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1982
1982 - 0163.PDF
BA's NEP works MARKET results for British Airways' New European Product show achieve ments are on target. Introduced in April 1981, British Airways' NEP offers just two classes: economy at the back, business at the front, with a movable divider to cope with vary ing balances of seat purchase. For the first six months of NEP, BA says that it has maintained or in creased its share of the business market on most major routes, mainly those where other carriers have re tained first class. Only Belgium ( + 11 per cent), Spain ( + 11 per cent), and Austria ( + 19 per cent) showed in creased first class use over the pre vious year. Club traffic was on target, and still increasing as a percentage of the total market at the time data were collated in October. Safety update. -• I1- •:.-*:-;•,.* .'•- v; -.'--: .•••>•:;-•: li-.i--"»:? '•.'.;;/ '•'. *:'i-i. *;'.?: at flf# ^|s^~-litiMSs'; that critical items can get buried la ir»¥!iS, sa.ys Br Kif-tof.' -"•'"''/•• : Bsslsjkjft j8lr#ior : : ;f Baefil "ijepiiHeat": of the Internationa! Air Transport Aasoa&iitsu. i':::s ,;•;•••.;'.! •; •: »: tie'V'siiJi.; ;ffisi'i:"":8j!f e^iSfW :i'M$r/. .j':;,• ii•(:•.'."•.'•• .'-J •-;,:Vi.••"•: i.'yj'.i'-.-- iWt- the critical items. In Australia, he ; :;si»ys,::!§>iftpfl ireinaia sfil ifsif./tefeBfc 'itv :vwikcii:/ !, :?iM- '.;•'--fSfMsf .:;i.i- airllaeil :;:;' %f % :?''.r.iH:.:.c^ •j.-.itb. :a2r \? ;-i :-:\ i- : sjoflni .=<_•:••.-• ~ •" i;.;:-AV'•-:•'•'> --"-v.; <•••"•; a part in Australia's superb safety .•."';."-:c.-i ".'•'- ": J r. = •.!.—•'••:'•-: :.j'.- : Although useful, the Icao inci- substantially fewer than 50 reports ;• iSilitersMBtlS^ ifcal\ljife8eiaM> Snaps'^ ':; . .-».".-. -3 ;• f >-'..•: -':r. ,»>•' *.,'•.• :,'- • •"i. ..' " "• ;"."- ••"••-.,•<.: ', ;;.-*••• >J ',ir-\ ~.\ •;• America"—has introduced infor- •jlta! UiittSiaSi-^tiiisiSK-SssSliillSi^ :;'-c;-.: ~;"i k-Vf" »^t:nv.'.:- ;. ,, .:-;•' banking "so that those incidents of direct significance can be V) -';••••:; °tig: .•'•''.;-- -iviy "-'IT" (-iUi-.- .fliiis! lion) order for four de Havilland Canada Dash 7s, and has taken options on two more. The Atlanta Hartsfielld International-based com muter carrier will receive the first two this summer and the second pair during 1983, wd*h the options specify ing 1984 deliveries. The cost of Atlantic Southeast's order includes the value of spares. ASA currently operates from Atlanta to eight cities in the southeast USA, using four Twin Otters. Air Affaires Gabon has ordered a second Embraer EMB-110 Bandei- rante, which it will receive in March. The Libreville-based airline has specified the inoreased-take-off weight SFAR-41 version of the type; it will use itihe aircraft to operate its Libre- ville-Franceville services and for charter operations. Japan Air Lines has ordered a McDon nell Douglas DC-10-40, for delivery late this year. The aircraft—JAL's 20th DC-10—will be fitted with 53,0001b-thrust Pratt & Whitney JT9D-59As, and will seat 370 passen gers. The airline will use the aircraft specifically on domestic routes*—it al ready operates nine of the type on its domestic network, as well as several short-range Boeing 747SRs. McDonnell Douglas has now received firm orders for 367 DC-lOs, of which 358 have been delivered, and holds conditional orders for 13 more. Atlantic Airlines, a new German chanter carrier, has taken over an order for two Boeing 737-200s from another, as yet undisclosed, airline. In addition, Atlantic has taken an option on a third 737. The Hamburg- based carrier will receive its first two 737s in March, and will receive the third early in 1983 if it takes up the option. Atlantic Airlines is the 109th 737 customer, and plans to begin charter services in the spring, operat ing IT flights from Hamburg to Mediterranean destinations. FLIGHT International, 23 January 1982 Brymon Airways' third Dash 7 is now operating the airline's Newquay-Heathrow service. It is seen at Heathrow after performing Brymon's inaugural Dash 7 service to London. A MAS DC-IO taxies past behind Thai Airways has decided to purchase four Shorts 330-200s to replace four of its ageing HS.748s, according to local sources. The airline is awaiting approval for the purchase from the Thai Ministry of Communications, which is expected to accept the proposal. The carrier plans to place the order in time for mid-1982 deliveries. Thai in dustry sources say the deal will be worth about 270 million Baht (£6-4 million), to be financed by British banks and guaranteed by the UK ECGD. The airline will keep two 748s for feeder services and for charter to US oil companies working on natural gas exploration in the Gulf of Thai land. The other four will be sold; Thai Airways expects to get about £800,000 for each. British Air Ferries has negotiated the purchase of British Airways' remain ing Viscounts and its entire Viscount spares holding, including engines and propellers. The aircraft will be de livered to BAF when they are re leased from British Airways service this spring. BAF is now carrying out the maintenance checks remaining on the Viscounts during British Airways service on behalf of the state carrier. It is doing the work at BA's Rhoose engineering base, thus keeping staff employed who would otherwise have been made redundant last December. BAF chairman Mike Keegan has also announced that the company wants to acquire and expand on BA's Rhoose facilities. It would use Rhoose as a maintenance base for its own aircraft, as a facility where contract main tenance work for other carriers could be performed, and as a pro duction line for a new microlight air craft BAF intends to build and sell commercially. Breadline International and Bagudu Construction are among the Nigerian third-level operators which have ordered Dornier 228s. More than ten aircraft have been ordered by several new Nigerian airlines which intend to use them for regional ser vices. Norwegian commuter carrier Norving will use its single 228-100 (the first to be delivered) on the Kirkenes-Vadso-Batsfjord route, cur rently operated by Islanders three times a day. Norving's two 228-200s will replace Titans on the Skien-Oslo route. Dornier now holds 23 firm 228 orders and 57 options. The two proto types have completed more than 270hr. Certification of both 228 vari ants should be completed . by February. 161
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