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2000
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ZUZM-ZZ PEOPLE ++ Pratt & Whitney Canada has promoted Gilles Ouimet to presi dent and chief executive officer (CEO). He was previously president and chief operating officer. Ouimet succeeds CEO David Caplan, who remains as chairman until 2001. ++ Stefan Zoller corporate sec retary and chief of staff at DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, is to succeed Werner Heinzmann as executive chairman at Dasa affiliate Dornier. Heinzmann moves to Dornier's supervisory board. Thomas Enders, Dasa's head of corporate development, strategy and technology, also joins the board, and replaces Heinz mann as head of Dasa defence and civil systems. ++ Shelley Stewart has been appointed vice president (VP) supply chain man agement of Raytheon. Stewart joins from United Technologies where he was director of worldwide sourcing. Edward Pliner has been named VP and corporate con troller. ++ International Launch Services, part-owned by Lock heed Martin, has appointed four senior executives: Phil Slack - VP and chief financial officer. James Youdale - VP commercial launch programmes, Eric Novotny - VP marketing and sales, and Michelle Lyle - VP corporate affairs. ++ Crossair executive VP flight operations, Andre Dose, has been elected to the board of governors of the Flight Safety Foundation, based near Wash ington DC. ++ James Stoecker has been appointed president and CEO of Dallas-based Lufthansa Technik Component Services. The company supplies compo nents such as flight management computers, hydraulic pumps and control gears to airlines and repair shops. ++ James Martin has been named marketing and busi ness development director of Northrop Grumman's electronic sensors and systems sector. He was previously marketing director, surveillance systems. ++ James Loft in has been appointed direc tor of operations with Turbomeca Engine and sister company Microturbo. China limits fare discounts and plans airline mergers ANDRZEJ JEZIORSKI/SINGAPORE THE CIVIL Aviation Admini stration of China's (CAAC's) new policy on domestic revenue sharing aims to limit fare discount ing in the short term and could lead to the consolidation of the coun try's airline industry around four major groupings. Beijing has ordered revenue sharing on 100 mainland routes from 1 April and is pursuing plans to merge domestic airlines into four operations focused on ailing flag carrier Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines and an unnamed airline. Speaking to the local press, China Eastern said revenue shar ing was impractical in the long term and would discourage sen ice improvements, but would stabilise earnings to facilitate mergers. The airline had been lukewarm about linking with what it sees as inferior carriers, while a scheme to merge Air China and China Southern, formulated in Beijing, has now been dropped. The CAAC banned discounting early last year in a bid to halt a domestic fare war which was rag ing despite heavy industry losses in 1998. The ban was widely ignored, however, and after petitions from China Southern, Hainan Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines (all stock exchange listed), China Southwest Airlines and Sichuan Airlines, it said it would consider a relaxing or new regulatory system. The Administration says airlines that continue to discount will lose out since revenues will be shared at lev els it decides. • China Xinjiang Airlines is to take three Boeing 757-200s instead of three centrally ordered 737-700s, which are understood to be ear marked for Shenzhen. The 757s, to be delivered next March, will meet increased capacity requirements, offering a 201-seat configuration against the 737s' typical 140-seat layout. J Transnet leaves SA Alliance in crisis MICHAEL WAKABI/KAMPALA SOUTH AFRICAN Airways' (SAA) parent, Transnet, has ceased funding SA Alliance, lead ing to a scramble to raise cash by the East African regional's other shareholders. Existing reserves were due to run out as Flight International'went to press. Transnet's move is aimed at forcing Uganda and Tanzania to open regional and domestic routes to Alliance, making it their desig nated regional carrier. Its proposals have angered Air Tanzania, which accuses SAA of using Alliance as a Trojan Horse to take over national airlines in the region. A meeting of shareholders in AJAS (African Joint Air Services), which controls Alliance, revealed that the airline owes Transnet $50 million, equivalent to the operat ing deficit accumulated since its launch in 1995. The airline needs $420,000 a month on top of its ordinary revenues to keep its long- haul operations to Europe and India airborne. AJAS also has a holding in Rwandan regional Alliance Air Express. The meeting had been called to revise Alliance's charter, but was thrown into disarray by Transnet's tactics. SAA says it will fund up to Transet's tactics have left Alliance's future up in the air 40% of Alliance's opera ting deficit, provided Uganda and Tanzania, which together own 60% of the airline, provide the balance, equal to $ 126,000 each per mondi. A new funding agreement will inevitably mean a new business plan, although the two East African countries are resisting Transnet's schemes. Air Tanzania chairman Abbas Sykes says the proposal "amounts to surrendering national airlines to South Africa for free", while Uganda's privatisation min ister, Manzi Tumubweine, says investment is being sought for a new entity, Uganda Airlines Ltd, into which the assets of Uganda Airlines are to be folded. SAA recently dropped plans to invest in Uganda Airlines Flight International, 4-10 April), and half of the latter's workforce have been sent on indefinite leave. • UK transport secretary John Prescott has overturned a Civil Aviation Authority decision to award Virgin Atlantic Airways a second frequency to Cape Town, transferring the slot to British Airways, which now has daily flights. ' • FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 11 - 17 April 2000
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