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Brown is beautiful
As demand for express products continues to grow in overseas markets, United Parcel Service has carefully tailored its international operations to suit each region and is willing to take a long-term view in waiting for the rewards. Karen Walker reports. The last 12 months have been somewhat colourful for ...
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Sole survivor
Canada has rapidly lost two of its low-cost airlines, leaving WestJet as sole survivor. David Knibb looks at the lessons which should be learned and examines the prospects for any future Canadian new entrants. Like a tree shedding leaves in autumn, two of Canada's three low-cost airlines - Greyhound ...
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Flyers in the ointment
High average load factors are leading US airlines to clamp down on multiple bookings which play havoc with their yield mix. But some more advantageous solutions should be considered. By Bill McKnight, Geoff Murray and Patrick Meynial. Plan ahead. Leave yourself plenty of time. Always check in at the ...
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Alliance finalises merger plans with Uganda and Air Tanzania
Chris Yates/LONDON Uganda Airlines and Air Tanzania have finalised plans to merge during 1998 with Alliance Airlines, the multi-national carrier led by South African Airways (SAA). Alliance was formed in 1995, serving London Heathrow from the three countries with a single Boeing 747SP wet-leased from SAA. ...
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AZZURRA/Debonair want pan-European alliances
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Start-up carriers AZZURRA Air and Debonair have formed a regional alliance on services between the UK and Italy, which they hope to expand into a pan-European link-up. AZZURRA will begin a new service under a codeshare arrangement between its base in Bergamo, near Milan, ...
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Airkenya doubles Dash fleet
Airkenya is about to introduce its second de Havilland Canada Dash 7 turboprop. The aircraft are replacing Douglas DC-3s, providing much-needed extra capacity on services into remote dirt airstrips which are not suitable for use by Airkenya's other large turboprops - a Fokker F27 and a Shorts 360. Airkenya's first ...
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FedEx outlines fleet plan uncertainties
Federal Express has revealed that it could be required to take near-term delivery of 26 more McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and Boeing MD-11s than planned, under the terms of its aircraft-purchase agreements with American and United Airlines. These aircraft will be in addition to planned purchases worth $1.33 billion between now ...
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Marketplace
marketplace ++ CS Aviation Services has placed an ex-Alitalia Airbus A300B4 freighter with the Dutch general sales agents Jet Link Holland. Delivery is scheduled for February following conversion by BAe Aviation Services. ++ New Argentinian airline AeroVIP has leased three Jetstream 32EPs from British Aerospace Asset Management - ...
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Qantas considers A340/777 competition
Qantas' new order will lift its 747-40 Qantas is evaluating the Airbus and Boeing 300-seat models, and has confirmed orders for three additional Boeing 747-400s, worth some A$650 million ($478 million)including engines and spares. According to chief executive James Strong, Qantas has been studying closely its ...
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Ryanair reveals plans to double fleet by 2002
Ryanair has revealed plans to expand its fleet as part of a wide-ranging strategy to push its low-cost services further into the mainstream European market. Michael O'Leary, chief executive of the Dublin, Ireland-based carrier, says that the airline is "-actively negotiating with Boeing and Airbus" for new aircraft ...
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Varig entry boosts number of Star Alliance destinations
Brazil's Varig Airlines has joined the growing list of Star Alliance members, with Lufthansa's president Jürgen Weber promising further signatures from "at least one" Asian carrier before the end of the year. The entry of Varig, which flies to every major South American destination, is initially restricted to ...
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US Airways selects engines and secures deliveries for A320s
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTONDC US Airways has moved closer to finalising its long-standing commitment for up to 400 Airbus A320 family aircraft, with the selection of CFM International CFM56 engines, and an agreement over the delivery schedule for the first 30 aircraft. Some of the early delivery positions ...
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Kiwi expands fleet
Kiwi International is formalising plans for the acquisition of new aircraft types as it prepares to undertake gradual expansion. The airline will acquire four more aircraft to add to its fleet of eight Boeing 727-200s, with the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 or Fokker F28 being considered. Kiwi says that ...
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Spinetta gets 'free hand' for more-commercial Air France
Julian Moxon/paris The French Government has confirmed the new president of Air France, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, in his post and given him unprecedented control over the running of the airline. It has also asked him to prepare for a "partial" opening of capital to the workforce and outside investors ...
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Virgin Express plans to join public bandwagon
Virgin Express is to become the latest of Europe's low-cost carriers to seek a public listing ,with plans to launch on the Brussels stock exchange and the USNASDAQ exchange. Start-ups UKDebonair and Belgian's City Bird have sought listings on Europe's EASDAQ, while Ireland's Ryanair has also recently floated. ...
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Balancing Act
Boeing is losing money because it's making too many airliners; Saab is losing money because it's making too few. Both are victims of a market which refuses to conform to the normal laws of economics - but each could benefit from the other's woes. Boeing's ...
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Airbus supplement: A330 A340
When Airbus first discussed the A340 seriously with potential customers in the mid-1980s, "...the maximum range requirement was not much more than 6,000nm [11,100km]," recalls Airbus vice president strategic planning Adam Brown. "By launch in 1987 this had grown to 6,600nm [12,200km], and the A340-300 now in production can fly ...
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Airbus supplement: A3XX
When it enters service in 2003, the A3XX will be the world's biggest civil aircraft. Perhaps more significantly, at least from the commercial point of view, the European giant will complete the Airbus range and remove at a stroke Boeing's long-held monopoly in extra-large people carriers. For three ...
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Airbus supplement: Restructuring
Wherever aerospace executives gather to discuss consolidation of Europe's aerospace industry, it will not be long before the talk turns to Airbus Industrie and its anxiously awaited restructuring. Whatever other pitfalls may yet befall Europe on the way towards the holy grail of consolidation, it has become an ...
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Airbus supplement: Airbus; 25 years after take-off
Airbus Industrie has come a long way since its first aircraft, the A300, took to the air 25 years ago this week, on 28 October, 1972. What was once regarded as something of a curiosity by its rivals across the Atlantic has emerged as the only world challenger to the ...