000ft) runway will open in early 2000 . Flying colours extra Flying Colours is to lease an Airbus A320 from Air France, and carry out charter flights from Glasgow, UK, ...
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Polar Logistics serves Antarctica with Hercules
Polar Logistics has started direct passenger and cargo flights between Cape Town, South Africa and Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, using a Lockheed Martin L-100-30 Hercules leased from Southern Air Transport. The 4,230km (2,300nm) flight takes around nine hours, carrying a 6.8t payload. Polar, which specialises in "high-latitude" operations, initially plans ...
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Alliance launched
Austrian Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Sabena and Swissair, will start their Atlantic Alliance programme on 1 February, harmonising reservation, sharing income and streamlining fare policies. On 15 May, Sabena will inaugurate codeshared scheduled services from Brussels to Cincinnati, Ohio. Delta will restructure its operations at Frankfurt (Germany), and add services ...
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AirOne takes on Noman
Italian domestic airline AirOne has strengthened its challenge to Alitalia on the key Milan-Rome route with a deal to take on the operations of small domestic carrier Noman. Despite its size, Noman has built up a 4%market share on the Milan-Rome route, helping to add to AirOne's existing 25%, and ...
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Japanese airlines finalise low-cost plans
Japan Air System (JAS) and Japan Airlines (JAL) are planning to incorporate new low-cost subsidiary carriers shortly, in the face of growing domestic liberalisation and the entry of new competing start-up airlines. JAS also announced that its new subsidiary operation, Harlequin Air, was to have been established on ...
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Approval granted for Slovakian airline
A new Slovakian national airline is to be set up, operating a fleet of Russian airliners, following government approval of the plans. The new carrier, named Slovenske Aeroline, is expected to begin operations by the end of the year, initially concentrating on services between Slovakia and Russia, using ...
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Gulf Air restructures fleet and network
Gulf Air is to dispose of six aircraft and cease operating certain routes, as the airline attempts to turn round its heavy losses and reduce its debt mountain. The announcement comes only a week after the four Gulf States which own the airline again failed to agree on terms for ...
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JAL adds flights
Japan Airlines (JAL) is to introduce an increase in flights to Asian and domestic destinations to meet growing competition. From April, JAL plans to add two new additional weekly flights from Nagoya to both Manila and Singapore, and one more to Bangkok. JAL's fleet of aircraft will increase in size ...
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Heathrow responds to Fokker 50 delay
Sir- In response to N Malle's letter (Flight International, 8-14 January, P37), about the landing of a damaged Fokker 50 at Heathrow in December, I would like to make the following points. Landing-gear failure was apparent on final approach. By the time the aircraft had been manoeuvred in ...
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Bombardier gets Dash 8-400 order boost from Tyrolean
Austria's Tyrolean Airways has become the second European customer, after Wider¿e, for the high-speed, 70-seat de Havilland Dash 8-400 with an $83 million order for four aircraft. The airline, which has also taken an additional four options, will take delivery of the four firm Dash 8s between ...
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EMB-145 wins Portugalia verdict over CRJ
Portugalia has selected the Embraer EMB-145 to operate on its expanding regional network from Portugal, following a two-way contest involving the Brazilian aircraft and the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet. The privately owned carrier says that it will shortly sign firm contracts covering four EMB-145s, for delivery in May, ...
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World charters
World Airways will provide charter flights for Garuda Indonesia during 1997 under a wet-lease agreement worth at least $30 million. World will fly pilgrims between Indonesia and Saudi Arabia with four McDonnell Douglas MD-11s and two DC-10-30s. The US charter carrier has provided wet-lease services to Garuda since 1973. ...
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ValuJet progress
ValuJet Airlines is again serving West Palm Beach and will resume flights to Fort Myers, Florida, on 16 January. The low-fare Atlanta, Georgia-based airline continues to rebuild its route structure under the watchful eye of the US Federal Aviation Administration which has now given permission for ValuJet to add three ...
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Delta ends intra Europe flights
DELTA AIR LINES is to discontinue the intra-European operations which it acquired from Pan American World Airways in 1991, and instead increase transatlantic flights, principally from New York's J F Kennedy Airport. The restructuring will result in a one-time charge against earnings of up to $60 million, mainly ...
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Safety defeated
THE YEAR 1996 SAW the largest number both of airline fatal accidents and of fatalities on record. Other serious worries for the air-transport community highlighted by 1996 include the number of deaths on the ground caused by crashes - also the worst ever - and some compelling trends indicating that ...
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Sabena revives study of off-shore contracts
Sabena has confirmed that it has resurrected cost-saving plans to employ flying personnel on out-of-country contracts. The proposal, which is still under study, would see pilots and cabin crew continue to be based in Brussels, but paid in Switzerland, probably via Sabena's partner Swissair, with the transaction made through a ...
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STAe will expand leasing business
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) plans to acquire a leasing fleet of up to 20 aircraft over the next five years as part of a wider effort to expand the commercial side of its business. STAe, together with its parent holding company Singapore Technologies, has already established a joint-venture ...
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Bombardier beats Embraer to ASA deal
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) has followed its fellow Delta Connection carriers Comair and Skywest with the selection of the Canadair Regional Jet for its regional-jet needs, after a competition which also involved the Embraer EMB-145 (Flight International, 8-14 January, P10). The Atlanta, Georgia-based regional says that it will ...
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Collision leads to restructure of Delhi air-traffic-control routes
Arrival and departure procedures in the New Delhi airport terminal manoeuvring area (TMA) have been revised since the collision on 12 November, 1996 between a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 which killed 349 people (Flight International, 20-26 November 1996, P8), according to the Indian Directorate ...
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The boom returns for airliner orders
Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC)saw jet-airliner orders climb comfortably above the 1,000 mark in 1996, giving the big three aircraft builders their best year since the bonanza of the late 1980s. Production rates are also on the rise and due to hit record levels within the next two to ...