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A red flag to a bull?
New scheduled operators Spanair and Air Europa have shaken up Iberia's traditional monopoly in the Spanish domestic market. Lois Jones reports from Madrid and Palma de Mallorca on how competition has prompted the Spanish flag carrier to get its act together. Never be fooled into thinking the Spanish market staid, ...
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Thai is hardly Star choice
As the razzamatazz around the launch of the five-carrier Star Alliance subsides, Thai Airways International is emerging as the weak link in the chain and there is growing speculation that the carrier could be dumped for two other Asian carriers. The other members of the alliance, Air Canada, ...
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Sun blazes a trail for SAA
The experience gleaned during the sell-off of state-owned South African carrier Sun Air should help ease the partial privatisation of South African Airways. But there are strong doubts that the flag carrier will be in any fit shape to meet the government's stated end-of-year deadline. Captain Johan Borstlap, ...
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Two to tango
The Taca Group was once held up as a model for Latin American airline cooperation, but now stands accused of selling out through its planned alliance with American Airlines. But does Taca chairman Federico Bloch have any choice? Doug Cameron reports. Please don't tell officials at the US Department ...
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Foreign cash saves Taesa
Taesa, Mexico's third airline, has dodged bankruptcy, received an injection of new capital from abroad, and is near a restructuring accord with its creditors that should, once completed, attract more offshore investors. Judging from recent reactions, though, some local creditors and Mexico's competition commission will remain nervous until ...
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TAM gets set for US debut
The TAM group is to launch Brazil's fourth international carrier and American Airlines has wasted no time extending its relationship with the multi-airline operator. The ambitious TAM group has established Transportes Aereos Meridionais as its intercontinental carrier, which could launch services between Sao Paulo and Miami as early ...
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Fees tax US law makers
The US Congress looks set to opt for a compromise over the ticket tax, while international pressure may force the Federal Aviation Administration to do the same over the controversial overflight fees. Proposals for a new format for the ticket tax which were at the committee stage at ...
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TWA faces up to challenge
Faced with what he describes, modestly, as a 'major challenge', Trans World Airlines' chief executive Gerald Gitner has outlined a four-part plan to get the airline back on its feet. The St Louis-based carrier faces an uphill battle but should not be counted out yet. At the airline's ...
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New Labour sets trend in Europe
The conservative free-market revolution, which reached its high point during the Reagan-Thatcher era and lingered on into the mid-1990s, shows increasing signs of being politically vanquished as the industrial world moves towards the millennium. Although many of the substrates of the Reagan-Thatcher revolution live on in the shape of the ...
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30 minute flight, three hour journey
Sir - Professor Zopp's comment on seating arrangements of the proposed AVIC/Airbus AE31X regional jet (Flight International, 11-17 June, P144), prompts me to point out that the majority of passengers using these aircraft would prefer to see airport location and access, and boarding time, addressed, rather than the number of ...
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Boeing
Pat Coulter has joined the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group as vice-president of communications, having previously held a similar position with US east coast telecommunications company Bell Atlantic. Since leaving the US Marine Corps in 1984, Coulter has specialised in communications, first with the Rocketdyne division of Rockwell International, then with ...
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Birmingham
Peter Vella will bring extensive experience of the travel industry to his new job as director of business development when he joins Birmingham International Airport at the end of this month. He has held senior positions with Lunn Poly, First Choice and Horizon Holidays, but will now lead a strategy ...
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Aer Rianta
Derek Keogh has announced that he plans to retire as chief executive of Aer Rianta at the end of this year. His tenure in the position, which began in 1988, culminated in May in the group's highest pre-tax profit, of £42 million ($68 million). Keogh says that he had publicised ...
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Air Livery
Aircraft-refurbishment company Air Livery, of the UK's Southend Airport, has named Frank Dodd executive and commercial manager, responsible for all aspects of customer liaison. He was formerly works director with HPB Aviation (Luton), where he worked for the previous 19 years. Source: Flight International
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BVR sells F-16 EHUD
Israel's BVR Technologies has sold its Ehud rangeless air-combat training and post-flight debriefing system to a European Lockheed Martin F-16 operator. The contract, BVR's sixth Ehud sale, is worth $2.8 million plus options and likely follow-on orders. Deliveries will begin before the end of 1997. Source: ...
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Large LCD from dpiX
Xerox company dpiX has introduced the Eagle-19 liquid-crystal display (LCD) to replace the 430 x 530mm cathode-ray tubes in operator consoles on aircraft such as the Boeing E-3 and Northrop Grumman E-2 and E-8. Source: Flight International
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Space link
United Space Alliance and Spacehab have agreed jointly to develop commercial markets for the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. United operates the Space Shuttle for NASA, while Spacehab operates habitable extension modules in the Shuttle's mid-deck. The firms will focus on expanding the non-government market for life and ...
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Hughes contracts
Hughes Space and Communications has been awarded a contract to build the Sirius 3 communications satellite for Sweden. The HS-376 spin-stabilised spacecraft will be launched by an Ariane 4 in 1998. It will operate with 15 Ku-band transponders and will be able to generate 1.4kW of power, using gallium-arsenide solar ...
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Cessna expands service
Cessna has authorised Jet Aviation-Düsseldorf to service its Model 650-series Citation mid-sized business jets - the Citation III, VI and VII. Jet Aviation's Düsseldorf, Germany, site already services 500-series Citation light jets. Source: Flight International