Networks – Page 1133
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New Air aims to copy Southwest method
New Air, which plans to launch low-fare, high-frequency domestic services from New York's Kennedy Airport in January 2000, aims to emulate low-cost operator Southwest Airlines to survive in the market. In its application to the US Department of Transportation, privately owned New Air says it aims to achieve operating ...
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Air Jamaica introduces A340 on transatlantic services
Air Jamaica has upgraded its transatlantic services between Kingston, Montego Bay and London by introducing an ex-Air Mauritius Airbus A340-300 on a six-year lease from International Lease Finance. The 301-seater has replaced a leased Airbus A310-300, enabling the airline to offer a three-class service. It is to introduce a similar ...
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ATR signs Indian contract in uncertain market
ATR has sealed a deal for five new 70-seat ATR72-500 turboprops with privately owned Indian scheduled airline Jet Airways. The airline says the aircraft will "form the nucleus of a modern regional aircraft fleet". The Jet Airways aircraft have been acquired under an operating lease through Aircraft International Renting, ...
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Two airlines target Las Vegas for new services
Two US airlines have launched new scheduled services, with an "underserved" Las Vegas, Nevada, market set firmly in their sights. Start-up National Airlines began flights from its Las Vegas hub to Los Angeles and Chicago Midway on 27 May. Five days later, charter carrier Sun Country Airlines ventured into ...
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Workshop
Nordam has announced orders for 26 shipsets of Stage 3 hushkits for the Boeing 737-200 - six for US lessor C-S Aviation Services; five for aircraft leased by Vanguard Airlines from Unicapital Air Group (three) and GECAS (two); four for US lessor Triton Aviation, two to be installed on aircraft ...
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Routes
Northwest Airlines Cargo will introduce its ninth Boeing 747-200 freighter on 1 September on transpacific services, enabling the carrier to upgrade services from Chicago and New York from shared capacity on a single freighter to full aircraft capacity. The Australian Government has agreed to allow Emirates to introduce an additional ...
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CSA checks out its options on alliances
Andrew Doyle/PRAGUE CSA Czech Airlines is bucking the east European trend and holding back from joining a major alliance, preferring to develop codeshares to evaluate potential partners. While other flag carriers in the region - Hungary's Malév, LOT Polish Airlines, Tarom of Romania and Balkan Bulgarian - are in advanced ...
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Tanzania may pull out of Ugandan carrier
The Tanzanian Government may be preparing to pull out of Uganda-based carrier SA-Alliance Air in response to the latter's growing links with South African Airways (SAA) and ahead of the privatisation of flag carrier Air Tanzania (ATC). Transport minister Ernest Nyanda is to "review" Tanzania's future involvement with the ...
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Low fuel prices mask grim year for European carriers
Europe's carriers made a consolidated profit of around $2 billion in 1998, the Association of European Airlines (AEA) has estimated, although it says that around half that sum "was a windfall from historically low fuel prices". The AEA's 27 members saw a 7.5% increase in passenger kilometres, but seat kilometre ...
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Crossair starts ERJ-170/190 family rolling
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Embraer has launched its new family of 70/108-seat regional jets with a commitment from Crossair for up to 160 aircraft. The deal, involving about 60 firm orders, covers 70-seat ERJ-170s and 108-seat ERJ-190-200s for delivery from late 2002. The Swiss regional carrier has orders and options ...
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The living legend that is the Boeing 747
Some things don't change - a rain-dampened Le Bourget apron, the packed crowds that mark the Salon's public days and a major presence from Boeing. Crowds gather round the Boeing 747-100 at the 1969 Paris show for a look at the machine that changed the shape of air ...
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More bite for Jaguars with upgraded Adour
Geoff Thomas The current upgrade programme for RAF Sepecat Jaguars has received a shot in the arm, as the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk106 engine has successfully completed altitude testing at Saclay in France. This moves the latest standard of engine a step closer to reaching qualification and entering ...
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New telecoms advances for SITA
SITA, one of the world's leading providers of telecommunication systems to the air transport industry, is unveiling a number of new developments in the field of air-ground communications. The company has expanded its Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) to provide VHF radio coverage in every country of ...
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NG737 clocks up largest-ever order
Alan Dron International Lease Finance (ILFC) yesterday announced plans for the largest order yet for the Boeing Next Generation 737 family and says it is looking carefully at the sub-100-seat market. Steven Udvar-Hazy, ILFC president and chief executive officer, says his company has agreed a firm order for ...
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Extra ATRs for Eurowings
French-Italian manufacturer ATR announced a $68-million order for five ATR 42-500 aircraft at the show yesterday. The buyer is Eurowings. Deliveries are scheduled for the beginning of next year and will replace older ATR aircraft in the fleet. Richard Santner, chairman of Eurowings, says: "With this order, we ...
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Passenger comfort from the bottom up
Mark Hannant The way to a man's heart may traditionally be through his stomach, but when it comes to the hearts and minds of business travellers it seems it's their bottoms that hold the key. The battle to hold position in the business- and first-class travel markets has ...
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Volvo Aero strikes spares deal
Volvo Aero has signed a five-year deal with Boeing allowing it to sell surplus spare parts for the Boeing fleet worldwide. Boeing will continue to sell its own spare parts primarily through the Internet. The deal covers components which are no longer used in aircraft production. Volvo Aero, through ...
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Face the facts with Louis Chênevert
Leading Pratt & Whitney's presence at Paris '99 is the engine manufacturer's new president, Louis Chênevert, who was appointed to the top position in April when former president Karl Krapek was elected president and chief operating officer of P&W's parent company, United Technologies. Chênevert joined P&W in 1997 as executive ...
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Wheeler dealer focuses on retread work
French company Michelin has a strong presence at the show this year with an emphasis on the expanding tyre retreading capabilities. With a new retreading site in Zurich, Switzerland, now complementing the existing ones in Bourges and Cuneo in Italy, the company feels it can now offer a more ...
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Heathrow depot almost at full capacity
AlliedSignal's parts customers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East should be experiencing a considerably enhanced service, as the company's newly-opened distribution centre - near London's Heathrow airport - is now close to operating at full capacity. Many customers, such as KLM in Amsterdam, are already benefiting from a ...