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Legend battles for February launch
Embattled Legend Airlines plans to initiate services from Dallas Love Field, Texas, late this month if it overcomes legal challenges from American Airlines, the city of Fort Worth and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Legend, which planned to begin interstate business-class operations last September, using six 56-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s, ...
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British World Airlines has begun replacing its ageing BAC One-Elevens, with the delivery of its first Boeing 737-300, an ex-Garuda aircraft on lease from Babcock and Brown. A second aircraft is due for delivery in April, with four more to arrive in 2001-2. Turkish charter airline Pegasus Airlines will take ...
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Austria's Rheintalflug gears up to take extra ERJ-170s
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Rheintalflug is preparing to confirm options on six more Embraer regional jets in a move likely to see it join the list of customers for the 70-seat ERJ-170. "We are quite sure that we are going to convert all these options into firm orders," says Rheintalflug marketing manager ...
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Routes
Calgary-based low-cost carrier WestJet Airlines has revealed details of its new east Canadian operation, based in Hamilton, Ontario. Launch routes will serve Thunder Bay and Winnipeg from 9 March, with Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax to be added by mid-2000. Sabena has added the Slovenian capital Ljubljana to its network, with ...
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Transmile Air revamps fleet to focus on cargo
Malaysian carrier Transmile Air is restructuring its fleet to concentrate on cargo operations in the Asia-Pacific region. The airline, which until now has operated seven Boeing 737-200s, took delivery of its first Boeing 727-200 Adv, an ex-THY Turkish Airlines aircraft, on 22 January. Aircraft project and planning controller ...
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TWA banks on Middle East and Caribbean for recovery
Ramon Lopez/NEW YORK After a decade of losses, two trips to the bankruptcy court and the crash of Flight 800, Trans World Airlines is counting on the Middle East, the Caribbean and regional jets to help it pursue its recovery plan. TWA, the USA's eighth-largest airline, in early ...
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Tenzing/SITA alliance
Airline communication specialist SITA has formalised its alliance with Tenzing, which is developing e-mail services for in-flight passenger use. Last October they signed a memorandum of understanding to offer e-mail/ Internet-based services to passengers via SITA's satellite communication network. Tenzing aims to introduce its FlightConnect service, enabling passengers to use ...
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Airports
More than 10 groups are preparing to deliver detailed proposals to acquire a 41.33% stake in SAGAT, which runs Turin Caselle Airport. The identity of the bidders has not been disclosed, but sources suggest they include the main Italian airport operators, such as Milan and Rome, along with some private ...
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Boeing targets 'out of box' 207min ETOPS for 777X
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing is to certificate its proposed ultra-long range 777X variants for 207min extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) for "out of the box" entry into service in September 2003. The radical move comes as the US Federal Aviation Administration gives its long-delayed green light to 207min ETOPS for current ...
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Air Canada begins restructure
Air Canada is to merge three regional subsidiaries, Air Nova, Air Ontario and AirBC, as one of the first moves in the restructuring of domestic operations after the Canadian Airlines takeover. Joseph Randell, president and chief executive of AirNova and interim president of Air Ontario and AirBC, is to be ...
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Cathay seeks more aircraft as it revives growth plan
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is to buy and lease more aircraft this year as it revives plans to double its passenger traffic as the economic situation improves in Asia. The airline confirms statements made to the Hong Kong press by Cathay chairman James Hughes-Hallett, and to an aerospace industry ...
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LanChile ponders Argentina launch
LanChile may set up a subsidiary carrier in Argentina after failing to make headway with plans to invest in flag carrier Aerolineas Argentinas, Flight International's sister on-line service, Air Transport Intelligence, reports. Spanish holding company SEPI, the majority shareholder in Aerolineas, is trying to agree terms on its operation ...
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Continental aims to take up reins from Northwest
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Continental Airlines has revealed that it wants to buy back control from Northwest Airlines, while continuing to jointly develop the pair's planned global alliance with KLM and Alitalia. Northwest has a 14% equity stake in Continental, acquired in 1998 via a $519 million cash and stock ...
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Rays of risk
Evidence is growing of a possible link between cosmic radiation and cancers among aircrew DeeDee Doke/OXFORD The May deadline is approaching for European Union countries and airlines to start taking stock of the cosmic radiation aircrews are exposed to when they fly. In a recent medical study of instances ...
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Comment by Pierre Jeanniot, Director General, IATA
"For the 21st century, the most critical question is whether - given the increasing technical sophistication of our industry and the expectations of the public - ICAO's 185 sovereign member states will all develop the individual competence and financial means to provide effective safety oversight and "state-of-the-art" infrastructure. A ...
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1990s safety milestones
The 1990s milestones in the new industry safety standards system include: 1992: the US Federal Aviation Administration set up its International Aviation Safety Assessment programme, checking states with which the USA has bilateral aviation treaties for their civil aviation authority safety oversight programmes. The International Civil Aviation Organisation ...
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Domodedovo debts
Russia's Domodedovo Airlines has ceased scheduled flights because of problems over the payment of debts. International charter work continues. The airline is owed R470 million ($16.4 million), but its own debts are substantial. Source: Flight International
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Air Cairo has leased three more Rolls-Royce RB211-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120s from Sirocco. The carrier already has three Tu-204-120s in service - two passenger models and a freighter. Two of the new aircraft are expected to join the passenger examples which are already subleased to Egyptair for use on North African ...
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Pan Am to stick with slow growth
Guilford Transportation Industries, which rescued Pan American Airways from the bankruptcy court and initially operated it as a charter carrier, is introducing limited scheduled services at a handful of underused US airports. In November, the airline began operating from Portsmouth to Orlando and Gary/Chicago Airport - both underutilised. ...
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Planet hunts for 727s
Planet Airways has begun a search for additional Boeing 727s following US Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transport certification for the start-up carrier to begin charter services. The Ft Lauderdale-based company already owns one 727-100 trijet, configured to seat 128 passengers, and has been flying the aircraft in ...