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Aviation History
1987
1987 - 1000.PDF
AIR TRANSPORT UTA aims at Newark PARIS Less than a year after UTA, the French privately-owned Union de Transports Aeriens has started running a regular five flights weekly from Paris to San Francisco. Its chair man, Rene Lapautre, is now seeking landing rights at New York's Newark Airport. In this, he has the backing of French Transport Minister Jacques Douffiagues, who is in favour of fuller competition between Air France and other French airlines in a bid to check the onslaught of carri ers from the United States. Hard on the heels of Ameri can Airlines, United Airlines, TWA, and Pan American, Continental Airlines is launching a new Paris-New York service on July 2. UTA's director for external relations, Michael Cornubert, says he is confident that the French higher air transport council (Conseil Superieur l'aviation marchande— CSAM) will give its green light on June 24 so that regular UTA flights to Newark may start in Novem ber this year. I MORE CARGO SPACE WHEN YOU NEED IT Hercules L-100 fll/ai,,h/p Charter Flights Boeing 707-320C H™^'* Project Support (Hushkitted) "' Contract Services Worldwide Operating Authority Remote/Unimproved Site Delivery 24 Hour Availability Outsize/Unique Cargo Capabilities Drive On/Containerized or Bulk Loading SOUTHER/V AIR TRANSPORT Miami International Airport 800-327-6456 • 305-871-5171 • Telex:51-8856 • SITA:MIAOOSJ NEWS SCAN Alitalia, the Italian flag carrier, has chosen General Electric CF6-80C2 engines for the six McDonnell Douglas MD-lls it has on order with four options. The value of the order is about $250 million. Alitalia is the eighth MD-11 customer to choose the CF6. The UK's Air Traffic Control assistants' 24hr strike on Monday June 8 reduced normal traffic levels by 50 per cent, according to the Civil Aviation Authority. Incoming flights from continental Europe suffered delays of up to six hours. London Heathrow averaged only about 20 movements an hour, four of which were transatlantic. The airlines were able to minimise the disruption to their services, having been forewarned of the strike. Virgin Atlantic has started a new service from Luton (North of London) to Dublin using a wet-leased British Air Ferries Viscount and offering a £70 return fare. It is oper ating two rotations a day during the week with three at weekends. It had applied to operate the route from London Gatwick, but was blocked by objections. No-smoking flights are becoming increasingly popu lar. Three UK airlines have now adopted the policy, and Indian carrier Vayudoot has banned smoking on all of its Dornier aircraft. Air UK's no- smoking trial was disapproved by only 7 per cent of its passengers, and it hopes to extend the policy to all its flights. New UK charter airline Paramount has an experimental smoking ban on all of its flights, with Britan nia Airways doing likewise on a series of charter flights from London to the Canary Islands this winter. Pan Am's Atlantic traffic for May this year showed a 44 per cent improvement over May 1986. Its system-wide load factor rose 21 percent age points to 62-6 per cent. On-time performance was at a record level; 81 per cent of flights departed within five minutes of scheduled time. 26 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 20 June 1987
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