News from FlightGlobal – Page 2219
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Airports
The completion of a $250 million reconstruction of Domodedovo Airport in Moscow is due by the middle of this year, says the airport's operator, East Line group. The reconstruction includes nearly doubling the size of the passenger terminal. The international section of will be opened next month, to be followed ...
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BA steps up the class war
Chris Jasper/LONDON British Airways has launched a radical overhaul of its premium cabins, introducing aft-facing and flat-bed seats in business class and a new "upper economy" product. The move is aimed at increasing the proportion of business travellers on BA's long haul services, and cements its strategy of targeting high-yield ...
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Debis targets Boeing after latest Airbus purchase
Debis AirFinance is seeking to conclude sale and leaseback deals with Classic and Next-Generation Boeing 737 operators as part of efforts to diversify its rapidly expanding aircraft portfolio. The Amsterdam-based DaimlerChrysler subsidiary, meanwhile, has purchased 12 in-service aircraft from Dublin-based Airbus Industrie Financial Services (AIFS), comprising two A340-300s, three ...
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Hong Kong/Beijing bilateral clears way for Dragonair
Mainland China and the Hong Kong Government have swept away a rule limiting Hong Kong carriers to operating one-third of the capacity on routes to the mainland. According to the Hong Kong Government, a new air services arrangement signed with Beijing guarantees that "airlines of both sides enjoy equal ...
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China Airlines and EVA emerge from Asia's downturn
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI Taiwan's two largest carriers have reported a financially sound 1999. China Airlines (CAL) pulled out of the Asian downturn and posted a pre-tax profit after making a loss a year earlier, and rival EVA Air turned in healthy net earnings. CAL's $91 million pre-tax profit compares with ...
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BM acts as US/UK bilateral talks fail
Chris Jasper/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Airlines in the UK and USA are coming to terms with the failure of bilateral air services talks. British Midland (BM) - worst hit by the collapse of negotiations - has responded by filing a joint codeshare application with partner United Airlines that suggests it ...
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Executives to go in Argentine rescue
Guy Norris/BUENOS AIRES Paul Lews/WASHINGTON DC Aerolineas Argentinas' majority owner SEPI will present a new business plan to the Argentine Government to revive the financially ailing carrier. This follows SEPI's rejection of American Airlines parent AMR's restructuring proposal and the removal of key US national managers. The airline's ...
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Fairchild considers new stretch of 928JET
Fairchild Aerospace is considering a stretch of the 928JET as its next addition to the 728JET family, rather than a smaller 55-65-seat version. It won about one-third of new regional-jet business last year, putting the company on a par with rivals Bombardier and Embraer. The proposed 1128JET would extend ...
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American eyes aircraft for Asia
American Airlines is looking at its aircraft acquisition options to extend the range of its fleet to open planned new non-stop routes from Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth to Asia. The US carrier has applied to the US Department of Transport to operate to Beijing and Shanghai under a revised ...
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Airbus slips delivery plan for A3XX
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Airbus Industrie is targeting October 2005 for first production delivery of the A3XX-100 if it can muster sufficient market support by mid-year for the consortium's supervisory board to commit to a simultaneous launch offer of passenger and cargo variants of the ultra-large aircraft. The October ...
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Air France/Delta to raid rival groups
Emma Kelly/PARIS and ATLANTA Air France and Delta Air Lines are identifying members of competing alliances to join their unnamed airline grouping, which they aim to unveil in the second quarter. The partners are tight-lipped on potential alliance members following disappointment over their public courting of British Midland ...
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Marketplace
Air Alps Aviation of Innsbruck, Austria, has acquired an ex-PB Air Dornier 328-110 turboprop, in a deal arranged by Aircraft Leasing & Management. The deal boosts Air Alps' (which operates as KLM Alps) fleet of 328s to four. Safair of South Africa has placed two Boeing MD-82s with French carrier ...
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Routes
Swissair is withdrawing its six-times weekly scheduled service between Basle and New York Newark from 26 March, citing poor demand with an average load factor of less than 60%. The flights, operated using an Airbus A310 and codeshared with the Swiss flag carrier's regional subsidiary Crossair, were introduced a year ...
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Start-up SolAir signs for 328/728JETs
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Italian start-up SolAir has become the second announced airline customer for the Fairchild Aerospace 728JET, with a letter of intent for two aircraft, plus two 34-seat 328JETs. The Naples-based carrier plans to begin operations with the two 328JETs from next January, serving Barcelona, Paris, Tirana and ...
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Taiwan and Philippines resume links
Air links between Taiwan and the Philippines are to resume, following the signing of an agreement on 28 January. It ends a bitter dispute that grounded scheduled flights for four months. China Airlines (CAL) will resume a full 24 flights a week service on 16 February, while EVA Air ...
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Virgin picks Brisbane as new airline HQ
Brisbane has been selected over Melbourne for low-cost start-up Virgin Australia's A$200 million ($133 million) operational, reservations and administrative headquarters. Virgin chairman Richard Branson says Melbourne lost because of a dispute over terminal space and the design and costs of a proposed A$7 million common-user terminal, which would be ...
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Payment suspension
Canadian Airlines suspended C$135 million ($92 million) in payments to creditors on 2 February, the same day that new owner Air Canada reported operating profits of C$503 million for the year ended 31 December, against C$359 million in 1998. Creditors are owed close to C$3.5 billion. Source: Flight International
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Turkish Bribes arrest
General manager of the Turkish Civil Aviation Authority Sermet Unel has been arrested on a charge of taking bribes from airlines. He was video recorded by police apparently receiving money from Turkish airline Air Rose, which had warned the authorities in advance of Unel's alleged $50,000 demand, according to Reed ...
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Virgin deal raises doubts over SIA's role within Star
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Sir Richard Branson, newly knighted in the UK's millennial honours list, calls the deal between his Virgin Atlantic group and Singapore Airlines (SIA) a "marriage made in heaven", but Star alliance members in Australasia are having heartburn over its implications. The codeshare access that SIA gains ...
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US-UK mini deal threatens to sideline cargo
PETER CONWAY LONDON The latest in the seemingly unending round of open skies talks between the USA and UK in Washington on 4-5 January failed to produce the widely predicted "mini deal" over access to London Heathrow. But most observers still expect some kind of interim compromise to emerge when ...