News from FlightGlobal – Page 2503
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Continental
Barry Simon has been promoted to senior vice-president, international, at Continental Airlines of Houston, Texas. Ralph Schulz becomes vice-president for Latin America and Caribbean marketing and sales. Source: Flight International
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AirKenya
The biggest and most prominent of Kenya Airways' domestic competitors is Airkenya Aviation, formed in 1987 by the take-over of Sunbird Aviation by Air Kenya. Today, it carries some 120,000 passengers a year, two-thirds of them scheduled. Roughly one-third are charter, but "-we don't always know exactly ...
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Royal Air Maroc's plans for Israel flights founder as peace crumbles
Royal Air Maroc has postponed plans to start direct flights to Israel following the near-breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the accompanying upsurge of violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Earlier this year, Israel and Morocco reached agreement providing for flights between the two countries, ...
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Flightwest forced to halve fleet size after regulations foil expansion plan
FLIGHTWEST AIRLINES of Australia is to slash its fleet capacity by diposing of more than half of its aircraft after expansion plans were thwarted by Government regulations and a lack of support from its partner, Ansett. The Queensland-based regional airline will dispose of its ten Embraer Bandeirantes, six ...
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BA 777 transatlantic
British Airways initiated transatlantic services with its Boeing 777s on 27 October, between London Heathrow and Boston. Until now, the airline has been forced to deploy the 777 on its Gulf routes, because of the delay in extended-range twin-engined operations approval of the General Electric GE90-powered version. BA will launch ...
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Warming relations
China Airlines of Taiwan has for the first time in 47 years opened a representative office in Beijing, further fuelling speculation that direct flights between the island and the Chinese mainland might soon be allowed. All traffic must now be routed through a third country, like Hong Kong or Macau. ...
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China's 204 interest
The Chinese Post Office has shown interest in ordering up to 80 Tupolev Tu-204s with Russian-built Perm/Aviadvigatel PS-90 engines to operate a new overnight mail service being set up under the name China Post Airlines. Aviadvigatel and Perm are in negotiations to provide PS-90A repair and overhaul operations in China. ...
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Northwest orders RJ85s for Mesaba
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC NORTHWEST AIRLINES has placed a $300 million order with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R) for 12 Avro RJ85 regional airliners, for operation by its feeder partner Mesaba Airlines. The deal, which includes options for 24 more RJ85s, is the first order for the aircraft from ...
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Australia signs bilateral with Papua New Guinea
Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) have signed a new bilateral agreement, which will almost double the capacity between the two countries. It will also allow new entrants on routes traditionally served only by national carriers Air Niugini and Qantas. The increased capacity will provide for the equivalent ...
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IAE closes in on order for V2500 turbofans from SALE
SINGAPORE AIRCRAFT Leasing Enterprise (SALE) is understood to be close to finalising a deal with International Aero Engines (IAE) for V2500 turbofans to power its planned fleet of 24 Airbus A320/A321s. SALE has selected the V2500 over the rival CFM International CFM56-5. The Singapore Airlines/Boullion Aviation Services joint-venture ...
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Air Portugal selects Airbus for short-haul fleet replacement
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON TAP AIR PORTUGAL has selected Airbus Industrie to supply its future short-haul fleet, which will eventually make it an all-Airbus operator. The airline is to bolster its Airbus single-aisle fleet with at least 22 more aircraft, a mix of A319s and A320s. Airbus says ...
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Fuel-surcharge fears increase
Concern is growing, that airlines may soon be forced to start imposing a fuel surcharge on ticket prices, to offset the damage being done by soaring world oil prices. Over the past few months, crude oil prices have been running at their highest levels since the Gulf crisis ...
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Japanese airlines report mixed results
A combination of higher fuel charges, a weaker yen and increased passenger traffic have produced mixed financial results for Japan's three largest airlines for the first six months of their latest financial years. Net profits slumped by more than 71% at Japan Airlines (JAL), to nearly ´2.7 billion ...
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PAL offers staff shares
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has offered its workforce shares worth 477 million pesos ($18 million), which represents nearly 5% of the carrier. The move is part of a recently approved effort to double PAL's capitalisation from its current 5 billion pesos, and follows the decision by state-owned financial institutions and minority ...
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SIA's results disappoint
Financial analysts have begun to revise down their year-end profit forecasts for Singapore Airlines (SIA), in the face of weak first-half results which showed the impact of rising fuel prices, declining yields and the strength of the local Singapore dollar. The carrier's operating profit for the first six ...
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The long march
China faces a massive bill upgrading ATC leverage. It is now looking to CNS/ATM to provide a more affordable solution. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE China represents one of the fastest-growing air-transport markets in the world and, given the country's large, rapidly prospering, population, it has the potential ...
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Dollars and sense
At last year's Paris air show, McDonnell Douglas (MDC) chief executive Harry Stonecipher was telling the world: "I don't care if we never launch a new aircraft", and that if his company was not already in the civil airliner business, it would be trying to get into it. Last week ...
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China signs contract for CFM56-5B4s to power its A320 fleet
China Aviation Supplies (CASC) has signed a $130 million contract with General Electric/Snecma for CFM56-5B4 engines to power 13 Airbus A320s for China Northwest Airlines and Zhejiang Airlines. Under a deal already agreed with CASC, ten of the A320s will be allocated to China Northwest, and the remaining ...
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MDC board terminates MD-XX
McDonnell Douglas' (MDC) long-term commitment to the commercial jet-airliner business has once more been thrown into doubt following the board's decision to scrub plans for the proposed MD-XX tri-jet. MDC chief executive Harry Stonecipher admits that the decision to abandon the programme, which was taken at a ...
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Kenya's Dutch treat
Allan Winn/NAIROBI If there hadn't been a KLM, I wouldn't have known what to do - we'd done all the things we could," says Kenya Airways managing director Brian Davies as he looks back over the months since a successful privatisation and the formation of a successful ...