News from FlightGlobal – Page 2549
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Damascus connection revived with UK
After a gap of 12 years, two UK scheduled airlines have started services to the Syrian capital, Damascus. British Mediterranean Airways and British Airways have started services almost simultaneously. Each flies twice weekly out of London Heathrow, BA using Boeing 767s, via Amman, Jordan, and British Mediterranean Airbus A320s, via ...
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George Mikelsons
Appointing American Trans Air (ATA) chief-executive George Mikelsons chairman of Allison Engine is a sure sign that new owner Rolls-Royce intends to continue the US power plant manufacturer's drive into the commercial arena. Indianapolis-based ATA is the USA's biggest charter carrier and the nation's tenth-largest airline. It is ...
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Big business
Of all the Western companies to tackle the risk-laden challenge of doing business in the CIS, two can look back on the experience with more satisfaction than most. Their ventures were among the first East-West links forged after the opening up of the USSR, and have proved among the most ...
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Boeing places drawings on-line
AIRLINE ENGINEERING departments are to gain, for the first time, direct on-line access to a Boeing technical-drawings database covering all its aircraft from the 707 onward. Called REDARS (reference engineering-data automated-retrieval system), the subscription-based system gives maintenance engineers on-line access to "...the technical drawings and parts-lists needed for ...
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CAAC caution holds up Sichuan A320 handover
An agreement for International Lease Finance (ILFC) to supply three Airbus Industrie A320's to Chinese domestic operator Sichuan Airlines, is being delayed by the failure of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to approve the deal. ILFC, under an agreement signed in March with China Aircraft Supplies ...
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Ansett NZ is crucial to Tasman future
The future of loss-making New Zealand domestic carrier Ansett New Zealand may be one of the last issues for resolution as Air New Zealand positions itself to take up News Corporation's 50% stake in Ansett Australia for an estimated A$50 million ($36 million). Air New Zealand has reportedly ...
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FAA changes pilot pairing regulations...
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has tightened its rules on air-transport pilot pairing to prevent low-time pilots being rostered together. The rule changes, which take effect in four months for major airlines and at the end of the year for regional carriers, result from several accident investigations in ...
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PW150 for Dash 8-400
Bombardier has selected the Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PW150 to power the planned de Havilland Dash 8-400 high-speed regional turboprop. The company received board approval on 24 April to offer the 70-seat aircraft to airlines and is aiming for a June launch. First flight of the Dash 8-400 is ...
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Manufacturers vie for SAA order
HIGH-RANKING executives from Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are due in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 5 May to brief board members of South African Airways (SAA), and its parent company Transnet, on their proposals to fulfil a planned R4 billion ($1 billion fleet requirement. The meeting is the ...
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CNAC challenges Cathay at Hong Kong
China National Aviation (CNAC) has applied to the Hong Kong Government for an air operators' certificate (AOC), threatening Cathay Pacific Airway's virtual monopoly and undermining confidence in its post-1997 position. Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department (CAD) has confirmed that CNAC, a subsidiary of the Civil Aviation Authority of ...
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Thailand approves second flag carrier
THAILAND'S CIVIL Aviation Committee has approved the setting up of a second national carrier, as part of a plan to liberalise the country's air-transport industry. The proposal, which still needs to be endorsed by the cabinet, requires the new airline to have a registered capital of 2.5 billion ...
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Political row grows over Tata-SIA joint venture
The Indian Parliamentary committee on civil aviation has come out strongly against the entry of foreign airlines into the domestic sector. The committee is headed by Pramod Mahajan, the general secretary of India's main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata. It fears that Indian Airlines, the state-owned domestic carrier, ...
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Shannon rescue faces EC query
UK aircraft-maintenance interests are to complain to the European Commission about the Irish Government's plan to bail out troubled Shannon Aerospace (SAL). SAL airline shareholders Swissair and Lufthansa concede that the overhaul concern faces collapse without the proposed injection of Ir£12 million (£11.9 million). They blame ruinous pricing ...
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CIS engine head defends PS-90A
THE HEAD OF THE CIS aero-engine manufacturers' association (ASSAD) has hit out at Western and Russian firms which, he claims, are plotting against the Aviadvigatel/Perm Motors PS-90A turbofan. Victor Chuiko, president of ASSAD, failed to show up at the conference for unspecified reasons, but his presentation was included ...
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Alitalia selects Fokker 70
ALITALIA HAS selected the Fokker 70 to boost its presence on regional and feeder routes. The Italian carrier has agreed to lease 15 of the aircraft from the Dutch manufacturer. The aircraft will be operated by Avianova, a Rome based regional carrier in which, Alitalia has a ...
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Canadian opens Russian route
CANADIAN AIRLINES International has become the first carrier to use a newly agreed cross over point between Russian and Chinese airspace, which will cut 2-3h off the flight-time between Vancouver and Beijing. Designated ARGUK, the crossing, lies between Khabarovsk in Russia and Haiqing in China. Previously, flights had ...
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FLS sets up office in Texas
FLS AEROSPACE HAs taken the first step towards possible acquisition of a US maintenance operation, with the setting up of an office in Fort Worth,Texas. Chairman Steffen Harpoth says that one of the objectives of the new office is to "...see if we can establish the foundation ...
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EU proposes trans-Atlantic bilateral treaty counter-attack
EUROPEAN Commission (EC) Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock, has warned that, unless the EC is given a mandate to centrally negotiate future aviation agreements with the USA, "we will witness implementation of a policy that is not just America first, but America first, last, both ways across the Atlantic and within ...
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Financial results
Alitalia improved its operating result and cut its loss, but net debt rose 50% to $1.9b as net assets fell to $280m. Staff cuts cost $77.5m. Cathay's net profit rose 4.1% yet turnover grew 13.4%. Gross yield fell 4.3% and available tonne km per employee rose 7.5% to 573,700. ...
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Appointments
Organisational restructuring at United has seen president John Edwardson assume the role of chief operating officer. David Coltman, formerly vice president Atlantic division, becomes SVP marketing. James E Goodwin has become SVP North America and is replaced by Christopher Bowers as SVP international. Andrew P Studdert joins as ...