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Table: Top 50 Airlines
Click on links to view individual tables: TOP 1998 PROFIT-MAKERS …AND LOSS-MAKERS 1998 TOP 10 - SCHEDULED PASSENGER TRAFFIC 1998 TOP SCHEDULED CARGO CARRIERS 1998 TOP 10 - SCHEDULED PASSENGERS EUROPEAN AIRLINE SCHEDULED PASSENGER/FREIGHT STATISTICS 1998 NORTH AMERICAN AIRLINE SCHDULED PASSENGER/FREIGHT STATISTICS 1998 ASIAN ...
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Harsh financial lessons - Top 50 Airlines
After a largely successful 1998, today's going is much tougher for many major airlines Chris Jasper/LONDON The airline business has never been the world's quickest to learn the lessons of harsh financial experience. Unable to break free from a boom-bust cycle that can be traced back over several decades, ...
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China's airlines take road to recovery with reduced losses
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE China's airlines have nearly halved their losses for the first half of this year compared with the same period in 1998, according to official reports. The state-controlled China Daily newspaper quotes Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) figures showing that its member airlines suffered losses of 820 ...
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South African majors told to improve or close
South Africa's four main domestic carriers must raise fares and cut capacity or face possible closure, the chairman of the Airlines Association of South Africa and chief executive of South African Airlink, Rodger Foster, has warned. Foster says a fares war that began last November means ticket prices in ...
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SAir Group secures French beachhead
The European Commission (EC) has approved the joint acquisition of French carrier AOM by SAirGroup and French holding company Marine-Wendel (which will have a 51% stake). The EC says the activities of AOM and other SAir carriers are "largely complementary", with most of the former's business limited to France, where ...
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Taiwan's top carriers, China Airlines and EVA Airways, have made strong financial recoveries this year Brent Hannon/TAIPEI China Airlines (CAL) is aggressively expanding and modernising its fleet - in the past two months it has ordered 13 Boeing 747-400 freighters and picked up an option on five Boeing ...
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Domestic strife
Despite strong load factors and an expected 20% growth in local air travel, Taiwan's domestic carriers are losing money Brent Hannon/TAIPEI Taiwan's air transport industry lost $246 million last year, according to the Taipei Airlines Association. A survey of the airlines, however, showed a smaller total loss, of ...
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The show goes on
As mainland China blusters and threatens, Taiwan stages its fifth Taipei Aerospace show, playing down its traditional defence slantAndrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Despite the continuing tense political situation between Taiwan and neighbouring mainland China across the Taiwan Strait, the Taipei Aerospace Technology Exhibition 99 (TATE99) has drawn increasing representation from Taiwan's own ...
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Engine data relay to give early warning
Data Systems & Solutions will begin a real-time engine health monitoring programme for German charter airline Condor as its 13 Rolls-Royce RB211-powered Boeing 757-300s enter service in the next several months. Information will be transmitted during flight to Data Systems & Solutions' engine health centre at Derby, UK. After ...
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IAI Airtruck details revealed
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Flight International has obtained the first detailed technical specifications on Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Airtruck, as the Israeli company struggles to find a large enough customer base to launch its proposed twin turboprop freighter. IAI began developing the Airtruck several years ...
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United follows seat cutting fashion
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC United Airlines is to remove one economy-class seat row from every aircraft in its domestic fleet to make room for a new "Economy Plus" product. The US carrier claims that the move is aimed at rewarding frequent and full-fare fliers with a new class offering increased-legroom - ...
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Boeing optimistic as talks with 777X launch group continue
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is in negotiations with a selected group of "tier one" airlines and leasing companies about deals for the 777X and is optimistic of meeting its launch schedule of the last quarter of this year for the General Electric GE90-powered twinjet, with a minimum of 35 ...
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Air France keen on Korean Air links
Air France has revealed that Korean Air (KAL) could be a founder member of the global alliance it plans to launch with Delta Air Lines this year - despite the two Western carriers' recent safety-related suspensions of codeshares with the Asian airline. The French flag carrier's chief executive Jean ...
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Airbus backs down from Boeing battle
Airbus Industrie has backed away from a full-blooded confrontation with Boeing over support for A340-300s being traded to its US rival by Singapore Airlines (SIA) in exchange for 777s. The consortium is also dismissing a claim from Boeing that it has undertaken similar aircraft buy-back deals. In the Airbus ...
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Malpensa malcontents seek EC U-turn
Andy Nativi/GENOA Nine airlines unhappy with a European Commission (EC) ruling forcing them to move all flights from Milan Linate Airport to the new Malpensa site are refusing to drop their complaint, and will lobby for a U-turn from incoming EC transport commissioner Loyola de Palacio. The carriers ...
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Eurocontrol starts feasibility scheme on conflict avoidance
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol has launched the feasibility phase of an eight-country Free Route Airspace Project (FRAP), to increase capacity and reduce potential conflicts in European airspace. Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden are co-operating in the programme, which comprises mainly simulation activities. The target for ...
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Gulfstream expands in Caribbean with codeshares
US Regional carrier Gulfstream International Airlines will begin Caribbean codeshare operations for Continental and United Airlines from its new San Juan, Puerto Rico, hub on 1 November. Miami, Florida-based Gulfstream will relocate 19-seat Raytheon Beech 1900C/Ds to San Juan for the new operation. Plans call for six aircraft to ...
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Routes
Hawaiian Airlines and Continental Airlines have begun codesharing on flights between the continental USA and Hawaii. The agreement puts Continental's code on 150 daily jet flights operated by Hawaiian throughout the islands. Continental Airlines has begun daily services between New York Newark and Tel Aviv. A Houston-Sao Paulo service will ...
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Air Greece expands
Air Greece is expanding operations following the introduction of two ex-Korean Air Fokker 100s. Based in Crete, the five-year-old privately owned airline also operates three ATR 72s. Its network has been expanded to include Cologne and Stuttgart. Source: Flight International
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Philippines ends Taiwan link as dispute escalates
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI A long-running aviation dispute between the Philippines and Taiwan has escalated sharply, with the Philippines terminating the air service agreement between the countries, effective from 1 October. Air links between the countries will be banned from that date, says the Philippines aviation authority. Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics ...