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Prestwick incentive
Glasgow Prestwick International Airport in Scotland is trying to encourage carriers to launch transatlantic services from the airport by offering to pay them some £1 million ($1.6 million) a year if they make a five-year commitment. Source: Flight International
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MAS Virgin freighter
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and Virgin Atlantic launched a twice-weekly joint freighter service on 1 October. Source: Flight International
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Boeing studies 777-200X 'sleeper' options
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing has begun talks with potential 777-200X customers over lower-lobe options for its ultra-long-range derivative of the twinjet, with sleeping space for up to 40 passengers and crew. Boeing is now seriously examining the long-discussed possibility of passenger sleeping accommodation, needed mainly because of ...
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AirAsia maps out future openings for new widebodies
Malaysian start-up carrier AirAsia is planning to acquire two widebody aircraft in early 1998 to expand services within Asia and open up flights to the Middle East and Europe. The airline says that it has signed a letter of intent with an unidentified third-party broker to sublease two ...
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Confusion surrounds privatisation of Air Niugini
The privatisation of Papua New Guinea flag carrier Air Niugini has been thrown into confusion after the sacking of the airline's board by the country's new transport and civil-aviation minister, Philemon Embel. In a separate move, he has also turned down a request by Australian regional Flight West ...
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BAe Aviation Services wins further Airbus A300 conversion work
C-S Aviation Services has doubled its orderbook with British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) for Airbus A300B4 freighter conversions, with a $150 million contract for 11 firm orders, plus options on a further ten. Filton, UK-based BAeAS now has 21 conversion orders from C-S which will be undertaken on ...
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Air Iceland created
A Fokker 50 is seen in the livery of recently created Air Iceland, the merged company of the national airline's island network and Norlandair Iceland. The new airline inherits four former Icelandair Fokker 50s with three Fairchild Metro IIIs, two de Havilland Canada Twin Otters and two Piper Chieftains of ...
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Eurowings wins domestic skirmish
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa is to open up its Miles & More scheme to passengers on competing smaller airlines flying internal German routes, bringing to a close a test case under investigation by state competition authorities. A complaint was raised with the authorities in May by Lufthansa's ...
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Culture clash causes Frontier and Western Pacific to part
Western Pacific Airlines (WestPac) and Frontier Airlines have terminated merger moves because of alleged "cultural differences" which undermined the amalgamation of the two small Colorado-based carriers. The directors of Western Pacific and Frontier signed a merger deal on 30 June under which WestPac would acquire the smaller carrier, ...
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Air UK adds Sheffield
Air UK will become the first operator to offer scheduled flights from the new Sheffield City Airport, UK, in February 1998. The airline will operate Fokker 50s to Amsterdam thrice daily from the airport, which opened in June. Source: Flight International
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Alitalia turns in profit after ten years of making losses
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Andrea Spinelli/Rome After a decade of losses, Alitalia has turned in a net profit of L163 billion ($92 million) for the first half of the year. Chief executive Domineco Cempella promises better to come, raising the prospect of early privatisation of the state-owned Italian flag carrier. ...
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Schools in
Efforts to raise air-transport industry standards in China have not only been confined to the pilot, but have extended across the workforce. New training initiatives and investments have been targeted at high-level executives, middle-level managers, operations staff, down to line mechanics. China's call for help has been answered ...
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Regional rewards
Europe's regionals meet in Italy on8-10 October, with much to be satisfied about Embraer's EMB-145, in British Regional Airways livery, is a direct rival for the Bombardier Canada Julian Moxon/PARIS Each year, it seems that the European regional-airline industry has better news to report. Traffic growth, ...
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UK tries to hasten Swanwick
The UK's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) has presented staff and airlines with a list of six options for completing the delayed New En Route Control Centre (NERC) at Swanwick. The £350 million ($585 million) programme is one year behind schedule and could slip to as late as ...
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Boeing struggles with Super Hornet wing-drop problem
Boeing is examining modifying the wing on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet in an attempt to solve a wing-drop problem, having exhausted options to resolve this with software changes. The problem is centred on what the company describes as "uncommanded sudden wing drops during manoeuvring flight" which have come ...
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Swiss double
Swissair's parent SAirGroup has signed separate alliance deals with TAP Air Portugal and AOM of France. The deal with TAP includes codesharing with Swissair, but both accords will extend to other companies in the SAirGroup. Source: Airline Business
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Alitalia brings A320s into Airbus contract
Marco Massela/ROMEJulian Moxon/PARIS Alitalia is negotiating with Airbus Industrie for the conversion of its 23 outstanding A321 orders to include some smaller A320s, which would be the Italian carrier's first order for the 150-seat member of the Airbus narrowbodied family. The airline is also examining its longer-term strategy ...
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Smog causes air chaos in Asia
Dense smoke from massive forest fires in Borneo and Sumatra is severely disrupting air transport across much of South-East Asia, forcing the closure of some smaller airports and the cancellation or delay of many domestic and regional flights. A thick haze generated by the fires has blanketed Brunei, ...
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Bournemouth's Scottish express plane
Euroscot Express launched low-fare services to Scotland from its base in Bournemouth in southern England on 29 September, using a BAC One-Eleven 500 leased from European Aviation. The airline will serve Glasgow daily and Edinburgh at weekends, and will compete against British Airways Express (British Regional Airlines), which serves the ...
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American presses case for free-flight
American Airlines is conducting a co-ordinated lobbying campaign to accelerate progress towards US free-flight, based on computer modelling which predicts that the region's hub-and-spoke system will seize up by 2014 if nothing is done. Over the past year, the airline has begun applying pressure at political and technical ...