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Aviation History
1987
1987 - 1625.PDF
Africans plan new ENTEBBE Five African nations are plan ning to start a new inter national airline. The transport and com munication ministers of Botswana, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have signed a declaration of intent to establish "the Joint Organisation for Operating Intercontinental Air Services". Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, and Rwanda were also represented at the meet ing, and are expected to sign the document soon. "It is anticipated that the airline will jointly utilise widebodied aircraft and consolidate their market and route networks in order to enhance their performance and financial ability", they said. It is hoped that voluntary contributions from the parti cipating airlines and their governments will form part of the funding. Financial assis tance from the African Devel opment Bank and the East African Development Bank is also being sought. Far East considers standardisation NEW DELHI ~ Nine airlines in the seven countries around the Indian subcontinent are studying a proposal to buy a common type of aircraft in future to simplify maintenance and reduce costs. There are pres ently 16 different types oper ating in the-area. An annual growth rate of about 11 per cent is expected in the region up to the year 2000, and nearly 300 new airliners will be needed as replacements or to meet expansion plans. Previous attempts at putting such policies into practice have failed in the Middle East, and met with limited success in Europe. SAS invests in Spanish charter COPENHAGEN Scandinavian flag carrier SAS has taken a 25 per cent stake in a new Spanish charter airline, Spanair. The remainder is owned by Viajes Marsans, a subsidiary of Spanish tour operator Trapsa. Spanair will operate four MD-83s on lease from Irish Aerospace to Swedish tour operator Vingresor, and sublease in turn to Spanair. Like most of the young Spanish charter airlines, Spanair will be based in Palma de Mallorca. The Spanish base means it will have access to all the northern European markets for Spanish holidays. Oper ations start in Spring . 1988. Spanair will be headed by Carlos Bravo, a former direc tor of sales and marketing with Spantax. Spanish ATC strike causes delays The continuing pay dispute by Spanish air traffic controllers resulted in another 24hr strike at the peak of the British holiday season. The strike also affected other European services, with some flights being delayed up to 20hr. Three marquees were erected outside London Gatwick Airport to handle the overflow of waiting passengers. AIR TRANSPORT MEWS SCAN Cathay Pacific has increased its frequencies between Hong Kong and Taipei, Taiwan, to three flights a week, and plans to increase it to a daily service on September 14. UK based Servisair has been appointed fourth handling agent at London Gatwick Airport, from May 1988. It claims to be Europe's largest independent handling agent, having handled 8-5 million passengers for 200 airlines at 30 airports in 1986. British carrier Air UK has decided against changing its name because of the high cost in promoting a new image. Instead it is to invest more in promoting Air UK abroad. Lagos Airport, Nigeria, has reopened runway 19L/01R. In less than six months it has been structurally improved and resurfaced to increase its load classification number from 60 to 100. The project cost Naira6 million (about $3 million), and involved work on about 75,000m2 of runway. Alitalia has joined with British Airways, KLM, Swissair, and United Air lines' subsidiary Covia in the development of a new com puter reservation system, which the airlines have chris tened Galileo. Alitalia says that the name was chosen because of "the air of science, knowledge, and uniqueness of the man". It competes with the system being developed by the Amadeus quartet; Air France, Lufthansa, Iberia, and SAS. They are still look ing for other risk sharing part ners among the nonaligned European flag carriers. The nonaligned group comprises smaller European airlines which are negotiating for a completely neutral system. Emery Air Freight Corp reports a $12-7 million loss for the second quarter, against a $70,000 profit for the same period in 1986. The com pany's debt has risen to $400 million following the borrow ing necessary to acquire 83 per cent of the Purolator Courier Corp's shares and to take on Purolator's obligations. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 5 September 1987
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