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Slot exchange - A UK high court has ruled that the former Air UK, now KLM uk, did not illegally sell its Guernsey slots at London Heathrow to British Airways. According to the presiding judge in the case brought by Guernsey, the fact that the exchange was unequal - Air ...
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Boeing gets back on track
A "solid and clearly improving performance" at Boeing has seen the company post healthy first quarter net profits of $469 million - a better than anticipated result after the aircraft giant's woes last year. Boeing warns, however, that recent stronger prices on commercial jets are not expected to hold for ...
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Pilot strife hits Asia
Cathay Pacific Airways and Royal Nepal Airlines have lengthened the list of Asian carriers suffering from discontented pilots. Troubled Royal Nepal suffered a serious problem in March when its pilots went on strike, grounding the carrier for 10 days. The dispute stemmed from the Kathmandu-based airline's controversial ...
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Two bid for Ansett half stake
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Air New Zealand (ANZ) each want the half interest in Ansett Holdings that News Corporation is selling for A$500 million ($315 million). ANZ owns half of Ansett Holdings, which in turn owns 49% of Ansett International Airlines and 100% of Ansett Australian Airlines. When ...
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All change in Taiwan
Sandy Liu, newly-confirmed president of China Airlines, is resorting to a radical approach to turn the airline around. Nicholas Ionides reports from Taipei. When Sandy Liu, president of China Airlines (CAL) has time on his hands, he picks up the company's internal telephone directory and picks a name. Liu then ...
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China battles airline losses
China's Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is taking steps to help turn around the country's airlines after last year's loss of over ´6 billion ($725 million). Topping the list is a plan to merge China's 40 airlines into three to six groups. Liu Jianfeng, CAAC director, announced ...
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USA/China spring surprise with an air services deal
Incumbent carriers have won a reprieve from the immediate entry of new players on China-USA routes, with a surprise new air services agreement signed in April which protects them for at least two more years. The agreement was signed on 9 April in Washington during Chinese premier Zhu ...
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Bringing airlines to account
The lure of global capital markets is spurring the search for international accounting standards. To accompany the launch of the latest Bridging the GAAP reference work, author Ian Milne reports on an accountancy revolution. International accounting standards may seem an unpromising place to seek a revolution, at least one that ...
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Time to talk about the scope clause
Union limits on the scale and scope of regional flying are due to be brought out into the open as US regional carriers prepare to meet in Phoenix. How times have changed. In the not too distant past, regional airlines were the minnows of the aviation world, flying on "hometown" ...
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FAA shifts Y2K focus
US concerns over year 2000 (Y2K) compliance are shifting to the international arena after a live test of the country's air traffic control system revealed no date-related problems. The test, conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration on 10-11 April, involved all major elements of the US air traffic ...
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Herculean task
The European Commission's air transport liberalisation programme can justly claim to have succeeded with its legal framework to allow airline competition. To critical observers, the results can be clearly seen through improved attitudes to the passenger and to quality of service, aircraft condition and operational efficiency. The architects ...
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Link to the future
Europe's air traffic control datalink work is forging on Kieran Daly/COPENHAGEN and STOCKHOLM Processing in loose line astern up the east Swedish coast through the broken cloud of a winter Sunday morning, our four-strong formation is something of an oddity: a light twin turboprop flat out at 240kt (440km/h), tailed ...
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USA and Netherlands to further landing research
The US Federal Aviation Administration and the Netherlands Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have signed an agreement to co-operate on local area augmentation system (LAAS) research and development. Using LAAS, which will augment the accuracy and integrity of global positioning system (GPS) signals, approaches can be designed to ...
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FlightSafety wins Northwest CRJ deal
Northwest Airlines has selected FlightSafety International to provide pilot and maintenance training for Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) on order for its Northwest Airlink regional affiliates. Under the 10-year contract, extendible to 15 years, FlightSafety will locate Level D simulators for the 50-seat CRJ-200 at training centres convenient for Northwest ...
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Chinese order
China Eastern Airlines has ordered an Airbus A320 full flight simulator from Thomson Training &Simulation. The Level D device will be delivered in December to the airline's new flight training centre at Pudong, Shanghai. Source: Flight International
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German cadets
FlightSafety International's Academy at Vero Beach, Florida, has graduated the first cadet pilots to have German air transport pilot licence training in the USA under an agreement with RWL/Flightschool. A second class has begun training. Austrian Airlines and Emirates are also training cadets at the Academy. Source: Flight International
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SAA bidding war hots up, but privatisation schedule slips
Doug Birch/LONDON South Africa has missed the latest deadline for the publication of a list of bidders for a stake in South African Airways (SAA). Sources close to the privatisation suggest frontrunner Lufthansa faces a serious challenge from other bidders. The South African Government was due to issue ...
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US majors beat expectations
Chris Jasper/LONDON Most large US carriers have reported a stronger-than-expected performance for the first quarter of this year on the back of strong domestic demand and improving international markets. Bad winter weather took its toll, but while several airlines posted poorer results than for the same period last year, ...
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New Collins avionics go Continental
Rockwell Collins has expanded its Pro Line 21 integrated avionics system with the addition of next-generation radio sensors. The first new aircraft to have the system will be Bombardier's Continental business jet. The Pro Line 21 CNS sensor suite will provide the functionality required for the future communication, navigation, ...
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Pan Am buys Reflectone centres
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Pan Am International Flight Academy (PAIFA) is to acquire Reflectone's training centres at Washington Dulles International Airport and St Louis, Missouri. The former British Aerospace facilities house simulators for the BAe 146 and for the Jetstream 31 and J41. The Dulles site will accommodate the ...