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Regional raises domestic stakes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S REGIONAL Airlines has joined the list of domestic carriers taking advantage of the 1 January liberalisation of French internal routes. The Nantes-based airline says that it will open several new cross-country routes between Nantes-Lyon, Bordeaux-Marseille, Lyon-Lille and Lyon-Strasbourg in the second quarter. ...
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China turns down Dragonair stake to go it alone
CHINA NATIONAL Aviation (CNAC) has rejected Swire Pacific's offer of a 6% share in Dragonair, and will instead press on with plans to launch its own Hong Kong-based carrier. Beijing-controlled CNAC is reported to have already leased a Boeing 737 from the USA for delivery in March. The ...
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Boon to aerospace
A background in shipbuilding has helped the head of Singapore Technologies Aerospace keep the company afloat. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE BOON SWAN FOO'S first year at the helm of Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has proved to be tough. The former Singapore Shipbuilding and Engineering president has had to contend ...
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Tahiti's FANS makes headway
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S THOMSON-CSF has completed the second phase of Tahiti's new satellite-based oceanic air-traffic-control system, with delivery of the automated data-link component. When complete in early 1997, the Tahiti system will be one of the main components of the South Pacific Future Air Navigation ...
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...while Continental and United forge ahead with record results
FURTHER GOOD news from the US airline industry included record profits at Continental Airlines and progress from United Airlines as it ends its first full year under employee ownership. "This was a whopper year for us no matter how you measure it...we're back on the map and ...
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Checking the numbers
There are fears that Hong Kong's new airport is already heading for a capacity problem. Chris Yates/HONG KONG IT IS THE WORLD'S single largest project in civil engineering today and one of the most complex combined excavation and reclamation projects in history, requiring the largest fleet of seaborne dredgers, ...
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Emission control
Experiments are in hand to determine the real impact aircraft are having on the atmosphere. Martin Hindley/LONDON SCIENTISTS STUDYING the effects of aircraft emissions on the Earth's atmosphere have produced results, which may dispel one of the most commonly held theories about air pollution. After more than ...
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A tale of two crises
Could Fokker have performed better if it had followed Avro's lead in cutting quicker and deeper? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER MAY NOT appreciate the irony, but its latest crisis has come just as the regional-jet market is showing few signs of life. If a recovery in ...
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Bombardier lands new Dash-8 and Regional Jet deals
BOMBARDIER IS to supply private Romanian airline DAC Air with a mix of 50-seat Dash 8-300s and Regional Jets to replace its aging Antonov An-24s. The Canadian company has also landed a Dash-8 deal with UK carrier Brymon Airways. The Romanian deal is potentially worth $425 million, and ...
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Boeing counts the cost of airliner-delivery slump
BOEING'S COMMERCIAL aircraft business emerged from a tough 1995 with profits down by more than one-quarter as airliner deliveries continued to slide, a situation worsened by the ten-week machinists' strike. It delivered only 206 airliners over the year - the lowest for a decade - to record nearly ...
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Debonair set for Luton launch in May
UK START-UP carrier Debonair Airlines plans to begin scheduled passenger services from London Luton Airport to five capital cities in Europe and one domestic destination on 1 May. Details of the routes have not been revealed, but while it will be a low cost operation, Debonair says that ...
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Defining IATA's role in Russia
Sir - Your leader "Air traffic mismanagement" (Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995) states: "The fear is that Russia will adopt a series of isolated, unco-ordinated, primarily vendor-driven ATM systems", which, in itself, is not unjustified. The conclusions of the analysis are wrong, however. The International Air Transport Association's ...
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United objection
United Airlines has objected to Japan Airlines' (JAL) application for a new route from Tokyo to Kona, Hawaii. The move is in retaliation for the Japanese Government's failure to approve its plans for a new fifth-freedom route between Seoul and Osaka. JAL wants to launch the service in April. ...
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US pilot hiring up
Major US airlines almost doubled pilot hiring in 1995, according to Atlanta, Georgia-based Aviation Information Resources (AIR). The consultancy says that 12 majors hired 2,377 pilots, up from 1,266 in 1994. The forecast is for the airlines to hire 2,500 pilots in 1996. Overall, 196 airlines surveyed by AIR hired ...
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JAL expansion
Japan Airlines (JAL) recently unveiled a corporate medium-range plan for 1996 through to 2000, projecting a 3-5% annual pick-up in business,because of the expansion of Tokyo's two main airports and increased use of Kansai International Airport. With completion of Tokyo's Haneda Airport upgrade by the spring of 1997, JAL is ...
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Wavionix speeds up design of air-traffic flight patterns
David Learmount/LONDON A SOFTWARE product which is claimed to revolutionise the safe design of air-traffic flight procedures has been launched by a new company, Wavionix, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The time taken to design new air-traffic flight patterns or amend existing ones can be cut from ...
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Virgin lays on sleepers
Gunter Endres/LONDON VIRGIN ATLANTIC Airways is to become the first major airline in modern times to install a separate sleeping compartment in its aircraft. The airline will use what is usually the front cargo hold of an Airbus A340-300. The A340 is due to be delivered in 1997. ...
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British Mediterranean wins CAA decision
THE UK CIVIL Aviation Authority has overturned a British Airways application for additional frequencies on British Mediterranean's (BMA's) core London-Beirut service, should more slots become available under the bilateral agreement between the UK and Lebanon. Of the seven weekly frequencies allocated to the two airlines in 1994, five ...
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STAe agrees funds for maintenance arm
SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has gone ahead with the recapitalisation of its loss-making maintenance company ST Aviation Services (SASCO), after reaching agreement with partner shareholders Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Japan Airlines (JAL). Under the restructuring plan, STAe has converted a S$20 million ($14 million) loan into preference shares ...
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Britannia boosts cargo business
BRITANNIA AIRWAYS, the world's largest holiday-passenger charter airline, is attempting to boost its revenues with an aggressive entry into the cargo business, taking advantage of the belly-hold capacity of its Boeing 767 and 757 fleet. The airline believes that there is a vast unexplored market from the Mediterranean ...