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Champion of the cause
Senator John McCain is on a mission to secure a more competitive US airline industry. His legislative proposals include freeing up more slots for startups and smaller airlines, prompt action against predatory behaviour, and increased airport funding. Report by Karen Walker.'He can be a powerful friend or a formidable foe,' ...
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Oriental calm dawns in US
At long last, Tokyo and Washington have settled their aeropolitical differences with a substantive open skies agreement that extends well beyond a 'mini-deal'. But Europeans are fuming at the deal's valuable concessions to the US. The new US-Japan open skies deal penned in February 1998 has helped right the ...
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Southern boom
The US carriers, led by American Airlines, have benefited the most from the growth in demand to Latin America. Report by April Pearson. With growth of 23.9 per cent over the last five years, US-Latin America air traffic is outpacing economic growth. Growth still lags behind the larger European and ...
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Asia chops its policies
Fleets, financing and fares are all under review as airlines in the most troubled parts of Asia look for ways to weather the financial turbulence. Boeing predicts that Asian customers could delay up to 60 aircraft deliveries over the next three years. Asian airlines have placed firm orders for ...
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Up in arms over Uganda
The battle for dominance of African air space is intensifying with Alliance Air striving to gain control of soon to be privatised Uganda Airlines. Alliance's executive director John Murray says it is 'vital' for Kampala-based Alliance to gain control of Uganda Airlines to prevent it from falling prey to ...
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US alliance opens the floodgates
The alliance coup pulled off by Northwest and Continental will speed up similar revenue tieups in the US and push global alliance building to new levels of activity. By Karen Walker.Denying a statement that he has worked for '. . . just about every airline in the US', US Airways' ...
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Alitalia stops cheap stunt
Alitalia deftly dropped all promotional fares within Europe in February to avoid the European Commission re-considering approval of its state aid. Alitalia had come under fire from domestic airlines Alpi Eagles and Air One, which claimed the Italian flag carrier was 'price leading' on key routes, violating conditions attached ...
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Airline News
Japan Airlines is scheduled to introduce a three times weekly service from Nagoya to Los Angeles, a twice weekly service between Nagoya and London/Heathrow and a weekly Hiroshima to Honolulu service, as well as a daily Fukushima to Sapporo operation this April. United Airlines is due to introduce a ...
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1997 at a glance
January Boeing and McDonnell Douglas announce plans for a $13.3 billion merger. Norwegian travel agents threaten to sue SAS over plans to reduce commissions. Delta Air Lines winds down its Frankfurt hub, ending its intra-European services. Swissair, Austrian, Sabena and Delta establish a revenue pool on the North Atlantic. A ...
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P&W starts geared turbofan revolution
Karen Walker Pratt & Whitney will unveil details tomorrow of its new PW8000 geared turbofan, the engine which it says will "-change the rules of the game." P&W has made the unusual decision to launch the PW8000 without a customer. But company president Karl Krapek says it is time to ...
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Marginal routes offer scope for turboprops
The economic turmoil in Asia-Pacific could provide turboprop manufacturers such as Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) with a major opportunity, senior vice-president, commercial, Alain Brodin said at the show. He says it is possible that airlines operating jets on marginal routes could move them to lower-cost operators which would use ...
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Preston sells second TAAM to Boeing
The Preston Group (Stand C132) has announced at the show the sale of a second Total Airport and Airspace Modeller (TAAM) licence to Boeing. Boeing has been using TAAM since 1994 to satisfy the needs of its commercial airline customers by simulating potential projects in the modernisation of air traffic ...
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Swearingen's Asia target
Why opt for secondhand when you can have a brand new executive jet for just $3.5 million With 103 firm orders - 60 per cent from the USA and 40 per cent from Europe - in its slipstream so far, Sino Swearingen is hoping its SJ30-2 will capture the ...
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Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE)
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) is to consider a Singapore and New York Stock Exchange listing in 2000 as a capital-raising exercise to help boost its portfolio. Managing director John Willingham says SALE has no definitive plans to list at the moment, although owners Singapore Airlines (SIA), Boullioun Aviation Services ...
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CAE simulators
Canada's CAE Electronics has received a contract from Delta Airlines for four flight simulators. CAE will design and manufacture one Boeing 777-200 FFS and three 777-200 Flight Training Devices (FTD), to be installed at the airline's new state-of-the-art training centre in Atlanta, Georgia. The order follows the recent ...
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New simulator for SAS
One year from now, SAS Flight Academy's centre in Stockholm will begin using its second Boeing 737-600/700/800 Full Flight Simulator. SAS has announced the order for the second simulator, to be manufactured by CAE Electronics, at Asian Aerospace '98. SAS Flight Academy currently has a total of 15 Full Flight ...
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Lido offers integrated flight planning system
Lufthansa's former flight preparation procedures department, now an independent company in the Lufthansa group, is set to expand its international customer base by up to 50%. Kai Kosicki, director marketing and sales of Lufthansa Aeronautical Services - Lido Gmbh - says the requirements of airlines in this region parallel those ...
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Never a dull moment with Pierson at the podium
Mike Martin Jean Pierson's last air show appearance as chief executive of Airbus Industrie was vintage stuff. Some 13 years ago, when he joined the company, he told his team to "-fasten their seat belts: I promise we will cause some turbulence". Staff reaction went unrecorded, but the indomitable ...
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Economic crisis puts region's deals at risk
Geoff Thomas Manufacturers were continuing to put on a brave face at the show yesterday, despite ever-strengthening indications that the region's economic turmoil is indeed having an effect on the industry. Beyond the obvious threats to airliner orders, it was being suggested that seemingly unrelated moves like Cathay ...
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Canadair racks up six more RJ orders
Alan Dron Bombardier yesterday received orders for six Canadair Regional Jets - five from Montpellier, France-based Air Littoral, and one from Air Adria, of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The French order, for five Series 100 machines, will take the airline's fleet of the 50-seat aircraft to 19. Deliveries of its ...