News from FlightGlobal – Page 2477

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    DeutscheBA

    1997-03-05T16:21:00Z

    David Noyes has been appointed regional director for the UK, Africa and the Middle East at British Airways. He succeeds George Cooper, who became regional director for Europe in early February. Martin George is named marketing director, having held senior posts in the airline's UK and Ireland sales. Source: ...

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    Air Canada

    1997-03-05T12:52:00Z

    Air Canada saw profits more than double in 1996 and reports that its international services accounted for more than half of passenger sales for the first time. The airline's net profit hit C$149 million ($110 million) was helped by a further C$72 million gain on the sale of its stake ...

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    Kiwi Airlines

    1997-03-05T11:58:00Z

    Jack Warren has been named system director of maintenance and engineering for Kiwi International Airlines, of Newark, New Jersey, which restarted scheduled domestic services in January. He was formerly director of maintenance for Polar Air Cargo and, before that, spent most of his career with Pan Am World Airways. ...

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    Lufthansa

    1997-03-05T11:47:00Z

    Karl-Heinz Köpfle has been appointed managing director of Lufthansa CityLine. He takes over from Dr Karl-Friedrich Rausch, who moves to the management board of the Lufthansa passenger airline, with responsibility for products and services.   Source: Flight International

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    British Airways

    1997-03-05T11:27:00Z

    David Noyes has been appointed regional director for the UK, Africa and the Middle East at British Airways. He succeeds George Cooper, who became regional director for Europe in early February. Martin George is named marketing director, having held senior posts in the airline's UK and Ireland sales. Source: ...

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    Cargo gets top priority in China

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    China plans to virtually triple its cargo-aircraft fleet to 660 by the year 2000. The increase forms part of ambitious plans to expand its airborne freight market by around 14% a year, making it the main priority of the national aviation growth strategy. Zhou Baokou, deputy director of ...

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    Star Europe takes first Airbus A320

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Star Europe, a French charter airline, has introduced two 180-seat CFM International CFM56-powered Airbus A320s on lease from US company GATX. The aircraft, which are replacing Boeing 737s, are being used on the carrier's European charter services. Star Europe is a division of French tour company Look Voyages. ...

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    ECAC/Eurocontrol agreement is a 'raw deal' for all concerned

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    European aviation organisations have reacted with scepticism to the recent agreement reached by European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) transport ministers to revise the Eurocontrol convention, and International Air Transport Association (IATA) general director Pierre Jeanniot describes the reforms as being a "raw deal" for airlines and passengers. In ...

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    Flying Colours paints long-haul fleet plans

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Flying Colours Airlines is planning to increase its narrowbody fleet to eight Boeing 757-200s within three years, and has begun evaluating the Airbus A330-200 and Boeing 777 for its long-haul expansion plans, according to chairman Errol Cossey. The new UK charter carrier took delivery of its first aircraft, ...

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    Deutsche BA

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Carl Michel is named chief executive of Deutsche BA, British Airways' German subsidiary, with effect from 1 April. He succeeds Wolfgang Grund, who replaced Richard Heideker in November 1996. Grund moves on to lead Deutsche BA's supervisory board. Source: Flight International

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    In search of the new jet age

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Time was when the regional-aircraft industry was focused on who would win the battle to build a family of 70- to 120-seat jet-powered aircraft. Strategists toiled to demonstrate how such a family would sit beneath the fleets of the majors. Much has changed since then. Now, the focus ...

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    Lufthansa Cityline

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Lufthansa is fighting hub congestion by offering an increasing number of direct city-to-city flights, both within Germany and to destinations in Europe, avoiding its hubs at Frankfurt and Munich. Flying 320 flights daily to European centres on routes for which traffic is too light for a 100-seat aircraft is the ...

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    IPTN focuses on higher capacity for N2130 regional family

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    IPTN has dropped plans to develop a shortened, 80-seat, version of the planned N2130 short-haul jet-airliner and instead opted for a larger-aircraft family with six-abreast seating for between 104 and 132 passengers. The Indonesian manufacturer had intended building three different sizes of N2130, seating 80, 100 and 130 ...

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    -as board approves 777-200X/300X specifications

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Boeing has received board approval to firm up the specifications of its proposed 777-200X/300X growth derivatives and offer them to airlines, as the company gears up towards a possible launch of the new models at the Paris air show in June. Boeing claims that the -200Xwill be the ...

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    Airbus sets up an Asian subsidiary for AE-100

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Airbus Industrie has established a new subsidiary company, Airbus Industrie Asia (AIA), headed by former Alenia executive Carlo Scaglia, to partner China and Singapore in the development of the planned new A318/AE-100 narrowbody passenger aircraft. AIA has been legally registered in France as a Société bar Actions Simplifiée. ...

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    Monarch chooses the A330 for long-haul charter work

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Monarch Airlines has become the first UK airline to order the Airbus Industrie A330, having concluded a preliminary agreement with the consortium for up to four long range -200s, including two options. The airline, which has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines, will take delivery of the two firmly ...

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    Ireland plans expansion with ATP

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Ireland Airways is close to finalising a lease deal with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) for three new British Aerospace ATP aircraft to enable it to expand its Irish domestic services. The airline, a spin-off of Dublin-based freight carrier EI Air Exports, began scheduled services in 1996, when it ...

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    Making markets

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    DEVELOPMENT OF THE Canadair Regional Jet Series 700 promises to be less difficult than launching the 70-seat aircraft, jokes John Holding, group executive vice-president, engineering and product development, at Bombardier Aerospace. Certainly, the Canadian company has been talking about stretching its 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) for almost as long ...

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    Boeing to discuss 747-400IGW-

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Boeing has added growth-weight and "simple-stretch" derivatives of its 747-400 to product-development plans, following its decision to shelve work on the 747-500X and -600X. An initial version, which is called the 747-400 increased-gross-weight (IGW), would offer a modest increase in range, compared with the existing -400. This could ...

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    Lufthansa passes EU eco-audit scrutiny

    1997-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has become the first aircraft maintenance and overhaul firm to win certification under the European Union's (EU) ecology-audit regulations. Certification is voluntary, but LHT says that it differentiates the firm from its competitors, and provides "a systematic view of the environmental impact of our activities". ...