News from FlightGlobal – Page 2516
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British Midland invests £15 million to upgrade its image
BRITISH MIDLAND has invested some £15 million ($25 million) on a re-launch of its image as a European business airline, with a new corporate livery and a package of service upgrades which includes the introduction of business class for the first time on its UK routes. The measures ...
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Big plans and growing pains
The next generation of large airliners captured the show headlines. Andrew Doyle/LONDON DESPITE THE FACT that Boeing, as expected, failed in its last-ditch efforts to launch its 747 major derivatives at the 1996 Farnborough air show, the civil spotlight was firmly focused on the next generation ...
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Losses make New Zealand's Kiwi flightless
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS LOSSES AT KIWI Travel International Airlines, the New Zealand low-cost carrier, have forced it to cease operations, while two Australian airlines have also run into financial difficulties. Kiwi Travel went into voluntary liquidation with losses estimated at NZ$3 million ($2 million) over the past ...
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British Mediterranean plans more services to Middle East
Gunter Endres/LONDON FOLLOWING ITS franchise link with British Airways on the Eastern Mediterranean market, British Mediterranean Airways is planning an expansion of its services in the region, but has ruled out the acquisition of widebody aircraft. The two airlines reached a franchise agreement in August (Flight ...
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BA aims to silence new UK noise rules
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS is preparing the way for a possible court challenge to new noise limits at the three major London airports, due to be imposed by the UK Government from 1 January, 1997. The carrier expects to complete an internal review within the next ...
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AOM and Air Libert, alliance in question
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE FUTURE OF THE proposed alliance between French privately owned airlines Air Libert, and AOM hangs in the balance, with the planned next phase in the deal stalled. A strategic agreement signed at the end of June has still not borne fruit. This foresaw ...
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Air Pacific is first to bring 737-700 to Pacific-region routes
AIR PACIFIC HAS become the launch customer for the new-generation Boeing 737 family in the Pacific region, with an order for three 737-700s. Deliveries of the new aircraft to the Fijian national airline will begin in the fourth quarter of 1998. Air Pacific's order follows a major review ...
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Alaska is second EGPWS customer
ALASKA AIRLINES has joined American Airlines in purchasing AlliedSignal Aerospace's new enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS) (Flight International, 4-10 September). Parent group Alaska Air has undertaken a $10 million commitment to equip Alaska Airlines' 25 Boeing 737-400s, and to train flightcrews in using an integrated global-positioning system (GPS) ...
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Faster future
Dornier's aircraft range faces changes. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE 30-SEAT DORNIER 328 turboprop, which was first flown in December 1991, has always been a problem for its manufacturer, Oberpfaffenhofen-based Dornier Luftfahrt. While its performance, compared with that of its rivals, is impressive, the 328's 335kt ...
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MDC sets October date for MD-XX
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) hopes to begin offering its MD-XX, the MD-11 tri-jet derivative, to airlines as early as October and "-will launch as soon as possible after that, probably in early 1997", says Walt Orlowski, MDC vice-president and general manager of the programme. ...
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New Pan American poised for take-off
THE NEW PAN American World Airways is awaiting final US Department of Transportation (DoT) approval to start low-cost, long-haul scheduled services. On 20 August, the resurrected Pan Am gained tentative approval, but interested parties were given 15 days to comment on the DoT's decision to let the carrier begin services. ...
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Alitalia urges Air Europe
ALITALIA IS PUSHING for the charter operations of Air Europe Italy and Eurofly to be merged into a single airline, in an effort to prevent a damaging fare war between the two carriers. The move has been prompted by Eurofly's plans to enter long-range charter markets served by ...
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ValuJet aims for 16 September restart
VALUJET AIRLINES is poised to resume flight operations the week of 16 September, initially operating seven aircraft between Atlanta and four as-yet-unnamed US cities. The airline will be able to build its fleet to 15 aircraft and extend services to 17 destinations within 45 days. The Atlanta-based airline ...
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Sound of silence
THE UK GOVERNMENT has decided that the absolute noise limits for airliners leaving London's three major airports should be reduced by up to 3dBA. This action, it says, will reduce noise for airport neighbours at little cost to the airlines - "only" 12% of departures of the heaviest-laden Boeing 747s ...
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Power games
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE TWO MANUFACTURERS which will offer engines for Boeing's 747-500X/600X derivatives laid their cards on the table at Farnborough, and highlighted the radical differences between two powerplants which could end up being remarkably similar in terms of performance. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney ...
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Emery
Scot Dunsmore, has been appointed Emery's Worldwide general manager, for Birmingham UK, by the Redwood City, California-based freight carrier. He was previously sales manager at Birmingham. Robert Bongaerts (right) is named logistics manager for Europe, based initially at Maastricht, Netherlands. He was formerly operations director for Europe at UPS Worldwide ...
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Behind the screens
Karen Walker/ATLANTA NEW TECHNOLOGIES are bringing new ways of entertaining and informing passengers while they fly, as well as helping them to use their time productively. The resulting changes in services, which might routinely be offered to passengers in the near future, could have most impact ...
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Asiana wants additional power for 777-300 fleet
GENERAL ELECTRIC and Rolls-Royce are being pressed by Asiana Airlines to commit to development of higher-thrust engines to power Boeing 777-300s. The South Korean carrier has specified that it wants a 430kN (98,000lb)-thrust engine to power its planned fleet of aircraft. The yet-to-be-selected engine is needed by early ...
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Lufthansa takes MD-11s, USAir talks -95s
Guy Norris/FARNBOROUGH McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in final negotiations with USAir for a huge MD-95 twinjet order, thought to include more than 50 aircraft on firm order and 50 on option. News of the USAir talks comes hot on the heels of the sale of up to ...
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Highly rated
Is cross-crew qualification delivering its promises? David Learmount/LONDONPaul Phelan/CAIRNS AS AIRLINES AND regulators start to gain experience with cross-crew qualification (CCQ) training and mixed-fleet flying (MFF), its potential is becoming clearer. Cathay Pacific Airways, with its unique Airbus Industrie A330/A340 MFF operation, now has 55 complete ...