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Business Express will return RJ70s
Andrew Doyle/LONDON US REGIONAL OPERATOR Business Express is to hand back all three of its Avro International Aerospace RJ70s to the leasing company, casting doubts over the future of its remaining nine firm orders and eight options for the type. The first of the three ...
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Boeing beats rivals to Malaysian deal
Andrew Chuter/LONDON BOEING HAS made a clean sweep of a $4 billion Malaysian Airlines (MAS) order for long-range, high-capacity, aircraft, beating Airbus and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to a deal, which could eventually cover 65 aircraft. MAS was expected to announce on 9 January an order ...
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Malev receives Fokker 70s
MALEV HUNGARIAN Airlines has taken delivery of the first of four Fokker 70s which it plans to put into operation in the first half of this year. Three of the aircraft are on lease from International Lease Finance and the fourth is being purchased directly from Fokker. Malev expects to ...
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No alternative to BALPA/BA deal
Sir - Ivor Bennett has got the wrong end of the stick in his letter "Inconsistency in BALPA policy" (Flight International, Letters, 22-28 November 1995, P68). The facts are as follows. Early in 1995, British Airways proposed the introduction of "cadet cruise-only" pilots, on to the Boeing 747-400 ...
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USA and China sign new bilateral
THE USA AND China have agreed to a new bilateral air-services pact, which permits the first non-stop service by carriers of both nations. Northwest Airlines has been given approval to begin a thrice-weekly non-stop service between Detroit and Beijingon 1 May, while China Southern, based in Guangzhou, is ...
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Airborne chooses 767 freighter
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US CARGO CARRIER Airborne Express has agreed to acquire 12 used Boeing 767-200s for conversion to freighters, and plans to acquire between ten and 15 additional aircraft for a total investment of $600 million over eight years. The 767s will be the first wide-body aircraft operated ...
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Second LM2E success gives China a boost
Tim Furniss/LONDON CHINA'S LONG MARCH 2E (LM2E) booster had its second successful launch within 30 days on 28 December, 1995, when it carried the Lockheed Martin-built US Echostar 1 direct-broadcasting communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. The Asiasat 2, also built by Lockheed Martin, was launched ...
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Boeing re-asserts its lead in recovering airliner market
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BOEING RE-ASSERTED its dominance of world airliner markets in 1995, revealing a total of 346 new orders for the year, more than treble the result of either Airbus or McDonnell Douglas (MDC). Ron Woodard, president of Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, is upbeat about ...
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Canadian service
Five US airlines have received permission to fly to Montreal, Canada, under rights available during the second year of the US-Canadian bilateral air agreement. Delta Air Lines has won authority to serve Montreal twice daily from Cincinnati, while United Airlines will fly a daily service from Miami. Continental, Flagship (American ...
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France opens up internal routes
Julian Moxon and Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRANCE OFFICIALLY opened its internal air routes to competition from national airlines on 1 January, marking the final phase of the country's transformation to the fully liberalised European internal air-transport market on 1 April, 1997. All French airlines are now ...
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ANZ takes control at Air Nelson
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ), has acquired full control of regional scheduled-service operator Air Nelson. ANZ previously held a 50% shareholding in the carrier. The move further tightens ANZ's hold on the local regional market in the wake of its deal to acquire a 25% stake in Australian carrier ...
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Airbus pressured to speed up A3XX studies
Julian Moxon/PARIS A STRING OF major airline orders involving the Boeing 747/777 combination is increasing pressure on Airbus Industrie to "accelerate its studies" into a rival programme known as the A3XX. "We can't leave the 747 to dominate the market," says an Airbus source, "so ...
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Executive Airlines to fit GPS to ATRs
PUERTO RICO-based American Eagle carrier Executive Airlines is equipping its ten ATR 42s and 72s with global-positioning systems (GPS) to allow cost-saving direct routing. Executive has selected Universal Avionics' UNS-1M GPS-based navigation-management system for its aircraft. The airline's decision follows a six-month proof-of-concept programme, which demonstrated ...
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DHL expands its Panama presence
DHL WORLDWIDE Express is to invest $30 million over the next three years to expand its Latin American and Caribbean network. Initially, the fast-package carrier will upgrade its Panama hub with a new automated sorting system and introduce a Boeing 727-200F freighter service operated by new Panamanian carrier DHL Aero ...
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Air Jamaica Airbus
Jamaica's privatised flag carrier Air Jamaica has placed an order with Airbus for four CFM56-5B-4-powered A320s, to be delivered from October. The contract represents the final phase of the airline's strategy to renew its fleet with Airbus aircraft. Last October, Air Jamaica received the first of six leased A310-300s. The ...
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Avianova flies Fokker 70
ALITALIA subsidiary Avianova put the first of its new Fokker 70 regional jets into service on 20 December, between Turin and Paris. The Rome-based airline has now taken delivery of the first three of its 15 ordered aircraft, with seven more to come in the third quarter, and the remaining ...
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British Airways Concorde appeal
Sir - British Airways would like to speak to the passengers who flew on the BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde inaugural flight to Bahrain on 22 January 1976. The airline is keen to research the events, which surrounded the inaugural commercial flight of the aircraft. Please contact Amanda Ball, ...
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SAS adds cargo capacity
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) is leasing a Boeing 747-200F freighter from Atlas Air for services from Scandinavia to Asia and the USA. The aircraft will enter service in March and boost the insufficient cargo capacity on the airline's passenger aircraft. In 1994, SAS carried 200,000t of cargo and expects to ...
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Study shows cost of El Al Sabbath ban
EL AL COULD HAVE MADE a profit of around $50 million in 1995, if the Israeli airline had been allowed to operate seven days a week, including Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. The conclusion comes from a two-month-long study on the airline completed by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) ...
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Airlines
Kevin O'Toole/Business Editor THE WORLD AIRLINE INDUSTRY finally shook off the recession in 1995, to produce what are likely to be the highest profits on record. Barring unforeseen disasters, the industry should continue to forge ahead in 1996. The figures have yet to be collated for ...