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Kiwi polishes up its fleet and routes
KIWI INTERNATIONAL Airlines, is to expand its fleet, to enable further additions to its local New Zealand and Trans-Tasman services to Australia. After the return of its leased Boeing 757-200 to Air 2000 in early May, Kiwi will operate the Air Nauru 737-400 four days a week on ...
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US carriers hit by pilot shortages
SOME US AIRLINES, ARE experiencing pilot shortages as they attempt to add services, to meet traffic demand. Northwest Airlines says that it will reduce its monthly schedule by 150-200 flights for the rest of this year to cope with the shortage. Northwest operates about 45,000 flights a ...
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Polar launches European cargo service
POLAR AIR CARGO is to begin scheduled Boeing 747 all-cargo services between the USA and Europe on 27 April. Two weekly flights will be operated from Chicago O'Hare and New York Kennedy to London Heathrow and Amsterdam Schiphol. Polar plans to extend the service to the Middle East ...
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USA extends ban on airline gambling
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) is to retain its ban on gambling on commercial-airline flights to and from the USA by all carriers at least until a national commission has considered the wider issue of gambling legislation in the USA. The policy re-affirmation came with release ...
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Indonesia acts to solve Garuda cash problems
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE INDONESIAN Government has announced a major corporate and financial shake-up of Garuda Indonesia, in an effort to turn around the financially struggling national carrier in readiness for privatisation later in the year. As part of the airline's restructuring, three senior executives have ...
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Swissair shows renewed grit over cost-cutting
Kevin O'Toole/GENEVA SWISSAIR PRESIDENT-elect Phillippe Bruggisser has put some steel behind a new campaign to drive down costs at the airline group, including plans to shed at least another 1,600 jobs. He also expresses determination, echoed throughout the management team, to press ahead with the ...
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Airport gateway
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRPORT operator the Airports Company says that the country's premier gateway, Johannesburg International, is managing to cope with increased demand, despite its previous owner leaving it with the legacy of a master plan which lacked any supporting data and no coherent development policy. Since the ...
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Ethiopian birthday
This month Ethiopian Airlines celebrates half a century in the business - and it has turned in net profits during each of the last 14 years. Alfred Price/LONDON FOR MANY WESTERNERS, the word Ethiopia conjures up haunting images of starving men, women and children. That famine ended ...
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Cargo increase
Gemini Air Cargo is to provide World Airways with a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30F freighter service between New York and Seoul, South Korea, with three flights weekly. Reston, Virginia-based Gemini purchased six DC-10s from Potomac Financial in September 1995, for freighter conversion by Aeronavali. Three of the aircraft are in service ...
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Why a precision approach is safer
Sir - There are parts of the world where it is impossible to install a precision approach (Flight International, 6-12 March, P5 and 20-26 March, P100) because it does not meet International Civil Aviation Organisation standards, so a non-precision approach is used, in most cases without terminal-approach radar at the ...
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German Government advisors push for domestic fuel tax
GERMANY'S Government-appointed environmental advisory panel has recommended a tax on aviation fuel on domestic routes. It is estimated that a kerosene tax equivalent to that already paid on diesel fuel would raise the cost of flying in Germany by 20%. In the long term, Ewers supports a tax ...
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Nice and easy
After establishing a niche market on its Scottish routes, London Luton-based low-fare airline easyJet is expanding into mainland Europe. Starting with a Luton-Amsterdam service on 24 April, easyJet will be adding Nice on 5 June and Barcelona a week later. One-way fares start at £35 ($55) to Amsterdam and £49 ...
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Boeing prepares for 747-300 conversion
BOEING HAS solved the last major design issues involved in converting the all-passenger version of the 747-300 to a freighter. The first modification could begin as early as next April. Boeing Wichita's Modification Responsibility Center has already completed engineering work on the 747-300 Combi conversion, and it will ...
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And then there were three...
FlightSafety finally emerges as an aggressive competitor for civil-simulation market leaders CAE and Thomson. Karen Walker/ATLANTA JUST WHEN THE commercial flight-simulator industry might have paused for breath and enjoyed a period of stability after years of unprecedented turmoil, it appears that the waters have been stirred again. ...
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JAA set to overturn night-time single-engine aircraft ban
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS THE EUROPEAN Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has "tentatively agreed" to overturn its previous position of banning the operation of single-engined turbine-powered aircraft commercially in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) and at night. Pilatus Aircraft and Aerospatiale's Socata subsidiary, respectively manufacturers of the PC-12 and ...
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FANS will ease Calcutta chaos
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS DRAMATIC TRAFFIC flow improvements, for aircraft over-flying the Calcutta area of India, are expected by September of this year. A new future air navigation systems (FANS) route for Boeing 747-400s across the country and the Bay of Bengal will ease chronic peak-hour congestion. ...
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Finnair to acquire its first Boeings
Julian Moxon/Paris FINNAIR IS to buy or lease four Boeing 757s for its charter operations, marking the first acquisition of Boeings in the airline's history. The carrier says the aircraft is "exactly the right size" for its leisure flight programme, although it looked at rival ...
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Swissair expands as Crossair gets route boost
Gunter Endres/BASLE SWISSAIR IS expanding its fleet with orders for five Airbus narrow-bodies and two McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. The order comes as Crossair, the Swiss carrier's regional subsidiary, revealed a boost from taking over a part of its parent company's European and charter business. Swissair is ...
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China deals boost European aerospace
Andrew Doyle/LONDONPaul Lewis/SINGAPORE EUROPE'S AEROSPACE industry, has received a significant boost from the visit of Chinese prime minister Li Peng to France, with Beijing agreeing a major deal with Airbus Industrie, and the surprise signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoI) with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) to ...
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Virgin names the day for EBA take-over
VIRGIN IS to complete its purchase of a 90% stake in EuroBelgian Airlines (EBA) on 30 April, clearing the way for Virgin European Airways to inaugurate low-cost scheduled flights between Brussels and five initial destinations (Flight International, 28 February-5 March, P15). The revised BFr1.8 billion ($59 million) deal, ...