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Europe under threat
Despite advances aimed at addressing the airport-capacity problems of the late 1980s, Europe is again facing scenes of delayed flights, packed airport terminals and angry passengers. Although measures have been largely successful in easing the region's overcrowded skies, hold-ups in the approval of airport-infrastructure projects and delays in enhancing air-traffic-control ...
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TAT finalises Orly plans
BRITISH AIRWAYS' French subsidiary TAT is at last ready to reveal plans on how it will exploit its hard-won access to the domestic hub at Paris Orly. Several other airlines have already begun competing with incumbent French domestic airline Air Inter between Orly and Marseilles, Toulouse and Nice, ...
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Southern gateway
The first 11-gate phase of Miami Airport's new concourse A is due to open in June as part of the southern gateway's $2.7 billion expansion and redevelopment programme which is due to last until 2010. Gateway is the operative word at Miami, Florida, which boasts more carriers - ...
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Rocky passage
A second wave of airport privatisation is now well under way in Canada, involving Toronto's Pearson International Airport, Ottawa's Macdonald-Cartier International and Winnipeg International. Negotiations between the Canadian Department of Transport and the airports began earlier this year and, assuming that they go well, the Federal Government is ...
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Precision Profits
Maintenance Specialist Precision Standard, nearly doubled profits, to $11 million in 1994, despite a 12% slip in sales to below $149 million. The company blames the lower revenues on lower volumes and delays in military-aircraft maintenance and the slower-than-expected start-up of its Danish airliner centre. Source: Flight International
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Mixing types is not the answer
Sir - After reading the article "SAS defects to Boeing from MDC" (Flight International, 22-28 March, P5), I felt I had to make some comments from an aircrew point of view. It may seem to SAS fleet-development vice-president Ulf Abrahamsson and his board that the correct course of ...
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Precision profits
Maintenance specialist Precision Standard nearly doubled profits, to $11 million in 1994, despite a 12% slip in sales to below $149 million. The company blames the lower revenues on lower volumes and delays in military-aircraft maintenance and the slower-than-expected start-up of its Danish airliner centre. Source: Flight International
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Southern to develop L-100 combi
SOUTHERN AIR Transport (SAT) is developing a passenger/cargo "combi" modification for the Lockheed Martin L-100 Hercules transport, for relief and other missions when a combination of people and freight needs to be carried. Hondo, Texas-based Knight Aerospace is performing and certificating the modification, says SAT president Bill Langton. ...
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Crossair seeks cash for RJ100s
SWISS REGIONAL Crossair is to help finance its purchase of 12 Avro RJ100 regional jets with a new offering of shares. Swissair has signalled its intention to take part in the issue, raising its stake in the carrier to a two-thirds holding. Crossair commercial vice-president Thomas Hoffman says ...
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FedEx takes American's MD-11 fleet
AMERICAN AIRLINES IS to sell the bulk of its McDonnell Douglas MD-11 fleet to FedEx for conversion into freighters. Confirming details of the long-rumoured sale, American says that 12 MD-11s will be delivered to FedEx between January 1996 and October 1999. FedEx also has the option to buy ...
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Air India pessimistic on 1996 results
Veena Singh/BOMBAY AIR INDIA EXPECTS to post a loss for the coming financial year after only narrowly staying in the black for 1994/5, according to bleak predictions from the airline's board. An initial estimate of the airline's performance for the year to the end of March ...
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ARIA shows first Tu-204
AEROFLOT RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES (ARIA) received its first Tupolev Tu-204 at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport on 7 April. The aircraft, RA64010, is the first of four 204C cargo variants to be produced this year and was delivered in a new ARIA livery under consideration for the carrier's entire fleet. Two of ...
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Aer Lingus is back in the black
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AER LINGUS IS BACK making profits after the crises of the past two years, which executive chairman Bernie Cahill admits brought the Irish flag-carrier close to collapse. The group has had to fight its way back from "the very edge of a precipice", says ...
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ARIA Shannon hub delayed by New York negotiations
Paul Duffy/SHANNON THE LAUNCH OF the Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA) hub at Shannon, Ireland, has been delayed by negotiations with the Port of New York over slots at Kennedy International airport. The required slots have now been obtained, but operations will not begin until 26 ...
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Clinton presents ATC reshuffle plan
THE US CLINTON Administration has delivered to Congress a reorganisation plan which would shrink the Federal Aviation Administration through the creation of a quasi-governmental corporation responsible for air traffic control (ATC). About 40,000 FAA workers would transfer to the new US Air Traffic Services Corporation. The FAA would ...
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BA World Cargo switches freight plans
BRITISH AIRWAYS has ditched earlier plans for the phased development of a new London Heathrow cargo hub, instead unveiling plans to spend £150 million on developing a new highly automated hub. The centre is due to open in 1998 with a capacity to handle around 800,000t of cargo ...
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Gulfstream opens London City option
GULFSTREAM Aerospace has won approval to operate the Gulfstream IV-SP into London City Airport (LCY). The certification allows the business-jet to serve the airport which is the closest to London's financial district. Aircraft require special approval to use LCY because of its steep glide-slope. The GIV-SP ...
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SIA and Tata to defy critics inside India
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) and Tata Industries are confident that their proposed joint venture to set up an Indian domestic carrier will go ahead, despite local political and airline opposition. The planned SIA-Tata partnership has been attacked by Pramod Mahajan, general secretary of India's main ...
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United overhauls fleet expansion
UNITED AIRLINES IS revamping its fleet plan in a move which will reduce the rate at which capacity is added, but will bring down the average fleet age faster than expected. The carrier's latest five-year plan includes the replacement of 94 in-service aircraft with Boeing 777s and Airbus ...
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Struggling TWA details 1994 loss
TRANS WORLD Airways (TWA) has revealed that it ended 1994 with losses of $436 million, although the struggling airline takes some comfort from an improvement in its unit costs and a reduced operating loss. Unit costs fell by more than 2%, because of early returns from a new ...