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Continental service
Continental Airlines has launched services from Newark, New York, to Lima, Peru, and plans to add flights to Bogota, Guatemala City, Quito and San Salvador on 6 June. The carrier serves 11 Latin American cities from its Houston, Texas, hub. Source: Flight International
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Crossair
Josef Felder has been appointed to head Swiss airline Crossair's new product-management division and will serve as executive vice-president in the carrier's new corporate organisation. He was formerly vice-president of marketing. Bettina Schaub becomes vice-president for cabin crew and a member of Crossair's corporate management. Schaub, who is a former ...
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AeroMexico on firmer footing
AEROMEXICO HAS emerged from a critical year with its financial restructuring safely in place and its losses apparently under control. The Mexican carrier, which came close to collapse during 1995, reports that net losses ended the year at 173 million pesos ($23 million). That compares to more than ...
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Varig outlines blueprint for expansion
VARIG BRAZILIAN Airlines president Fernando Pinto has outlined a new expansion programme following two years of substantial cuts in staff, unprofitable routes and aircraft. The airline plans to invest $40 million developing new routes and is negotiating with leasing companies GECAS and GPA to acquire two McDonnell Douglas ...
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Lessons to learn from Concorde
Sir - In "Twenty years young" (Flight International, 7-13 February, P41) you comment that "...in terms of flight cycles and hours, the aircraft [Concordes] are remarkably young, despite the physical age of the fleet". British Airways, you report, operates each Concorde for 900-1,100h a year - one-quarter (or less) of ...
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Air France Europe fights to regain business
FRENCH DOMESTIC and regional carrier Air France Europe (incorporating the former Air Inter) is fighting to regain traffic, which it has lost since French air services were opened to competition from domestic rivals. In what he says will be an "aggressive" campaign to prepare the airline for total ...
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USAfrica comeback turned down by DoT
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) has rejected the bid by USAfrica Airways' to regain route authority to South Africa. The DoT decision to re-allocate seven weekly frequencies to World Airways and Southern Air Transport dooms USAfrica's attempt to resume operations. Service in the market, begun ...
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Former managers return after Alitalia's boardroom coup
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON IN A COMPLEX SAGA, worthy of the politics of ancient Rome, yet another management team has been swept from power at Alitalia. This time, former managers have returned to take control of the airline. The final act came, as chairman Roberto Riverso, handed ...
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Airports grow again
Airports report continued strong passenger growth for 1995. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE WORLD'S MAJOR airports have reported a fourth successive year of strong passenger growth for 1995, although the rate of expansion now appears to be slowing. Preliminary figures from the Airports Council International ...
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BA puts commercial case for Terminal 5
BRITISH AIRWAYS HAS painted a bleak picture for its' own and the UK's future if London Heathrow's fifth terminal is not built. In its closing submission to the first phase of a public inquiry on the subject, BA estimates that up to 26 million passengers could be lost to London's ...
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Cathay profits leap
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways beat market expectations with a 25% leap in profits for 1995, boosted by higher revenue and improved cost efficiency, but also helped by an accounting change. The Hong Kong carrier turned in a net profit of just under HK$3 billion ...
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MEA makes progress - at last
Gunter Endres/LONDON MIDDLE EAST AIRLINES' (MEA) increasingly desperate quest, for a large capital injection to fund a fleet update, appears to be nearing an end, after an extraordinary shareholders meeting approved the move. The recommendation is expected to be ratified, at a General Assembly, called for 17 April. ...
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LOT on fast track
LOT POLISH AIRLINES, virtually trebled profits in 1995, helped by soaring traffic figures - especially on its fast-growing domestic network. The Polish carrier ended the year with net profits of Pzl6 million ($2 million), as passenger numbers rose by 16%, to 1.8 million. Flights to Central ...
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Pena delivers warning to the UK
LONDON HEATHROW Airport could lose its status as the premier gateway to Europe, if the UK Government continues to prevent open-skies bilateral-air-services talks with the USA, US transport secretary Federico Pena has warned. Pena says that success in negotiating liberal bilaterals with European nations, including Germany, allows passengers ...
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MDC outlines five-year plan
Guy Norris/LOS ANGFELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS is studying the launch of three new products over the next 18 months, including a stretched MD-95 and two re-winged variants of the MD-11. Douglas Aircraft vice-president and general manager John Feren says that future milestones already include delivery of ...
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Boeing rethinks its 777-100X
BOEING IS REVISING its options for the proposed 777-100X after admitting that interest in the extra-long-range market appears to be "dormant." The company is now studying a "short body 777-100X for all ranges," as a way of encouraging airlines to use the entire family of 777s and maximising ...
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Door accident delays 777 appearance
DISPLAY OF THE Boeing 777 at FIDAE '96, as part of a Latin American sales tour, was delayed when the forward passenger-door was torn off by an air bridge at Bogota, Colombia, on 8 March. The jetway fell, ripping the open door from its hinges. The door is ...
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Cathay ETOPS okay
Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department has given Cathay Pacific Airways approval to operate 120min extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) with its Airbus Industrie A330-300s. The 120min rating is Cathay's first, and involved 7,000 simulated ETOPS hours. It will enable the aircraft, to be operated to Perth, Brisbane, Cairns in Australia and ...
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ARIA adds A310s
Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) is to lease an additional four Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Airbus A310-300s for use on routes to Asia-Pacific and the Middle East (Flight International, 22-28 November 1995). The Russian carrier, which already operates six of the twinjets, will also take delivery of an A310 simulator. ...
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JAL in the year 2000
Japan Airlines is sharpening its act for the new century. Kevin O'Toole/TOKYO JAPAN AIRLINES (JAL) has no intention of seeing out the millennium quietly. Under its latest five-year plan, the group aims to emerge in the year 2000 having captured one-third of Japan's sizeable domestic ...