News from FlightGlobal – Page 2452
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Hopping hot
Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department is focusing its investigation into a false fire-alarm aboard a new Cathay Pacific Airways Boeing 777-200, on two crates of live frogs being carried in the aircraft's hold. Over 300 passengers were forced to make an emergency evacuation on landing at Kai Tak Airport after ...
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Means to an end
IT WOULD BE EASY to assume from recent events on both sides of the Atlantic that the ultimate power of airline regulation has passed from the hands of the professional, independent, regulatory authorities to a rag-bag of customers, self-interest groups, the media, local politicians and the airlines themselves. In some ...
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EC to focus on airline competition issues
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) will increasingly turn its attention to airline-competition issues such as access to new routes, airport slots and computer reservation systems (CRS) EC Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock has pledged. Kinnock acknowledges that the EC has so far been pre-occupied with the issue of state aid, ...
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Virgin service
Euro Belgian Airlines is to start a service linking Rome and Madrid on 2 September, marking the company's first market outside its Brussels hub. The low-fare service will be operated with a new Boeing 737-300, due to be delivered in August, when the company will be formally relaunched as Virgin ...
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Airline capital
Aerospace consultancy Airline Capital Associates, of New York, has appointed Frank Rosenberg managing director. He was formerly president of aviation consultancy FA Dana Group and, before that, was chief operating officer of Ogden's aviation division and chief financial officer for North America at British Airways. Source: Flight International
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Brymon
Gareth Kirkwood has been named managing director of British Airways subsidiary Brymon Airways, of Plymouth, Devon. He succeeds Mike Jones, who becomes senior vice-president for sales and marketing at the UK's Alamo Car Rental. Kirkwood, a former commercial manager for British Airways' international consultancy, Speedwing, has been on secondment from ...
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Ethiopian expands
Ethiopian Airlines is wet-leasing a Boeing 767-300ER from Gulf Air from early July, to expand capacity on its European and West African routes. It also plans to dry-lease two AI(R) ATR 42s from the manufacturer, for its domestic routes. Meanwhile, Ethiopian confirms that it expects to receive all five Fokker ...
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Bouillioun order
Boullioun Aviation Services has concluded a $350 million contract with Boeing for eight Boeing 737-300s, which marks the first new order placed by the lessor. It is understood that some of the orders could be delivered as the -400 variant. The Seattle, USA-based leasing company, a division of Sumimoto Trust ...
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Share and share alike
The second part of this year's airline alliance survey provides an at a glance guide to airlines which have equity stakes in one another. The first table lists airlines which are wholly or partly owned by other carriers, while the second lists airlines which own stakes in others. The tables ...
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More Fokkers
Bankrupt Fokker is to build another 15 aircraft. The manufacturer will fulfill an order from KLM for a further seven F70s, while Vietnam Airlines will take delivery of two more of the regional jets. Ethiopian Airlines will get four F50s, while Formosa Airlines and TAM of Brazil will take one ...
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Aircraft news
UK charter carrier Leisure International Airways has ordered four Airbus A321-200s with deliveries scheduled to start in the first quarter of 1997. Comair has increased orders for Canadair Regional Jets from 45 to 50. The Delta Connection carrier also secured five more options for a total of 25. ...
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Appointments
Harold J M Williams has been appointed president of Fairchild Aircraft. Ford Ennals has resigned as marketing director of British Airways. Derek Dear, general manager for marketing communications and information, is standing in. McDonnell Douglas has selected Andrew W Quinn as MDC China's regional vice president ...
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Swiss shut tariffs door
When it came to putting its tariff structure into the Swiss market British Midland, one of the main drivers of price competition in Europe, hit a brick wall. The UK carrier launched its sixth European trunk route out of London/Heathrow into the lucrative Zurich market at the end ...
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The Tan dynasty
Lucio Tan has begun sweeping change in his first year as chairman of Philippine Airlines. He hopes a more stable future will enable him to complete the carrier's turnaround. Tom Ballantyne reports from Manila.When Philippine Airlines' chief financial officer Jamie Bautista set out in early June to raise money in ...
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Spoils of war
PAL's convoluted ownership structure has been at the heart of its continuing problems. At present the controlling stake of 67 per cent is owned by PR Holdings, while the remaining 33 per cent is in the hands of two government bodies, the Government Service Insurance System and Land Bank of ...
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Breaking the monopoly
Several startup carriers are attacking Philippine Airlines' former domestic monopoly and have international ambitions. Tom Ballantyne reports.Considering the skies over the Philippines were a stage monopolised by Philippine Airlines as recently as 18 months ago, the nation has since witnessed one of the Asia-Pacific region's most remarkable commercial aviation explosions. ...
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JAT is back
Since UN sanctions were first partially dropped in late 1994, JAT has relaunched its former European routes and aims to revive its North American and Australian services. Gordana Stevanovic reports from Belgrade.After teetering on the brink of extinction for more than two years, Yugoslav Airlines (JAT) has returned to international ...
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All change
Many US carriers are revising their hub strategies. The current trends include continuous hubbing, omni-directional hubbing and de-hubbing. David Treitel and Edward Smick report.In today's airline environment, network design is the key to profitability. But network design, or optimisation, must focus on profit maximisation - which is not ...