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1983 - 1328.PDF
AIR TRANSPORT Pan Am flies more passengers NEW YORK Pan American's scheduled load factor in June increased by 8-4 percentage points to 64 • 9 per cent, a 14 • 9 per cent increase in load factor over June 1982, and, says Pan Am, "the carrier's highest load factor in 22 months". On Pan Am's domestic routes load factor increased 13-4 percentage points from June 1982 to 68 per cent last month. Domestic scheduled revenue passenger miles were down 4-4 per cent, while capacity (measured in sched uled available seat miles) declined 23 • 3 per cent in the period. On the carrier's Pacific routes the load factor for June was 69 • 1 per cent for the month, up 12-1 per cent. On its Atlantic routes the load factor in the month was 67 • 4 per cent, a 6-6 per cent increase, while in Latin America Pan Am's load factor declined one percentage point in the period to 45 per cent. In the first six months of 1983 the US carrier flew 13,330 million scheduled revenue passenger miles, a 0-2 per cent increase. Scheduled available seat miles were down 4-8 per cent to 22,314 million and load factor increased 5 • 5 per cent to 59 • 8 per cent in the first half of the year. Taiwan seeks business TAIPEI Taiwan's battle to woo sched uled airline business away from mainland China has intensified. Sri Lanka's flag- carrier Airlanka is the latest to negotiate to start service, and Singapore has been prom ised "favourable consider ation" of its application for two additional flights from Taiwan to the USA. Airlanka chairman S. R. Wichramanayake is due in Taipei this month to finalise plans for an initial weekly TriStar service from Colombo via Singapore. He held talks in February with officials of China Air Lines and the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The airline plans to begin service in September, a month earlier than CAL suggested, to avoid a clash with a new Japan route set for October. This will be an extension of the Colombo-Hong Kong service. The SIA application seems to be part of Taiwan's efforts to increase its European desti nations beyond Amsterdam. Inauguration of that route in April provoked a blast from Peking at KLM, which oper ates the reciprocal service through Martinair. CAL and SIA each have 13 weekly flights between their home bases. All of SIA's flights are allowed to continue to other points, but only five of CAL's are permitted to do so. Taiwan's vice-com munications minister, Chen Shu-Hsi, citing the friendly relations between Taiwan and Singapore, said that he was sure agreement could be reached on adding on flights for CAL in return for giving SIA the extra flights it seeks. Air Tanzania to serve Bombay DAR-ES-SALAAM Air Tanzania has resumed its weekly flights from Dar-es- Salaam to Bombay after a one-year absence on the route. Following fulfilment of all Indian civil aviation require ments, Air Tanzania is oper ating an Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 720 on the Indian Ocean service. An agreement was reached between the two national carriers last year. The airline is also looking at the possible purchase of a third Boeing 737—it currently has two 737-200s—or a larger aircraft to consolidate its services. Air Tanzania has forecast 80 per cent revenue growth by the end of 1984, which it hopes will result from an improved yield and extended network. Sources in Dar-es- Salaam report that Air Tanzania is planning to re introduce flights to London before the end of 1984, and that it is planning improved reliability, better cabin service, and updated cabin furnishings. The forward fuselage section of the first A300-600 for Saudi Arabian Airlines is seen here at the beginning of the final A300/A310 assembly line at Toulouse 234 NEWS SCAN Air Europe has reported a £6 • 8 million pre-tax profit for its financial year ending March 31, 1983, a 26 per cent increase over its previous year's £5-4 million profit. Air Europe has now recorded pre-tax profits totalling £16 million since it began oper ations in May 1979. The UK holiday charter airline carried more than 1 • 2 million passengers in 1982/83, 26 per cent more than it carried in the previous year. Grindlays Bank and Citi corp Industrial Credit have arranged a US-based lever aged lease for Singapore Airlines. The $92 million lease is for SIA's purchase of one Boeing 747-300. Air Canada is to spend $3 million in redeveloping its cargo terminal at London Heathrow Airport over the next two and a half years. The redevelopment calls for a wide range of new equipment, the re-organisation of skid rack ing, the installation of two elevating build-up platforms with scales, and the installa tion of 12 aircraft pallet stor age racks. The redevelopment will enable the airline to double its present cargo capacity of 29,000 tonnes to 60,000 tonnes a year and improve its service to existing handled airlines, a spokesman says. The long-gestating LOT Warsaw city air terminal project, (construction of which commenced in 1977/78 and was interrupted exactly two years ago), is one of the handful of infrastructure projects slated for completion by the Polish Government amongst 1,600-plus major construction projects frozen over the past two years. All that a spokesman for British contractors Cementation International would say was: "We have reached an amicable settlement with the Polish authorities over the contractural obligations." Cementation had originally been euphoric over signing the £50 million contract with the Polish state agency, Intraco, in 1977, but in June 1981 became the first-ever Western company to be hit by Comecon banks defaulting on payments. FLIGHT International, 30 July 1983
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