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Toughing out the boom
In 1997, can the major airlines improve on their performance in the boom year of 1996? Airline Business previews the main issues which will dominate airline executives' thinking in 1997. These are the good times, but life for the average airline manager does not appear to be getting any easier. ...
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Bespoke fortunes
Effective, efficient hubs are vital to most US majors' profitability. But do they operate in everybody's best interests and is stronger regulation needed? Karen Walker reports. You either love hubs or hate them. A government department has accused the US majors of continuing to use their hubs to raise fares ...
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Asia rife with labour strife
Industrial unrest is spreading across Asia-Pacific as the region's carriers react to a worrying economic slowdown and stiff competition, compounded by the global hike in fuel costs. At presstime, All Nippon Airways was at loggerheads with its cabin crew unions after wage negotiations broke down: a 24-hour strike ...
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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. KLMwill inaugurate twice weekly services to Abidjan and to Nagoya via Sapporo from April 1997 ...
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Racal close to clinching Aerad deal
Racal Avionics is in advanced talks with British Airways over the acquisition of the airline's wholly owned flight-documentation subsidiary Aerad. Racal provides worldwide navigation data for flight-management systems and sees Aerad's business as complementary. The UK avionics company declines to confirm that the talks are taking ...
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Is candid Crandall correct about IT?
When Robert Crandall, AMR Corp chairman, noted at the last Iata annual general meeting that 'there is no reason to believe that technology will make airlines more profitable,' there had to have been a few sets of raised eyebrows in the audience. Crandall, after all, is the one credited for ...
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All aboard for the next recession
You've seen it all before. A recession coincides with the delivery of hundreds of new aircraft. Swamped with capacity, airlines seek to extract some revenue from their glossy new machines by placing too much capacity into the marketplace. Yields and load factors plummet, and the red ink flows. All future ...
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Supersonic resurrection
It seemed as if the Tupolev Tu-144was bound for the scrapheap, but things have now changed. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW When Marshal Boris Bugaev, the Soviet minister of civil aviation, ordered the termination of Aeroflot's Moscow-to-Alma Ata supersonic service in May 1978, it looked like the end of the line ...
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US schools fear GPS shortfall
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA The US flight-training industry fears that a problem may be emerging because students trained on older aircraft, which have no satellite-navigation equipment, are unfamiliar with the global-positioning system (GPS). The US National Air Transportation Association (NATA), representing flight schools, has appealed for information ...
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The disadvantages of supersonic travel
Sir - A 350t, 250-seat supersonic transport (SST), more than twice the size of the Aerospatiale/ British Aerospace Concorde was mentioned in an advertisement (Flight International, 4-10 September). You reported a similar concept from NASA of the USA (Flight International, 17-23 April). Could I place these concepts in relation to ...
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Emergency-exit changes foreshadowed
David Learmount/LONDON Emergency escape hatches on commercial aircraft used in Europe may have to be modified to make them easier and quicker to open, if the findings from a new UK study are implemented. This could lead to fleet retrofit requirements as well as new-build changes if the ...
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Blindness in its sights
A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 has been made into a well-equipped eye hospital. Eryl Crump/MANCHESTER THE FATE OF AN AGEING airliner is usually either to decline towards the scrap yard via a series of increasingly lower level airlines, or to be turned into a freighter. For one McDonnell ...
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Harris' WINGS adds weather to flight-planning system
HARRIS HAS introduced a general-aviation flight-planning system, which allows routes to be overlaid on real-time weather graphics. The company's Weather Information and Navigational Graphics System (WINGS) consists of Windows-compatible software for Pentium-class personal computers (PCs). The system provides dial-up access to Melbourne, Florida-based Harris Information Systems' flight- and ...
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Japan Air System takes its first Boeing 777
Japan Air System (JAS) took delivery of its first Pratt & Whitney PW4084-powered Boeing 777-200 on 4 December, from an order for seven aircraft. The JAS 777s, which are the first to be painted in the airline's new scheme, will also be the first operated on the Japanese domestic network ...
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Boeing targets Delta for stretched 767
Paul Lewis and Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing is close to launching the stretched 767-400ERX on the back of an anticipated order from Delta Airlines for a complete fleet of passenger aircraft. Interest in the 767 derivative has been revived after years of inactivity, during which time ...
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New 737 launch stresses technology and low cost
Max Kingsley-Jones/SEATTLE Boeing CLAIMs that it has put itself "ten years ahead" of Airbus Industrie in the short-haul, jet-powered-airliner technology/low-cost stakes with the official unveiling of its first next-generation 737 (a -700) at its Renton plant, near Seattle, Washington, on 8 December. Sales of next-generation 737s ...
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JDAM success
Two successful test launches were made of the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) at Eglin AFB, Florida, on 25-26 November from two Lockheed Martin F-16s. The first was a fully guided flight, using the global-positioning system to navigate the boom to a hit on target. The second ...
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New Meyers develops four-seater
M300 flight-testing is scheduled to begin in early 1997 New Meyers Aircraft has begun development of a four-seat light aircraft, with certification flight-testing scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 1997. The new M300 is planned to enter production alongside the company's two-seat SP20, an updated version of ...
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Inmarsat D provides two-way messaging for GPS receivers
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Hand-held global-positioning-system (GPS) receivers incorporating two-way short-messaging capabilities will be available to general-aviation pilots from the third quarter of 1997, according to international mobile satellite-communications provider Inmarsat. Technology is being developed to take advantage of the new Inmarsat D service, launched on 3 December. ...
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German Government turns up heat on Airbus restructuring
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The German Government is linking the provision of further aeronautics-research funding to the restructuring of Airbus Industrie and the launch of the A3XX, putting further pressure on the Airbus partners to reach agreement on the establishment of a new commercial structure for the consortium. ...