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Virgin takes new partner
Virgin Atlantic's decision to switch US partners this August reflects the growing business links between Virgin's chairman Richard Branson and Continental's chairman and main investor, David Bonderman. Bonderman has invested in Virgin's cinema and rail activities and, a source close to Branson says, the two may look at other joint ...
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Cleaning up on yields
The benefits of a yield management system depend upon what competing airlines are doing. Peter P Belobaba and John L Wilson from MIT's Flight Transportation Laboratory explain why. Most airlines have embraced the practices of differential pricing and yield management over the past decade. By offering a range of fare ...
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Broader ties for Alliance?
Mozambique and Zambia have both expressed an interest in joining the multinational African carrier Alliance Air, as it emerges that two of its founder members are preparing to merge their operations. Talks with Mozambique's national carrier LAM have been 'ongoing for more than a year and they are ...
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CAI survives the big chill
Canadian Airlines International has survived the winter with the help of government, employees and creditors, but competition in western Canada is still growing with charter operator Canada 3000 expanding its scheduled services. Canadian's cash position has improved enough to defer searching for a C$60 million (US$40 million) credit ...
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Private funds elude Alitalia
Put your wallet away: Alitalia's no longer for sale. The carrier has abandoned its quest for private investors and turned to state holding company IRI for the full capital injection. The Italian treasury has now confirmed that IRI will inject the remaining L1.5 trillion (US$880 million) of fresh ...
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Untenable situation
Western national carriers British Airways, KLM of the Netherlands and Germany's Lufthansa have recently begun direct flights to Azerbaijan capital Baku, in anticipation of an oil boom which is expected to increase passenger and cargo traffic to the region. Bina International Airport in Baku, however, is dogged by ...
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East Asia buys S-76Cs
Macau-based helicopter operator East Asia Airlines has signed a contract for three 12-passenger Sikorsky S-76C helicopters for delivery late this year, replacing three eight-seat Bell 222s. The airline flew more than 40,000 passengers on its shuttle between Hong Kong and Macau during 1996. Source: Flight International
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SIA ponders A340-500 and 777-200X
Singapore Airlines (SIA) says that it will need at least ten new ultra-long-range aircraft to open fresh routes and frequencies to the USA, after the recent signing of an open-skies bilateral air agreement between the two countries. The airline is looking at the proposed Boeing 777-200X and rival ...
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Ministers support fuel-tax change
Dutch and Belgian transport ministers have spoken out in favour of abolishing the European airline industry's exemption from fuel taxes. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has responded quickly, saying that such a tax would do nothing to help the environment, as its supporters argue. At a meeting ...
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STAe profits as civil overhaul rates increase
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has bounced back into profits with a better-than-expected year-end result, boosted by an up-turn in commercial business and stronger earnings from associate companies. The Singapore company made a net profit of S$27.8 million ($19 million) in 1996, turning around a loss of more than ...
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TWA sees losses soar
News that a Saudi Prince has taken a 5%stake in Trans World Airlines (TWA)did little to lift the gloom surrounding the struggling airline's heavy losses posted for 1996. Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family, picked up the stake for $14 million and helped ...
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There is still a need for flight engineer
Sir - The absence from the cockpit of the flight engineer has once more been placed in question by the story "Airbus fits switch guards after A340 hydraulic incident" (Flight International, 12-18 February, P16). This incident took place in a reputable aircraft, belonging to a reputable airline, with an all-pilot ...
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-plans IHAS avionics safety development
AlliedSignal Aerospace is discussing with airlines and aircraft manufacturers its plan to develop a so-called integrated hazard-avoidance system (IHAS). The IHAS would combine safety-related avionics systems, such as ground-proximity warning system, traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system and windshear detection, in a single box, with the aim of providing a ...
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BMed
Geoff Crawford BMED Capt Geoff Crawford has been appointed director of flight operations at British Mediterranean Airways (BMed) of London, UK. Crawford, who joined British Airways as a pilot in 1968, has more recently been senior strategy manager for the BA corporate-strategy department and business manager for customer-service development. Charles ...
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A fine balance
IT IS A BELIEF UNIVERSALLY held among airline managers that, in an upturn, their own particular airline will perform better than its competitors, and that in a downturn it will suffer less. In general, this is bunkum, but it is an unfortunate truth that it is on the basis of ...
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Europe & the CIS
Compiled by John Christovassilis, Neil Remmer,Andrew Griffin and Gabrielle Villano The 1997 Flight International World Airline Directory lists airlines involved in scheduled services or those which offer significant charter services. Our selection criterion has been to list operators with one or more aircraft with more than 19 seats. Where justified ...
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Breakthrough nears on burn-through
Airline passengers will soon have dramatically improved post-accident fire-protection if an Airbus Industrie-led group of European companies can win a European Commission (EC) research grant. Research has already established that the use of different cabin-insulation materials at manufacture could increase tenfold the time it takes for external fire to burn ...
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ESA swaps Space Station nodes for free launch
The European Space Agency (ESA) will provide Nodes 2 and 3 for the International Space Station, along with advanced-technology laboratory equipment, to NASA in exchange for a free launch of its Columbus Orbital Facility (COF) aboard the Space Shuttle. The COF is due to be joined to the ...
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Assembly-line issues hold up AI(R) 70
South Korea is holding off signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) on joining its planned regional-jet programme, until differences over final assembly can be settled. The Korean Commercial-Aircraft Development Consortium (KCADC) had planned to sign an MoU with AI(R) on 14 March, following ...