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Strike pressure builds as Boeing deliveries slip
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES PRESSURE IS MOUNTING on Boeing to settle with striking workers, as the production backlog begins to build up and deliveries slow to a trickle. Boeing managed to deliver 11 aircraft in November and 14 in October despite the strike by 32,000 machinists and aerospace ...
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Garuda Indonesia gears up for approaching privatisation
GARUDA INDONESIA is going to turn many of its operations into financially independent business units from 1996, in preparation for the national carrier's eventual privatisation. The state-owned airline has targeted the Garuda Maintenance Facility (GMF) and ground handling as the first two divisions to be given the new ...
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FAA safety ratings sting Latin American/Caribbean carriers
SANCTIONS HAVE begun to bite at airlines in Latin American and Caribbean countries judged by the US Federal Aviation Administration to have inadequate safety oversights. An increasing number of carriers has been unable to put aircraft into service because bilateral agreements have been frozen by the USA until their safety ...
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Airport costs threaten Russian revival
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW HUGE INCREASES in airport charges and fuel costs are threatening to stifle the beginnings of a recovery in the Russian airline market, the country's carriers have warned. Russian airlines have been reporting signs of growth for the first time since 1990, when passenger traffic ...
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World Airlines hope to start LCA services
UK start-up carrier World Airlines is planning to start a scheduled passenger service from London City Airport (LCA) in February, using ex-USAir British Aerospace 146-200s. The first aircraft is on its way to UK company Marshall Aerospace of Cambridge for a refit which includes in-flight telephones and facsimiles. ...
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FedEx moves to limit effects of pilots' action
US EXPRESS-PACKAGE carrier FedEx has wet-leased seven Boeing 727-200F freighters from Express One International, as a contingency in case industrial action by its pilots disrupts services in the build-up to the busy Christmas season. FedEx pilots stopped flying on their days off after contract talks with the carrier broke down ...
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Jamaica jets on
Recently privatised Air Jamaica has taken delivery of the first of six former Delta A310s on lease from Airbus and plans to acquire six A320s in a major capacity increase. The carrier has also bought 80 per cent of regional carrier Trans Jamaica for $3.4 million. Meanwhile, BWIA is re-evaluating ...
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Seoul space
Korean Air and Asiana are to lose their respective monopolies on Seoul-Sydney and Seoul-Saipan, following a Ministry of Transport decision that it will 'double-track' the routes. Meanwhile North Korea has tentatively agreed to allow Delta and Northwest to use its airspace on flights between the US and South Korea. This ...
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French Mex deal
Air France and Aeromexico have signed a block space and codeshare deal, allowing the French flag to sell seats on Aeromexico's three weekly flights from Paris to Cancun. In exchange the Mexican carrier can offer seats on Air France's five weekly Paris-Mexico City services, strengthening the ties between the two ...
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Minnow trouble
EuroBelgian Airlines has complained to the European Commission about Belgium's alleged failure to open up flights to Switzerland. Ryanair's UK-based operation hit trouble when the UK authorities ruled that it could not wetlease an aircraft to GB Airways for the operation. Short-term clearance was given for Ryanair to operate the ...
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Solo launch in Malaysia
Plans for a single multinational airline to operate within the Asean region appear to be falling by the wayside with the planned 1 January launch of a new Malaysian operator, Saeaga Airlines. The newcomer is a joint venture between Malaysia's Ekran Air Services (20 per cent) and the ...
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Going to market
Airport marketing is coming of age, as airports work harder to attract new airlines, new routes and new hub operations. Richard Whitaker reports from the recent route development conference in Cannes. Airports represent the last industry to discover marketing. So says Mike Howarth of Airport Strategy and Marketing which, along ...
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French open house offer
One of Europe's last bastions of regulation is starting to crumble as the French market embraces liberalisation. Under the third package, which came into force in 1993, all member states had to open up their home markets (excluding ninth freedoms) by January 1996, at the latest. France, like ...
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Financial results
Alaska Airline's cost per ASM dropped 5.5% from 1994 to 7.5 cents. But load factors were down 1.3 points on 1994 and yield decreased 1.7%. ANA's cost cutting showed benefits as expenses rose only 5%. International traffic rose 28.1% due to the strong yen. America West's ...
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LAB expands Vasp empire
Vasp's $47.5 million purchase of 49 per cent of LAB effectively gives it control over the Bolivian flag carrier, which will use the proceeds for internal development as well as to form an alliance with Vasp and its other recent acquisition, Ecuatoriana. Part of the Bolivian government's 51 ...
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China set to move on HK
Cathay Pacific is facing its worst nightmare, the startup of a Chinese-controlled, Hong Kong-based rival backed by powerful friends in Beijing's corridors of power. Despite complaints that the action breaks the Sino-British joint declaration on the hand-over of Hong Kong to China, the territory's civil aviation director Peter ...
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Chan chops
The entire National Airline Commission in charge of Air Niugini has been sacked by Papua New Guinea's prime minister Sir Julius Chan. His action came after NAC acting chairman Mike Bromley warned the carrier was approaching financial collapse due to government actions. Sir Julius, whose own airline Islands Transair competes ...
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California hotshots
Southwest is again taking the initiative in the US's most densely travelled market, while the performance of Shuttle by United remains unclear. Jane Levere reports. The fireworks that many expected to ignite in October 1994, when Shuttle by United first invaded Southwest's territory on the US west coast, have been ...
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'Economic' spying bugs Japanese
Not many people were surprised to learn, in October, that the CIA undertook 'economic' spying on US trade rival Japan. The high-profile impetus for the intelligence gathering was the US-Japan automobile trade talks that were resolved in July after the two sides negotiated an eleventh-hour settlement under the spectre of ...
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Brave new shoots
The emergence of a new generation of start up carriers in Europe has finally begun. Sara Guild talks to some of the new players and examines their strategies for survival.It's a bit like attending the Academy Awards and not knowing when the envelopes will be opened. European aviation has been ...