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Alaska offers Internet check-in
JANE LEVERE NEW YORK Alaska Airlines, a pioneer in the use of electronic tickets, is using the Internet to revolutionise its check-in process. The carrier has developed a new on-line check-in system for travellers who purchase electronic tickets for domestic travel from its web site; it now sells only paperless ...
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British Airways launches corporate rescue plan
Chris Jasper/LONDON British Airways has launched a corporate plan with the aim of tackling problem areas, including low yields at London Gatwick Airport, loss-making airline subsidiaries and domestic operation and poor aircraft usage. The plan is part of a bid to secure the massive profit improvements BA financial controller ...
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Air France joins call for single US-EU market
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Air France chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta says he strongly supports transatlantic negotiations between the European Union and the USA and he wants to see the creation of a "transatlantic common aviation area". Spinetta, speaking in November at the International Aviation Club in Washington DC, said a ...
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Alitalia and KLM seek to add Northwest to alliance
TOM GILL LONDON KLM and Alitalia have started their joint venture and may be close to gaining US anti-trust immunity for a tripartite alliance with Northwest Airlines. The formal launch of the "virtual merger" at the beginning of November was accompanied by much shuttling of senior executives between Rome, Milan ...
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Venezuela's Aserca moves togain access to USA
Venezuela's Aserca Airlines is looking to its Caribbean subsidiary to expand a US presence otherwise frozen for Venezuelan airlines. Air Aruba, which is 70% owned by Aserca, is expanding its Aruba hub with three more McDonnell Douglas DC-9s, more flights to Caracas, and listings in more computer reservation systems. ...
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Virgin reluctanctly accepts alliances as a fact of life
KEVIN O'TOOLE CHICAGO Even a maverick like Richard Branson is forced to admit that joining an airline alliance is fast becoming a "fact of life". Speaking during Virgin Atlantic's inaugural flight to Chicago, he revealed that contacts have taken place with three of the global groupings. "It's inevitable that ...
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Aviation industry ready for 2000?
TOM GILL LONDON The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is "not anticipating any major" disruption over the new year period, following advances in preparations for the changeover to 2000, despite what appears to still be a patchy picture. More than 500 out of 800 airports audited by IATA have ...
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Premiair takes first A330-200 for long haul winter flights
The first of two Airbus A330-200s for Scandinavian charter airline Premiair is poised to enter service on a six-month wet lease from sister company Airtours International. The Rolls-Royce Trent 772B-powered A330-200 has been delivered new to Premiair. The second A330-200 is due this month, while three Trent-powered A330-300s will arrive ...
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Routes
British Airways is restructuring its Caribbean network from London Gatwick with a redeployment of flights operated under franchise by the paper airline Airline Management (AML) from March. AML services are operated by two-class Boeing 777s, with BA providing pilots and Flying Colours (to be renamed JMC Air) the cabin crew. ...
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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 ...
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Maintenance tie-up
Air Zealand and Ansett Australia have formed a maintenance company, merging the carriers' respective Auckland and Melbourne-based facilities. The joint venture, dubbed Ansett Australia and Air New Zealand Engineering, will offer maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, and is forecast to have an equity value of A$1 billion ($625 million). ...
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Guesstimation
Accident investigation is in danger of getting a bad name. The three US authorities - the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - associated with the EgyptAir flight 990 investigation deserve some understanding given the ferocity of the media ...
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Eurocontrol plan for congestion gets green light
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol's Provisional Council has approved the agency's plans to reduce air traffic congestion in the short-to-medium term after a year in which delays have been among the worst on record. Although the Kosovo crisis has been blamed for causing most of the delays from April-July, the ...
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Canadian regionals may merge
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL A Toronto-based business group, Regional Airlines Holdings, aims to establish a new national airline by buying and merging the regional carriers of Air Canada and Canadian Airlines. The move would appear viable if the two majors themselves merge. Regional Airlines Holdings wants Ottawa to force Air Canada to ...
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UK plans partial ATC sell-off
David Learmount/LONDONUK air traffic control (ATC) is on course for partial privatisation by the middle of next year, with the government last week announcing plans to put a bill transforming the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) into a "public private partnership" before parliament during the 1999/2000 session. As the government ...
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Airports
A major refurbishment of Tashkent Airport's international terminal will begin in December, with Donald Smith, Seymour & Rooley as engineering consultant. Work is scheduled to be completed in June 2001. Belgian regional airports Liège-Bierset and Charleroi-Gosselies (rebranded as "Brussels South"), both operated by the country's regional government for the Walloon ...
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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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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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Aviation Sales moves to do deal with Malev's Aeroplex
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Aviation Sales of the USA is discussing a possible tie-up with Malev Hungarian Airlines' Aeroplex maintenance subsidiary, in line with plans to establish a major facility in Europe. The move may threaten a previously announced joint-venture agreement between Aeroplex and Lufthansa Technik (LHT) to overhaul Boeing 737s ...
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Acquisition complete
SAirGroup has completed its purchases of substantial minority stakes in Polish flag carrier LOT and South African Airways (SAA). It will hold 37.6% of Warsaw-based LOT, which becomes a full member of the Qualiflyer Group on 1 January, 2000, and 20% of SAA. Qualiflyer Group carriers and SAA will carry ...