Strategy – Page 1122
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Crandall attacks liberalisation progress
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON IN ANOTHER FIERCE attack on the lack of progress being made in UK-US liberalisation, American Airlines chairman Bob Crandall says that he is against any deal which falls short of giving the carrier an equal footing to that of British Airways at London Heathrow. ...
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Inconsistency in BALPA policy
Sir - The Independent Pilots Association (IPA) commends the letter from Chris Darke, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) on licence validations within the European Union (EU) (Flight International, 11-17 October, P49). The IPA is also concerned that licence validations have been issued to non-EU ...
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Munich on defensive as Asian airlines pull out
INDONESIAN CARRIER Garuda and Japan Airlines (JAL) have withdrawn from services to Munich Airport, leaving the airport management company, Flughafen Munchen (FMG), defending its growth record. According to the airport authorities, JAL pulled out over a question of traffic rights, while Garuda's decision was part of an overall ...
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Room for expansion at Air Seychelles
AIR SEYCHELLES has unveiled plans for new routes and aircraft, to enable the airline to grow with the development of tourist traffic - which has the scope to double to at least around 250,000 people a year. Executive chairman Freddie Karkaria says that he is considering opportunities to ...
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Valujet will open up more hubs
VALUJET, THE low-fare US airline entrant which is competing head-to-head with USAir in the eastern USA, is creating additional hub operations at Boston, Massachusetts, and Orlando, Florida. The profitable low-cost operator, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, successfully expanded its operations in 1994 at Washington's Dulles International. The Boston build-up ...
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American
American Airlines, of Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Michael Smith managing director of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, based at London Heathrow Airport, UK. Smith, who is now managing director of western-division sales, replaces Peter Bowler, who is to return to Fort Worth as managing director of ...
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Egyptian airline takes Metros
ORCA AIR, a new Egyptian airline based at Sharm el Sheikh on the tip of the Sinai peninsula has ordered, two 19-seat Fairchild Metro 23s and taken options on four more. The aircraft will be the first 23E models, incorporating an electronic flight-instrumentation system (EFIS) cockpit. The first ...
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Bidders line up for Kenya Airways stake
KENYA AIRWAYS IS close to selecting a strategic airline-partner, with KLM understood to have joined front runners British Airways and South African Airways (SAA) among the final bidders. Submissions were handed in on 3 November, with a winner due to be selected, on 30 November, at a meeting ...
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New Merpati president will go ahead with CN-235 lease plan
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE MERPATI NUSANTARA Airlines is to go ahead with the lease of 16 Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) CN-235-220 passenger aircraft, following the dismissal of the carrier's president, Ridwan Fatarudin. According to Mr Soepandi, president of Merpati parent airline Garuda Indonesia, there is a ...
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Dragonair moves to protect independence
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has terminated its management agreement with Dragonair, in a move designed to prepare the carrier for a possible public listing in 1996. Cathay Pacific owns 30% of Dragonair and has been responsible for running the Hong Kong airline under a 15-year ...
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Reduced separations lie ahead on Atlantic routes
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE NORTH ATLANTIC Systems Planning Group (NATSPG) plans to start preparations in December to pave the way for the introduction of a trial 1,000ft (300m) reduced vertical- separation minima (RVSM) across the Atlantic by January 1997. The NATSPG, which includes all major ...
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India prepares for change to CNS/ATM
David Learmount/SEATTLE INDIA HAS DRAWN up plans to replace its terrestrial air-traffic-control (ATC) system with a global-navigation satellite-system (GNSS)-based communications, navigation and surveillance/air-traffic management (CNS/ATM) by 2015. A Government study shows that the new system has the potential to yield tenfold increases in system air-traffic capacity ...
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Swissair and Sabena World launch joint sales effort
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SWISSAIR AND BELGIAN Sabena World Airlines are to launch a joint sales operation and offer shuttle services linking Brussels with Zurich and Geneva in 1996. Code sharing is also to be introduced on long-haul flights to the Middle East, Far East and South America. ...
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Don't knock Sir Freddie's return
Sir - I oppose the views of John Byrnes on the return of Sir Freddie Laker (Flight International, Letters, 18-24 October, P64). I was employed by Laker Airways for 11 years and was thrown into the same job maelstrom as everyone else. It is probably true ...
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Aviall
Dennis Wagner, has become vice president of finance and administration, at engine overhaul company Aviall Engine Services, of Dallas, Texas. Wagner, who joined Aviall in 1987 as director of finance and administration for Ryder Airline Services, was most recently general manager of CFM International CFM56 and International Aero Engines V2500 ...
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BA shrugs off US doubts
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS chairman Sir Colin Marshall shrugs off uncertainties over the fate of its US partner USAir, although he admits that the UK carrier has few clues over the likely outcome of the United and American Airlines approaches to the US airline. "We ...
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Virgin draws up regional shortlist
VIRGIN ATLANTIC Airways has stepped up its plans to launch a European regional airline based in Brussels, Belgium, by selecting a shortlist of possible aircraft suppliers. The move follows presentations in October by Boeing, British Aerospace Asset Management Organisation (the jet-leasing arm of BAe), Fokker, Avro Aerospace and ...
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Air Greece almost breaks even after first year of operation
AIR GREECE, one of the new batch of privately owned Greek start-up carriers, says that it came close to break-even over its first year of operations to September 1995. The airline had sales of GDr2.1 billion ($9 million) over the year, carrying nearly 121,000 passengers on its scheduled ...
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Brunei plans to expand
THE BRUNEI Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) is drawing up a three-phase expansion plan to develop the country's airport into a regional hub. Brunei wants to develop the airport following the formation of the East ASEAN Growth Area (EAGA), formed between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Under the ...