News from FlightGlobal – Page 2499
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Robert Nazarian has been appointed chief financial officer at Air New Zealand (ANZ). Nazarian, now chief financial officer for Lion Nathan Australia, will take up his new position at the beginning of October. Nazarian replaces Robert Elstone, who moves to a similar position with Australia's Pioneer International group of companies. ...
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VLM expands
Belgian airline VLM is to add Dusseldorf to its scheduled flights linking the European continent to London City Airport. Source: Flight International
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Australian start-up
Pacific Transair, the first Australian carrier to start up since Compass Airlines failed, plans to fly two hushkitted Boeing 737-200s on the key Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane route. The company, headed by Sydney aviation service provider Nicholas Leach, has applied for an air operators' certificate. Operations could begin as early as January. ...
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Cargo expansion
Polar Air Cargo plans to add six Boeing 747-200s to its fleet of 12 747-100 freighters, and is projecting that it will be operating 22-24 aircraft within two years. The Long Beach, California-based carrier operates cargo services to Asia, Australia, Europe, New Zealand and South America. Source: Flight ...
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Greek start-up
Greece's newest private airline, Skybus, started operations on 15 November with three daily flights between Athens and Thessaloniki, using Venus Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-82s until it obtains its own air operator's certificate. The airline is evaluating the MD-82 and Boeing 737 for its fleet acquisition. Source: ...
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Booking cyberseat
British Midland will be the first airline to provide a reservations booking service with payment on the Internet. To be known as CyberSeat, the service enables travellers to specify a chosen route, date of travel and the number of seats required, and to make payment by credit card. Personal information ...
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Destination London
Sempati Air Transport of Indonesia is seeking permission to launch a non-stop direct service between the resort island of Bali and London. The airline hopes to begin its Denpasar-Heathrow service by late 1997 or early 1998, using either long-range Airbus Industrie A340s or Boeing 777s. Until now, Sempati has been ...
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T-tail, take three
McDonnell Douglas has finally launched its MD-95 into the hotly contested100-seat market. Guy Norris/LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) hopes to build a lot of future business on its newly launched MD-95. Not only will it lead the attack on the yet-to-be-realised 100-seat market, but the small airliner ...
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New members join in-trail-climb club
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NORTHWEST, AMERICAN and Singapore Airlines (SIA) are set to join Delta Air Lines and United Airlines in operational trials of in-trail-climb (ITC) procedures over the Pacific. The use of ITC is being examined as a way of preventing one aircraft becoming "trapped" beneath ...
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Airport costs threaten Russian revival
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW HUGE INCREASES in airport charges and fuel costs are threatening to stifle the beginnings of a recovery in the Russian airline market, the country's carriers have warned. Russian airlines have been reporting signs of growth for the first time since 1990, when passenger traffic ...
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Growing up
Boeing has begun assembly of its firstnew-generation 737.Guy Norris/SEATTLE IT IS UNPRECEDENTED but, by mid-1997, Boeing's Renton site in Seattle, Washington, will be producing six different models of the same jet airliner. The aircraft is the best-selling 737, and the ramp-up represents the phase in its development when production of ...
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Garuda Indonesia gears up for approaching privatisation
GARUDA INDONESIA is going to turn many of its operations into financially independent business units from 1996, in preparation for the national carrier's eventual privatisation. The state-owned airline has targeted the Garuda Maintenance Facility (GMF) and ground handling as the first two divisions to be given the new ...
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MIAT targets safety
THE NEW HEAD of Mongolian Airlines (MIAT), Huvaahuugiin Aleksandr, has made improving the national airline's safety record the main priority of his tenure. MIAT has suffered 20 fatal air crashes in its history, the latest on 21 September when an Antonov An-24 flew into a mountainside on approach to the ...
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Taiwan 'ready to give support' to Jetcruzer
TAIWAN IS PREPARED to back a joint venture with Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures (AASI) to produce the Jetcruzer six-seat single-turboprop aircraft, according to local reports. Jack Tang, deputy director of the Taiwanese economics ministry's committee for aviation and space industry development, is quoted as saying that the venture ...
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Sabena hit by strike
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS STRIKING SABENA workers closed down the airline on 29 November in the first of what is expected to be a series of industrial actions following the abrupt cancellation of all labour agreements on 27 November. The unprecedented contract move surprised observers who are ...
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World Airlines hope to start LCA services
UK start-up carrier World Airlines is planning to start a scheduled passenger service from London City Airport (LCA) in February, using ex-USAir British Aerospace 146-200s. The first aircraft is on its way to UK company Marshall Aerospace of Cambridge for a refit which includes in-flight telephones and facsimiles. ...
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Airbus extends widebody family
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE HAS launched the shortened, longer-range, version of its twin-engined A330 widebody and confirmed its development of the ultra-long range A340-8000. The A330-200 is scheduled to be flown for the first time in the middle of 1997, and to be ready for service ...
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TAM places order for eight more Fokker 100 twinjets
FAST-GROWING BRAZILIAN regional carrier TAM (Transportes Aereos Regionais) has placed another repeat order for the Rolls-Royce Tay 650-powered Fokker 100 twinjet. The latest order, for eight aircraft, will bring its Fokker fleet to 23 aircraft, the third-largest after American Airlines and USAir. Another order, for six ...
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FedEx moves to limit effects of pilots' action
US EXPRESS-PACKAGE carrier FedEx has wet-leased seven Boeing 727-200F freighters from Express One International, as a contingency in case industrial action by its pilots disrupts services in the build-up to the busy Christmas season. FedEx pilots stopped flying on their days off after contract talks with the carrier broke down ...
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FAA safety ratings sting Latin American/Caribbean carriers
SANCTIONS HAVE begun to bite at airlines in Latin American and Caribbean countries judged by the US Federal Aviation Administration to have inadequate safety oversights. An increasing number of carriers has been unable to put aircraft into service because bilateral agreements have been frozen by the USA until their safety ...