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KEVIN O'TOOLE CHICAGO A new Internet company is pitching into the battle to sell late available space and hoping to establish a new on-line business model in the process. "We're travel evangelists," says David Miranda, with all the visionary brio that the world has come to expect of a would-be ...
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Cape Town service hits a setback
ROGER MAKINGS JOHANNESBURG Plans by Nationwide Air, a domestic South African carrier, to link with Virgin Atlantic in starting a new service between Cape Town and London Heathrow have met with initial failure. Nationwide had applied for a temporary licence to fly the route weekly using a wet-leased Virgin ...
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Capitol route to chaos
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Everyone in the USA agrees that urgent action is needed to cope with increasing capacity constraints. The problem remains how to wrench control from Congress. Democracy may have notched another coup on 10 November, but it was a bitterly disappointing day for the US air traffic ...
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AA-BA revisit alliance In a move that has drawn fire from UK rival British Midland, British Airways has submitted a joint application with American Airlines for US approval to start codesharing between Chicago and New York, and eight UK cities, excluding London. The alliance partners also aim to share ...
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Frontier swaps Boeing for Airbus
CAROLE SHIFRIN WASHINGTON DC US low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines has opted for the Airbus Industrie A318/A319 family of aircraft to replace the growing number of Boeing 737s it has operated since its start-up in mid-1994. Denver-based Frontier plans to acquire up to 36 new Airbus aircraft over the next decade ...
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Air Jamaica set for expansion
Air Jamaica, which has been transformed since privatisation four years ago, is continuing to expand by adding new routes to the USA and starting a St Lucia-based regional carrier. It also plans to add three more Airbuses to its fleet, which has been replaced since local businessman Gordon "Butch" Stewart ...
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WTO rules on aircraft tax Washington has appealed against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that foreign sales corporations are an illegal subsidy. US exporters use these corporations to shield income from tax. That creates opportunities for tax-based leasing on such exports as aircraft. If the ruling stands, Boeing ...
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Vanguard to boost short-haul Kansas-based Vanguard Airlines has signed a letter of intent to lease six Boeing 737-200s from US Airways Leasing &Sales for delivery in the first quarter of next year. By expanding its fleet of 13 737-200s the airline says it will be able to pursue its ...
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The first signs of light?
Results of the summer's capacity hike are starting to show through in Europe's latest results, but Commerzbank's Chris Tarry detects signs that the worst may be over. Leading off the latest round of reporting for the major European airlines, both KLM and British Airways have provided the first tangible evidence ...
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Slots Logjam
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS KEVIN O'TOOLE LONDON Hopes are growing that the new team at the European Commission could finally end the long wait for new regulations on airport slot allocation. Even the contentious issue of slot trading could be back on the agenda. Could Europe at last be ...
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Life in the Hot Seat
NICHOLAS IONIDE COLOMBO After a tough year, SriLankan Airlines chief executive, Peter Hill, is confident that the future of the troubled carrier will improve As he takes his seat in the boardroom, SriLankan Airlines chief executive officer Peter Hill has a request: that he is not quoted verbatim. His request ...
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Battle for the Big Apple
JANE LEVERE NEW YORK The USA's north-east corridor, long a hotbed of airline competition, is entering a new phase of battle as traditional players face new rivals. And not all of them come with wings. There is much at stake in the lucrative north-east corridor of the USA. Salomon Smith ...
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Brimstone test
Alenia Marconi Systems has conducted a second ground based flight test of the anti-armour Brimstone missile. The flight control, inertial navigation system, missile body-to-seeker communication and the millimetre wave seeker's target acquisition capabilities were tested. Source: Flight International
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Continental paints 777 for New York's millennium celebration
Continental Airlines has painted its latest Boeing 777-200ER in a novel colour scheme designed by renowned pop artist Peter Max to commemorate the City of New York's millennium celebration, dubbed "NYC 2000". The airline operates 14 Boeing 777s and the type has begun its ninth transatlantic route for Continental, replacing ...
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BWIA aims to revive LIAT link
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BWIA hopes to revive plans to link with LIAT on regional services, as the two carriers face up to competition from Air Jamaica-backed start-up Eastern Caribbean (EC) Express. The airline is also poised to cement codeshare links with United Airlines from its hub in Washington Dulles, which ...
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JMC eyes 757-300 deal for 2001
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Newly formed UK charter airline JMC Airlines is preparing its long-term fleet plans, with Boeing's stretched 757-300 at the top of its shopping list. JMC will officially launch operations next March, with the formal amalgamation of Flying Colours and Caledonian Airways under a single air operator's ...
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Egyptian start-up expands with A320 acquisition
Egyptian start-up Midwest Airlines is expanding operations with the acquisition of Airbus A320s and planning to launch scheduled operations. Privately owned Midwest launched operations in June with two ex-Air Afrique Airbus A310-300s. Based in Cairo, the airline operates charters between Egyptian tourist destinations and Europe. The airline has ordered ...
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Catching African bugs
Age is beautiful for many African airports, which have avoided the biggest problems in becoming Y2K compliant Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA Africa is never short of contradictions. In the run-up to the year 2000, the very things that made some African airports the laughing stock of yesteryear are the reason that ...
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Emirates eyes 120-seater for new regional network
Emirates will shortly start talks with Airbus and Boeing to acquire 120-seat aircraft to launch a network of regional services from its Dubai hub. The carrier is also studying airline alliances, to allow it to decide whether to join a grouping, says Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. ...
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Marketplace
DHL Worldwide Express is purchasing two Boeing 757-200 freighters for its European and African networks, from Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services (AWAS) in a deal worth over $60 million. The aircraft, one of which is already leased by DHL for its Dubai/Bahrain-Brussels services, will be delivered in January and March. DHL ...