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Bernard walk-out shocks Air Inter
AIR INTER PRESIDENT Michel Bernard resigned on 12 May, after an eighteen-month tenure. His move came shortly after the carrier's last, protected route was opened to competition and followed a series of strikes. Restrictions on the last of the four, most profitable routes in France, were lifted by ...
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Trade commission hops into line on 'Kangaroo' route
BRITISH AIRWAYS and Qantas Airways have finally won clearance to link services between Australia and Europe, after a change of heart by Australian competition watchdog the Trade Practices Commission (TPC). The airlines have had to agree to a cap on economy fares, however. The two carriers are ...
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Lufthansa and SAS form strategic alliance
Andrzej Jeziorski/COPENHAGEN LUFTHANSA AND Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) have forged an alliance linking their traffic systems and putting an end to SAS's role in the European Quality Alliance. No equity exchange is involved. The agreement, signed on 11 May in Copenhagen, will combine the partners' ...
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Tying the knot
In the world of airline alliances, few proposed so far have implications as great as that between Lufthansa and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) - not entirely from what is being done (though that is impressive enough), but also from what is not. This deal pulls together, in ...
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Maintenance Record
US maintenance specialist Greenwich Air Services has posted record results for the six months ended 31 March, with sales more than doubling, to $83.1 million, and net income up to $2.4 million, from $1.6 million for the same period in 1994. Source: Flight International
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US regional growth continues in 1994
US REGIONAL AIRLINES report an 8% increase in the passengers boarding in 1994. The Regional Airlines Association (RAA) recorded 57 million boardings industry-wide, generating a 13% increase in traffic to 12 billion revenue-passenger kilometres. RAA figures show a US regional fleet of 2,172 aircraft - a ...
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Competition conference
Europe is less than two years away from completing the single European air market, yet bitter disputes continue to rage over issues ranging from airport access and slot allocation, through to state aid and US open-skies deals. To help address these crucial issues, Flight International has been invited ...
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TNT considers Subic Bay tie-up with FedEx
TNT Worldwide Express is looking to relocate its Philippine-based Asian freight hub from Manila to Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA) and is negotiating a line-haul co-operation agreement with FedEx as part of the move. The company's joint venture Pacific East Asia Cargo (PEAC) carrier is constrained by a ...
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Indian Airlines plans to wet-lease regionals
INDIAN AIRLINES' board of directors has approved a proposal to acquire six 56-seater aircraft on wet lease. The aircraft will be flown on short-haul routes, mainly in India's northeastern sector. The board has also approved a scheme, to form a joint venture with either an international or Indian ...
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Indian cargo step Up
Elbee Airlines is to become India's first all-cargo airline. The new carrier is scheduled to become operational in June, having acquired an air-taxi-operator's certificate from the country's Directorate General of Civil Aviation to operate four Fokker 50s on domestic routes. There are no dedicated cargo airlines in India's domestic sector, ...
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Lockheed Martin ready to consolidate by June
Lockheed Martin chairman Dan Tellep has underlined the newly merged group's commitment to announce decisions on consolidating the businesses "no later than" the end of June. Presenting the group's first-quarter results, the first since the merger was formalised, Tellep calls for "reduction of excess capacity and aggressive elimination ...
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Lufthansa considers A320s for S America
LUFTHANSA IS considering using the Airbus cross-crew qualification (CCQ) concept to allow it to base A320s in Latin America to operate onward routes from its long-haul services. The airline will begin using Airbus A340s to Caracas, Venezuela, during the next winter timetable, but expects very low load-factors on ...
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Cargo boosts long-haul economics
TWO OF AIRBUS Industrie's long-haul customers are using their aircraft to fly pure-freight services. Cathay Pacific has found the A330 and A340 sufficiently efficient to operate as lower-deck-only freighters once their day-time passenger duties are completed, and Aer Lingus says that it converts one of its three A330-300s ...
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Top executives struggle for power at Kiwi
KIWI INTERNATIONAL Airlines has gone through its second management shake-up of the year, with Byron Hogue resigning as chief executive. Kiwi president Danny Wright assumes Hogue's post. The troubled carrier has offered no explanation for the move, but there are reports of a power struggle between Wright and ...
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Arrow strikes deal with FAA
ARROW AIR EXPECTS to resume cargo operations by the end of this month following a deal made with the US Federal Aviation Administration. The two sides agreed that Arrow Air would retain its operating certificate if it paid the aviation agency $1.5 million to defray the cost of ...
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UK gives option to cut take-off separation
SOME AIRCRAFT departing from London Heathrow Airport will be operated at half the present take-off separation minima during a UK Civil Aviation Authority-sanctioned trial scheduled to start in June. The current separation for a narrow-body following a wide-body is 2min, and the proposal would reduce this to 60s. ...
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Damascus connection revived with UK
After a gap of 12 years, two UK scheduled airlines have started services to the Syrian capital, Damascus. British Mediterranean Airways and British Airways have started services almost simultaneously. Each flies twice weekly out of London Heathrow, BA using Boeing 767s, via Amman, Jordan, and British Mediterranean Airbus A320s, via ...
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Boeing places drawings on-line
AIRLINE ENGINEERING departments are to gain, for the first time, direct on-line access to a Boeing technical-drawings database covering all its aircraft from the 707 onward. Called REDARS (reference engineering-data automated-retrieval system), the subscription-based system gives maintenance engineers on-line access to "...the technical drawings and parts-lists needed for ...
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Ansett NZ is crucial to Tasman future
The future of loss-making New Zealand domestic carrier Ansett New Zealand may be one of the last issues for resolution as Air New Zealand positions itself to take up News Corporation's 50% stake in Ansett Australia for an estimated A$50 million ($36 million). Air New Zealand has reportedly ...
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FAA changes pilot pairing regulations...
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has tightened its rules on air-transport pilot pairing to prevent low-time pilots being rostered together. The rule changes, which take effect in four months for major airlines and at the end of the year for regional carriers, result from several accident investigations in ...