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TNT looks at large freighters
TNT Express Worldwide is aiming to introduce its first large freighter aircraft in 1998, if a strategic analysis of the market which it is now undertaking concludes that such a move is required. The express-parcel company, acquired by Dutch postal company KPN late in 1995, is timing the ...
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GrandAir puts US plans on hold
GrandAir has been forced to put on hold plans to fly to the USA by the Philippine regulatory authorities' continued failure to comply with the US Federal Aviation Administration's Category I safety requirements. The airline and incumbent national carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) have been told that there can ...
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Flight West Airlines revises jet fleet plans to suit new routes
Australian regional carrier Flight West Airlines is in negotiations with Ansett Australia to buy up to three Fokker F28-4000s which it will operate on new domestic and regional routes. The carrier is also likely to drop its order for Embraer EMB-145 regional jets. The airline plans to use ...
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SIA firms up options for more 777s
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has firmed up options on two more Boeing 777s, increasing the total number of twinjets it has on order to 30. The first aircraft for SIA, seen here on the Everett production line at Boeing, is due for delivery in May. SIA has outstanding options on 31 ...
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Boeing finalises 767-400ERX
Boeing expects to begin the second phase of windtunnel testing of the 767-400ERX "within the next couple of months" as it works towards a planned May 2000 service-entry for the aircraft, according to programme manager John Quinlivan. Quinlivan also confirms that the company "-has held discussions "with airlines ...
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Marketplace
++ China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its first General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777-200IGW, which brings its 777 fleet to five aircraft. Late this year, the airline will become the first to operate the 777 across the Pacific, on the 12,560km (6,800nm) route between Guangzhou and Los Angeles. ++ ...
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Indonesians propose to start Myanmar regional
Indonesia's Triputra Unggul Utama has become the latest South-East Asian company to announce proposals for a start-up joint-venture airline in Myanmar, following similar moves by Malaysian, Singapore and Thai investors. The Indonesian and Myanmar Governments have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up a new domestic ...
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SAA prepares for privatisation with management restructure
South African Airways (SAA) is undergoing a management restructuring, as part of its move towards privatisation. Talks have been under way for several weeks between SAA, its parent company, Transnet, and the trade unions, which are understood to have produced broad agreement on the main issues involved. "The ...
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Low-cost carriers lose out in Haneda Airport slot lottery
Japan's major existing airlines and the country's planned start-up carriers have all signalled their dissatisfaction with the transport ministry's allocation of 40 new slots at Tokyo's overcrowded Haneda Airport. The decision has done little to satisfy competing demands from Japan's three main carriers, and has dealt a major ...
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Irish lease company orders 12 new 737s
Irish lease-management company Pembroke Capital, of Dublin, has ordered 12 Boeing 737s valued at $504 million. The company, which was formed in November 1993 by ex-GPA employees, will take delivery of four 737-300s and eight -800s between June 1998 and April 1999. Pre-delivery financing for the order will ...
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Doganis re-opens subsidies argument
The controversial debate about whether government subsidies to European state airlines should be allowed under European Commission regulations has been re-opened by Professor Rigas Doganis, a former Olympic Airways chairman who is now head of the Air Transport Group at the UK's Cranfield University. Speaking during a lecture ...
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DeutscheBA
David Noyes has been appointed regional director for the UK, Africa and the Middle East at British Airways. He succeeds George Cooper, who became regional director for Europe in early February. Martin George is named marketing director, having held senior posts in the airline's UK and Ireland sales. Source: ...
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Air Canada
Air Canada saw profits more than double in 1996 and reports that its international services accounted for more than half of passenger sales for the first time. The airline's net profit hit C$149 million ($110 million) was helped by a further C$72 million gain on the sale of its stake ...
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Kiwi Airlines
Jack Warren has been named system director of maintenance and engineering for Kiwi International Airlines, of Newark, New Jersey, which restarted scheduled domestic services in January. He was formerly director of maintenance for Polar Air Cargo and, before that, spent most of his career with Pan Am World Airways. ...
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British Airways
David Noyes has been appointed regional director for the UK, Africa and the Middle East at British Airways. He succeeds George Cooper, who became regional director for Europe in early February. Martin George is named marketing director, having held senior posts in the airline's UK and Ireland sales. Source: ...
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Cargo gets top priority in China
China plans to virtually triple its cargo-aircraft fleet to 660 by the year 2000. The increase forms part of ambitious plans to expand its airborne freight market by around 14% a year, making it the main priority of the national aviation growth strategy. Zhou Baokou, deputy director of ...
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Star Europe takes first Airbus A320
Star Europe, a French charter airline, has introduced two 180-seat CFM International CFM56-powered Airbus A320s on lease from US company GATX. The aircraft, which are replacing Boeing 737s, are being used on the carrier's European charter services. Star Europe is a division of French tour company Look Voyages. ...
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ECAC/Eurocontrol agreement is a 'raw deal' for all concerned
European aviation organisations have reacted with scepticism to the recent agreement reached by European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) transport ministers to revise the Eurocontrol convention, and International Air Transport Association (IATA) general director Pierre Jeanniot describes the reforms as being a "raw deal" for airlines and passengers. In ...
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Flying Colours paints long-haul fleet plans
Flying Colours Airlines is planning to increase its narrowbody fleet to eight Boeing 757-200s within three years, and has begun evaluating the Airbus A330-200 and Boeing 777 for its long-haul expansion plans, according to chairman Errol Cossey. The new UK charter carrier took delivery of its first aircraft, ...