All Networks articles – Page 1362
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Consulting with success
Kenya Airways' successful privatisation is raising hopes for a renaissance in African aviation Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRIAN DAVIES admits that it was an opportunity that no self-respecting aviation consultant could have resisted. After being called in to lead a six-week study on how Kenya Airways should ...
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Continental expansion
Continental Airlines is to expand its three US hubs - Cleveland, Houston and Newark - adding new domestic and international destinations and flights. The carrier is to focus growth on profitable routes from its hubs, increasing capacity by eliminating unprofitable flights and adding five new aircraft this year. ...
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SAS profits as restructuring pays dividends
LONG-RUNNING restructuring efforts at Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) began to pay dividends in 1995 as the carrier's profits soared, also helped by a rise in European business traffic. The Scandinavian carrier ended the year with a profit of more than SKr2.5 billion ($360 million), up from only SKr388 ...
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Virgin European plans June start-up
Andrew Doyle/LONDON VIRGIN EUROPEAN Airways could begin operations in June if it goes ahead with plans to acquire a controlling stake in EuroBelgian Airlines (EBA). The UK airline has confirmed that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to acquire an 80% stake in ...
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International investment
The Inmarsat affiliate company ICO Global Communications, has now raised $1.5 billion from 48 telecommunications operator investors around the world, after an infusion of $1 million each, from operators in Bulgaria, Egypt, Iran and Nigeria. ICO plans to operate a $2.6 billion network of ten Hughes HS-601 intermediate-orbit satellites, providing ...
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Macau link
Korean Air (KAL) has launched a scheduled service three times a week from Seoul to Macau's recently opened airport. KAL has been operating charter flights to Macau since the airport opened on 9 November. A 258-seat Airbus Industrie A300-600R will be used on the new service. Source: Flight ...
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TWA will replaced L-1011 fleet with 757s
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES (TWA) is to acquire 20 Pratt & Whitney-powered 757-200s - ten purchased from Boeing and ten leased from International Lease Finance - to replace its 14 Lockheed L-1011s and some Boeing 727s. The carrier will also hushkit 28 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9-30s, and is negotiating with MDC ...
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SAS concentrates on fleet requirement beyond 2000
Gunter Endres/LONDON SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES System (SAS) is to study a plan to purchase between ten and 20 long- and medium-range aircraft to add to its fleet starting by the year 2000. The study will examine the case for retaining the Boeing 767 in the SAS fleet ...
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Air Baltic receives first RJ70
LATVIAN FLAG CARRIER AIR BALTIC has taken delivery of the first of three ex-Business Express Avro RJ70s, leased from Avro International Aerospace. Two further aircraft will join the fleet in March and April. The RJs will replace two Boeing 727-100s on routes from Riga to Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, London Gatwick ...
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Romancing the UK, Air Jamaica fashion
RED CARPETS on the tarmac, on board fashion shows by cabin crew and Mumm's Cordon Rouge champagne in economy class, are the ploys, which the new Air Jamaica intends to use to woo the UK traveler, when the carrier re-introduces a London-Montego Bay-Kingston link on 30 March, after an absence ...
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New conflict looms at Air Inter
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FAILURE TO AGREE on a new contract for pilots at Air Inter Europe is pulling the financially struggling domestic and regional wing of the Air France Group towards a new crisis. Passenger traffic fell by 7% in 1995, to 15.7 million, largely because ...
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Russia sets up aviation body
RUSSIA'S NEWLY appointed transport minister, Nikolai Tsakh, plans to announce the formation of a new Federal Aviation Service by the end of this month. The body is being created to help improve state control of civil aviation and co-ordinate its development. Air-traffic-control agency Rosaeronavigatsia will be incorporated ...
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Honeywell predicts Pegasus boom
MORE THAN 700 Boeing 757/767s and McDonnell Douglas MD-90/MD-11s could be retrofitted with Honeywell's newly developed Pegasus flight-management system (FMS), according to the company. The Pegasus FMS has 25 times the throughput capacity and up to 16 times more memory than that of the existing systems and will ...
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BWIA recovery stumbles
BWIA INTERNATIONAL Airlines says a poor fourth quarter has "temporarily derailed" the Caribbean carrier's financial recovery following privatisation in February 1995. Despite this, the airline has posted a reduced operating loss for 1995 of $3.6 million, down from $9.4 million in 1994. President Edward Wegel blamed BWIA's poor ...
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ValuJet expands fleet
VALUJET AIRLINES has purchased nine McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9-30s and two MD-83s in deals which will take its fleet to 58 aircraft by the end of the first quarter of 1997. MDC helped locate the aircraft under the terms of ValuJet's launch order for 50 MDC MD-95s, deliveries of which ...
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The criteria for flightpaths are incomplete
Sir -It is stated in the article "Wavionix speeds up design of air-traffic flight patterns" (Flight International, 24-30 January, P23) that en route airways flightpaths are designed according to criteria laid down by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) aircraft operations manual. ICAO Document 8168 - Procedures for ...
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MDC reveals its long-term plan for MD-11 plan
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in the final stages of defining two new versions of the MD-11, which will enable the company to compete head-to-head with Airbus and Boeing in the Boeing 747-100/200 replacement market and the emerging extra-long-range market. "We got to the point that we had to ...
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Flightline to take surplus BAe146s
THE FIRST OF 18 surplus USAir British Aerospace 146-200s will soon re-enter commercial service with UK-based Flightline. The UK firm formally accepted the aircraft from USAir Leasing on 5 January. The aircraft, leased via Alpine Aviation, will be used on a London-Switzerland route. Before its acceptance, ...
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BA to equip European fleet with TCAS 2
BRITISH AIRWAYS WILL announce this week that it is fitting traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems (TCAS 2) to its 116-aircraft short-haul fleet The airline is the first major European carrier to order the TCAS 2 for its entire fleet. Its 102 long-haul aircraft are already fitted with the system, ...
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Airbus closes on A330-200 sale
AIRBUS CLAIMS to be in final negotiations with Korean Air (KAL) and two other unidentified international carriers to place the first orders for the recently launched A330-200 "shrink". According to Airbus senior vice-president John Leahy, KAL is looking for between 12 and 15 A330-200s, and up to six ...