News from FlightGlobal – Page 2425
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Cathay Pacific boss heads for Ansett Australia
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways managing director Rod Eddington has been named as the new executive chairman at Ansett Australia, charged with seeing through a major shake-up at the loss-making carrier. The announcement, which comes in the wake of the Air New Zealand (ANZ) acquisition of ...
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Dragonair boosts fleet for China
Dragonair of Hong Kong is to increase its fleet of Airbus A320s and A330s to expand the airline's regional service and take advantage of recently approved new routes into China. The airline has placed orders for two International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered A320s and concluded the lease for a ...
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Eurowings protests over teaming of Augsburg Airways and Lufthansa
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Eurowings has accused Lufthansa of misusing its partners in a "senseless" attempt to suppress competition, after the announcement of the German flag carrier's new partnership with Augsburg Airways. South German regional carrier Augsburg is to become Lufthansa's first Team Lufthansa franchise partner, flying from ...
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Air Liberte restructures network with route reductions
Air Liberté has revealed major changes to its route structure as part of its plan to avoid bankruptcy (Flight International, 2-8 October). Routes between Paris Orly and Montpellier and Bordeaux-Nice will be suspended immediately, along with several international routes, including Toulouse-Dakar and Bordeaux-Abidjan. Frequencies will also ...
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Pakistan profit pledge
Pakistan International Airlines has pledged to pull itself out of losses over the next year through a mix of spending cuts and expansion. A new service to Chicago is pending, and there are plans to serve five other US cities, as well as possible destinations in Australia, South Africa and ...
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ARIA 'still wants to buy Tu-204s'
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA) has long-term plans to buy Tupolev Tu-204s, says the carrier's general director Marshal Yergeny Shapsahnikov. The plan was outlined in a public statement designed to diffuse the political row over the airline's recent order for ten Boeing 737-400s (Flight International, 25 September - 1 October). ...
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Kiwi files for Chapter 11 as ValuJet resumes flights
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Kiwi International Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming rising debts and the fall-out from the ValuJet crash and the grounding of Kiwi aircraft. Ironically, the filing took place on 30 September, the day that ValuJet returned to the air and at ...
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Firm sale
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) has finalised its purchase of eight Airbus Industrie A320s and four A321s (Flight International, 19-25 June, P6). The deal calls for the first delivery in January 1998 and includes options for a further 12 aircraft. SALE is expected to make its engine selection shortly, choosing ...
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WestJet back
Transport Canada has lifted the impending suspension of WestJet Airlines after the low-cost carrier appointed a person responsible for maintenance, and implemented an approved maintenance system. Calgary-based Westjet grounded its four Boeing 737s in September when Transport Canada found maintenance violations. Source: Flight International
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Airbus puts on AIRS for human-factor reports
Airbus Industrie is to provide customers, free of charge, with the software and training to record and share information on human-factors (HF)-related incidents with the con- sortium's safety department. To be known as the Aircrew Incident Reporting System (AIRS), it will be the first such manufacturer-provided service. Four ...
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Airbus pushes on with new versions of A340
David Learmount/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie is to challenge Boeing's 777-300 stretch with an enlarged, rewinged A340 which carries as many passengers and flies further, says the European consortium's A330/ A340 commercial programme manager David Pound. The European consortium is effectively launching the -500 and-600 variants of the ...
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Airbus moves closer to forming AE-100 partnership
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE members and Alenia have reached a broad consensus on the need to establish a new European aerospace joint venture to partner China in the development of the proposed AE-100 regional jet. The planned new Airbus-led consortium is intended to take over Aero International (Regional)'s (AI(R)'s) partnership ...
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South African Airways puts 777 order on hold and considers options
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS (SAA) says that it has put its Boeing 777 contract on hold and is reviewing the order, which could see it reduced in size or switched to a lease rather than a purchase. SAA placed orders in December 1995 for four 777-200s and one Boeing ...
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Air France
National carrier Air France has appointed Anne Veyssi‚ cargo general manager for the UK and Ireland. Veyssi‚, who has been with Air France Cargo since 1988, succeeds Bernard Frattini, who becomes the carrier's cargo general manager for North America, based in New York. Source: Flight International
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EC considers market economy route to resolve slot dilemmas
Julian Moxon /BRUSSELS THE EUROPEAN Commission's (EC's) transport directorate is considering introducing an allocation system at congested airports which would allow airlines to buy or sell their slots to improve flight scheduling. Slot allocation has become a bitterly contested issue as European airports become increasingly congested ...
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Airbus set for A310 boost from VASP
VASP is in final negotiations with Airbus Industrie for a big A310 order, which will represent largest deal for the aircraft in the past four years. The Brazilian carrier is the hitherto undisclosed customer for ten A310-300s during the recent Farnborough Air Show (Flight International, 18-24 September). According ...
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FBO industry reshapes
From the USA to the UK, fixed-base operators have been changing hands as industry consolidation continues. In August, Mercury Air Group completed the acquisition of five FBOs from Raytheon Aircraft Services for $8.25 million. The sites involved are at Ontario International Airport in California; Georgia's Hartsfield International and Peachtree-DeKalb Airports ...
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City Bird is ready to take flight
CITY BIRD, the new long-haul holiday airline launched by former EBA boss Victor Hasson, will begin operations between Belgium and the USA next March with two McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. Hasson's City Hotels group holds a 62.5% stake, with the rest being taken up by private investors who were ...
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Silk Air considers fleet replacement options
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SILKAIR OF SINGAPORE is drawing up plans to re-equip its fleet with a new range of larger and longer range 150-seat and 100-seat aircraft over the next five years. The carrier says that its existing fleet of five 118-seat Boeing 737-300s needs to be ...
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US low-fare carriers launch services
The new Pan American World Airways began operation on 26 September, and is to be followed into the air on 1 October by Delta Air Lines' new Delta Express low-cost operation. Rival ValuJet Airlines won US Department of Transportation (DoT) approval to resume flying on 30 September. Initially, ...