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-Alaska Airlines is to offer a twice-weekly roundtrip service from Los Angeles to La Paz in Mexico from 25 October, using a Boeing MD-80 originating in Seattle. -Aero Lloyd will operate a weekly service from Alicante, Spain to Linz, Austria, from June. -Braathens has started a three times daily service ...
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IAM union trades its Learjet 35A for a 60
The International Association of Machinists (IAM), the labour union representing US aerospace workers, has traded in its 18-year-old Learjet 35A for a Model 60 built by its members at Bombardier Learjet. With more than 750,000 members scattered across Canada, Guam, Canada and the USA, the IAM's international officers travel ...
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Continental ERJ-135 order leads regional move to 30-seat jets
Ramon Lopez and Guy Norris/WASHINGTON DC Continental Express is set to be the first major US regional airline to switch to an all-jet fleet, with the confirmation of its move into the 30-seat market with a contract for up to 75 Embraer RJ-135s. The deal includes a $315 million firm ...
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SIA A340-500 deal forces Boeing to review 777-X
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Boeing is again reviewing the future direction of its proposed 777-200X/300X derivative programme, following Singapore Airline's (SIA) decision to order the competing Airbus Industrie A340-500 ultra long haul aircraft. The loss of the Singapore campaign to the European consortium represents a major setback for the Seattle ...
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Survival of the fastest ?
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Airline industry analysts are "unabashedly bullish" over the future of regional jet aircraft, which are expected to produce fundamental changes in the airline business over the next five years. Merrill Lynch's Byron Callan says that 32- to 70-seat regional jets comprise "the most rapidly growing market segment" ...
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Gemini in talks with Boeing for MD-11s
Gemini Air Cargo is talking to Boeing about a potential deal to acquire new MD-11 freighters, but is also examining possible secondhand aircraft acquisitions as it awaits a decision from the manufacturer on the tri-jet's production future. The Washington Dulles-based supplemental cargo carrier, which has just introduced its eighth ...
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China takes in TTS
Thomson Training and Simulation (TTS) has received on-site acceptance for the first three Airbus full-flight simulators to be installed in China. Two of the simulators, based at the China Aviation Supplies/ Airbus joint venture training centre in Beijing, are for the Airbus A320 and A330/340, while the third is ...
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British Regional gets ready for June flotation
British Regional Airlines (BRAL) is gearing up for a stock market listing by the end of June, in a move which managing director Terry Liddiard says will help it make a final break from its former sister airline British Midland as it develops its role as the largest British Airways ...
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IATA sets up Year 2000 project to tackle Millennium bug
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has set up a programme to counter the threat of the Millennium bug, and has begun with an inventory of systems which could fail in the transition to the year 2000. At an IATA conference in Dubai in late April, director-general Pierre Jeanniot ...
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More trouble hits Europe's singles in certification bid
Julian Moxon/PARIS Fresh attempts by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) to settle the long-running controversy in Europe over the approval for commercial operations of single-engined aircraft in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) and at night have run into difficulties. The JAA is on the verge of taking the unusual ...
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Low fare battle brews between ANZ and Qantas
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Air New Zealand (ANZ) and Qantas are preparing their positions for a major battle to secure market share on high frequency, low cost trans-Tasman services. The two carriers are also shoring up their competing services through to Europe. The Qantas strategy of gradually lifting frequency to ...
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Siberia Airlines plans revamp
Siberia Airlines is undertaking a comprehensive review of its operations and is studying the eventual addition of new aircraft to replace its ageing Russian fleet. The airline operates seven Ilyushin Il-86 widebodies, along with 16 Tupolev Tu-154 narrowbodies (three of which are leased to Iran). Its nine Antonov turboprops ...
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Crashes lead to new Taiwanese watchdog agency
Taiwan is so worried about its air transport safety image that it has added a new watchdog agency to a lengthening list of political reactions to recent crashes. The Government controlled Central News Agency (CNA), says Taiwan is to have an organisation based on the USA's National Transportation Safety ...
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Transavia takes A310 to bridge 737 delays
Transavia, the Dutch all-Boeing operator, has been forced to wet-lease an Airbus A310-300 for five months because of continuing delays in the delivery of its new Boeing 737-800s. The airline had been planning to introduce the new 189-seat 737 at the beginning of its 1998 summer season in April, ...
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Volvo sets up leasing venture with Tokyo bank
Aviation Lease Finance (ALF), a major new engine leasing and support business, has been set up by Volvo Aero and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Capital (BTMCC), which are pooling the resources of their respective AGES Group and Engine Lease Finance (ELF)subsidiaries. The deal involves a network of cross-shareholdings essentially ...
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Lufthansa fights for Frankfurt
Kevin O'Toole/FRANKFURT Lufthansa chairman Jürgen Weber has threatened to pursue the European Commission through the courts if competition commissioner Karel Van Miert goes ahead with demands for the surrender of slots at Frankfurt as the price for the airline's transatlantic alliance. Weber's warning follows reports coming out of Brussels suggesting ...
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US DoT to review Delta/United
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are bracing for a US Government review of their planned code-share alliance, which also requires the approval of both carriers' pilots unions. The US Department of Transportation (DoT) confirms that it will request data on the alliance, as it ...
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Alliance fever
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Ever since US Airways announced that it was in talks with American and United Airlines just over two years ago, the world has been awaiting another round of consolidation in the US airline industry. Albeit a little delayed, it now appears to have taken off in earnest ...
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National and Avant unite
This is the first time LanChile and Ladeco have had any real competition,' says Jesus Diez, president of the Turbus company that owns and manages both National and Avant Airlines. Turbus, which moves a million bus passengers a month, bought National in January when it was floundering from losses on ...
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Virgin movers
Virgin Express Holdings chief financial officer Jim Swigart was due to take over as president and CEO of Virgin Express on 1 May, replacing Jonathan Ornstein, who has been appointed CEO of Mesa Air Group of the US. Source: Airline Business