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It's not where you are, it's who you are
Sir - The article "US airlines move to end passenger-liability limits", (Flight International, 15-21 November, P17) signals a welcome development as the new inter-carrier agreement addresses the long-overdue question of airline liability on a global scale. The new agreement will permit passengers to make unlimited claims under their national law, ...
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Qantas will fly to India again
QANTAS HAS made sweeping schedule changes, which will include the carrier resuming services to Bombay via Singapore from next July, ending a six-year absence from India. A direct Boeing 747-400 flight from Melbourne to Johannesburg will be the first from Australia's East Coast. The three existing flights depart ...
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Restructured USAfrica ready for relaunch
USAFRICA AIRWAYS is optimistic that it will be able to restart services early in 1996 following the signing of a marketing pact with Continental Airlines and bankruptcy court approval for a refinancing package. USAfrica began serving South Africa in June 1994 from Washington, but it ceased operations and ...
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European airlines press for fast ground-handling reform
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS EUROPE'S AIRLINE chiefs have called on the region's politicians not to drag their feet over plans to liberalise the airport ground-handling market. The warning came from the Association of European Airlines (AEA), two days before Europe's air-transport ministers were due to meet on ...
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KLM triumphs in competition for stake in Kenya Airways
KLM HAS EMERGED as the winner of a three-cornered competition to take a stake in Kenya Airways. The Kenyan Government still has to rubber-stamp the deal - a move, which is expected before the end of the year. Under the deal, KLM would take a 26% holding in ...
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CityLine hands turboprop operations to Contact Air
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA CITYLINE is to hand over its Fokker 50 operations to partner Contact Air to enable it to concentrate on jet-airliner operations. In a related move, Contact Air is to return five de Havilland Dash 8-300s to the Canadian manufacturer. The move, approved ...
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American Airlines Cargo
Tommy McFall has been named managing director for safety and environment at American Airlines, of Fort Worth, Texas. McFall, who is now director of the US National Transportation Safety Board's regional office in Arlington, Texas, will replace John Fell, who is to retire. Source: ...
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KLM
Jan Meurer has been named vice-president for operations at Dutch national carrier KLM, replacing Henny Essenbert, who becomes group managing director, for Air UK. Enno Osinga succeeds Meurer as vice-president for customer service at KLM Cargo. He was formerly manager of cabin- crew divisions and deputy to the manager of ...
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ANZ
Robert Nazarian has been appointed chief financial officer at Air New Zealand (ANZ). Nazarian, now chief financial officer for Lion Nathan Australia, will take up his new position at the beginning of October. Nazarian replaces Robert Elstone, who moves to a similar position with Australia's Pioneer International group of companies. ...
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T-tail, take three
McDonnell Douglas has finally launched its MD-95 into the hotly contested100-seat market. Guy Norris/LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) hopes to build a lot of future business on its newly launched MD-95. Not only will it lead the attack on the yet-to-be-realised 100-seat market, but the small airliner ...
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New members join in-trail-climb club
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NORTHWEST, AMERICAN and Singapore Airlines (SIA) are set to join Delta Air Lines and United Airlines in operational trials of in-trail-climb (ITC) procedures over the Pacific. The use of ITC is being examined as a way of preventing one aircraft becoming "trapped" beneath ...
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FedEx moves to limit effects of pilots' action
US EXPRESS-PACKAGE carrier FedEx has wet-leased seven Boeing 727-200F freighters from Express One International, as a contingency in case industrial action by its pilots disrupts services in the build-up to the busy Christmas season. FedEx pilots stopped flying on their days off after contract talks with the carrier broke down ...
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Lufthansa posts profits despite continued exchange-rate trials
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA achieved a growth in profits for the first nine months of 1995, despite the massive exchange-rate losses which have blighted German industry all year. The German airline's pre-tax profits, before special items, showed a modest DM4 million ($2.9 million) improvement on the corresponding ...
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No 'fire sale' at USAir
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC USAir REMAINS receptive to strategic alliances, up to and including a merger with another airline, according to Seth Schofield, the carrier's chairman and chief executive. Speaking after the USAir Group's annual stockholders' meeting, Schofield estimated that the airline will have $1 billion in ...
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New direction for East West
EAST WEST AIRLINES, India's largest private airline, has received Government permission to import four Boeing 737-400s to meet demand for more capacity into Bombay and to service a new Delhi-Hyderabad route. The 737-400s are expected to be leased from Malaysia Airlines. Two are scheduled for delivery in December, ...
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HAECO teams with Rolls-Royce
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE HONG KONG AIRCRAFT Engineering (HAECO) is to hive off its engine-overhaul business to a new 50:50 joint-venture company to be formed in partnership with Rolls-Royce Aero Engine services. Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL) is expected to begin operations from I January, 1997. HAECO ...
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Air traffic mismanagement
The Western air-transport industry realised around 1989 that the most enormous commercial opportunity in the entire transition to the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) was opening up before its very eyes: Russia needed a new navigation infrastructure. Since then it has deluged Moscow with advice - some of it wrong, ...
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Tajudin Ramli: Malaysian Midas?
Paul Lewis/KUALA LUMPUR WHEN TAJUDIN RAMLI entered the international aerospace arena, he brought with him two essential qualifications for success: vision and cash. In the 18 months since taking the helm of Malaysia Airlines (MAS), Tajudin has shaken the national carrier out of its catatonic existence, masterminded a ...
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Appointments
Swissair has announced that Philippe Bruggisser will replace Otto Loepfe as chief executive officer. Pengiran Haji Bahrin has been appointed new chairman of directors for Royal Brunei Airlines. He succeeds HRH Prince Haji Jefri Bolkiah. America West Airlines has appointed Scott A Davis as vice president ...