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Taipei cuts as SA shifts
Taiwan is suspending air service with South Africa after the latter announced it was switching diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. The move will have little effect on Taiwan's airlines but raises questions about the basis of Taipei's aeropolitical policy. China Airlines has operated twice-weekly flights to Johannesburg ...
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Sea change
A change of government has resulted in a new chief executive for Air Malta, as well as a narrower focus. The airline's investment in Italian startup carrier Azzurra Air is now being questioned. Ian Verchere reports from Malta. Malta's unexpected shift to the Left at the national elections in November ...
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No unity over Rio Grande
Mexicana and Aéromexico have each entered or expanded separate alliances with US airlines, signalling that they plan to continue competing against each other across the US-Mexico border. These pacts revive questions about the carriers' commitment to their joint Alas de America alliance with AeroPeru. Aéromexico has expanded its ...
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Mastering Micronesia
As island governments slash support for their airlines, the carriers are discovering the need to size themselves to fit their markets and to pay more heed to commercial realities. When your nearest neighbour is 10 days away by boat, aviation is fairly important. But the central Pacific Micronesians are ...
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Mutual interests
Mutual funds own substantial shares in most major US airlines. James S Altschul examines how they look at the airline business, and asks how much influence they wield. They are the behemoths of the equity investment world. Fuelled by a surging stock market, growing retail interest in equities, and a ...
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Skating on thin ice
Competition, high costs, declining yields, and powerful unions are weighing heavily on SAS, but salvation could lie in its growing alliance grouping. It must be like hoarding a treasure chest, only suddenly to find a queue of people knocking on your door demanding a share of the booty. SAS ...
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Flightwest and MBA prepare to begin new Australia-PNG services
Flightwest Airlines of Brisbane is preparing to fly between Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG), using capacity to be released by Australia's International Air Services Commission (IASC) following agreement late in 1996 on a new Australia/PNG bilateral (Flight International, 6-12 November, 1996). The IASC says that the Flightwest ...
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Lithuanian introduces Saab 340 on regional flights
Lithuanian Airlines (LAL) is leasing two used Saab 340B turboprops to develop regional routes from Lithuania's capital Vilnius. The first of the two used aircraft, formerly operated by now-defunct Spanish regional Prima Air, came into service in mid-January. The second will follow in April. LAL will ...
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Boeing regains popularity in China
Boeing is beginning to enjoy a revival in the number of its passenger aircraft being ordered and leased by Chinese carriers, as political relations between Beijing and Washington continue to show signs of improvement. After a year in which Boeing recorded total sales of only three aircraft in ...
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Sabena discusses outsourcing more of its loss-making routes
Sabena is seeking to extend its policy of outsourcing loss-making routes to low-cost operators, with its Antwerp, Belgium, to London, UK, services expected to be taken over on 1 April by VLM. The Antwerp-based regional already operates four daily return flights between Antwerp and London City Airport with ...
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Continental to Europe
Continental Airlines plans to expand its transatlantic services later this year, with the introduction of a New York (Newark International) to Birmingham, UK, service on 1 July. The US carrier will use Boeing 757s on the route. Source: Flight International
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Air Littoral orders more Regional Jets, evaluates CRJ-X
Air Littoral has signed a $133 million deal with Bombardier Aircraft for seven Regional Jets, with options on a further five. The Montpellier, France-based regional airline is also seriously evaluating the stretched 70-seat Bombardier CRJ-X regional jet. All seven aircraft, which are in addition to the nine Regional ...
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Cathay Pacific
Henry Fan, managing director of Citic Pacific, has been appointed to the non-executive position of deputy chairman of Cathay Pacific Airways. Capt Ken Barley has been named director of flight operations, succeeding Capt Gerry Clemmow, who retired at the end of 1996. Barley also replaces Clemmow on the Cathay Pacific ...
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Cessna delivers first 172R to US AOPA president
Cessna Aircraft has handed over the first new 172R to US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) president Phil Boyer. AOPA took the aircraft on behalf of member Sharon Hauser, who won the 1997 Skyhawk in an Association sweepstake. It is the first Skyhawk to be delivered by the manufacturer ...
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Deutsche BA aims to return to profit by 1998
Deutsche BA has unveiled a new strategy, aimed at putting the airline into profit within 18 months and refocusing on internal German services. Since its launch by British Airways in mid-1992, the carrier has rapidly established itself as Germany's second-biggest after Lufthansa, but is still struggling to make a profit. ...
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Garuda profits
Garuda Indonesia managed to show a net profit for 1996, but largely as the result of selling off unwanted assets. According to the country's transport minister, Haryanto Danutirto, the state-owned carrier ended the year with an overall profit of 124 billion rupiah ($73.2 million), but that masked a loss of ...
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Virgin Express may pull out of its Brussels base
Virgin Express, one of the pioneers of Europe's low-fares air market, reports that it grew by one-third in 1996 and expects to report a profit despite the dramatic growth. The announcement comes, however, with a veiled warning that Belgium's high social costs could persuade the carrier to leave ...
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Boeing on track for massive sales hike
Boeing expects sales to grow by $10 billion this year, even without the pending McDonnell Douglas (MDC)merger, with commercial-airliner production rates virtually doubling by year-end. Group sales recovered to just under $22.7 billion in 1996, while Boeing's net profit climbed back above $1 billion. The real upturn, however, ...
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Boeing calls halt to 747-X programme
Boeing has shelved its 747-500X/600X plans, opting instead to focus on development of the 767-400ERX and 777-200X and 777-300X long-range high-capacity twins. An update of the 747-400 is now a possibility. Boeing Commercial Airplane group "senior officers" decided on the sudden move at a meeting in mid-January, but the announcement ...
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-Steps up tempo of long-range 777 work
Boeing has revealed new details of its plans for heavier versions of the 777, which will be led by the -200X effort, which the company hopes to launch, along with the -300X, at the time of the Paris air show in June. The projected entry-into-service date for the ...