News from FlightGlobal – Page 2564
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Licence to change
European pilot-training organisations at all levels will have to cope with a new set of standards. David Learmount/LONDON Most European pilots know that flight crew licence requirements are changing to a European standard, but few could say when or describe the differences. Pilot-training organisations, on the other ...
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All Nippon continues with cost-cutting measures
ALL NIPPON AIRLINES (ANA) has announced further cuts in expenditure and staffing, alongside a drive to boost revenues by 10% through increased aircraft utilisation. The latest cost-cutting drive, which will run over the next three years, comes as part of the second phase of the airline's extensive ...
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Vietnam looks for A320 substitute
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE VIETNAM AIRLINES IS negotiating for the supply of new Western-built 150-seat passenger aircraft to replace its Airbus Industrie A320s wet-leased from Air France. The carrier operates seven A320s, three of which are due to be returned to owner Air France by the end ...
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UK CAA calls for changes to be made to slot rules
THE UK CIVIL AVIATION Authority is calling for Europe's airport slot-allocation rules to be changed, to make slot trading for cash legal and to use vacant slots more efficiently. It says that the existing, two-year old, European Commission (EC) regulation "...is not working" and warns that the business ...
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Chess master moves in
AAI keeps up with the weather There is little doubt that Russia's occasionally chaotic aviation industry could benefit from the application of a fine strategic mind. It is about to get one. World chess champion Gary Kasparov has now formally launched a consultancy, aimed at helping ...
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MDC will deliver first MD-90-30
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) is to deliver the first MD-90-30 to launch customer Delta Airlines on 24 February, for service entry in early April. Steve Atkins, MDC twinjet-programmes general manager, says that the goal is to have "98.4% dispatch reliability" within the first six months of service. ...
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MDC returns assembly to Long Beach
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is to build MD-11 fuselage barrels at its Long Beach final-assembly site after a coalition of California state, local city, union and local utility officials agreed a cost-saving package worth up to $138 million over the next five years. ...
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Canadian carriers ask Government for slots
AIR CANADA and Canadian Airlines International have asked their Government for all of the slots which available to Canadian carriers at New York La Guardia and Chicago O'Hare airports under the proposed open-skies agreement with the USA. The pact, is expected to be signed when US President Bill Clinton visits ...
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Concern grows over NSA viability
JAPAN'S JOINT YS-X/New Small Aircraft (NSA) feasibility study with Boeing is unlikely to be completed by the 1 March deadline, amid growing uncertainty about the market and financial viability of the programme (Flight International, 15-21 February). The 90- to 110-seat-aircraft study is still at the preliminary stage ...
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SAS makes first profit since 1989
SAS HAS REPORTED ITS first pre-tax profit in five years, following the major reworking of finances and operations, which was stepped up at the start of 1994. In a brief preliminary statement, the Scandinavian airline group revealed that it expects its 1994 profit to come in at SKr1.5 ...
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Plague brought loss to Air India
THE INDIAN Government has admitted that the outbreak of plague in the country in 1994 has pushed its international flag carrier Air India into loss. Air India had made an estimated loss of $6.5 million by the end of December after the first nine months of its financial ...
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Booz pushes Russian route plans
Kieran Daly/VIENNA A NEW air-traffic management (ATM) system for the Russian Far East, which will bring huge savings for airlines operating in the North Pacific, could be fully operational by August 1997. The programme is designed to open up at least three more routes through ...
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FedEx orders more Airbus freighters
EXPRESS FREIGHT company FedEx has placed a follow-on order for seven Airbus A310-200 freighter conversions from Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus (DAA). Conversion of an eighth aircraft is still under discussion. The aircraft are being bought by Memphis-based FedEx from Delta Airlines' fleet, and will be converted to A310-200F freighter ...
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CFMI seeks to pin down airlines on Il-86
CFM INTERNATIONAL hopes to launch its re-engineing programme for the Russian Ilyushin Il-86 by June and to have certification for the CFM56-powered aircraft by the end of 1996. General manager of engine sales, Henri Cabannes, says that a group of Russian airlines have declared their intentions to re-engine ...
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Eurowings shifts focus to international routes
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH EUROWINGS, the German regional carrier, has shifted its focus onto developing international routes, because of intensifying domestic competition from Germany's rail and road networks. According to Eurowings marketing and sales chief, Karl-Friedrich Muller, Germany's ICE high-speed trains and improved road links with eastern ...
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Belgium holds key to Swissair deal
The Belgian Government is considering a renewed Swissair offer to buy 49.5% of Sabena. Preliminary agreement could be reached in the next few days. Swissair is understood to have cut its original BFr12 billion ($380 million) to BFr8 billion following the collapse of a Sabena plan to form ...
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Fokker prepares for new round of cuts
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER IS CLOSE TO announcing a new wave of restructuring, with further workforce cuts expected to be on the agenda as the Dutch manufacturer attempts to match cutbacks made by its major competitors. A decision on the scope of the rationalisation is due ...
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Denver braces for airport switch-over after delays
Ramon Lopez/DENVER DENVER International Airport officials say that they are ready for 27 February, when Stapleton International will be shut down and the much-delayed new airport will take over. The opening of the airport has been delayed four times because of technical problems with the ...
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Alenia rebuffs Airbus to chase MDC stake
EFFORTS BY THE AIRBUS consortium, to woo Alenia away from its proposed airliner alliance with McDonnell Douglas (MDC), have been given a clear rebuff during a hearing by the Italian Senate, into the future of its aerospace industry. In evidence to the Italian upper house, Alenia's state-owned parent ...
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P&W 4098 launch heralds heavyweight 777 move
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES PRATT & WHITNEY is to launch a 436kN (98,000lb)-thrust derivative of its PW4000-series engine to power heavier versions of the Boeing 777, as well as the planned stretch model. The two companies have formed a team to "...exchange information and work with airlines ...