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Air Namibia to slash workforce
Air Namibia plans to lay off between 100 and 150 employees - up to 30% of its workforce - by the end of this month as part of a restructuring plan that will cost up to N$10 million ($1.6 million), but which should ultimately reverse the downward trend in its ...
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BA to Tripoli
British Airways is planning to launch a three times weekly service between London and Tripoli following the lifting of a United Nations ban on flights to Libya imposed after the Lockerbie bombing. Terrorist suspects have now been handed over, and BA will begin flights this month subject to government approval. ...
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Air Macau in red
Air Macau has plunged into the red, taking a 75.7 million pataca ($9.5 million) loss for 1998 after profits of 79 million patacas over the previous 12 months. The loss comes despite a reported 14% increase in passenger traffic and a 42% rise in cargo turnover during the year. Air ...
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Sole A340-8000 may be put up for sale
The one and only Airbus Industrie A340-8000, completed in the middle of last year, faces an uncertain future because of the financial crisis surrounding controversial Brunei Prince Jefri, who placed the launch order. The four-engined jet, an ultra-long-range derivative of the A340-200, has been parked at Berlin's Schönefeld Airfield ...
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Ansett Australia ponders fleet rationalisation
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Ansett Australia is aiming to define its fleet development plan by the end of this year. It will decide on a new widebody type to serve domestic trunk and Asian routes and on the rationalisation of the carrier's domestic narrowbody fleet. Executive chairman Rod Eddington says: ...
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Irish commuter carrier takes 146s
Aer Lingus Commuter's British Aerospace 146 fleet has been expanded to eight with the delivery of an ex-Thai International -300 leased from BAe Asset Management. The regional division of Aer Lingus operates two 146-200s and six -300s, alongside six Fokker 50 turboprops, with lease commitments extending to 2007. Source: Flight ...
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BMW R-R offers new BR700 for ERJ family
Guy Norris/MUNICH Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC BMW Rolls-Royce is proposing a new version of the BR700 turbofan to power Embraer's planned family of 70/90-seat regional jets, the ERJ-170 and -190, as the Brazilian manufacturer seeks bids from suppliers for systems and structures. Potential risk-sharing partners are expected to submit bids this ...
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SIA and Lufthansa Cargo start anew
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Lufthansa Cargo have launched a joint cargo express programme, broadening each other's route networks from 1 April. The airlines have signed an interline agreement, giving each other's aircraft priority handling at their respective hubs. SIA will be able to ship freight to 15 new destinations in ...
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Cathay extends deadline in pilots' pay dispute
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways pilots have until 30 April to respond to an offer of stock options in exchange for a pay cut. The Hong Kong Air Crew Officers' Association (AOA)has welcomed the extension of the deadline, from 6 April to 30 April. Cathay initially tried to ...
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United takes on rivals with US East Coast shuttle
United Airlines and regional affiliate Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA) are combining to offer a Washington DC- New York shuttle service to compete with those operated by Delta Air Lines and US Airways. Hourly flights will operate to New York LaGuardia from Washington Dulles. The Delta and US Airways shuttle ...
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IPTN takes part in Boeing product development study
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Indonesian aerospace company IPTN has started work on an advanced product development (PD) study for Boeing, which is evaluating new, simpler, fuselage structures. "We have contracted them for some preliminary design studies for a different structural approach to how you do a fuselage," ...
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Malaysia Airlinesplans to sell aircraft in consolidation plan
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Malaysia Airlines (MAS)plans to sell three Boeing 747 Combis, one 737-300F freighter and five 737-500s under its fleet consolidation programme. According to MAS vice-president of asset management Razali Harun, the company wants to base passenger operations on 737-400s, 777-200s and Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing 747-400s, ...
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Marketplace
Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services (AWAS) has taken delivery of the first of five Next Generation 737-700s it has on order, which has been placed with an undisclosed customer in Asia. AWAS is understood recently to have cancelled at least three of its Next Generation 737 orders. TWA ...
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Routes
British Airways is launching direct once-weekly services from London Gatwick to Havana, Cuba, i n April using Boeing 777s. From May, the airline's London-Baku service will continue on to Tashkent in Uzbekistan. Air Canada is launching daily services between Toronto and San Diego in June, and between ...
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Southwest plans for expansion of non-stop services
Southwest Airlines is to add non-stop services between 20 cities as it continues to take delivery of new Boeing 737-700 narrowbodies. The Dallas, Texas-based low fares carrier expects to take delivery of 29 Next Generation 737s this year, and retire its six oldest 737-200s, taking its fleet to 306 ...
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Workshop
Pemco has won a contract from Continental for heavy maintenance checks on Boeing 727s, McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and MD-80s.It has also been picked by Las Vegas start-up National Airlines for Boeing 757-200 maintenance. ++ Finmeccanica subsidiary Aeronavali has signed an agreement with Federal Express to maintain six DC-10-10s at ...
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ANA fears unexpectedly high loss
All Nippon Airways (ANA) admits it is heading for a higher-than-expected loss in its 1998-9 fiscal year, which ended on 31 March. The Japanese carrier says press reports that it will suffer a loss of around ´11 billion ($92 million) on sales of ´900 billion are "probably" close to ...
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European regionals unite for US travel pass programme
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Chris Jasper/LONDON A group of 15 second tier and regional European airlines is to press ahead with a radical plan aimed at maximising their exposure in the USA through an innovative travel pass scheme. The programme, run by Los Angeles-based Europe by Air, is modelled ...
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Little relief in taxing times
Jack Sellsby/LONDON Tax law changes have put paid to cheap deals Until the final quarter of last year, potential aircraft purchasers could take advantage of major rivalry in the aircraft finance markets between finance houses and banks in different jurisdictions offering airlines attractive tax-based finance structures. These made financing aircraft ...
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Airlines keep options open
Jack Sellsby/LONDON A wide choice of financial packages brings its own complications Ask an aircraft financier about the best way to pay for an airliner and there is never a simple answer - either in healthy economic times or poor. But airlines may have a surprisingly wide choice of finance ...