News from FlightGlobal – Page 2257
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Airbus breaks into BA with huge A320 order
Max Kingsley-Jones/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie has landed one of the biggest deals in its history with British Airways' decision to place an order for up to 188 A320 family aircraft - the first time it has placed an order with the European consortium. The deal was only done after BA ...
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Garuda embarks on major restructure
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Garuda Indonesia's newly appointed president has embarked on a comprehensive overhaul of the financially stricken carrier, involving new financing for a reduced fleet of aircraft, cutting routes, new code-share agreements, the axing of over 40% of the airline's staff and the sale of non-core businesses. "What ...
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New software will advise flight planners on integrity of GPS
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol has developed an internet tool for helping pilots assess the availability of global positioning system (GPS) satellites for European operations. The Augur system will provide all of the information needed to advise on GPS integrity, and, says Eurocontrol, will help aircraft operators to use GPS ...
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CAE to produce first Cargolux 747-400F freighter simulator
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Canada's CAE Electronics has revealed several flight simulator orders, including one from a first-time customer. Luxembourg-based Cargolux Airlines has ordered a Boeing 747-400F freighter full-flight simulator for delivery next year. Cargolux's device will be the first built for the freighter version of the 747-400, says ...
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Have four engines, will travel far
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON When Airbus Industrie launched its four-engined fly-by-wire A340 family in June 1987, it was the first all-new long-range widebody for a generation, and seemed to catch Boeing on the hop. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10-derived MD-11 provided the only competition for the A340 for several years as Boeing ...
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New Airline Business Editor
New Airline Business Editor Kevin O'Toole This month I take over as Editor of Airline Business. In doing so, I inherit a magazine with an established reputation as aviation's leading boardroom title. But like the industry it serves, Airline Business cannot afford to stand still. The task ahead is ...
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More than one
South Korea scrapped a single carrier policy which prevented its two international carriers from competing on many overseas routes. Meanwhile Korean Air has agreed to expand its codeshare agreement with Delta Air Lines into a global marketing arrangement. Source: Airline Business
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Debonair move
Low cost carrier Debonair is to launch its first London/Gatwick service in October, to Barcelona. Source: Airline Business
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Aircraft News
US Airways has ordered seven Airbus A330-300s with seven options and 16 delivery positions convertible to A300-200s or A340s. Deliveries will start in late 1999. United Airlines has converted 22 options into firm orders for 12 A320s and 10 A319s. Deliveries commence in 2000. Airtours has confirmed ...
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The devil's in the detail
The European Commission's rulings on two transatlantic alliances will be poured over by interested parties before official comments are filed. Now that the European Commission finally has produced its conditions for approving the American Airlines/British Airways alliance, lawyers will be scrambling to examine the detail. The Commission's competition directorate, ...
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Air Afrique in crisis again
Air Afrique hopes to overcome its worst crisis yet by privatising and forming a strategic partnership, but critics say the airline's chairman has mismanaged and should resign. The heavily indebted Côte d'Ivoire-based carrier, owned by 11 African states and Air France, has defaulted on payments for four Airbus A310-300s ...
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Air-India fights losses
A report has claimed Air-India is fast slipping into a debt trap where its repayment commitments are so high that the airline could be forced to resort to further loans. 'Air India's net worth will turn negative by June 1999 if adequate funds are not infused immediately and the ...
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Report weakens airport campaign
First, the good news. According to an official report, most of the runways in the US national airport system are in good to excellent condition. The bad news is that this may not be good for the airports. It will not be good news if the report, compiled by ...
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Keeping score
Airlines need an accurate means of comparing the potential benefits of their various alliance options and, once the choice is made, to assess the costs and benefits to each partner. The argument about whether alliances are effective and therefore inevitable is over; they are both. The potential benefits to ...
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Argentinian airport fray
Airlines are stepping up their campaign over rising charges in Argentina's recently privatised airport system but some believe this is flying in the face of standard airport practice. Iata led a high level delegation to the Argentinian government and regulators in early August to seek a revision of the ...
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Slot sale ban challenged
The UKOffice of Fair Trading (OFT) has broadly accepted the European Commission's conditions for approval of the BA-American transatlantic alliance but has criticised the ban on slot sales and the demand that the US-UK market be opened to all European Economic Area carriers. The OFT's director general, John Bridgeman, ...
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Bouillioun still bullish
Boullioun Aviation Services has strengthened its claim on the number three spot among operating lessors by placing an order worth up to US$2.6 billion for new-generation Boeing 737s. With new financing for its subsidiary, Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE), Boullioun continues to show its determination to keep growing despite the ...
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Scandinavia takes color
The launch of a low-cost no-frills start-up in Norway has forced the incumbents to cut prices, but the new entrant will be facing tough competition. Color Air began flying out of Oslo to Aaselsund on 7 August and will expand its network to Trondheim and Bergen later in August, ...
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Beware treading the bear market
The world economy is in precarious shape.The Asian crisis is expected to cut growth by over one third in 1998. The Japanese economy will contract by at least 1 per cent, prolonging the slump throughout the East Asia region, despite the big expansion package put in place in Tokyo. The ...
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Airline News
Transbrasil and TAP Air Portugal began codesharing on services between Lisbon and Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Fortaleza on 30 June. TAP intends to expand in Brazil via Transbrasil's domestic network, as part of an agreement signed in 1997. Swissair was to begin codesharing with THY Turkish Airlines, ...