All aerospace news – Page 1917
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Union action is ailing BA
British Airways' chief executive Robert Ayling was forced to adopt a more conciliatory tone with the airline's largest trade union, the Transport and General Workers' Union when, during a three-day strike by cabin crew in early July, BA ground staff voted to reject the package of terms and conditions linked ...
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Everyone hit as strikes get a grip
Employee morale slumps; airlines lose hard cash and goodwill; customers suffer. Short of a fatal accident, it's an airline chief executive's worst nightmare. Billions of dollars worth of shiny aircraft sit idly on the ground. Terminal buildings are thronged with displaced customers desperate to find a way to get to ...
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Power to the plans
As the major alliance partners strengthen the ties between their frequent flyer programmes, the combined power of FFPs to influence the all-important business class traveller has made frequent flyer plans more important to global alliances than codesharing. Report by Jackie Gallacher. 'It is the glue to hold the alliance together.' ...
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The price of loyalty
Frequent flyer plans have evolved into a network of partnerships based on the sale of air miles. Randy Petersen discusses FFP partnerships and compares the major programmes. Frequent flyer programmes have become big business. Considered the most popular form of loyalty marketing, they have also become text book examples ...
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Jakarta trio seek remedy
Indonesia's financially battered airlines are taking extraordinary measures in their bids to turn around their performance, including the end to most domestic competition. Privately owned Sempati Air, with debts of more than US$300 million, has given up competing with national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia Airways and entered an ...
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Qatar plans Gulf shuttle
Qatar Airways plans to introduce the first intra-Gulf 'shuttle' service as part of the airline's ambitious relaunch. Qatar intends to launch a minimum of four daily turboprop services from Doha to Dubai and Abu Dhabi by the end of 1998. If successful, Qatar will extend the 'shuttle' concept ...
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...and eyes up ANZ stake
After pinning down its far-reaching alliance with Air New Zealand and Ansett, Singapore Airlines is reaching for its chequebook in preparation for equity investments in Asia-Pacific carriers. SIA is talking about becoming a part-owner of Ansett, Air NZ or both, according to insiders. At the same time, the ...
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Big seven hit by tax lobby
The seven US majors lobbying to replace the universal 10 per cent ticket tax have talked themselves into a corner and look set to end up with an extra $4 billion to pay over the next five years. This is the estimate of one Washington lobbyist, who says ...
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Agents of change
The combination of commission capping by airlines and the advent of new technology was expected to spell doom for many in the travel agency business. But cushioned by the economic upturn, the sector is starting to adapt to the changing environment in a bid to survive. By Jane Levere. Commission ...
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TWA fleet costs jobs as other US majors report rise in profits
Trans World Airlines (TWA) is to reduce its work force by some 1,000 people, with half the cuts being made in maintenance operations. The announcement comes as TWA reported a small loss in what was otherwise another quarter of healthy profits from major US carriers. TWA says that the ...
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Lockheed Martin aims to bolster maintenance
Aircraft maintenance is being targeted by Lockheed Martin as the remaining sector where the US aerospace giant now intends to bolster its business with acquisitions, according to Lockheed Aeronautics president Mickey Blackwell. After a period of consolidation, Lockheed Martin now has a growing US maintenance business based at Greenville, ...
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Avtech
Robert Horgan, who was previously shop manager with Raytheon Aircraft, has been appointed director of maintenance at Avtech Executive Flight Center, of McCollum Field, near Atlanta, Georgia. He replaces Dwayne Pittsenbarger, who has taken up a position with the US Federal Aviation Administration. Source: Flight International
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America West
America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona, has appointed David Huntzinger vice-president of corporate safety. He was formerly responsible for the design, development, deployment and monitoring of advanced methods for improving safety management and safety programmes at US airframe manufacturer Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, and has also worked for Bell Helicopter.. ...
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Protest delays NASA Bantam contracts
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC A PROTEST FROM a losing bidder has delayed NASA plans to award four initial-design contracts for its Bantam low-cost launch-system demonstrator. California-based Microcosm has filed a formal protest with the US Congress General Accounting (GA) office over NASA's decision to award Aerojet General, ...
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Columbia sets records
The STS94/Columbia landed at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on 17 July after its flawless 16-day reflight of the Microgravity Space Laboratory, with more than 30 high-technology materials, protein crystal and other experiments similar to those which will be operated on the International Space Station. The ...
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Spacewalk in August will be used to restore Mir power
Tim Furniss/FLORIDA Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradev will perform a 6h internal spacewalk in the connecting node/airlock of the Mir space station on 20 August, in an attempt to restore the station's electrical power to 70% of its normal output. Equipment to support the task arrived ...
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Progress or plateau
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Two years ago, the world airline industry swung out of recession in style, producing its best-ever set of profit figures. The question for 1996 was whether the recovery would continue to gain pace or whether this now represented the peak for this latest business cycle. In ...
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Polish demand leads LOT into charter territory
LOT Polish airlines is planning to form a charter subsidiary in response to a growing package-holiday market in Poland. The airline says that a team has been set up to investigate the legal and financial aspects of the plan, but the new company is unlikely to be founded ...
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Emergency landing brings new 747-300 warning
The emergency landing on 2 May at Sydney, Australia, of an Ansett Boeing 747-300 is likely to cause Boeing to upgrade to service-bulletin status a 1993 service letter recommending that aileron cable guards and pulley covers be replaced with new material. The aircraft, leased from Singapore Airlines (SIA), ...
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CityBird expands with two 767s and a pair of MD-11 freighters
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS CityBird is to expand its fleet next year with the acquisition of Boeing 767s and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-11 freighters. The Belgian low-fare scheduled airline, which began operations earlier this year with two MD-11s on transatlantic routes, will take delivery of two 268-seat ...