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Delta warns Europe of coming low-cost threat
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC EUROPE'S AIR-transport markets will soon face major structural change as the influence of low-cost carriers begins to spread, according to Delta Airlines chairman Ron Allen. Speaking at the US Federal Aviation Administration's Commercial Aviation Forecast conference in Washington on 5 March, Allen ...
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Alpi Eagles ready for domestic service
ITALIAN CORPORATE-aircraft operator Alpi Eagles is undergoing a major transformation into a domestic airline. Owned by some of the biggest industrialists in northern Italy, including Diesel, Marzotto, Sopaf, Stefanel, Zanussi and Zucchini, the company is planning to begin scheduled operations at the end of April. The Veneto region ...
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Canadian airlines seek upswing
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON CANADA'S TWO MAIN airlines struggled to deliver their promised profit improvements in 1995, but the heads of Air Canada and Canadian Airlines believe that recovery will come this year as the effects of capacity expansion and cost-cutting show through. Canadian Airlines International saw ...
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Condor the favourite as launch customer for stretched 757
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESKevin O'Toole/LONDON GERMAN CHARTER airline Condor is expected to sign up as the launch customer for Boeing's proposed 757-300X, the long-anticipated stretched version of the 200-seat twinjet. Boeing and Condor are in negotiations over the terms of the launch, which could come as early as ...
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Battle of the giants is predicted by Boeing
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING'S GROWING family of large wide-bodies will be in competition with the Airbus A3XX in a market, which could be worth as much as $254 billion over the next 20 years, according to the US manufacturer's latest long-term forecasts. Boeing's 1996 Current ...
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Asian destinations
Japan Airlines and Vietnam Airlines will launch four joint code-sharing flights a week between Kansai and Ho Chi Minh from 1 April. The two flag carriers each already operate three independent flights a week on the same route. Cathay Pacific Airways in the meantime has launched a code-sharing flight with ...
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United attacks 777 reliability
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES UNITED AIRLINES has unleashed a fierce attack on the reliability of its newly acquired Boeing 777s. A letter from a senior United executive to Boeing, dated 13 February, called the aircraft's reliability and performance a "major disappointment". Within 24h of ...
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Transaero on market for 737s and 767s
TRANSAERO, THE Russian independent airline, has invited leasing companies to tender for the supply of "three or four" Boeing 767s plus additional Boeing 737s to operate on additional routes to be served by the airline. Arrangements to lease three McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s have been completed with American Airlines ...
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THE GE 747 testbed
THE SHEER SIZE AND extra capacity of General Electric's Boeing 747 test-bed gives it an obvious advantage over its smaller predecessors. "It is five, or even ten times, as efficient as the 707," comments Phil Schultz, GE flight-test organisation (FTO) chief pilot. "We can run five or six objectives in ...
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Japan gears up for US bilateral battle
Kevin O'Toole/TOKYO BATTLE LINES are being drawn up in Japan and the USA as pressure mounts on both sides of the Pacific for a renegotiation of the controversial passenger bilateral between the two countries. Although talks are now under way over a revised cargo agreement, ...
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ANZ optimistic of Ansett deal
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ) remains optimistic that it can go ahead with the proposed deal with TNT to acquire up to half of Ansett Australia. The agreement with TNT, which owns half of Ansett together with News Corporation, is still under negotiation, but ...
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Private Qantas delivers on performance promise
QANTAS IS HOLDING its own, despite competition in international and domestic markets, says chairman Gary Pemberton, revealing the group's first financial figures, since it completed privatisation in mid-1995. Pemberton reports that Qantas pushed up profits by more than 15%, to A$148 million ($110 million) in the first half ...
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Eva races to first profit
FAST-EXPANDING Eva Air has turned in profits a year ahead of schedule, only four years after its launch as Taiwan's first privately owned carrier. The airline has also announced it is to launch a new airline in Panama by the end of the year. The carrier, ...
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Air Canada chairman Harris to step down
Hollis Harris, Air Canada's chairman and chief executive, will step down at the airline's next annual meeting on 14 May. His replacement is Lamar Durrett, a former Delta Airlines executive who came to Air Canada with Harris in 1992. Harris stays as executive chairman. Durrett worked at Delta ...
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ARIA prepares to expand Shannon hub
Paul Duffy/SHANNON THE AEROFLOT Russian International Airlines (ARIA) hub, set up at Shannon in the west of Ireland in 1995 to transfer Russian and CIS airline passengers to transatlantic services to the USA, is to be expanded to take in more airlines and routes. Set up ...
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Nepal looks to modernise fleet
NEPAL'S FLEDGLING airline industry is looking for more modern aircraft, in response to market deregulation, growing competition and new regulations forcing the retirement of older equipment. The number of fixed-wing Nepali carriers has grown to four since deregulation of the country's domestic services in 1992. State-run Royal Nepal ...
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Sell-off costs push Aviall into losses
Graham Warwick/DALLAS AVIALL HAS reported a loss of $241 million for 1995, mainly because of a $212 million fourth-quarter charge to cover disposal of its airline engine-overhaul business. The Dallas, Texas-based company has agreed to sell the business to Miami-based Greenwich Air Services for $260-280 million (Flight International, ...
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Second Trent 777 returns to Seattle after testing
THE SECOND Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered Boeing 777 was expected to return to Seattle on 1 March after undergoing 91 route sectors with Cathay Pacific Airways. Boeing is striving to achieve early extended-range twin-operations (ETOPS) clearance for the aircraft. By the end of February, the Trent 777 had undergone ...
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Lufthansa and United apply for anti-trust immunity in USA
LUFTHANSA AND United Airlines have applied for US anti-trust immunity to expand their strategic alliance. The move came just hours, after a new open-skies bilateral air accord was initialed, by US and German transport officials. Final signature on the bilateral is expected by the third quarter. German transport ...
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How open skies?
GERMANY HAS become the latest and largest catch in the US drive to sign up Europe to open skies. With this new bilateral safely initialed, the USA has now signed up 11 European nations to open skies, representing 40% of the region's air market. The deal marks ...