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China is poised to receive its first A320
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SICHUAN AIRLINES IS expected to take delivery of its first Airbus Industrie A320 by the end of July, following recent certification of the aircraft by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The airline still requires final approval from China's State Planning Commission to ...
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ARIA to lease DC-10 freighters
Paul Duffy/SHANNON AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) is to acquire two McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10-30F freighters to expand its cargo services to the USA and the Far East. The aircraft are expected to arrive in Moscow by the middle of August, for introduction into service in September. ...
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Aircraft news
Saudia has confirmed its order for 23 Boeing 777-200s, five B747-400s, 29 MD-90s and four MD-11s. Announcing its intention to build a stretched version of the B777, Boeing received orders for 10 B777-300s from All Nippon Airways and six from Thai International. Cathay Pacific has converted ...
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USAir setback
USAir suffered a setback with its restructuring plan when its flight attendants voted 55 to 45 per cent against the proposal. The struggling carrier has yet to get pilot or machinist approval, and must now start talking with the flight attendants again to reach their targeted saving of $52.8 million. ...
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Technology tradeoffs
As the taxi pulls into the airport, the passenger's personal digital assistant (PDA) flashes the message that his flight is delayed for an hour, and asks him to confirm his inflight meal selection. He swipes his SmartCredit card through the taximeter, enters his personal authorisation code, adds a tip for ...
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Same old story
Bilaterals The reasons underlying the long-running bilateral dispute between the US and Japan are little changed. But David Knibb explains that economic and political imperatives could well signal the end to what has become an uncomfortable impasse.The scene is a familiar one: a US airline proposes a route beyond Japan, ...
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Iberia insists it is viable
As Spain assumes the presidency of the European Union, Iberia's management has taken a new tack in trying to convince the European Commission and industry critics that it should receive its controversial Pta130 billion ($1.07 billion) in state aid. Having blamed the recession, devaluation of the pesata, competition ...
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The sum of future parts
Global Airways flight 632 is midway between Manchester and Orlando. A line maintenance technician in Orlando, monitoring the aircraft's systems via satellite, is alerted to a malfunctioning aft fuel pump. The technician, who has never handled this problem before, consults a virtual workplace to review the system design and get ...
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A fourfold future
How will airline passengers acquire travel products in the future? Can the airline industry retain control of the distribution pipeline through which carriers sell their products and get information on their customers, or will the large travel agencies take over? By Jay Rein, Michael Gelhausen and Scot Hornick. Ten years ...
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Tomorrow's flight plan
They call it the autonomous aeroplane. An aircraft which can be navigated around the world independently of any ground navigation aid and which, rather less easily, can return to earth anywhere in any weather. Technically the concept is a practicable one. Whether it will be coming to an airport near ...
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Financial results
Air Canada cut its operating loss from C$12m to C$7m. Passengers and yields both rose 6%. There were C$40m of non-operating gains in 1994. Operating income trebled to US$162.2m, moving ANA into the black. Boosted by the Kobe earthquake and the strong yen, traffic rose 6.1%. ...
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Indian feed for starters
A third tier of Indian feeder carriers is emerging as more turboprop operators, backed by state governments and investment from home and abroad, start up in a potentially lucrative market. The smaller carriers will fill the gap below the country's jet operators, which, with profitability still eluding them, ...
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Investors favour Valu
For some carriers media scrutiny at times of misfortune adds fuel to the fire. But not for ValuJet Airlines. The darling of Wall Street and consumers alike seems to have sidestepped a recent spate of bad luck. Lewis Jordan, president of the Atlanta-based carrier, waves off suggestions that ...
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Superjumbo or white elephant?
Mrs Akido is flying from Sapporo to Fukuoka to visit her mother. While the aircraft is taxiing to the runway, she goes through the safety procedure on her virtual reality screen. In the noise-proofed cabin she cannot hear the roar of the engines, nestling under the 80 metre wingspan, as ...
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Squeeze on down under
The strict conditions placed on the linkup between British Airways and Qantas on the Kangaroo route by the Australian Trade Practices Commission may have appeased the Asian carriers, but some of Europe's majors are feeling the squeeze in the highly competitive Europe-Australia market. Lufthansa has opted to abandon ...
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Doubts fail to rip Oz
Despite two outstanding strategic issues clouding the long awaited privatisation of Qantas, initial investor interest appears solid. But a reduced issue price is threatening to cut dramatically the value of British Airways' 25 per cent investment and shrink the expected returns for the federal coffers. As applications for ...
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Don't just talk
Leading airlines have long talked about spinning off or even selling their non-core operations but there are finally signs that they are putting their words into action. T Wakelee Smith of SH&E assesses what progress has been made.For several years now, airline experts and management gurus have expounded on the ...
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Japan cool on codesharing
Judging from attitudes recently expressed in Tokyo, codesharing is not the key to solving the Japan-US dispute. It may have provided the way out of the US-Germany bilateral impasse, but with Japan trying to instill pan-Asian unity on aeropolitical issues, Tokyo believes extensive codesharing rights for US carriers would upset ...
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Germans win out on codes
A recent report on codesharing for the German ministry of transport has pushed Bonn to the centre of the debate in Europe, as Brussels prepares to launch its own long-awaited study. The report by the quasi-independent state research institute, DLR, is the first of its kind in Europe, following the ...
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A changing game plan
In coach class passengers are contentedly gazing at seatback video screens, absorbed in a broad range of quality in-flight entertainment. Live television and radio vie for passengers' attention with the latest movie releases of 2005. Adults while away the hours making purchases of questionable wisdom or slowly gambling away their ...