News from FlightGlobal – Page 2225
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Training expansion
The University of North Dakota's flight training fleet passed 100 aircraft at the end of 1998, with delivery over the year of 10 Diamond Katanas, 10 Piper Warriors, three Piper Seminoles, two Piper Arrows and two Rayheon Beech Barons, taking its fleet to 103. A further 14 will be delivered ...
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Canadian unveils new image
Canadian Airlines has revamped its image with a new name, new uniforms and a new stylised "Canada goose" logo. The Calgary-based carrier has dropped the word "International" from its name in an effort to promote its domestic services, and the new livery features more bare metal so as to more ...
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SAS opts for A330/A340s but order awaits cost cuts to bite
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH SAS has selected the Airbus A330/A340 family for its planned long-haul fleet renewal but is holding off signing a firm order until its internal cost cutting targets have been met. The airline has decided to reject Boeing's offer of 10 Boeing 777-200ERs in favour of a ...
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Pop goes the boom
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON On the face of it, the Airbus and Boeing orderbooks have so far escaped much of the Asian gloom, with a third successive year of solid sales and production records. Order deferrals, however, have already begun, and airliner salesmen are bracing themselves for a tougher time ahead ...
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Air France pilots back wage cuts
Eight out of 10 Air France pilots have agreed to wage cuts and a subsequent freeze in salaries in return for a stake in the airline when it is partially privatised. The decision means that the French Government can go ahead with its partial privatisation plans, under which up ...
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Ansett to replace 747-300s with -400s
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS The board of Ansett International has endorsed a plan to acquire two Boeing 747-400s as interim replacements for two 747-300s it leases from partner Singapore Airlines (SIA). The decision removes any near term plans to acquire smaller twinjets. The airline operates the 747-300s between Australia and ...
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ATR team sets tight deadline for regional jet project talks
Andrew Doyle/TEL AVIV ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia are trying to wrap up, by the end of March, a deal with either Fairchild Dornier or Embraer for the joint development of a family of regional jets. Talks with Fairchild Dornier, which began last month, are to continue through ...
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ATRs replace Arkia's Dash 7s
Arkia Israeli Airlines has put into service the first of three ATR 72-500s ordered last July. The private carrier will use the 72-seat aircraft to increase capacity on its high-frequency operations between Dov Hoz Tel Aviv Airport and Eilat, replacing ageing 50-seat de Havilland Dash 7s. The second and third ...
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Israel opens up cargo market
El Al is to decrease its cargo carrying capability in reaction to an Israeli Government committee recommendation to allow a private company to fly scheduled cargo services from the country. The committee, headed by the director-general of the Israeli ministry of transport, has recommended that Cargo Air Lines (CAL) ...
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Lauda Air bolsters fleet with Next Generation 737s, additional 767
Lauda Air has ordered a further six Boeing Next Generation 737s and an additional 767-300ER in a $519 million deal with the US manufacturer. The carrier, part of the Austrian Airlines group, will take delivery of the 767 in August. Two 737-600s and four 737-700s will be handed over ...
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Marketplace (1)
-UK remarketing agent Cabot Aviation has purchased Thai Airways International's two eight-year-old ATR 42-320s, which are now being offered for onward sale or lease. -Swedish lessor Indigo Aviation has acquired two Boeing 737-400s which are currently leased to Istanbul Airlines and Italy's Blue Panorama. The aircraft are leased until 2003. ...
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Marketplace (2)
-Hawaiian Airlines has purchased two McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50s from the Italian airline Meridiana, for delivery in February. The airline already operates 13 DC-9-51s on its inter-island route network, and is exempt to the US Stage 2 phase-out noise legislation that takes full effect at the end of 1999, because Hawaii ...
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Profits boost prompts PIA to decide on fleet replacements
Paul Lewis/KARACHI Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) says that it is ready to decide on the long-awaited replacement aircraft for its Boeing 747-200s. It has been spurred on by an end of year boost in profits and the need to combat increased competition after the government opened up access by foreign ...
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Routes
Taiwan's EVA Airways has dropped its seven-month-old Kaohsiung-Los Angeles service because of low demand. The decision marks an end to EVA's ambitions to make the southern Taiwanese port of Kaohsiung its second international hub. -South African Airways is increasing its Hong Kong to Johannesburg non-stop service to three weekly ...
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Boeing agrees SAA's swap of 777 orders for 747 whitetails
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN South African Airways (SAA) has agreed with Boeing to swap its outstanding orders and options for up to seven 777s for two whitetail 747-400s originally built for Philippines Airlines. Two General Electric CF6-80C2-powered 747-400s were delivered at the end of 1998 after nearly three years ...
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SIA abandons plan to buy stake in China Airlines
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA) has abandoned plans to buy a stake in Taiwan-based China Airlines (CAL), ending proposals for a strategic tie-up, including codesharing, frequent flyer links and lounge sharing. In August 1998, SIA announced a memorandum of understanding with CAL, covering a wide-ranging alliance, with SIA ...
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JAL shareholder calls for senior management resignations
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE The biggest single shareholder in Japan Airlines (JAL) has called for top management resignations following the airline's drop in profit and turnover in recent years. Eitaro Itoyama who owns about 4% of the airline, has demanded that the company's board of directors and president Isao Kaneko ...
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Niche accidents
David Learmount/LONDON Despite a worldwide campaign to reduce it, controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) increased in 1998 for the second year running, both among jet and non-jet flights, confirming the reversal of a previously favourable trend. There were five jet CFIT accidents and eight involving propeller-driven commercial aircraft. This ...
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Boeing loses ground to Airbus in backing of firm orders
Boeing again sold more aircraft than Airbus Industrie in 1998, but its high delivery rate, combined with cancellations, saw it lose ground to its European rival in terms of firm order backlog. Provisional figures from Airbus suggest its share of the total backlog in the 100-seat plus sector grew ...
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Fresh delay threatens A3XX
Julian Moxon/PARIS The Airbus Industrie A3XX is facing further delay as potential customer airlines, confronted by increasingly tough market conditions, retreat from committing to the aircraft in time to support an already delayed late 1999 launch deadline. While the airlines consider their options on timing, the European consortium is believed ...