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Airbus/Boeing vie for Mexico
Airbus Industrie and Boeing are competing for an order from Aeromexico and Mexicana for up to 100 narrowbody aircraft. The order will be placed by Mexico's CINTRA Group, which owns both carriers. A decision is expected "before June", says Airbus. The deal does not include aircraft for AeroPeru, which is ...
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Russia rules against Ukraine bombers
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Boeing has toned down its optimism over the future of the MD-11 and warns that more problems with Next Generation 737 manufacturing might produce additional delivery delays, making a third consecutive quarterly charge a possibility. There are signs that more lay-offs could follow. Production problems ...
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Continental drift in Brazil
Delta Air Lines is boosting its Latin American presence with a deal to buy 35 per cent of AeroPeru, frustrating rival Continental, which seemed ahead in the race for a stake. Delta's current ties with Aeromexico, and its plans to expand those ties into a broader alliance, probably tipped ...
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Fight in the wild AmWest
America West's flight attendants have rejected an initial pay offer and are back at the negotiating table in a fighting mood. An overwhelming 90 per cent of the America West chapter of the Association of Flight Attendants have rejected a tentative agreement. The main sticking point is pay, says ...
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Focus on Phoenix
America West's ups and downs have made Wall Street nervous, but new revenue management skills, a concentration on Phoenix, and codeshares with Continental and Northwest should allow its healthier performance to continue. Karen Walker reports from Phoenix You can only envy the residents of Phoenix, Arizona. Not only do they ...
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Awas seeks new owners
Abu Dhabi lessor Oasis International, backed by a New Zealand bank, is poised to take over Australian lessor Ansett Worldwide Aviation Service. At the end of February, Ad Scheepbouwer, TNT's chief executive officer, was expecting a sale announcement 'in the next couple of weeks'. Oasis International Leasing, and ...
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Delta jilted at Jap dance
Ink was barely dry on the new Japan-US bilateral before the scramble started to form newly authorised codesharing alliances. Each of Japan's three major airlines has now picked US partners, and Delta Air Lines, which thought it had an agreement with All Nippon, ends up the loser. Delta ...
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A disinherited breed
Deregulation is well advanced in Latin America, but the predicted wave of international Latin startups has hardly been a ripple. David Knibb explains why. We called them 'The New Breed' - those Latin American airlines which emerged on the heels of deregulation to challenge the newly privatised flag carriers. Led ...
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Germans see Lite ahead
Lufthansa looks set to follow the example of British Airways with Go, and launch a low cost subsidiary this year. The German carrier's executive board is currently discussing a feasibility study for a new airline to operate primarily on domestic routes. The carrier would use between six and 14 ...
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Brave faces
The Asian slowdown is giving suppliers a chance to take stock of their many new ideas. Meanwhile, the regional jet phenomenon continues to grow. Karen Walker reports. For the commercial airliner manufacturers, observes one industry analyst, getting through the recent Asian Aerospace show was all about 'brave faces and nervous ...
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Peru stalls on freedoms
Peru's transport minister Antonio Paucar Carbajal has released some of LanChile's new fifth freedoms to the US but the key Lima-Miami route is still a hostage in the scramble for Peru-US market share. Since November, when Peru and Chile revised their bilateral to grant each other more third, fourth, ...
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UK low costs counter Go
While Ryanair signals it will not concede any ground to British Airways' planned low-cost operation, Go, at London/Stansted, EasyJet is firing the first shots in a legal battle to prevent BA from cross-subsidising Go. With Go yet to reveal details of its routes, in late February Ryanair announced plans ...
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Asians sell up to survive
Malaysia Airlines and Asiana have both effectively abandoned any fleet strategy, and are putting their entire fleets up for sale in bids to overcome the Asian economic slump. Meanwhile Malaysia's regional airlines have hit severe problems while, ironically, a new Fiji-based startup still aims to brave the economic storm. ...
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Second Asia tier tumbles
Doomsday gloom as heavy as last summer's smoke hangs over southeast Asia's second tier airlines. Rising currency costs and plunging traffic are hammering carriers in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. 'We will not be able to make it until April,' warns Benny Rungkat, secretary general of the ...
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US six get big in Japan
Six US airlines and 13 cities will receive a total of 106 new weekly flights to Japan under a tentative agreement inked by the US and Japanese governments, following the signing of the new civil aviation bilateral in February. US carriers gaining new rights are American Airlines, Continental Airlines, ...
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Latin order
Airbus is poised to finalise a deal worth an estimated $8 billion with three major Latin American airlines for almost 200 A320 family aircraft. TACA group of El Salvador, LanChile and Brazil's TAM are expected to sign a firm order for around 90 aircraft, with options on another 100 aircraft ...
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Jeppesen contract
Jeppesen has signed an agreement with Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) to provide its OnSight flight operations management system for the company's NetJet fractional ownership programme. EJA will acquire all three modules, namely the JetPlan IV flight planning system; wXstation, weather analysis service; and Flight TraX advanced flight tracking system, which ...
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High altitude blade cracking may delay 717
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BMW Rolls-Royce has been forced to redesign high pressure compressor (HPC) blades in the BR715 turbofan for the Boeing 717-200 after cracks developed in the 717's tests. The problem could delay the first flight. The problems, uncovered during high altitude tests in the UK, affect the third ...
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Atlantic plays the name game again and Atlantic Airlines is born
Atlantic Airlines is the new operating name for a Coventry, UK, based company which has previously operated under a variety of titles. "Some people call us Air Atlantique, others Atlantic Cargo, Atlantic Airways, Air Corbiere or Atlantic Air Transport," says chairman Mike Collett. Atlantic Airlines, which operates a fleet that ...
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Condor Berlin boosts Airbus A320 orders as operations begin
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Condor Berlin, the new subsidiary of Lufthansa charter arm Condor Flugdienst, has increased its Airbus Industrie A320 order from six to eight aircraft. The new airline, based at Berlin/ Schönefeld Airport, was founded at the beginning of this year and began operations in early March. Its ...