News from FlightGlobal – Page 2550
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UPS may package passengers
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA UPS Airlines is considering operating weekend passenger-charter services using otherwise-idle cargo aircraft. As a first move, quick-change conversion kits for five Boeing 727-100 freighters are being considered as a way to increase aircraft utilisation. The results of a study into the feasibility of offering passenger-charter services to tour ...
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Sabena crew deal paves way to cost cutting
SABENA HAS TIED UP a deal with its pilots over the crewing of the group's incoming fleet of Avro RJ85 regional jets and says that it has had "very constructive" negotiations with its unions over the broader cost-cutting measures. Although the RJ85 fleet will be operated within regional subsidiary Delta ...
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Carib Express ceases operations
CARIB EXPRESS, the Caribbean regional in which British Airways held a 20% stake, has been wound up and its aircraft returned to British Aerospace. The airline started operations in February 1995 with three BAe 146-100s leased from BAe's Asset Management Organisation (AMO), operating regional services from Barbados. ...
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Saab 2000 'main problem' is more to do with speedy service
Sir - I read the story on the Saab 2000 "Deutsche BA suspends deliveries" (Flight International, 10-16 April, P5). I believe that the aircraft deserves better publicity than this. As a pilot who has had 18 months' experience of flying the 2000 through two European winters, I am able to ...
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Lufthansa
German national carrier Lufthansa has appointed Jurgen Raps as its new chief pilot, replacing Robert Salzl, who is retiring from flying duties. Raps has been with Lufthansa since 1970. He flew Boeing 737s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s before being appointed head of the airline's 737 fleet in 1994. He took ...
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KLM
Kees den Hartog, deputy president of Netherlands national carrier KLM, is to retire at the end of the year. Den Hartog, with KLM since 1961, joined the KLM board of managing directors in 1989. Cees van Woudenberg, executive vice-president for personnel and organisation, is appointed to the board of managing ...
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Mesaba shift
Northwest Airlink carrier Mesaba Airlines has signed an amended agreement under which Northwest Airlines will purchase all of the regional's capacity, while the cost of Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 heavy maintenance will be shifted from Northwest to Mesaba. The agreement will allow both carriers to benefit from Mesaba's lower ...
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Delta deal
Delta Air Lines and Korean Air have received approval for an expanded code-share/ blocked-space agreement beginning 1 June. Delta will buy seats on Korean's four weekly Washington-New York-Seoul and daily Honolulu-Seoul Boeing 747 flights. Korean will buy seats on Delta's daily Honolulu-Seoul Lockheed L-1011 flights. Source: Flight International
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Varig emerges from cutbacks
VARIG dipped into the red during 1995 after shouldering the cost of widespread redundancies, but the Brazilian carrier has outlined plans to expand again this year. After making a profit of around $209 million in 1994, the airline slipped to a deficit of just under $7 million ...
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Low-fare Europe?
Kevin O'Toole/BRUSSELS IT WAS ONLY a matter of time before the US "no-frills" experiment began to take root in Europe's rapidly deregulating market. Pioneers have already emerged, offering the kind of no-frills point-to-point services which shot Southwest Airlines, ValuJet and others to fame in the USA. ...
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Eurowings boosts charter business with A319 order
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN REGIONAL carrier Eurowings is planning to expand its charter operation to account for around one-third of its turnover by early in the next century, based around its acquisition of Airbus Industrie A319s. With its recent order for three A319-100s and three options ...
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AlliedSignal books $1 billion in orders
ALLIEDSIGNAL Aerospace has announced new business totalling $1.1 billion, including a contract potentially worth $700 million to supply lessor GE Capital Aviation Services with auxiliary power-units, avionics, wheels and brakes for up to 254 Boeing 737s. Additionally, AlliedSignal has won a $250 million deal to provide Singapore Airlines ...
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Asiana chooses IAE power for its A321s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asiana Airlines of South Korea has chosen the International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500-A5 to power its planned new fleet of Airbus Industrie A321 narrowbodies. The engine is understood to have been selected over the competing CFM56-5B after an intensive pricing and technical battle ...
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Air France Europe 'may disappear', says Blanc
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR FRANCE Group president Christian Blanc has threatened the workforce of Air France Europe with the "disappearance" of the airline if Draconian measures to restore performance are not under- taken in the next two years. At a board meeting on 25 April, Blanc ...
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ANZ optimistic over Ansett buy-out
Air New Zealand (ANZ) has set a 30 June target date to complete its stalled NZ$350 million ($241 million) buy-out of TNT's 50% stake in Ansett. In April, the New Zealand Commerce Commission blocked ANZ's bid because it would have resulted in the carrier also acquiring 50% of domestic competitor ...
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China wins control of Hong Kong airlines
Paul Lewis/HONG KONG SWIRE PACIFIC has ceded control of Dragonair and lost to China its absolute majority interest in Cathay Pacific Airways, in a far- reaching settlement ending a year-long battle for control of Hong Kong's airlines. Under a deal struck just 14 months before ...
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Airbus bids to slash A310 costs to rival Boeing 757
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is studying ways of cutting the cost of its A310 aircraft, in an effort to revive sales and counter proposed higher-gross-weight developments of the Boeing 757. According to Adam Brown, Airbus vice-president for strategic planning, the company is looking at a ...
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Flight Dynamics plans HUDs for more 737s
FLIGHT DYNAMICS plans to increase its dominance of the market for head-up displays (HUDs) on civil transports by certificating its system for Category III operations on five Boeing 737 models by mid-1999. The schedule calls for certification of the 737-400 and -500 to Cat IIIa by the end ...
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Japan and USA agree common ground
JAPAN and the USA have reached temporary agreement on outstanding route disputes in an effort to clear the way for broader negotiations on revising their 1952 bilateral air-services treaty. Under the deal, Japan Airlines (JAL) and United Airlines will be allowed to add new passenger services and ...
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Boeing thrashes out offset with South African Airways
BOEING and South African Airways (SAA) are continuing discussions over the amount and method of paying offset counter-trade payments attached to the airline's $960 million order for seven Boeing 777-200s and two 747-400s, six months after the deal was signed in November 1995. Concern has been growing ...