News from FlightGlobal – Page 2469
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SAA 777 engine choice delays expansion
Forbes Mutch/JOHANNESBURG DELAYS BY South African Airways (SAA) in confirming its engine selection for seven Boeing 777s ordered in December 1995 have set back the airline's expansion plans and could increase the cost of the order by 20% Boeing says that reluctance by the airline ...
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BA shelves its $1 billion regional-jet purchase
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS has postponed a proposed $1 billion order for up to 60 regional jets. The airline says that it has not finished restructuring its regional operations in time for the purchase to go ahead. BA had invited five manufacturers to tender for ...
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Potential buyers gather for Dornier
ELEVEN POTENTIAL buyers, including Fairchild Aircraft and three other unidentified regional-aircraft majors, are talking to Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) about taking a majority stake in Dornier Luftfahrt. According to Gunter Pfeiffer, deputy head of the works council at Dornier's Oberpfaffenhofen site, negotiations could lead to an 80% take-over ...
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Quite Improper
DUSSELDORF AIRPORT'S attempt to ban all flights by turboprop airliners is embodiment of the worst fears of the world's regional airlines. The airlines immediately affected by the ban will, rightly, do everything to have it overturned. They should be, supported by all their regional allies around the world, but they ...
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British Midland parent acquires Business Air
BUSINESS AIR, THE UK regional carrier, which ended an equity link with Lufthansa and Crossair this year, has been acquired by British Midland parent the Airlines of Britain Group (ABH). Business Air will retain its identity and most of its services, and will start to provide extra wet-lease flights for ...
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SIA seeks six extra-large-capacity aircraft
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), has outlined a need, for an initial six new 500- to 600-seat, ultra-high capacity-type aircraft, now being studied by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. "We need around six to start with," says SIA managing director Cheong Choon Kong. "It does not ...
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Leisure puts its A320-200s to work
LEISURE INTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS, the renamed Air UK Leisure, will have its three newly acquired Airbus A320-200s in service from the first week in May. The A320s replace the Boeing 737-400s, the last of which will have its final flight on 19 May. The first revenue service with the new aircraft ...
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Debonair receives first 146-200
DEBONAIR TOOK DELIVERY OF ITS FIRST refurbished British Aerospace 146-200 from Marshall Aerospace on 24 April. The aircraft was accepted by Stuart Grieve (left), Debonair's director of airline operations, from USAir's technical representative for the UK, Richard Thomasson. The UK start-up carrier plans to serve European destinations from London Luton ...
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Mesaba
Mesaba Airlines, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has appointed Wayne Heller director of system operations control; Sandy Sturm becomes director of purchasing and contracts and Warren Wilkinson is named director of marketing and corporate communications. Heller, joins Mesaba from Business Express, Sturm was formerly with Express Airlines I and Wilkinson, is a ...
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Air France
Etienne Rachou has been appointed general manager for the UK and Ireland at Air France. He succeeds Francois Lafaye, who returns to the head office in Paris. Source: Flight International
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American West
America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona, has appointed Edward Methot vice-president of flight operations. Before joining the carrier, Methot served for more than 30 years with United Airlines in operations management. Source: Flight International
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Kiwi progress
Start-up New Zealand carrier Kiwi Travel International Airlines ended its first ten months of operation to the end of January, with better-than-forecast sales of NZ$13.5 million ($9 million), and profits of NZ$700,000. Kiwi began scheduled international services in August 1995, has carried more than 50,000 passengers between New Zealand and ...
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Code sharing
Aer Lingus and Delta Airlines will begin a code-share/blocked-space service on 1 May on the Irish carrier's daily Airbus A330 flights between New York and Shannon and Dublin. British Airways has agreed a code-sharing deal with America West on points served from Phoenix. The UK carrier starts a new service ...
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Cargo return
Lufthansa Cargo is to return five McDonnell Douglas DC-8-73F freighters to lessor Deutsche Leasing by the end of 1996, by which time the Lufthansa subsidiary will be operating 12 Boeing 747-200Fs and one 737-300F. Source: Flight International
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Track deviation was cause of Il-76 crash
Paul Duffy/MOSCOWAlexander Velovich/MOSCOW THE KRASNOYARSK Avialinii Ilyushin Il-76 freighter which crashed on 5 April, killing all 21 people on board while descending to land at an airport in the Siberian Far East, appears to have crashed because it deviated from its approach track to save running out ...
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Denim plans casual look for crew
DUTCH START-UP airline Denim Air plans to dress its cabin crew in jeans and denim shirts and jackets, introducing a casual look to the business of air travel on the route linking Eindhoven and London. The airline hopes that the marketing ploy, together with a quality one-class in-flight ...
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SIA
Chew Choon Seng, Singapore Airlines' (SIA) director of finance and administration, has been promoted to deputy managing director (administration). Chew, with the carrier since 1972, has served in the marketing planning divisions and has been a country manager and regional vice-president. Source: Flight International
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Government must define pilot policy
Sir - The British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA) is deeply disturbed by the recent decision of the UK Department for Education and Employment to approve work permits for Canadian pilots to fly for Air World this summer (Flight International, 17-23 April, P8). Past precedent suggests that this ...
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Domestic bliss?
South Africa's domestic aviation market is a potential gold mine waiting to be exploited. Chris Yates/MANCHESTER TO AN OUTSIDER, the recent bout of high-profile airline collapses in the South African aviation industry might appear indicative of a market still in a state of flux. This ...