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JAL adds flights
Japan Airlines (JAL) is to introduce an increase in flights to Asian and domestic destinations to meet growing competition. From April, JAL plans to add two new additional weekly flights from Nagoya to both Manila and Singapore, and one more to Bangkok. JAL's fleet of aircraft will increase in size ...
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UK ignores EC warning on BA
The UK Government has brushed aside warnings from the European Commission (EC) that it could be taken to court if it approves the proposed British Airways alliance with American Airlines, without imposing tougher conditions to ensure transatlantic competition. The spat has also exposed more fundamental legal questions over the extent ...
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AirOne takes on Noman
Italian domestic airline AirOne has strengthened its challenge to Alitalia on the key Milan-Rome route with a deal to take on the operations of small domestic carrier Noman. Despite its size, Noman has built up a 4%market share on the Milan-Rome route, helping to add to AirOne's existing 25%, and ...
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Competing powers
"The EC competition commissioner's interest in the BA/AA alliance is curious - the competition department has failed to involve itself in more significant airline competition issues." By seeking to stamp his authority on the proposed alliance between British Airways and American Airlines, the European Commission (EC) competition commissioner, ...
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Building a new India
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) boss R N Sharma's announcement at the Aero India '96 show in December that he intended to start negotiations to license-build a 50-seat turboprop, and to buy a stake in a regional-jet programme, raised a few smiles among the Indian press corps. They had heard it all ...
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Japanese airlines finalise low-cost plans
Japan Air System (JAS) and Japan Airlines (JAL) are planning to incorporate new low-cost subsidiary carriers shortly, in the face of growing domestic liberalisation and the entry of new competing start-up airlines. JAS also announced that its new subsidiary operation, Harlequin Air, was to have been established on ...
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Manchester approval
The UK Government has granted Manchester Airport permission to construct a second runway. The new 3,050m (1,000ft) runway will open in early 2000 . Flying colours extra Flying Colours is to lease an Airbus A320 from Air France, and carry out charter flights from Glasgow, UK, ...
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EMB-145 wins Portugalia verdict over CRJ
Portugalia has selected the Embraer EMB-145 to operate on its expanding regional network from Portugal, following a two-way contest involving the Brazilian aircraft and the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet. The privately owned carrier says that it will shortly sign firm contracts covering four EMB-145s, for delivery in May, ...
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Approval granted for Slovakian airline
A new Slovakian national airline is to be set up, operating a fleet of Russian airliners, following government approval of the plans. The new carrier, named Slovenske Aeroline, is expected to begin operations by the end of the year, initially concentrating on services between Slovakia and Russia, using ...
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Bombardier gets Dash 8-400 order boost from Tyrolean
Austria's Tyrolean Airways has become the second European customer, after Wider¿e, for the high-speed, 70-seat de Havilland Dash 8-400 with an $83 million order for four aircraft. The airline, which has also taken an additional four options, will take delivery of the four firm Dash 8s between ...
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Gulf Air restructures fleet and network
Gulf Air is to dispose of six aircraft and cease operating certain routes, as the airline attempts to turn round its heavy losses and reduce its debt mountain. The announcement comes only a week after the four Gulf States which own the airline again failed to agree on terms for ...
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Heathrow responds to Fokker 50 delay
Sir- In response to N Malle's letter (Flight International, 8-14 January, P37), about the landing of a damaged Fokker 50 at Heathrow in December, I would like to make the following points. Landing-gear failure was apparent on final approach. By the time the aircraft had been manoeuvred in ...
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Transworld moves to GHI
Transworld Airlines (TWA) has appointed Gatwick Handling (GHI) as its ground-handling agent at the London airport in south-east England. GHI managing director Peter O'Boyle (left) is seen here confirming the deal with TWA station manager, Mike Spencer. TWA operates a daily Boeing 767 transatlantic service from Gatwick to St Louis ...
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Reaching for free flight
Forecasts of extraordinary growth in civil air traffic have become commonplace. The details vary, but a projected doubling of traffic by 2010 and a tripling by 2020 are widely accepted. There is just one problem - those numbers are not feasible, given the existing operational infrastructure. The problem is worst ...
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Is the SST a viable solution?
Sir-In your article "Supersonic Resurrection" (Flight International, 18-25 December 1996, P26), you reported the Tupolev officials' belief that sustained air-traffic growth would lead to the need for a larger, second-generation, supersonic transport (SST). This is illogical, as continuing air-traffic growth is already causing a shortage of "slots" at major airports. ...
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World charters
World Airways will provide charter flights for Garuda Indonesia during 1997 under a wet-lease agreement worth at least $30 million. World will fly pilgrims between Indonesia and Saudi Arabia with four McDonnell Douglas MD-11s and two DC-10-30s. The US charter carrier has provided wet-lease services to Garuda since 1973. ...
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Safety defeated
THE YEAR 1996 SAW the largest number both of airline fatal accidents and of fatalities on record. Other serious worries for the air-transport community highlighted by 1996 include the number of deaths on the ground caused by crashes - also the worst ever - and some compelling trends indicating that ...
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Tu-224: different class of aircraft
Sir - In the article "Kato launches Sirocco to lead R-R-powered Tu-204 effort", Dr Ibrahim Kamel, president of the newly formed Sirocco, is quoted as saying that the Tupolev Tu-224 (Western-powered Tu-204) will cost about $36 million. You then say that comparative "sticker" prices for the similarly sized Airbus A321-100 ...
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Augsburg considers expansion with Dash 8-400
Augsburg Airways, which recently became the first "Team Lufthansa" franchise partner, is considering further fleet expansion with the de Havilland Dash 8-400. While no firm purchase decision has been taken, the southern Germany-based regional airline says that its partnership with Lufthansa opens the possibility of future operations on ...
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Collision leads to restructure of Delhi air-traffic-control routes
Arrival and departure procedures in the New Delhi airport terminal manoeuvring area (TMA) have been revised since the collision on 12 November, 1996 between a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 which killed 349 people (Flight International, 20-26 November 1996, P8), according to the Indian Directorate ...