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Capitol route to chaos
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Everyone in the USA agrees that urgent action is needed to cope with increasing capacity constraints. The problem remains how to wrench control from Congress. Democracy may have notched another coup on 10 November, but it was a bitterly disappointing day for the US air traffic ...
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AA-BA revisit alliance In a move that has drawn fire from UK rival British Midland, British Airways has submitted a joint application with American Airlines for US approval to start codesharing between Chicago and New York, and eight UK cities, excluding London. The alliance partners also aim to share ...
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Air France joins call for single US-EU market
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Air France chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta says he strongly supports transatlantic negotiations between the European Union and the USA and he wants to see the creation of a "transatlantic common aviation area". Spinetta, speaking in November at the International Aviation Club in Washington DC, said a ...
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WTO rules on aircraft tax Washington has appealed against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that foreign sales corporations are an illegal subsidy. US exporters use these corporations to shield income from tax. That creates opportunities for tax-based leasing on such exports as aircraft. If the ruling stands, Boeing ...
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The first signs of light?
Results of the summer's capacity hike are starting to show through in Europe's latest results, but Commerzbank's Chris Tarry detects signs that the worst may be over. Leading off the latest round of reporting for the major European airlines, both KLM and British Airways have provided the first tangible evidence ...
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Brighter spots on horizon for USA
Given heavy losses from Trans World Airlines and US Airways, the latest round of third quarter results from the US majors could have played much worse on Wall Street than it seems to have done. Most aviation analysts were keen to point to some bright spots on the industry's horizon ...
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Battle for the Big Apple
JANE LEVERE NEW YORK The USA's north-east corridor, long a hotbed of airline competition, is entering a new phase of battle as traditional players face new rivals. And not all of them come with wings. There is much at stake in the lucrative north-east corridor of the USA. Salomon Smith ...
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Europe nears harmonised working hours
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS Key industry organisations are close to a general agreement on how part of the European Union's Working Time Directive, which sets a range of binding standards on working hours, can be applied to aviation. On 15 October, the European Commission (EC) and industry groups agreed a ...
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British Midland decides on the Star attraction
GÜNTER ENDRES LONDON After intensive talks with all the major alliances, with the obvious exception of oneworld, British Midland has opted to team with Lufthansa and the Star grouping. BM is expected to join in spring or summer of next year. The alliance signing is backed by Lufthansa taking ...
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GAMCO to support French products
Gulf Aircraft Maintenance (GAMCO) has signed memoranda of understanding with French companies Eurocopter and Turboméca to establish regional maintenance centres for the helicopter and engine manufacturers' products in the Gulf. The French connection has been further widened with a fighter support deal with Dassault. Abu Dhabi-based aircraft maintenance ...
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Airports
A major refurbishment of Tashkent Airport's international terminal will begin in December, with Donald Smith, Seymour & Rooley as engineering consultant. Work is scheduled to be completed in June 2001. Belgian regional airports Liège-Bierset and Charleroi-Gosselies (rebranded as "Brussels South"), both operated by the country's regional government for the Walloon ...
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Oneworld allies seek codeshares
Chris Jasper/LONDON British Airways and its oneworld ally, American Airlines, have filed applications with the US Department of Transportation (DoT) for codeshares on flights serving 75 destinations in the UK, USA, Europe and Africa in a long-awaited move which should breathe new life into the pair's faltering alliance. American ...
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EgyptAir data fail to supply any answers
David Learmount/LONDON Initial evaluation of the crashed EgyptAir Boeing 767-300ER cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) has failed to confirm the causes of the dive which began the fatal manoeuvre sequence, says US National Transportation Safety Board chairman Jim Hall. On 17 November, Hall released ...
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Final Mir, first ISS crews are named
Two Russian cosmonaut crews have been named for the final mission to the Mir space station to be launched in February 2000. The prime crew is rookie Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kaleri, a Mir veteran. A two-person back-up crew has been named as Salizham Sharipov - who flew on ...
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Hardware losses top $2 billion
Tim Furniss/LONDON The $300 million-plus failure of Japan's H2 booster and a communications satellite on 15 November has brought to $2 billion the total value of space hardware lost this year. There have been six launch failures and five in-orbit satellite failures, plus satellite in-orbit anomalies. Despite the ...
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Matra Marconi wins Helios deal
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has been selected by the French Defence Agency as prime contractor to supply the ground segment for the Helios II reconnaissance satellite. It is to enter service in 2003 to process data from Helios IB and Helios IIA and B satellites and possibly future military spacecraft. ...
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Another Hubble gyroscope fails as repair mission is prepared
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was placed in a safe mode on 13 November after its gyroscope No 1 stopped operating, leaving just two operational units. Observations have been suspended. The situation, which had been anticipated, adds extra drama to the forthcoming STS103 Discovery mission to conduct the third service ...
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Mars upgrades
Mars upgrades The European Space Agency will upgrade two of the instruments that will fly on the Mars Express orbiter in 2003, to help make up for some of the science activities lost by the recent failure of the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter. An infrared channel will be added to ...
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Spy for hire
IAI's EROS satellite will help Israel to catch up in the space market Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Time sharing is usually associated with hotel rooms in exotic resorts. From early next year, the concept will also be linked with observation satellites for civil and military missions. The first Earth remote ...
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Catching African bugs
Age is beautiful for many African airports, which have avoided the biggest problems in becoming Y2K compliant Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA Africa is never short of contradictions. In the run-up to the year 2000, the very things that made some African airports the laughing stock of yesteryear are the reason that ...