News from FlightGlobal – Page 2470

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    Ryanair boosts UK route network

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    IRISH INDEPENDENT AIRLINE RYANAIR has further expanded its route network to the UK, with the launch of a new service from Dublin to Bournemouth in southern England. The airline will use a Boeing 737 on the daily flight - making nearly 100,000 seats available on the route in the first ...

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    Mooney makes financing move

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    MOONEY AIRCRAFT HAS established a financing division in a bid to make it easier to purchase its high-performance piston-singles. Mooney, which sells aircraft at prices beginning at $200,000, says that the move to set up a financing arm recognises that customers want purchase agreements similar to those they ...

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    Alliance moves to expand East African partnership

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    Gunter Endres/LONDON THE CHAIRMAN OF EAST African carrier Alliance has proposed a merger with Air Tanzania and Uganda Airlines - both 10% stakeholders in the multi-national long-haul carrier. The merger call by Ugandan parliamentarian and Alliance chairman, Adrian Sibo is seen as an attempt at ...

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    Japan and USA sign cargo bilateral

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    JAPAN AND THE USA HAVE signed a new bilateral air-cargo accord, with little reference to solving the more fundamental problem of passenger services between the two countries. US transportation secretary Federico Pena and his Japanese counterpart Yoshiyuki Kamei had been expected to seal the cargo deal in Washington, ...

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    Flight Dynamics aims for Falcon 900EX

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    Flight Dynamics and Dassault Aviation are now close to reaching agreement on certificating the HGS-3000 head-up guidance system on the Falcon 900EX. The certification time-scale has yet to be decided for the new application, which follows the continuing Falcon 2000 HGS effort. The twin-engined Falcon 2000 is expected ...

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    MAS prepared to meet competition from local rivals

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    Paul Lewis/KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) is now prepared to face local competition after nearly two years of company restructuring, according to chairman and major shareholder Tajudin Ramli. His comments came in response to indications that Heavy Industries of Malaysia (HICOM) is reviving plans to ...

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    Kiwi polishes up its fleet and routes

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    KIWI INTERNATIONAL Airlines, is to expand its fleet, to enable further additions to its local New Zealand and Trans-Tasman services to Australia. After the return of its leased Boeing 757-200 to Air 2000 in early May, Kiwi will operate the Air Nauru 737-400 four days a week on ...

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    GE/Airbus sign for A340-600

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    Julian Moxon/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC and Airbus Industrie have signed an exclusive agreement on power for the stretched A340-600, due to enter service early next century. The deal foresees the development of a new or derived 226kN (51,000lb)-thrust engine for the 375-passenger, 13,000km (7,000nm)-range aircraft. GE ...

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    US carriers hit by pilot shortages

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    SOME US AIRLINES, ARE experiencing pilot shortages as they attempt to add services, to meet traffic demand. Northwest Airlines says that it will reduce its monthly schedule by 150-200 flights for the rest of this year to cope with the shortage. Northwest operates about 45,000 flights a ...

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    American proposes short-haul Fokker 100 operation

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AMERICAN AIRLINES wants to establish a low-cost short-haul operation within the carrier, using its Fokker 100s. The proposal to the carrier's pilots' union is designed to compete with the low-cost operations already started by United and planned by Delta. Under the ...

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    Polar launches European cargo service

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    POLAR AIR CARGO is to begin scheduled Boeing 747 all-cargo services between the USA and Europe on 27 April. Two weekly flights will be operated from Chicago O'Hare and New York Kennedy to London Heathrow and Amsterdam Schiphol. Polar plans to extend the service to the Middle East ...

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    USA extends ban on airline gambling

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) is to retain its ban on gambling on commercial-airline flights to and from the USA by all carriers at least until a national commission has considered the wider issue of gambling legislation in the USA. The policy re-affirmation came with release ...

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    AMR may spin-off Sabre

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    AMERICAN AIRLINES parent AMR is considering a spin-off of its highly profitable Sabre computer reservation system (CRS), raising speculation that cash from any deal could put the carrier back on the acquisition trail in the US airline market. AMR chairman Robert Crandall, who once joked that the ...

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    Indonesia acts to solve Garuda cash problems

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE INDONESIAN Government has announced a major corporate and financial shake-up of Garuda Indonesia, in an effort to turn around the financially struggling national carrier in readiness for privatisation later in the year. As part of the airline's restructuring, three senior executives have ...

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    Rush of orders forces Airbus to raise production record

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS TO raise production rates to record levels in 1997 to keep pace with a rapidly expanding firm order book. The revised production schedule calls for 185 aircraft to be built in 1997, compared with 135 deliveries scheduled for this year. The consortium's busiest year to date was ...

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    Flying Colours launched with Boeing order

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    FLYING COLOURS Leisure Group has placed a $200 million order for four new Boeing 757-200ERs for its new in-house carrier, Flying Colours Airlines. The four 757s, three leased from International Lease Finance and one from GATX, will be powered by Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4s. Three aircraft will be based at ...

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    Swissair shows renewed grit over cost-cutting

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    Kevin O'Toole/GENEVA SWISSAIR PRESIDENT-elect Phillippe Bruggisser has put some steel behind a new campaign to drive down costs at the airline group, including plans to shed at least another 1,600 jobs. He also expresses determination, echoed throughout the management team, to press ahead with the ...

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    Airport gateway

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    SOUTH AFRICAN AIRPORT operator the Airports Company says that the country's premier gateway, Johannesburg International, is managing to cope with increased demand, despite its previous owner leaving it with the legacy of a master plan which lacked any supporting data and no coherent development policy. Since the ...

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    SIA to take delivery of first A340-300E

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    SINGAPORE AIRLINES IS SCHEDULED TO RECEIVE on 25 April the first two of 17 high-gross-weight Airbus A340-300Es it has on order. The Asian carrier has a further 20 options on the aircraft. Source: Flight International

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    Ethiopian birthday

    1996-04-24T00:00:00Z

    This month Ethiopian Airlines celebrates half a century in the business - and it has turned in net profits during each of the last 14 years. Alfred Price/LONDON FOR MANY WESTERNERS, the word Ethiopia conjures up haunting images of starving men, women and children. That famine ended ...