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1982
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AIR TRANSPORT BA757 starts with Belfast LONDON Belfast will be the first destination to receive British Airways' new Boeing 757 service next February. The airline has now defined how the 757 will be used in terms of cabin arrangement and route network. The first of the carrier's 17 757s, which will be de livered on January 31, will carry its first passengers on a Shuttle flight from London Heathrow to Aldergrove. According to BA its Shuttle nights to Glasgow will be operated with the 757 from February 11, with Man chester and Edinburgh fol lowing in March when the airline takes delivery of three more of the type. BA's 757s will be 189- seaters, although the airline initially announced it could fit 220 seats into the air craft's single-aisle layout. The seat pitch is 32in and the Cabin will have a two-class configuration, Club and Tourist Class, says BA. Next summer when British Airways has four 757s in service it will begin inter national routes to Rome, Milan, Paris, and Copen hagen. From October 1983 BA will extend the 757 net work to Athens, Nice, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Copenhagen, and in January 1984 routes to Geneva and Zurich will be added. BA's 757 fleet will replace its existing Trident 3s on both its domestic and Euro pean routes. Berlin subsidy cut opposed A proposal by West Ger many's finance minister to cut the 18 per cent subsidy to passengers flying between West Berlin and other cities in West Germany has an gered the two main carriers serving Berlin, British Air- FL1GHT International, 2 October 1982 An Iraqi Airways Ilyushin II-76M arrives at Stansted, UK, on September 12, positioning for a racehorse cargo charter ways and Pan Am. The British, French, and US civil air attaches, who regulate the traffic from Frankfurt, Hanover, and Hamburg into West Berlin are angry at the lack of con sultation. They feel that West Berlin's economy will suffer if the move goes ahead. Finance Minister Manfred Lahnstein proposes to phase out the 18 per cent subsidy by 1986. British Airways says that if the West German Government takes this action it could lead to the closing down of services to two West German cities and a sharp reduction in service to three cities from Berlin. The gen eral manager of BA's Ger man division says he hopes that a decision to drop the proposal will be made during Parliamentary debates in Bonn. He says that it is im portant to stress that the sub sidy is paid to the passen gers, not the carriers. "It will be the passengers who will suffer and as a result will travel less often," he said. The subsidy on Berlin tickets was introduced in 1962, the year after the Wall was built, and was set at 20 per cent of the ticket price. Since then the subsidy has dropped to around 18 per cent of the ticket price. £38 million loss for ANZ Air New Zealand has an nounced a NZ$90 million (£38 million) operating loss for 1981, more than double its previous year's loss. The airline says that while revenue increased in 1981 by 18-3 per cent, expenditure rose by nearly 25 per cent to £318 million. Air New Zealand chairman R. A. Owens said the carrier's annual financial result "was a sobering reflec tion of the inability of the industry to resolve the diffi culties facing it". Last year ANZ cut its workforce by 626 mostly, it says, through attrition. The airline now employs 1,172 staff. Texas who? Texas International has asked the Civil Aeronautics Board if it can operate under the name of Continental Air lines, when the two carriers merge on October 31. Although a final decision on the carriers' combined marketing concept will not be announced for several weeks, there are indications that Texas International's DC-9 aircraft will be re painted in Continental's liv ery and that its integrated services may be presented to US travel agents in Contin ental's name. Texas and Continental have jointly applied to the CAB for permission to wet-lease or exchange aircraft on the US-Mexico routes served by the two carriers. Both car riers believe that the aircraft exchange would allow grea ter flexibility when dealing with the changing demands in the volatile Mexican econ omy. The two airlines have also jointly filed co-extensive certificates on the US-Mex ico routes. The certificates, if granted, would give either carrier permission to operate a route held by the other. People . . . Irvine L. Burrows Jr has been appointed vice-presi dent, product support, for McDonnell Aircraft. He suc ceeds Vernon Teig who is re tiring. Raleigh L. Huntsman has been named vice- president deputy general manager at McDonnell Douglas' Tulsa plant. 971
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