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SIA seeks six extra-large-capacity aircraft
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), has outlined a need, for an initial six new 500- to 600-seat, ultra-high capacity-type aircraft, now being studied by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. "We need around six to start with," says SIA managing director Cheong Choon Kong. "It does not ...
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Leisure puts its A320-200s to work
LEISURE INTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS, the renamed Air UK Leisure, will have its three newly acquired Airbus A320-200s in service from the first week in May. The A320s replace the Boeing 737-400s, the last of which will have its final flight on 19 May. The first revenue service with the new aircraft ...
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Debonair receives first 146-200
DEBONAIR TOOK DELIVERY OF ITS FIRST refurbished British Aerospace 146-200 from Marshall Aerospace on 24 April. The aircraft was accepted by Stuart Grieve (left), Debonair's director of airline operations, from USAir's technical representative for the UK, Richard Thomasson. The UK start-up carrier plans to serve European destinations from London Luton ...
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Kiwi progress
Start-up New Zealand carrier Kiwi Travel International Airlines ended its first ten months of operation to the end of January, with better-than-forecast sales of NZ$13.5 million ($9 million), and profits of NZ$700,000. Kiwi began scheduled international services in August 1995, has carried more than 50,000 passengers between New Zealand and ...
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Code sharing
Aer Lingus and Delta Airlines will begin a code-share/blocked-space service on 1 May on the Irish carrier's daily Airbus A330 flights between New York and Shannon and Dublin. British Airways has agreed a code-sharing deal with America West on points served from Phoenix. The UK carrier starts a new service ...
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Cargo return
Lufthansa Cargo is to return five McDonnell Douglas DC-8-73F freighters to lessor Deutsche Leasing by the end of 1996, by which time the Lufthansa subsidiary will be operating 12 Boeing 747-200Fs and one 737-300F. Source: Flight International
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Track deviation was cause of Il-76 crash
Paul Duffy/MOSCOWAlexander Velovich/MOSCOW THE KRASNOYARSK Avialinii Ilyushin Il-76 freighter which crashed on 5 April, killing all 21 people on board while descending to land at an airport in the Siberian Far East, appears to have crashed because it deviated from its approach track to save running out ...
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Denim plans casual look for crew
DUTCH START-UP airline Denim Air plans to dress its cabin crew in jeans and denim shirts and jackets, introducing a casual look to the business of air travel on the route linking Eindhoven and London. The airline hopes that the marketing ploy, together with a quality one-class in-flight ...
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Government must define pilot policy
Sir - The British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA) is deeply disturbed by the recent decision of the UK Department for Education and Employment to approve work permits for Canadian pilots to fly for Air World this summer (Flight International, 17-23 April, P8). Past precedent suggests that this ...
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Domestic bliss?
South Africa's domestic aviation market is a potential gold mine waiting to be exploited. Chris Yates/MANCHESTER TO AN OUTSIDER, the recent bout of high-profile airline collapses in the South African aviation industry might appear indicative of a market still in a state of flux. This ...
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Ryanair boosts UK route network
IRISH INDEPENDENT AIRLINE RYANAIR has further expanded its route network to the UK, with the launch of a new service from Dublin to Bournemouth in southern England. The airline will use a Boeing 737 on the daily flight - making nearly 100,000 seats available on the route in the first ...
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Alliance moves to expand East African partnership
Gunter Endres/LONDON THE CHAIRMAN OF EAST African carrier Alliance has proposed a merger with Air Tanzania and Uganda Airlines - both 10% stakeholders in the multi-national long-haul carrier. The merger call by Ugandan parliamentarian and Alliance chairman, Adrian Sibo is seen as an attempt at ...
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Flight Dynamics aims for Falcon 900EX
Flight Dynamics and Dassault Aviation are now close to reaching agreement on certificating the HGS-3000 head-up guidance system on the Falcon 900EX. The certification time-scale has yet to be decided for the new application, which follows the continuing Falcon 2000 HGS effort. The twin-engined Falcon 2000 is expected ...
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MAS prepared to meet competition from local rivals
Paul Lewis/KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) is now prepared to face local competition after nearly two years of company restructuring, according to chairman and major shareholder Tajudin Ramli. His comments came in response to indications that Heavy Industries of Malaysia (HICOM) is reviving plans to ...
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Kiwi polishes up its fleet and routes
KIWI INTERNATIONAL Airlines, is to expand its fleet, to enable further additions to its local New Zealand and Trans-Tasman services to Australia. After the return of its leased Boeing 757-200 to Air 2000 in early May, Kiwi will operate the Air Nauru 737-400 four days a week on ...
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US carriers hit by pilot shortages
SOME US AIRLINES, ARE experiencing pilot shortages as they attempt to add services, to meet traffic demand. Northwest Airlines says that it will reduce its monthly schedule by 150-200 flights for the rest of this year to cope with the shortage. Northwest operates about 45,000 flights a ...
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Polar launches European cargo service
POLAR AIR CARGO is to begin scheduled Boeing 747 all-cargo services between the USA and Europe on 27 April. Two weekly flights will be operated from Chicago O'Hare and New York Kennedy to London Heathrow and Amsterdam Schiphol. Polar plans to extend the service to the Middle East ...
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USA extends ban on airline gambling
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) is to retain its ban on gambling on commercial-airline flights to and from the USA by all carriers at least until a national commission has considered the wider issue of gambling legislation in the USA. The policy re-affirmation came with release ...
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Indonesia acts to solve Garuda cash problems
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE INDONESIAN Government has announced a major corporate and financial shake-up of Garuda Indonesia, in an effort to turn around the financially struggling national carrier in readiness for privatisation later in the year. As part of the airline's restructuring, three senior executives have ...
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Swissair shows renewed grit over cost-cutting
Kevin O'Toole/GENEVA SWISSAIR PRESIDENT-elect Phillippe Bruggisser has put some steel behind a new campaign to drive down costs at the airline group, including plans to shed at least another 1,600 jobs. He also expresses determination, echoed throughout the management team, to press ahead with the ...