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Chaos reigns at Olympic
Olympic Airways' employees are taking strike action over the Socialist government's decision to impose new working conditions. A series of strikes by Olympic workers in April reduced the flag carrier's services to one daily flight to one destination. Some 50 international and 30 domestic flights were being cancelled daily, ...
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Peru turns protective
Peru's President Alberto Fujimori has completed a changeover in aviation administrators and his new team is already taking a closer look at the implications of liberalisation for Peruvian airlines. Fujimori's latest personnel change was to replace the current head of the Director General Transportes Aereos (DGTA)with a new appointee, ...
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Shooting stars
The world's regional airlines grew strongly in 1997, and this sector remained the most profitable. Survey compiled by Tim Welch of Air Transport Intelligence and Richard Whitaker. The regional airline industry continues to be the healthiest sector in the business, judging by the results of this year's Airline Business Regional ...
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Euro no frills switch bases
As British Airways' low cost Go takes to the skies, the UK's leading no frills carrier, EasyJet, is expanding overseas while low-cost Virgin Express eyes a UK base. Go is due to start flying out of its London/Stansted base to Rome/Ciampino on 22 May, Milan/Malpensa on 23 May and ...
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Swiss qualify new partners
Swissair has expanded its European alliance to include TAP Air Portugal, THY Turkish Airlines and AOM of France and agreed to buy up to a 20 per cent stake in TAP. TAP, Turkish Airlines and AOM will join Swissair's existing partners Austrian Airlines and Sabena in an alliance to ...
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French open gates to US
Both Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines were swift to respond to the new US-French bilateral by declaring their intentions to formalise codeshare agreements with Air France. The bilateral, initialled in Paris on 8 April, will allow full open skies to be phased in over five years, and immediately ...
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Suffering from exposure
As the Asian crisis bites deeper, the potential impact on the values of widebody aircraft in particular is only just beginning to become apparent to investors. Report by Angus Williamson. The financial and economic crisis affecting several of the East Asian 'tiger' economies has so far produced muted repercussions ...
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Avensa roots for routes
The Venezuelan supreme court is set to rule on Avensa's challenge to an attempt by General Moises Orozco, minister of transport, to revoke its 1987 award of European routes. Avensa did not operate those routes during a period when former flag carrier Viasa was also flying to Europe. Orozco ...
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BE-200 Flight Plan
The first flight of the Beriev Be-200 twin turbofan amphibian, which was rolled out in September 1996, has slipped further and is now scheduled for June. Alexei Fedorov, chairman of the Russian design bureau, says the aircraft is undergoing ground testing of its electrical systems. Meanwhile, the twin engined Be-103 ...
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AB Airlines Floats airline
AB Airlines, the five-year-old UK independent, has listed on the London stock market. AB aims to raise £9 million to pay deposits on new aircraft due to replace its three BAC One-Elevens. Two Boeing 737-300s will arrive in May with deposits paid on six -700s due in 2001. The airline ...
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ANA Star gazes after signing deals with Lufthansa and United
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has signed its codesharing agreements with Lufthansa and United Airlines, suggesting that it may now join their Star Alliance. At the same time, the airline's pilots are to suspend their strike action. Under the new alliances, ANA will codeshare on 11 routes to the USA ...
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East Europeans set to join single skies
A comprehensive air transport agreement between the European Commission (EC) and 10 East European states has been drafted and could take effect early next year. Frederik Sorensen, head of airline policy at the EC's transport directorate, says that the accord will create "a complete integration" of the countries into ...
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FedEx MD-11 fleet swells to 60 after Swissair and LTU deals
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC FedEx is raising its reliance on the Boeing MD-11 freighter, with a decision to almost double its planned fleet of MD-11Fs to 60 through deals for more new and secondhand aircraft. The US parcels carrier, which now operates 20 MD-11Fs, last week disclosed that it ...
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Airbus ponders commercial market prospects for Beluga
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Super Airbus Transport International(SATIC) and Airbus believe that the growing success of the Beluga's third party cargo charter business could see an external market develop for the aircraft with outsized cargo carriers. The A300-600 based Beluga was designed, built and certificated for Airbus by the Toulouse-based Aerospatiale/Daimler-Benz Aerospace ...
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Legend starts
US start-up Legend Airlines has unveiled plans to build a six-gate "executive terminal" at Dallas Love Field, Texas. The carrier intends to begin interstate services with 56-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s later this year. Source: Flight International
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Six new entrants win US airport slots
Six smaller US airlines have been awarded coveted take-off and landing rights at Chicago O'Hare International and New York's La Guardia, as part of efforts by the Department of Transportation (DoT)to open up slot-controlled airports to new competition. America West Airlines, Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA), American Eagle's Simmons Airlines ...
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Eurocontrol tests pilot-controller link
A major step was taken towards operational datalinks for air traffic management (ATM) on 14 April when a Lufthansa Boeing 747-200 en route from Frankfurt to Miami accepted clearances from traffic controllers in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The preliminary Eurocontrol test of the PETAL-II air to ground datalink saw Maastricht ...
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Routes
-Malaysia Airlines has inaugurated its new thrice weekly service to New York's Newark Airport via Dubai, its third North American destination and its first to the US East coast. -Northwest Airlines is to launch a twice weekly non-stop service between Las Vegas and Tokyo from June, taking further advantage of ...
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Britannia ponders Australian venture
Britannia Airways is believed to be eyeing the southern hemisphere for its next off-shore subsidiary, with a new Australian operation under consideration. The UK-based charter carrier has already established a start-up operation in Germany and a Swedish-based carrier, built on the acquisition of existing charter airline Blue Scandinavia. ...
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Varig profit adds to Latin American recovery
More good news has emerged from the Latin American airline industry, with Brazilian carrier Varig returning to profit in 1997 after six successive years in the red. Varig's main airline operations ended the year with a net profit of Real27.8 million ($24.2 million), turning around a loss of Real64 ...