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Shuttle by United is adding Portland-San Francisco and Portland-Los Angeles from the beginning of April. Under the new US-Canada bilateral Northwest Airlines will begin services from Minneapolis to Calgary and Regina on 1 May and Saskatoon on 15 May following US government approval. From Detroit the carrier will ...
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China order thaw on way
Pressure is mounting for Beijing to relax its freeze on new aircraft orders. It looks as if the Civil Aviation Administration of China will permit two, and perhaps all three big carriers, to place firm orders. Senior Air China officials recently visited Toulouse and Seattle in anticipation that ...
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Follow the leader or fix?
Did US airlines agree to cap travel agent commissions and then stage their announcements to make it look as if they were simply following the leader as usual? That is the key question in an antitrust class action filed by US travel giant Travel Network against the major ...
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Beijing sets out HK stall
Beijing has shown half its hand with an eleventh hour disclosure of its terms for renewing the Hong Kong-Taiwan air agreement that expires this month, but it has been less forthright about whether it will approve Hong Kong-Taiwan flights by foreign airlines under other bilaterals, or what criteria it will ...
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Vietnam on for sell-off
The wide-ranging ambitions of Vietnam Airlines are set to receive a boost in the near future with an expected government decision to clear the way for partial privatisation, including a measure of foreign investment. At presstime, airline officials were awaiting details of a planning package which is expected ...
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New accord seals open skies deal
The well known disunity of the US airlines, and their equally known derision of the Department of Transportation in Washington, were set aside recently as they voiced approval of DOT's successful renegotiation of the US-Canada bilateral. One by one, airline CEOs were quoted in press releases praising transportation secretary Federico ...
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A definitive lesson in competence
The US has split the European Union and pushed the European Commission further than ever in its attempts to obtain the right to negotiate air service agreements for its member states. But Mead Jennings and Mark Odell report that bloc negotiations are a long way off. Call it what you ...
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Milan is new hub for Lauda
Lauda Air will become the first carrier to establish a hub outside its home base using seventh freedom rights available under the European third package, backed by its alliance with Lufthansa. At press time, the Austrian independent was set to start a stand alone scheduled operation out of ...
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Conditions: in your dreams
As the European Commission starts investigating Iberia's plan for a second state aid package from the Spanish government, it emerges that Aer Lingus was allowed to receive the second tranche of its £175 million ($270 million) aid package despite the breach of a key condition. Iberia is seeking ...
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US is stuck over a barrel
Despite its bilateral successes elsewhere, when the US sits down to renegotiate its air services agreement with the UK, it will be the first example of the US Department of Transportation stepping away from its vow two years ago not to negotiate incremental deals. By mid-March, no firm ...
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Smart move to save time
Lufthansa's introduction of smartcard technology is not aimed at following the US majors in their attempts to cut distribution costs, says the carrier. The first carrier in Europe to put the new technology to use, Lufthansa says the main goal is to reduce the time passengers take to check-in and ...
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Oxford Cartographers develops new route-mapping concept
OXFORD Cartographers has developed a new concept in map imagery, which offers airlines a three-dimensional alternative to conventional "flat and featureless" route maps and inflight route-tracking displays. The UK mapmaker has based its "space" view of the Earth, on the photographic reproduction, of a specially modeled globe. ...
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Privatisation path
In February, El Al at last emerged from 12 years of receivership. Now, for the first time since the early 1980s, Israel's national airline is under the control of its own board of directors. Their primary objective is to speed the airline towards privatisation, while at the same ...
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Sabbath flight ban harms El Al
EL AL IS WARNING THAT it is being financially "crippled" by the Israeli Government's ban on its national carrier flying on the Jewish Sabbath and other holy days. There are also fears that the carrier's imminent privatisation could be affected. President Raphael Harlev issued the warning as he ...
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Estonian Air gears up to operate Boeing 737 as it aims to ditch Russian fleet
ESTONIAN AIR IS about to send the first of 25 pilots to Seattle for conversion training to prepare for their new duties flying the Boeing 737-500. The carrier expects to slash the number of its aircrew from 80 to 37, as it does away with the need for ...
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Ansett Australia to retire F28s
Ansett Australia is to begin retiring its Fokker F28 fleet, scrapping five 1000- and 3000-series aircraft by the end of the year. Seven Fokker F28-4000s and five Boeing 727-200s, all due for retirement under Stage 3 noise rules in 2002, will remain in the fleet, but their earlier ...
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Gulf revives air-defence plan plans
THE GULF Co-operation Council (GCC) states have revived a plan to integrate their respective air-defence ground environments. US defence contractor Hughes has again been contracted to study the requirement. Hughes originally carried out the six-nation GCC-funded study into integrating the countries' stand-alone air-defence networks in 1988. This work, ...
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Marshall Islands order drives Saab to tackle ETOPS
SAAB AIRCRAFT is working to achieve extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) certification for its Saab 2000 turboprop to allow extended flight over water. Executive vice-president Johan Oster says that 90min ETOPS qualification is needed for Air Marshall Islands, which has ordered two aircraft for operations over the Pacific. ...
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Bilateral Impasse
As US air-services negotiators, return from an apparently promising meeting with their British counterparts, and the European Commission (EC) suddenly discovers that it doesn't like what the US negotiators have agreed with the rest of Europe, a new question arises. Who really talks for Europe, and who really talks for ...
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Back To Beijing
Qantas Airways was due to resume flying to Beijing on 28 March, after an absence of eight years. The resumption of services to the Chinese capital ends a long-running battle over rights to the route, between Qantas and one-time challenger Australia Air International and, later, Ansett Australia. Source: ...