News from FlightGlobal – Page 2264
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United deal will boost Airbus fleet to 133
United Airlines (UAL) has placed its second major follow-on order this year for Airbus narrowbodies, which will boost its fleet of A319s and A320s to 133. The airline has converted options for 10 A319s and 12 A320s for delivery between 2000 and 2001, and pushes UAL's order tally up ...
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Schiphol introduces graded landing charges for Chapter 3 aircraft types
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has imposed a new sliding scale of landing fees for Chapter 3 aircraft from 1 August, as well as a 20% surcharge on night-time operations. The new fees for Chapter 3-compliant types are broken into three categories, varying according to the level ...
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EC dismisses Olympic gripes
Julian Moxon/PARIS The European Commission (EC) has come in for further criticism over its latest decision to unblock the final tranche of state aid for Olympic Airways, but Brussels has brushed off complaints that it is going softon government handouts, pointing to new conditions being imposed on the Greek ...
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Afghan veto stymies Delta/Swissair code-share
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a revised regulation banning US carriers and registered aircraft from flying over the northern half of Afghanistan, including the use of two newly opened international air routes across the centre of the country. The move has already forced Delta Air Lines and Swissair ...
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Expanding Air Europa Express wants to double its ATP fleet
Balearic regional Air Europa Express plans to double its fleet of British Aerospace ATPs to 12 aircraft by early next year to cope with expansion on the Spanish mainland. The Palma de Majorca-based airline launched services in late 1996 as one half of a two-pronged regional operation set up ...
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Fiji sees double
Fiji has approved a second international carrier. Starting in November, Fiji Airways plans to fly from Nadi to Singapore, Mumbai and London with an Airbus A310 and Boeing 747-300 leased from Singapore Airlines. Fiji Airways is owned 60 per cent by Fijians and 40 per cent by UK company PanAsia ...
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Peru seconds it
Aero Continente has become Peru's second international airline. It will operate daily between Lima and Miami using Boeing 727s and 737s. Aero Continente sought 21 weekly frequencies, and has asked transport minister Antonio Paucar Carbajal to reconsider his grant of only seven. Source: Airline Business
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Aircraft News
Korean Air has ordered 11 Boeing 737-800s and 22 737-900s, plus five options for a mix of these aircraft types. Deliveries are scheduled to commence August 2000 through to July 2005. China Aviation Supplies has ordered 10 737s. Condor Flugdienst has ordered one 757-300 for delivery in the last quarter ...
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AA goes for Aerolineas
American Airlines has been cleared to proceed with its acquisition of 8.5 per cent of Aerolineas Argentinas. However, the Department of Justice's go-ahead comes with restrictions that will limit American's influence over the Argentinian carrier and its national market. The DOJ has forced American to restructure its deal so ...
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And now for something . . . completely different
The term 'survivor' may be sorely overused in the airline industry, but it remains the most appropriate description for AirTran Airlines, the product of a merger with the ill-fated ValuJet whose once-bright future ended abruptly in 1996 with a controversial crash in a Florida swamp. Not that there is ...
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No dumb deals
American Airlines' new chairman and chief executive officer, Don Carty, is keen to stress that it's business as usual since the smooth handover from the high-profile Robert Crandall to his heir apparent. But business as usual for American, of course, includes a slow struggle to put in place its proposed ...
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Asia cuts its capacity
Asian airlines are continuing to downsize their existing fleets and defer new aircraft deliveries in a bid to bring capacity in line with shrinking demand. But deliveries of new aircraft for the next five years will still produce a net increase in the size of Asia's overall fleet. Carriers ...
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Avensa wins court battle
Venezuela's Supreme Court has ruled that Avensa has the right to European routes awarded 11 years ago, even though it did not fly those routes over most of that time. General Moises Orozco, the recently dismissed minister of transport, tried to revoke Avensa's 1987 award of routes to Lisbon, ...
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AA/BA takes another step
American Airlines and British Airways describe the European Commission's preliminary ruling on its planned alliance as a welcome step forward, but legal experts believe the ambiguities and uncertainties of the ruling will only further prolong the approval process. Most carriers opposing the alliance protest that the number of weekly ...
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Euro challenger
The spotlight is on something new at British Airways - alliances. 'What was a sideshow is now centre stage,' states BA's director of alliances John Paterson. With the appointment of the former director of strategy in June to this newly created post British Airways is making this point crystal clear. ...
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Wall St frets over Boeing
With Boeing back on track to deliver 550 aircraft this year as planned, chairman Phil Condit is using the word 'turnaround', but some feel such confidence is premature. Boeing delivered 148 aircraft in the second quarter, prompting Condit to declare the production recovery programme a success. 'It's on the ...
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CLK charges unchanged
Despite the current focus on resolving the initial hiccups, the long-term success of Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok (CLK) airport lies in keeping charges down. Since its inauguration on 6 June, technical and logistical problems have caused long delays for passengers and freight forwarders. But while these ...
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Czechs reach stalemate
Czech Airlines has become a bit too profitable, according to the Czech government, which is refusing to provide the airline with a capital injection. In July, the government said it would not provide CSA with a 500 million koruna (US$15 million) cash injection to help cut the company's debt ...
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Airline News
Air France began codesharing with Delta Air Lines on 19 June between Paris/Charles de Gaulle and New York/John F Kennedy, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington/Dulles, Atlanta, Boston and Cincinnati and between Nice and New York. Air France began codesharing with Continental Airlines on 19 July ...
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Rocky relations
It's a brave new world out there for the global distribution systems. Competition - from traditional rivals to online new entrants - is swirling about them; government rules that regulate them are being rewritten; and in some cases their relationships with their two most important customers - airlines and travel ...