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Delta signs massive CRJ deal
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Lines has signed a $10 billion, 500-aircraft, regional jet deal with Bombardier which will provide Delta Connection carriers with 40-, 44- and 50-seat versions of the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) 200, and 70-seat CRJ700s. The yet-to-be launched 90-seat CRJ900 is not included. Delta ...
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NTSB looks to Europe
Runway incursion incidents and collisions happen less often in Europe than in the USA, US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chairman Jim Hall has told the House Appropriations transportation subcommittee. Source: Flight International
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Simulator lease
BAE Systems has signed a memorandum to lease a A320 full-flight simulator to Flight Training Systems Chile, a joint venture between Lufthansa Flight Training and LanChile Airlines. The simulator is due for delivery next April and will join a 737-200 device at the centre. Source: Flight International
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FAA Bill approved
Following a three-year fight, the US Federal Aviation Administration's $40 billion three-year reauthorisation Bill has been approved by both the House and the Senate and looks set to be signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The Bill represents a triumph for FAA Administrator Jane Garvey, who has fought hard ...
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Balancing act
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS While keen to work within a global framework, Europe has its own environmental agenda, says Eckard Seebohm, the man charged with leading aviation environmental policy in Brussels For Europe, at least, next year's assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), will mark a defining moment in ...
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Scramble for AeroPeru routes starts
Almost a year after AeroPeru stopped flying, Lima has revoked the airline's operating permit and confirmed that its international routes are available for re-allocation. For TACA Peru and LanPeru, the move comes none too soon. The director general for air transport (DGTA) delayed cancelling AeroPeru's permit because a group ...
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Travel agents hit back at Iberia's Internet ticket sales
BARRY CROSS LONDON Spanish flag carrier Iberia launched its first aggressive Internet sales campaign at the end of February, offering 150,000 seats to 30 destinations at discounts of up to 40%. To qualify, passengers simply had to book online. Travel agents reacted with a week's ban on Iberia ticket ...
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Back to Business: Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes
For Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, this is the year the company can finally put its troubles behind it with new launches, a growing services business and, above all, a renewed focus on the customer
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All parcelled up
PETER CONWAY LONDON The long awaited shake-out in the logistics sector could be about tore-write the rules for airline cargo departments and express operators alike When Ocean Group and NFC, two UK companies with global logistics businesses, announced a merger a month ago, it probably did not create much ...
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Tokyo's runway slots awarded
Japan's transport ministry has allocated 48 of the 57 valuable new slots to be made available over the next two years at Tokyo's congested domestic hub Haneda Airport ahead of the opening of a third runway in July. As expected, new carriers Skymark Airlines and Hokkaido International Airlines - ...
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Taiwan-Philippines dispute back on
Scheduled flights between the Philippines and Taiwan have again been halted as a dispute over capacity has re-erupted. China Airlines, EVA Airways and Philippine Airlines all suspended services between Taipei and Manila in mid-March, one month after resuming them. This followed a settlement to a dispute between Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics ...
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Back from the Brink
NICHOLAS IONIDES JAKARTA President-director Abdulgani, at the helm of Garuda Indones President-director Abdulgani does not mince his words about Garuda Indonesia's troubles over the past few years. "If changes had not happened, Garuda may have collapsed - it really was that serious. Garuda has had deep financial and big ...
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Placing your bets on fuel
Oil price changes can have a fundamental impact on the industry, argues Chris Tarry of Commerzbank. You do not have to spend long in airline boardrooms to realise that the oil price hike has been a painful experience for carriers everywhere. Already the fuel hike is being cited as a ...
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British Midland steps up bid for transatlantic rights
COLIN BAKER LONDON British Midland (BM) has raised the stakes in its quest for transatlantic services from London Heathrow with a $1.2 billion order for four long-haul Airbus A330s. The order is despite the failure of the US and UK governments to reach an open skies "mini-deal" earlier this year, ...
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Blue sky thinking
Colin Baker LONDON The aims of Europe's environmental policy have been There is little argument that last November's policy paper on transport and the environment from the European Commission was a comprehensive piece of work. Yet, while the air transport industry may agree on the broad aim of a ...
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Hushkit row threatens to boil over
COLIN BAKER LONDON The simmering row between the USA and Brussels over the issue of engines hushkitted to meet Chapter III noise standards has escalated, with the USA carrying out its threat to issue a complaint through the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). ICAO president Dr Assad Kotaite has carried ...
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A people business
The departure of Bob Ayling from British Airways may have had more than one simple cause, but his apparent lack of ability to motivate staff and sell his vision provide important lessons as the airline looks for a new head. It may be a well-worn maxim, but the airline ...
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Canada proposes tougher rules
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Canada's transport administration, Transport Canada, proposes to rewrite the country's aviation laws, but the Competition Bureau thinks it is not enough. In response to Air Canada's takeover of Canadian Airlines, a parliamentary committee has completed a review of the laws. Ottawa believes these need revision to ...
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Dragonair fleet expansion challenges Cathay Pacific
Nicholas Ionides ATI SINGAPORE Hong Kong's Dragonair has confirmed a major fleet expansion in what observers say is a clear sign that the carrier intends to mount a more direct challenge to the dominance of the former colony's de facto flag carrier, Cathay Pacific Airways. China-controlled Dragonair announced details of ...
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Hungary for a change?
Tom Gill BUDAPEST With a new chief executive and new investors on the horizon, things might be looking up for Malév Ferenc Kovacs is cautiously confident. Appointed Malév's chief executive in October after 23 years with the company, he is well aware of the many false starts that the Hungarian ...