News from FlightGlobal – Page 2508
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ANA searches for more international passengers-
ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS (ANA) plans to expand further its international network and frequencies, in an effort to boost revenues and reduce its heavy dependence on the Japanese domestic market. The airline is aiming for an 18% increase in its international capacity by the end of the financial ...
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US airlines voice concern despite records
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON LATEST RESULTS coming in from the major US airlines point towards another round of record profits in the third quarter, but beneath the headline figures there is growing concern in the industry over how much longer the boom will last. Continental led off the ...
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Flight Safety acquired by investment giant Buffet
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FLIGHT SAFETY International (FSI) is to be acquired by US financier Warren Buffet, after the aviation-training company accepted a surprise take-over offer from his investment firm, Berkshire Hathaway. The cash and/or stock offer values the US-based company at $1.5 billion. New York-based FSI ...
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MD-90 receives European certification
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE McDONNELL Douglas (MDC) MD-90 was certificated by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) on 16 October, as Scandinavian carrier SAS took delivery of its first aircraft. Type certification was formally presented by the JAA to MDC just before the SAS delivery ceremony. ...
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FAA uses Cessna in 'free-flight'
DEMONSTRATIONS of "free flight" for general-aviation aircraft are now under way as part of a larger evaluation of the USA's future air-traffic-management concept. The trials involve a Cessna 401, equipped with avionics supplied by Magellan Systems and Arinc, and a ground-based free-flight evaluation system which was developed ...
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Aviastar seeks state guarantees for Tu-204 sales
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW STRUGGLING RUSSIAN aircraft manufacturer Aviastar is pushing for $30 million in Government guarantees in an attempt to keep alive the deal with Egyptian company Kato Group for the delivery of five Tupolev Tu-204 airliners. The Ulyanovsk-based manufacturing plant, which is responsible for production ...
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Air France signs US pacts
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR FRANCE HAS ended its long-running search for transatlantic partners with the signing of commercial pacts with both Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines. The French flag carrier also hints that an Asian partner could be signed up in the first half of 1997. ...
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. . . as newcomers target local Japan market
TWO PRIVATE Japanese companies have announced plans to launch new domestic airlines. This move follows recent initiatives by the transport ministry to liberalise parts of the country's over-regulated airline industry, which carries 75 million passengers annually, and is the second-largest domestic market in the world. Cut-rate Japanese ...
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Deutsche BA undergoes major revamp
DEUTSCHE BA HAS announced a major restructuring, which will see the fast- growing, but loss-making, British Airways subsidiary withdraw from unprofitable international routes and expand its domestic network. The move follows the carrier's decision to sell its turboprop operation to France's Regional Airlines, dispose of its five Fokker ...
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Kiwi International forced to suspend operations
KIWI International suspended flight operations on 15 October after failing to gain a cash infusion from investors. The US airline had filed for bankruptcy protection two weeks before, and cut services, blaming high debts and the fall-out on other low-cost start-ups from the ValuJet crash. Kiwi has struggled ...
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Government delays TAP Air Portugal aircraft order
THE PORTUGUESE Government has postponed at the last minute its decision on whether Airbus or Boeing will supply 22 new medium-haul aircraft for state-owned TAP Air Portugal. An announcement had been due on 18 October, but this has been delayed by a week. TAP will not reveal ...
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America West A320 order is revamped
AMERICA WEST Airlines has concluded an agreement with Airbus Industrie to revise its A320 order, which will see it taking ten additional aircraft, as A319s or A321s under "better financial terms and conditions". According to the agreement, the carrier's existing order backlog for 24 A320s has been reconfirmed, ...
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Inchon incoming
Seoul is struggling to meet targets for its new airport. Paul Lewis/SEOUL THE GROWING IMPORTANCE of Asia as a world economic powerhouse is best illustrated by the fact there are no less than four major new international airports, either being planned or built in the ...
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Good business
Scottish regional airline Business Air is to add two ex-American Eagle Saab 340As to its fleet, bringing the total to ten. The airline wants to develop further its Manchester-based routes and take advantage of its new code-sharing agreement with Continental Airlines. Business Air, which recently became part of the Airlines ...
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Good business
Scottish regional airline Business Air is to add two ex-American Eagle Saab 340As to its fleet, bringing the total to ten. The airline wants to develop further its Manchester-based routes and take advantage of its new code-sharing agreement with Continental Airlines. Business Air, which recently became part of the Airlines ...
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747 conversions
Boeing has received a contract from All Nippon Airways of Japan for the conversion of one 747-200 to full-freighter configuration - the second of the airline's 747s to be modified. The aircraft will be delivered to Wichita in April 1997 for the conversion work, and is scheduled to be handed ...
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Cargo change
Swissair is to take over Sabena's cargo operations as part of a programme aimed at radically cutting costs at the Belgian airline, in which the Swiss carrier has a 49.5% share. Swissair will integrate Sabena's operations with effect from 1 January, 1997 (Flight International, 28 August-5 September). ...
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Continental
Continental Airlines, of Houston, Texas, has appointed chief executive Gordon Bethune chairman of the board, succeeding David Bonderman. Chief operating officer Gregory Brenneman has been elected president. Source: Flight International
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Air India terminates Caribjet wet leases
AIR INDIA HAS terminated its wet-lease contract with Belgium-based Caribjet, which has been flying Airbus A310-300s and Lockheed TriStar 500s on behalf of Air India on certain services. The airline signed a two-year agreement with Caribjet in 1995, which had been scheduled to run to December 1997. ...
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MDC doubts high-capacity need
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) forecasts that the market for the next generation of high-capacity airliners will stand at only 546 deliveries up to 2014. The forecast, contained in MDC's latest outlook for the world's commercial jet-airliner fleet through to 2014, adds to the spat ...