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Thai denies making U-turn on withdrawal from Star Alliance
Thai Airways International is denying that it is contemplating pulling out of the recently established Star Alliance, and says that the company welcomes moves to expand the membership to include other Asia-Pacific carriers. The airline issued the denial statement in response to local reports that it was facing ...
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US Congress opens Dallas Love Field to Legend Airlines
Texas-based start-up carrier Legend Airlines hopes to select an aircraft type and apply for an operating certificate before the end of October, after the US Congress eased restrictions on services from Dallas Love Field. Legend's plans are dependent upon gaining approval to operate 56-seat, all-business-class, Boeing 737-200s or ...
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Midway boosts CRJ as Dash 8 production is slowed down
Bombardier is to step up production of the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ), but cut back on output of its de Havilland Dash 8 regional turboprop. The decision to increase CRJ production from five to six a month in 1998 came as Midway Airlines ordered ten aircraft, taking Bombardier's ...
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Fairchild Dornier bypasses 50-seat market
Fairchild Dornier is planning to develop a 70-seat regional jet and has abandoned a scheme to compete in the already-crowded 50-seat market sector with a stretched derivative of its 328JET. The US-German manufacturer will roll out the prototype of its Dornier 328 turboprop-derived 32-seat, Pratt & Whitney Canada ...
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Bell plans to fly 427 for first time in December
Bell plans to fly its Model 427 light twin-turbine helicopter early in December. The first of two prototypes is in the final stages of assembly at Bell's Mirabel, Canada, commercial-helicopter plant. The company has orders for more than 65 aircraft, with US certification planned for December 1998 and ...
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Airtours denies plans for A330 but closes on fleet decision
Airtours International is close to deciding on an order for new long-haul aircraft from Airbus or Boeing, but the airline denies that it has any plans to introduce Airbus A330s in 1998. According to Mike Lee, managing director of the Manchester, UK-based charter airline, decisions will be made ...
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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 ...