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Malaysia Airlines low-fuel danger spans two years
David Learmount/LONDON The UK Civil Aviation Authority claims to be unable to find reports which British Airways says it filed on a series of incidents involving Malaysia Airlines (MAS) 747-400s that arrived critically low on fuel at London Heathrow Airport. BA is the engineering service provided at the airport ...
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Alitalia move brings Wings alliance closer
Alitalia has joined the Northwest-KLM alliance, bringing a step closer a third major global airline grouping to compete with the Star Alliance and oneworld. The three-way grouping is expected to lead to the formation later this year of the global Wings Alliance, which could include part Northwest-owned carrier Continental ...
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Swissair takes partners on first step towards marketing merger
Swissair and Sabena plan to merge their sales, marketing, product management and network activities into a single organisation which may eventually take over the commercial operations of all Qualiflyer Group carriers. "Project diamond", as it is known, involves setting up a central commercial unit called Airline Management Company (AMC), ...
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Estonian builds with CRJ-200s
Andrew Chuter/TALLINEstonian Air is to transform its fleet in the wake of its co-operation agreement with SAS, switching the emphasis away from the Boeing 737 and Fokker 50 turboprop towards Bombardier regional jets. The Tallin-based carrier, 49% owned by Denmark's Maersk Air, with the Estonian Government and the Baltic Cresco ...
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Israeli authority opens up local aviation market options
The Israeli civil aviation authority has recommended that the country's private airlines be allowed to operate 13 regional routes from Tel Aviv. The approval follows a decision by the Israeli Government in August 1997 to open up the local aviation market. The recommendations, which still require final approval ...
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Routes
Canadian Airlines has started codesharing with British Airways on the latter's routes from London to Brussels, Belgium and Stockholm, Sweden. Qantas and Western Samoa-based Polynesian Airlines have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a "commercial relationship" which will include codesharing. UK cargo carrier Channel Express is launching a weekly ...
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American faces anti-trust suit
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Government is to take American Airlines to court over alleged predatory behaviour at its Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, hub. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) charges that American repeatedly sought to drive start-up airlines out of D/FW by adding flights and cutting fares, then reducing service ...
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British Midland applies for bilateral exemption
British Midland (BM) has applied to the US Department of Transportation (DoT) for an exemption from the UK/US air services agreement to allow it to launch transatlantic services in late March 2000. The UK airline is initially seeking approval for the London Heathrow-New York Kennedy route. To introduce the ...
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Pan Am owner aims for scheduled start
Guilford Transportation Industries, which operates Pan American World Airways as a charter carrier, appears ready to start scheduled airline service through the acquisition of two financially troubled US airlines. Miami-based Pan Am was acquired in a federal bankruptcy court by Guilford, a regional rail concern, last June. In March, ...
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Regional revolution
Carl Albert, chief executive of Fairchild Aerospace calls it a revolution, a description delegates at the Regional Airline Association meeting in Arizona would have been hard pressed to disagree with. The revolution in question was the switch to regional jets, and not just 50 and 70-seaters, but 30, 40 and ...
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757s face axe as BA tackles falling yields
Chris Jasper/LONDON Andrew Doyle/MUNICH British Airways plans to replace Boeing 757s operating from its London Heathrow hub with smaller Boeing 737s and possibly Airbus A320s as part of a strategy to tackle its crisis of falling yields on short-haul routes. The move represents a U-turn in BA's strategy at ...
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EVA Airways orders three 747-400 freighters
EVA Airways is undertaking a significant expansion of its cargo operations, with a deal for three General Electric CF6-80C2-powered Boeing 747-400 freighters. The first delivery is for next year. EVA deputy senior vice-president K W Nieh says the aircraft "is ideal for long-haul routes from South-East Asia to Europe and ...
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UK probes MAS 'low fuel' landings
David Learmount/LONDON Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE The UK's Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) is investigating serious safety breaches involving Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) operations into London Heathrow. The DETR declines to name the airline, but Flight International understands from government and industry sources that on several occasions MAS has ...
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Korean settles for reshuffle instead of resignations
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Korean Air (KAL) is not accepting any of the 29 resignations submitted by senior executives in the wake of its latest fatal accident. This fits the pattern of previous KAL accidents, where contrite senior executives offered their resignations en masse, but few were accepted. KAL's new ...
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Marketplace
Oman Air has taken delivery of its first of two ex-Swissair Airbus A310-300s, leased from International Lease Finance (ILFC). The Pratt & Whitney JT9D-powered aircraft are scheduled to be replaced by two younger, PW4000-powered A310-300s leased from ILFC later this year. China Northwest Airlines has leased two CFM International CFM56-5-powered ...
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Safety audit seals China Eastern/Qantas deal
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas and China Eastern Airlines have finalised their partnership deal which will see the two airlines launching codeshare operations from mid-year. The conclusion of the deal, which had been planned to take effect at the end of March, is understood to have come after the Chinese ...
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Routes
Delta Air Lines has terminated its codeshare with Aer Lingus across the Atlantic following a decision by the Irish carrier to recommend to the Dublin government that it approve an alliance with American Airlines and British Airways. Air Canada and Mexicana have formed a code-share and marketing partnership between Canada ...
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SkyWest orders more CRJs to boost Delta Connection flights
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCSkyWest Airlines has ordered additional 50-seat Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) for Delta Connection services. Chautauqua Airlines, meanwhile, will begin US Airways Express service with Embraer RJ-145 regional jets in July. St George, Utah-based Sky-West has ordered 10 CRJ-200LRs for delivery between May 2002 and January 2003. SkyWest ...
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TNT restructuring signals an end to contract with Air Foyle
TNT's decision to restructure its air cargo operations under a single grouping based at its hub in Liège, Belgium, will see Air Foyle cease flying for the express package company when its contract expires in May 2000. TNT's director of airline operations, Niky Terzakis, says it aims to have an ...
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Hurel-Dubois records strongest performance
French thrust reverser and nacelle manufacturer Hurel-Dubois has posted its strongest performance since the company was formed in 1947. A 34% increase in sales, to Fr1.34 billion ($.21 billion) and a 61% jump in net profits, to Fr 52.6 million ($8.4million), came after a restructuring effort in 1998. ...