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1982
1982 - 1811.PDF
AIR TRANSPORT Good year for KLM AMSTERDAM '^"•^.•*%*n,.,. Dutch flag carrier KLM has just reported a 1981-82 net profit that is significantly up on the previous year's figure. Although KLM's operating profit for the 12 months accounts almost completely for the commendahle £6-8 million net profit figure, the operating result is poorer than that for 1980-81. What has happened this year is that sundry income has com pletely balanced sundry costs, according to the air line. Last year these costs exceeded non-operating in come, and a lower net profit resulted. The airline's revenues rose 21 per cent to £967-3 million in 1981-82, but operating costs rose by 22 per cent to £960-8 million, giving an operating profit of £6-5 mil lion. Last year the airline re corded a £12-3 million operating profit but reported only a £2-3 million net profit. The European financial press has reported that KLM was able to show an in creased profit for the year because of aircraft sales. This could explain why sundry costs have been balanced by non-operating income this year, but the air line is not releasing precise financial details of its 1981- 82 performance until July. But it does say that its tonne-mile traffic was up by 7 per cent for the year, to 1,804 million tonne-miles. Overall payload factor for the period rose from 60-6 per cent to 63-4 per cent. Short hauls . . . Aeroflot has begun a weekly Ilyushin 86 service to Madrid. The 2,300-mile jour ney includes a stop in East Berlin. Jersey European Airways now operates a twice weekly (Tuesday and Thursday) Liverpool - Stansted - Brussels service. The aircraft departs at 10.45 and stops for re fuelling at Stansted before I setting off for Brussels. FLIGHT International, 3 July 1982 \SL This picture of the flight-line at Boeing Field includes every Boeing jet airliner currently in production. The line-up includes one E-3A AW ACS aircraft, eight 727-200s (plus a second hand 727-100), ten 737s, a 747SR for All Nippon, a 747SP for Saudia, and 757s and 767s Western IIS regionals merge SEATTLE US regional airlines Horizon Airlines and Air Oregon are merging together under the Horizon name. Although specific tijrms of the con solidation have not been re vealed, directors and share holders of both companies unanimously approved the merger. The new enlarged Horizon Airlines will operate to 13 destinations in Washington State, Oregon, and Idaho using 11 aircraft. Air Oregon brings a fleet of Fairchild Swearingen Metro 2s to the new carrier, and Horizon Airlines' several Fairchild F.27As. According to the new airline, "additional air craft will be dedicated to the increased demand for charter service". Horizon Airlines' chair man Milton G. Kuolt II be lieves that the combination of the two carriers' sched ules will allow greater inter lining flexibility for passen gers, and that this will have a beneficial effect oru passen ger traffic. Furthermore, says Kuolt, the integrated opera tion will create economies of scale and will result in other cost savings not available to either carriers alone. Horizon estimates that it will now carry over 300,000 passengers in the next 12 months. Aeronaves buys Faucett LIMA ~ The owners of Aeronaves del Peru, a cargo carrier operating domestic and in ternational charters and schedules, have purchased a majority shareholding in the financially troubled Faucett Airlines for about US$4 mil lion. Faucett operates passen ger and cargo schedules within Peru and to Miami. The new owners say that Faucett and Aeronaves will not be merged, but one of their first moves has been to transfer a passenger DC-8 from Aeronaves to Faucett. They have also requested Peruvian Government ap proval for domestic discount fares. Aeronaves is controlled by the Zanatti family group, which bought 58-8 per cent of the airline's stock from Peruvian businessman Luis Leon Rupp's Grupo Vulcano. Faucett Airlines' debts are reported to total $18 million. According to one Aeronaves official, its biggest single debt is a $5 million payment re maining on its BAG One- Elevens. Canadian controllers cannot strike QUEBEC The Supreme Court of Canada has given the Government the legal auth ority to prohibit Canada's air traffic controllers from striking. The Government has always maintained that when a controllers' strike arises it is "essential" to maintain normal operations at every airport, instead of having only skeleton services for emergency and mercy flights. The Court has agreed with this, so all 1,800 Cana dian controllers would be legally bound to stay at their posts, as they would be designated "essential" by the Government.
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