News from FlightGlobal – Page 2344
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Low fares or bust?
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Air South's recent bankruptcy has struck a chill note for US start-up airlines. Although the carrier may have been a relatively small player, its demise is dangerously close to home for a low-cost airline sector in which nobody is looking secure. The financial performance ...
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Sponsoring flying training: the debate continues
Sir - I can sympathise entirely with Christopher Stone, who is having difficulty finding an airline to sponsor him to fly. I have been trying since I was 16 (I am now 23), with no success. Despite having spent a fortune on my private pilot's licence, I have ...
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AMR buys Dalfort
AMR Airline Services has acquired Dalfort Aviation Services, including office space for its growing workforce, a hangar on lease to K-C Aviation and a fixed-based operation (FBO) at Dallas Love Field, Texas. Business-aviation services will move to AMR Combs' existing Love Field FBO. Dalfort's large maintenance hangar is not part ...
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Turkish Airlines grows
New company MNG Airlines Cargo, set up by Turkish conglomerate MNG Holdings, plans to begin flights in October from Istanbul to Frankfurt, London Stansted and Dubai with a leased Airbus A300C4. The airline says it plans to acquire two more A300s and a Boeing 747 in early 1998. ...
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Blanc quits over privatisation
Julian Moxon/Paris Christian Blanc has resigned as Air France chairman because the recently elected French Government has refused to press ahead with privatisation of the state-owned airline. Blanc says that he has a "moral contract" with the Government to proceed with privatisation, arguing that it forms ...
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Boeing expects to reap Chinese harvest
China is set to announce sizeable new orders for Boeing 777-200, 757-200 and 737-700/800 passenger aircraft during the state visit to the USA in October of the country's president, Jiang Zemin. Boeing is hoping that Jiang's trip will finally give the green light to a large number of ...
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Condor studies long-range 757
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES German charter airline Condor Flugdienst is studying a longer-range version of the Boeing 757 as well as the recently launched 767-400 as part of a long- term strategy to introduce extended range and higher payload aircraft into its fleet. Condor, which was the ...
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Greyhound abandons low-cost air service
Greyhound Canada is to end its Greyhound Air low-cost airline operation on 21 September, leaving Kelowna Flightcraft, which flies seven Boeing 727-200s for Greyhound, considering its options. Greyhound Air had lost C$28 million ($19 million) since beginning operations in July 1996, despite achieving good load factors, but is ...
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New ICAO protocol tackles cross-border leasing 'nightmare'
David Learmount/London An international "regulatory nightmare" has been resolved by a new International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) protocol on cross-border aircraft leasing. The protocol, Article 83 bis, clears the state of the aircraft's registration to agree transfer of the responsibility for the aircraft's safety oversight to ...
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KAL jettisons A300B4s in fleet modernisation
Korean Airlines (KAL) is phasing out all of its Airbus Industrie A300B4s and replacing them with newer, leased A300-600Rs as part of a wider move to modernise its fleet of widebody and narrowbody jet airliners. Ansett Worldwide (AWAS) has acquired two of KAL's eight A300B4s and will take ...
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PAL drops flights
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has suspended services from Manila to Los Angeles and Newark because of "staggering losses" from the drop in the value of the peso, less than a year after their launch. The carrier has been forced to use wet-leased World Airways Boeing MD-11s on the routes rather than ...
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Swiss codeshare
Swissair has signed a codeshare agreement with Malaysian Airlines (MAS) through to Kuala Lumpur, only weeks after comments from the Swiss carrier that it was looking for additional Asian partners. Swissair, which will now sell tickets on MAS flights to Kuala Lumpur, says that there are no immediate plans to ...
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P&W effort to improve PW4000 reliability starts to pay dividend
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney says that an upgrade effort to counter reliability problems on more than 1,600 PW4000 engines is showing results, with a "dramatic reduction" to in-flight shutdown rates. The upgrade effort, known as the Number 1 reliability programme, involves around 100 service ...
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Saab pushes 35-seat option
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Saab Aircraft president Gert Shyborger says that Europe should look at the 30- to 35-seat market for its next regional jet, rather than the 70-seat sector being pursued by Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)). The comments come as Saab re-assesses its future in the regional-aircraft ...
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Comair consortium wins battle to take over Sun Air
A consortium led by South African regional carrier British Airways Comair has won the race for state-owned Sun Air. Comair, a BA franchise partner, will take a 25%stake in the rival domestic carrier, with another 5%earmarked for Sun Air staff, and the remaining 70%taken by two investment vehicles ...
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Workshop
++ Air UK Engineering has signed a five-year deal with Skyways to undertake heavy maintenance on the Swedish carrier's fleet of eight Fokker F50s after the UK company successfully completed a year-long contract. ++ Dee Howard has begun heavy maintenance of an Airborne Express Douglas DC-8-63 under an agreement covering ...
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Low-cost Air South files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Air South has become the latest of the low-fare US start-ups to run into trouble, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of August, just days after its third anniversary. The carrier was forced to suspend operations and ground its leased fleet of seven Boeing 737-200s, ...
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Air New Zealand looks to alliances to boost profits
Paul Phelan/CAIRNSKevin O'Toole/LONDON Air New Zealand (ANZ)is looking for benefits from its alliance strategy, including closer ties with newly acquired Ansett Australia, to help lift profits this year after posting a major slump in its results for 1996/7. Over the next year, the airline plans to ...
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Taiwanese tourists boost CAL
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A return in confidence among Taiwanese travellers has lifted profits at China Airlines (CAL)over the first half of 1997, and the airline expects better to come during the rest of the year, which includes Taiwan's peak holiday season. CAL posted pre-tax profits of nearly ...
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Lufthansa sells off Hapag Lloyd
German national airline Lufthansa has sold its 17.95% stake in travel and tourism firm Hapag Lloyd to Preussag, in the run-up to the creation of a new travel conglomerate in partnership with tour operator NUR. Lufthansa says that its decision to sell the stake, already agreed by the ...