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Appointments
Mauricio Botelho has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Embraer. At KLM Cargo, Jan Meurer has been appointed vice president, operations, Enno Osinga is named vice president customer service, and Michael Kimman becomes business systems manager. Sjaak Hofstra becomes operations and marketing director, cargo service centre ...
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UK deal close
US and UK aviation negotiators were ready for liberalisation talks at presstime which were expected to end with the US getting three new service rights into Heathrow, and the UK obtaining more access to Fly America traffic. Though both sides felt agreement was close, the potential takeover of USAir (p10) ...
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Inter out
Air France has taken the first step to integrate Air Inter into its European operations. Air Inter Europe will take on some of Air France's European routes from January 1996, offering a no frills service. This will extend to most of the European network in 1997, when the Inter branding ...
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SIA warms to 777-100X
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE AIRLINES is showing increasing interest in the extra-long-range Boeing 777-100X, and was given detailed briefings with 12 other major carriers on the aircraft during a "brain-storming" session in Seattle at the start of October. Other airlines attending the 777-100X briefing included Cathay Pacific, ...
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Embraer delivers 300th Brasilia
EMBRAER HAS DELIVERED its 300th EMB-120 Brasilia, the third for one of Brazil's newest airlines, Interbrasil Star. The company is the regional-branch airline of Transbrasil: it started operations on 3 July and now flies three EMB-120s on routes out of the capital Brasilia and Sao Jose do Rio Preto in ...
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Boeing admits strike is biting
BOEING CHAIRMAN Frank Shrontz has warned that the group's profitability, already hit by heavy restructuring charges and depressed airliner-sales, will be damaged further as the machinists' strike drags into its fourth week. He admits that the group now faces a "substantial" number of delivery delays over the remainder ...
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Hong Kong and Taiwan agree deal
HONG KONG AND Taiwan have reached a tentative agreement on a new commercial air accord, extending beyond the UK colony's 1997 hand over date to Chinese rule. The five-year deal clears the way for a second carrier from each side to operate on the highly lucrative trunk routes ...
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Slow ahead in Europe
So far liberalisation has produced only a small increase in the level of competition on European air routes, and fares have generally risen, says a new report by the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Two and a half years after Brussels deregulated the European Union's aviation market only 7 ...
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Airline news
Singapore Airlines has started twice-weekly services to both Cairns and Macau using A310 aircraft. SilkAir has launched a twice-weekly service between Singapore and Vientiane in Laos with Fokker 70s. ANA is seeking regulatory approval to start services between Osaka/Kansai and Rome. The carrier has also completed ...
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US airlines break records
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON NET PROFITS for the major US airlines topped $1 billion in the third quarter after a clutch of record-breaking performances. Although passenger and capacity figures remained virtually unchanged, yields rose by 5.5% across the industry, with none of the carriers posting a decline. ...
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Alaskan start-up
Air Cargo Express, a new Fairbanks, Alaska-based freight airline, has begun operations with a single Douglas DC-6. The carrier, which now runs a four times weekly cargo between Fairbanks and Barrow, plans to acquire further DC-6s and enlarge its network. Source: Flight International
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USA targets South America
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES will offer flights between Newark (New Jersey) and Lima in Peru, via Bogota in Columbia, and American Airlines will increase services to Brazil, under liberal new bilateral agreements secured by the USA with Peru and Brazil. Continental is the third US carrier to serve Peru, but ...
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Past keeps AmWest shy
With the resolve of a carrier that has returned to health but the hesitancy of one that only emerged from bankruptcy protection last year, America West Airlines has instituted its first growth programme in four years. Its 29 per cent growth plan over two years is conservative compared to the ...
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Open skies for Asean?
Aviation authorities from the Association of South East Asian Nations members are expected to start their first round of talks on implementing an intra-regional open skies policy after the Asean summit in Bangkok in mid-December. In a report following a September meeting in Brunei, Asean economics ministers suggested ...
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Asiana close to the grade
Asiana Airlines has moved a step closer to parity with its bigger rival, Korean Airlines, after receiving its first routes to Europe and Australia, two key parts of the globe that were previously off limits to South Korea's second carrier. Asiana plans to launch service to Brussels via ...
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USA awards Vancouver rights to six
THE US Transportation Department has awarded rights to six US airlines to operate new services to Vancouver, which become available during the second year of the liberalised US/Canada air-service pact. The Department has also opened the bidding, for seven new carriers, to bid for services to Quebec and ...
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BA boosts Gatwick hub
Employee groups have given a guarded welcome to British Airways' decision to move more longhaul services from London/Heathrow to Gatwick, but negotiations over staff costs continue. 'We're reluctant to subsidise further growth at Heathrow through lower salaries at Gatwick,' says George Ryde, national secretary of the Transport and ...
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Bilateral talks collapse as USA snubs UK concessions
THE USA HAS WALKED away from the latest round of bilateral talks with the UK, despite an offer of two new routes to Heathrow within a year and the possibility of giving a third US carrier access to the airport. Sources close to the talks, which were broken ...
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Two birds, one stone
In a major strategy shift, Indian Airlines will transfer its unprofitable routes into a stand-alone subsidiary, operating a mix of turboprops and jets. But the main aim is to counter its parent's shortage of senior pilots. Airlines Allied Services will operate Indian Airlines' short haul flights, and take ...
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Twice bitten
After its second exit from Chapter 11, TWA is attempting to reinvent itself, from new livery to balance sheet. Mead Jennings talks with CEO Jeffrey Erickson. If Trans World Airlines Inc could receive one dollar for each time its death has been predicted in the past nine years, it probably ...