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Yields making cargo pay
Few airlines still need to be convinced about the worth of yield management systems in the passenger business. Now some of the major combination carriers are beginning to turn their attention to the aircraft belly, asking whether revenue management techniques cannot now be applied to raise freight yields. The ...
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POLAR steering a new course
Good navigators, whether in cockpits or corner offices, sense when it is time to change course. The navigators for Long Beach-based Polar Air Cargo think that the time is now. But knowing when to change is only part of their challenge; they also must know what to change and what ...
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Identity crisis
Europe's regional airline executives could be excused for feeling pleased with themselves as they gathered in Hanover for the annual meeting of the European Regions Airline Association (ERA). The industry is again heading for double digit growth this year, expanding at around twice the speed of the majors. Load ...
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ON-LINE A new web challenger
Ticket auctions on the Internet may not be new, but the latest web offering is stirring up more than a little controversy within the US airline industry. The problem centres not so much on what is being offered - basically an Internet service that allows the public to bid for ...
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Gaining an edge
Managers may dream of introducing the ground-breaking innovation that reshapes the industry. Or of the revolution that launches their airline to new heights of sustained performance. But in today's real world of increasingly competitive marketplace, victories tend to be smaller, more fleeting and harder to win. Welcome to the age ...
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Virgin stirs US cabotage debate
Virgin Atlantic Airways chairman Richard Branson has touched a nerve in the USA by calling for seventh freedom rights so that he can start a low-fares, low-cost, airline. His calls for cabotage came in the same month that a senior US Department of Transportation (DoT) official questioned whether current aviation ...
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Borgman for Sikorsky
Ex-McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems boss Dean Borgman has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Sikorsky Aircraft. Borgman will report to Eugene Buckley, Sikorsky's chairman and chief executive, who is to retire next year. Borgman retired in June from Boeing, where he was senior vice-president responsible for the company's ...
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African safety improves in 1998, despite growth
Lois Jones/DAKAR Air accidents in Africa are reducing, says ASECNA, the air navigation agency for Francophone Africa. The number of reported accidents stand at 14 in 1998, compared with last year's tally of 30. Reported near misses stand at 17 this year, compared to 26 in 1997, says ...
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IATA warns of longer European air traffic control delays
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says that it is concerned at the rise in air traffic control (ATC) delays in Europe. Statistics just released reveal that, over the 1998 summer period, 22% of all flights were delayed by an average of 24min, with total ATC delays 39%higher than ...
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Swissair introduces its first A330-200
Swissair has introduced the first of 15 Airbus A330-200s on its medium and long-haul network. The 224-seat Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered A330s will initially replace smaller A310-300s. The fifteenth, and last, aircraft is due to be delivered in July 2000. SAir group partners Sabena and Austrian Airlines have also ordered ...
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Asian woes force Cathay to withdraw 747 Classic fleet
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is to begin phasing out of service all six of its Boeing 747-300s within 12 months and is close to finalising a deal to dispose of a further two 747-200s, as the Hong Kong carrier continues to cut capacity in the face of a ...
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Kendell picks Canadair Regional Jet to take over Ansett routes
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Australian regional airline Kendell has selected the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) over Embraer's RJ-145 and placed an order for up to 24 aircraft. Meanwhile, Adelaide-based National Jet Systems (NJS) is about to introduce the first of up to four ERJ-145s. The Ansett-owned regional has placed firm orders ...
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Workshop
-Pratt & Whitney is creating a unified service operation for civil and military engine customers. The Engine Services organisation will merge traditional support and spares functions with the services formerly offered by Pratt & Whitney Eagle Services. -H+S Aviation, the Portsmouth, UK-based engine repair organisation, has agreed with Sundstrand Aerospace ...
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Snecma snaps up stake in Sabena company
Sabena is to spin off the engine repair and maintenance business of Sabena Technics into an independent business and sell a 50% stake to French engine builder Snecma. The new operation will be based at the Zaventem, Brussels, engine facilities run by the Belgian airline. The partners plan to ...
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US Army plans UH-60Q Dustoff
The US Army has successfully completed operational testing of the Sikorsky Aircraft UH-60Q medical evacuation (medevac) helicopter and will modify 357 in-service UH-60As to the new standard from 2002. Sikorsky reconfigured four UH-60A Black Hawk utility helicopters to the UH-60Q "Dustoff" standard for integration of new mission equipment, including ...
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Australian reforms
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS "It is an uncertain market, because there are various people at different levels of desperation as a consequence of their position," warned Qantas managing director James Strong, explaining the impact of the Asian downturn even on carriers indirectly affected. The comment, made in August at the same conference ...
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Transition Planning
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration has produced a new blueprint for modernisation of the country's airspace system, but industry remains far from convinced that the document represents a firm timetable for the introduction of new technologies. Manufacturers have been researching the new communications, navigation, surveillance and air ...
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Space Shuttle
Tim Furniss/LONDON John Glenn has made it in the nick of time. The STS95/Discovery mission due to launch the 77-year-old former astronaut into orbit on 29 October, it turns out, is his last realistic chance to return to space. The fifth Shuttle launch this year, STS88, is scheduled ...
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Big ideas
Julian Moxon/NOORDWIJKERHOUT To a travelling public that sees the occasionally horrific television images of the aftermath of a major air disaster, the idea that they might one day fly on an aircraft capable of carrying up to 1,000 passengers is likely to bring the inevitable thought - what if it ...
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ANA becomes the ninth Star Alliance member
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has finally thrown its hat into the Star Alliance ring to become the ninth full member, adding further pressure to flag carrier Japan Airlines (JAL) to commit to the rival oneworld partnership. Airline president Kichisaburo Nomura announced ANA's intention to join Star during a gathering ...