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Sabena postpones flightcrew relocation
Sabena's plans to shift pilots and cabin attendants to a Swissair payroll by 1 January, 1998, to reduce the Belgian carrier's airline's high labour costs, have been postponed. The hold-up threatens plans for the airline to return to profit by 1999. Sabena secretary-general Patrick du Bois says that ...
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Eurowings wins domestic skirmish
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa is to open up its Miles & More scheme to passengers on competing smaller airlines flying internal German routes, bringing to a close a test case under investigation by state competition authorities. A complaint was raised with the authorities in May by Lufthansa's ...
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Culture clash causes Frontier and Western Pacific to part
Western Pacific Airlines (WestPac) and Frontier Airlines have terminated merger moves because of alleged "cultural differences" which undermined the amalgamation of the two small Colorado-based carriers. The directors of Western Pacific and Frontier signed a merger deal on 30 June under which WestPac would acquire the smaller carrier, ...
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Cooking up business
The move to ATR 72s has so far been successful for Mount Cook Airline's crews and passengers Paul Phelan/CAIRNS A fleet of five to six Boeing 737-400s or Airbus A320s, and 13-14 Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) ATR 72s, calculates one air-transport analyst, would far better fit Air New ...
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Aged to perfection?
Dave Higdon/WICHITA Flying from Clark County Airport in southern Indiana to a Kentucky state park a mere 110km (60nm) away hardly seemed a fair way to sample a Raytheon Beech Bonanza B36TC - let alone this loaded, 50th-anniversary edition. Certainly nothing to challenge the six-seat Bonanza's big speed, ...
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Boeing studies 777-200X 'sleeper' options
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing has begun talks with potential 777-200X customers over lower-lobe options for its ultra-long-range derivative of the twinjet, with sleeping space for up to 40 passengers and crew. Boeing is now seriously examining the long-discussed possibility of passenger sleeping accommodation, needed mainly because of ...
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BA harmony
British Airways has reached agreement with its main cabin crew union following a damaging strike this summer. Source: Airline Business
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The weakest link
corporate aviationaccident causes 1996Listed fatal accidents by No ofNo of Causeaccidentsfatalities Aircrew error28156 CFIT18106 Weather1365 Loss of control1051 Engine failure/fire425 Structure/systems fail13 Operations error12 Maintenance00 Airframe/systems fire00 ATC error00 Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) refers both to collision with high ground or rising terrain, and also to collision ...
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Lateral thinkers
In a bid to instill fresh ideas, more airlines are now recruiting managers from other countries. Lois Jones looks at the challenges faced by today's mobile managers, and talks to six top people who have switched countries. There are several ways to skin a cat, and several ways to save ...
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USA and Japan miss deadline
Andrew Mollet/TOKYO US and Japanese negotiators meeting in Tokyo failed to reach a new bilateral air-services agreement by the 30 September deadline set in July. The US delegation says that sufficient progress has been made for talks to continue, however, and another round is due for the week ...
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Condor prepares for low-cost subsidiary
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Condor Flugdienst, the charter subsidiary of Lufthansa, is expected to found a Berlin-based subsidiary airline within weeks. According to Condor, plans are being finalised for a low-cost airline, to be called Condor Berlin, which will compete against rivals such as Aero Lloyd and Air ...
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Rogue RVSM flights cause concern
Kevin O'Toole/AMSTERDAM Air traffic control (ATC) services have warned that the success of new reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) across the North Atlantic is being marred by safety concerns over their inability to discriminate against aircraft not approved to operate within the minima. When the RVSM was ...
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Fair's fare is the business
In sharp contrast to the wave of low-cost startups sweeping through Europe, a Paris-based carrier is set to start Europe's first dedicated business class service. Fairlines is to start scheduled business services this November from Paris/Charles de Gaulle to Nice and Rome/Fiumicino using 70-seater MD-81s. The aircraft will ...
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Delta bends to new head
'Bent, but not broken' is how Delta Air Lines' new president and chief executive, Leo Mullin, sums up the airline's current performance, identifying customer service improvements as a priority. As a newcomer to the airline industry it comes as no surprise when he puts his own spin on ...
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Good news, bad news
David Learmount/London While THE USA can exult in its lowest general aviation (GA) fatal-accident rate in history, and Canada's raw data for 1996 also look promising, the UK is forced to declare that last year was its worst since 1987. On the other side of the globe, New ...
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Why do authorities fear democracy?
Sir-Bob Crowe (Letters, Flight International, 10-16 September) puts forward a very reasonable case for the lessening of the authoritarian stance of the UK Civil Aviation Authority when it comes down to rule-making and the stand it takes on such items as single-engined commercial freighters and other matters. The ...
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FAA conducts key wide-area augmentation system test
The US Federal Aviation Administration successfully demonstrated the wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) in Mexico on 23 September. In the test, a NAVCANADA Bombardier Canadair Challenger using the WAAS was flown on approaches to Tijuana International Airport. The FAA says the flight evaluation is "the first big step" towards ...
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BA waits on Russian approval for FANS go-ahead
British Airways is ready to equip up to 40 Boeing 747-400s with Future Air Navigation System (FANS) avionics to take advantage of new cost-saving routes across Russia - but may walk away from the project if there is no sign of funding for ground infrastructure by the end of this ...
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The people's airline
The new climate at employee-owned United, instilled by chairman Gerald Greenwald, has not filtered through to the airline's grass roots nor brought any obvious great advantages over US rivals. But the airline's strategy looks sound and profitability is at an all-time high. By Karen Walker. Gerald Greenwald, United Airline's ...
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Airline news
Austrian Airlines and Swissair have confirmed taking a 18.37 per cent stake in Ukraine International Airlines through a holding company in which Austrian Airlines holds 77.78 per cent and Swissair 22.22 per cent. KLM will inaugurate twice weekly services to Abidjan and to Nagoya via Sapporo from April ...