News from FlightGlobal – Page 2428
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Eurowings doubles up
German regional carrier Eurowings is doubling its frequencies between Frankfurt and Berlin Tempelhof with up to eight flights daily. Source: Flight International
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Deal opens French door for Swissair
French independent airline AOM has agreed a "commercial and industrial" alliance with Swissair. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union (EU), and the alliance with AOM will provide Swissair with access to the lucrative French internal market for the first time. The deal, which is expected ...
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Colourful Canadian
Air Canada has taken delivery of its an Airbus A319 painted in the historic Trans-Canada Airlines' colours to commemorate the airline's 60th birthday, which takes place this month. The aircraft, the fourteenth of 35 A319s on order, uses a small portion of all the different liveries flown by the airline ...
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easyJet expands fleet and starts Liverpool operation
easyJet has ordered 12 Boeing 737-300s, for the first time directly from Boeing. The London Luton-based low-cost carrier has previously acquired secondhand aircraft, primarily from leasing companies. The airline had also considered acquiring new-generation 737s and had looked at Airbus narrowbodies. The new aircraft will be added to ...
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Fijian start-up plans scheduled services
A Fijian start-up carrier is planning to launch scheduled passenger and freight services from Nadi to selected Asian, European, Indian and South Pacific destinations from early 1998. According to Fiji International Airway's Singapore-based chief executive, Alan Lindrea, the company hopes to be granted an air operator's certificate by ...
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Iberia starts work on American alliance
Iberia has cemented the first element of its recent commercial agreement with American Airlines. The Spanish Government has also reconfirmed that the flag carrier will be "fully privatised" by 1999. Iberia now has frequent-flier and codesharing programmes in place with the US carrier, and expects to tie up ...
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USA urges Asian partners to liberalise regional services
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The US Government is urging its new "open-skies" partner nations in Asia and the Pacific Rim to adopt similar liberal air-service agreements with one another, to open up regional traffic and allow airlines to exercise effectively new beyond-rights to third countries. In the past ...
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TransEuropean aims at charter services to the UK
New Moscow-based TransEuropean is planning to start charter flights to London by the end of this year. TransEuropean, a breakaway from the Russian carrier AJT, operates three Tupolev Tu-154s and an Ilyushin Il-86 on routes from Sheremetyevo airport. It also has two Ilyushin Il- 96-300 on order. Source: ...
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Airbus and Boeing battle for Royal Brunei order
Airbus Industrie and Boeing have submitted final proposals to Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) to supply a new family of narrowbody passenger aircraft to replace its fleet of Boeing 757-200s and Fokker 100 twinjets. RBA's board is close to a decision on a replacement type and hopes to be ...
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Singapore Leasing signs customers for A320s
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) has signed agreements for five new Airbus Industrie A320s, with two aircraft going to Saeaga Airlines of Malaysia and three to TransAer International Airlines of Ireland. SALE, a joint venture between Boullioun Aviation Services and Singapore Airlines, has signed a five-year agreement with ...
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Sogerma/DA Airbus sign deal for A300B4 conversions work
Julian Moxon/Paris Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus (DAAirbus) and French maintenance group Sogerma have signed a long-term agreement for the conversion of Airbus A300B4s from passenger to freighter configuration. The move follows an 18-aircraft order from a new US leasing company. The initial Franco/German deal covers ...
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Transaero outlines ambitions to increase Western fleet
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Leading Russian airline Transaero plans to acquire a further 16 Boeing aircraft by the turn of the century. The first batch, two Boeing 737-700s, will join the fleet under a lease deal with Bavaria Flug in December. Two more Boeing 767-300s will be delivered ...
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AmWest pilots clear Airbus deal
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES America West has confirmed a deal valued at $1.4 billion for up to 46 Airbus Industrie A319-100s and A320-200s after securing a last-minute agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). The order was initially outlined a year ago, but prolonged negotiations over ...
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Lufthansa sells off Cargolux stake
Lufthansa's 24.5% stake in Cargolux, the Luxembourg-based freight airline, is to be taken over by SairLogistics, Swissair's sister cargo arm . Talks between the three companies have been going on for several months. The German airline says that it decided to sell because of an "-increasingly divergent strategic ...
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Lufthansa agrees to set up travel venture with Karstadt group
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH The supervisory boards of German ßag carrier Lufthansa and Karstadt, the Essen-based retail and travel group, have agreed to set up a new travel conglomerate, to be called C & N Condor Neckermann Touristik. The company will be formed on 1 November, provided that it ...
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France's Regional records growth
France's Regional Airlines, based in Nantes, has recorded a 43% increase in passenger traffic for the first half of this year, along with a 46% growth in turnover. Passengers numbers for the period stood at 293,000, against 408,000 for the whole of 1996, while turnover, standing at Fr412.4 ...
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First F-22 tests end
Initial flight testing of the first Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 fighter has been completed after just two flights, one of which was cut short by telemetry problems. Lockheed Martin decided against a planned third flight in a bid to avoid further delays in delivering the aircraft to the USAir Force's ...
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Delivery delays hit Boeing again
Boeing has been forced to delay delivery of 12 aircraft from this month to the fourth quarter, as it struggles to keep pace with ambitious plans to increase production to 43 aircraft a month by early 1998. The delays are blamed on a combination of inexperienced new workers, ...
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Embraer launches 37-seater
Graham Warwick/ Washington DC Embraer expects to book firm orders for its new EMB-135 37-seat regional jet by the end of 1997. The Brazilian manufacturer has formally launched development of the EMB-135, with a first flight planned for mid-1998, leading to certification and first delivery in the ...
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Spinetta proposed to succeed Blanc
The French Government has proposed ex-Air Inter boss Jean-Cyril Spinetta to be president of Air France, after the resignation of Christian Blanc. He is expected to be confirmed in the position on 24 September. Others, including Marc Rochet, head of British Airways' French subsidiary, TAT, had declined the offer. ...