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Delta and Korean Air wrap up assistance deal
Korean Air (KAL) has finalised a $20 million agreement for Delta Air Lines to give assistance with the overhaul of the South Korean flag carrier's flight operations and training. Under the deal, the US carrier will help overhaul KAL's flightdeck operations, cabin services and safety from 1 October. The ...
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Marketplace
-SilkAir has taken delivery of its first International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered Airbus A320. The regional division of Singapore Airlines is replacing its Boeing 737-300 fleet with four A320s and four A319s, and holds options on another 10 aircraft. -ING Lease International Equipment Management has sold and delivered an ex-Pan American ...
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Routes
-Alaska Airlines will suspend its once-weekly winter service to the Russian Far East on 8 October, because the recent circumstances with the Russian economy have made its operations uneconomical, says the airline. Alaska plans to provide connecting services to the region through its marketing partner, Reeve Aleutian Airways, when government ...
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Saudi Arabian studies 717 for regional services
Saudi Arabian Airlines is focusing attention on its short- haul regional requirements, with the Boeing 717 reportedly under serious consideration. The airline began a fleet renewal process late last year which will see 29 Boeing MD-90s, five Boeing 747-400s and 23 777-200s introduced through to 2001. The airline originally ...
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TEA eases into schedules as it prepares for identity change
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH TEA Switzerland is to begin scheduled operations in November in the run up to its withdrawal from the charter market and a change of identity to become easyJet Switzerland. The change will also see the disposal of its Boeing 737-400, and the addition of four new 737-300s from ...
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Branson seeks US rule changes
Virgin Atlantic chairman Richard Branson has launched a crusade to remove restrictions on foreign ownership of US airlines, so that he can start up a US domestic carrier. Branson visited Washington DC on 24 September to begin lobbying Congress to amend the "antiquated and outmoded" regulations prohibiting foreign ownership ...
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Sun Air shareholders reject Comair merger
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN Shareholders at Sun Air have decided against a merger with rival South African carrier, Comair, which already owns 25% of the recently privatised state-owned airline. Sun Air's major shareholder, the Rethabile black empowerment group, says it is unwilling to relinquish its foothold in the airline ...
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Air Littoral set for development after SAir Group takes stake
Julian Moxon/PARISThe SAir Group has taken a 44% stake in French regional airline Air Littoral, giving it an entry into the south of France market and meeting the loss-making carrier's need for recapitalisation and development funding. The move came after speculation that another French independent, Britair, was in line to ...
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Royal gets a result from Signature deal
Canadian Charter carrier Royal Airlines expects to add C$100 million ($66 million) a year in revenue from a recent agreement to carry most of the passengers for Signature Vacations of Toronto. Under the agreement, previously held by rival airline Canada 3000, Signature will fill 75% of four Royal Airbus A310-300s ...
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Boeing/Flight Safety head for training take-off
Boeing and FlightSafety International (FSI), parent companies of global airline-training joint venture FlightSafety Boeing (FSB) Training International, say phase one of the start-up initiative will be completed in January 1999. The milestone will be marked by the transition of the former FSI training centre at Kunming, China, to FSB ...
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Healthy future ?
The European regional airline industry has once again beaten all records, with this year's European Regions Airline Association (ERA) meeting in Hanover, Germany, reporting double digit growth in passenger traffic, re-equipment by carriers with new regional jet aircraft and reasonable profit margins. The health of the regionals is traceable ...
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Maintenance: Europe and the CIS
Andrew Chuter/London and Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC, Data supplied by Air Transport Intelligence After a Farnborough air show at which airliner sales exceeding $20 billion were announced, any talk of recession seems like scaremongering. But the air transport industry is already bracing itself for the next downturn - the ...
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Lockheed Martin expands with Comsat
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin has boosted its bid to become a turnkey commercial satellite communications service provider by agreeing to acquire Comsat for around $2.7 billion. Comsat is the US member of Intelsat and Inmarsat and the largest provider of space segment capacity for both international satellite communications ...
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Boeing aims to achieve longer 777 ETOPS allowance
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is proposing to raise the standard 180min extended range twin engine operations (ETOPS) restriction to 207min. The objective is to allow Boeing 777s on some transpacific services to take an optimum routeing which would save up to 30min flying time. "It is the operators ...
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PAL collapse causes new chaos
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The almost unprecedented demise of Philippine Airlines (PAL) has left the country's domestic carriers scrambling to find additional capacity to fill the void, while creditors and bargain hunters are beating a path to Manila to pick over the bones of the defunct flag carrier. The decision ...
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Focus falls on solo airlines after tie-ups
With British Airways and American Airlines having confirmed their move to counter the Star Alliance - with the five-airline "oneworld" alliance - attention is now turning to potential responses by major airlines which have not yet committed to one of the global blocks. The oneworld link, formally unveiled in ...
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Embraer boss holds back on 70-seater launch
Julian Moxon/HANOVER Embraer president Mauricio Botelho has played down expectations of a quick decision on the launch of a 70-seat regional jet by the Brazilian airframe builder, believing that market conditions in the USA and Asia do not warrant a speedy move. Speaking at the European Regions Airlines ...
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Latin section
LanChile, TACA Group of El Salvador and TAM of Brazil have ordered AlliedSignal's enhanced ground proximity warning system, 131-9(A) auxiliary power units and flight data and cockpit voice recorders for their existing and newly ordered fleets of Airbus A320s. The deals are worth a total of $100 million. Source: Flight ...
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EGPWS deal
Lufthansa has signed a 10-year agreement to buy AlliedSignal enhanced ground proximity warning systems (EGPWS) for its aircraft and those of its subsidiaries. The deal covers the initial purchase of 175 systems for its fleet, including that of Lufthansa Cargo, but is expected to grow to cover at least 400 ...
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BAe profits
British Aerospace has reported pre-tax profits for the half year up by 24%.Despite the rise, and a record order book, the company's shares tumbled after a fall in oil prices cut operating cashflow as a result of payments from the Saudi Arabian Al Yamamah contract by at least £500 million ...