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Avia becomes Africa's latest casualty casualty
AVIA AIRLINES has filed for bankruptcy protection, becoming the latest casualty in the chequered history of recent South African start-ups. The independent airline, which used a leased Boeing 747SP from South African Airways, began operations in May, flying three times a week from Johannesburg to London Gatwick. ...
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Delta reduces international routes in effort to cut costs
DELTA AIR LINES is to streamline its domestic and international route networks, including the axing of unprofitable services to five European and Asian cities, as part of cost-cutting efforts. The rationalisation, which is to be introduced with the winter schedule in October, will end European services to Hamburg ...
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CFM International
CFM International, a joint venture between France's Snecma and General Electric of the USA, continues to develop its highly successful CFM56 family of engines, and study new potential applications. The CFM56-5B DAC (double annular combustor) was certificated on the Airbus A321 and A320 in January and March, respectively, ...
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Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines, the first to be certificated at 400kN, will power the Boeing 777-300s recently ordered by Cathay Pacific Airways and Thai Airways International. R-R has defined a thrust level of 423kN for the initial -300 A-market stretch, saying that this can be achieved with adjustments to the ...
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USAfrica relaunch tied to Continental deal
USAFRICA AIRWAYS believes that its recently concluded marketing alliance with Continental Airlines will give financial institutions the incentive to lend USAfrica the cash needed to restructure and resume services. The new US airline, which had offered direct flights between Washington's Dulles International Airport and South Africa, shut down ...
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Air New Zealand 747 pilots ruled 'unqualified'
ABOUT 50 AIR New Zealand Boeing 747-200 pilots have been ruled technically unqualified, and the airline has been given ten days to retrain about 50 pilots representing about half the carrier's 747-200 technical crew. An audit conducted by the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority has found that 747-200 ...
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ANZ will fight on for Ansett despite rejection
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ) remains adamant that it will press ahead with attempts to buy a stake in Ansett Australia, despite an apparent outright rejection of its latest offer. ANZ initially proposed to take over the 50% stake held by News Corporation, which ...
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ARIA to lease DC-10 freighters
Paul Duffy/SHANNON AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) is to acquire two McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10-30F freighters to expand its cargo services to the USA and the Far East. The aircraft are expected to arrive in Moscow by the middle of August, for introduction into service in September. ...
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Mesa-backed airline to start UK service
NEW UK CARRIER Community Express Airlines is awaiting the delivery of the first of two Shorts 360-300s from Liberty Express in the USA, to inaugurate a domestic schedule. Community Express will initially link Birmingham with London Gatwick, most probably from early October. Expansion to connect Bristol, ...
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ARIA believes the worst is over
Paul Duffy/SHANNON AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) could now be over the worst of the transition to market economics, suggests director general Vladimir Tikhonov, presenting the carrier's latest annual results. The 1994 figures show that ARIA's passenger volume fell for the fourth year in succession, edging ...
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Eurosky Goes East
EuroSky, Austria's newest airline, has received approval for scheduled services to Wroclaw in Poland and Kosice in Slovakia. Special introductory fare offers will be available during the European summer. The airline also plans to fly to Trieste, Italy, and to expand operations to more Central European destinations. Source: ...
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Asiana invites bids for fleet expansion
ASIANA OF SOUTH Korea is understood to have asked Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas to provide pricing for around 40 new narrow body and wide body aircraft for delivery from 1998/9 onwards. The airline has divided its projected future requirement between about 20 new 100- to 150-seat ...
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FANS datalink component becomes operational
A PROTOTYPE OF the new oceanic-sector workstation - the controller's link to the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) - is now in operational testing at the US Federal Aviation Administration's Oakland, California, air-route traffic-control centre. The workstation, called the telecommunications processor, represents the first phase of the ...
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Japan/USA disagree on cargo agreement
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE JAPANESE and the US Governments have offered different interpretations of their recent air-cargo agreement, opening the door to possible further disputes in the future. According to Japanese transport minister Shizuka Kamei, the US Government has given a verbal undertaking to revise the ...
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China is poised to receive its first A320
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SICHUAN AIRLINES IS expected to take delivery of its first Airbus Industrie A320 by the end of July, following recent certification of the aircraft by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The airline still requires final approval from China's State Planning Commission to ...
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Qatar Airways to expand with 747s
QATAR AIRWAYS is raising the stakes in its competition with Dubai-based Emirates and the multi-national Gulf Air. According to Qatar chief executive Sheikh Hamad bin Ali bin Jaber al-Thani, the airline is acquiring two ex-All Nippon Airways 747-200s from Boeing to facilitate a large-scale expansion of its network which ...
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Ryanair threatens Stansted move
INDEPENDENT Irish airline Ryanair, is threatening to transfer operations to London Stansted, as part of a protest over charges levied by Irish airports authority, Aer Rianta at Dublin Airport. Incoming Ryanair chairman Tony Ryan, the former boss of leasing giant GPA, has launched a campaign for a second ...
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Virgin to enter South Africa
Chris Yeats/MANCHESTER VIRGIN AIRWAYS is to enter the South African market in 1996, according to company boss Richard Branson. Speaking at the launch of Virgin's new scheduled service from Manchester to Orlando, Florida, he said: "We are 90% sure we'll be flying the route early next year." ...
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Canadian heads for a seventh year of losses
Despite reaching a "tentative" agreement with its pilots' union over cost savings, Canadian Airlines has admitted that it is on course for its seventh successive year of losses. The Canadian carrier had started the year forecasting a net profit of around C$52 million ($38 million) for 1995, but ...
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Emirates 'pauses for breath' before next spurt of growth
EMIRATES reports that its spectacular growth slowed a little during the last financial year, but managing director Maurice Flanagan promises that this is no more than a "pause for breath". Passenger numbers rose by over 12%, while cargo traffic grew by nearly 25% during the 1994/5 year. Flanagan ...