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AirTran profit - AirTran has posted a profit for the first three months of the year, reporting net income of $3.1 million compared with a net loss of $7.9 million in the first quarter of 1998. Boeing reshape - Boeing has restructured its finance organisation in a ...
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Routes
BM's Russian accord - British Midland has outlined an agreement in which with its Russian partner, Transaero, will fly one weekly to Moscow while BMwill fly four services. British Midland has just been designated as the second carrier, after British Airways, on the London-Moscow route. US Air goes ...
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Taesa profit kicks off recovery
Taesa, Mexico's third largest airline, made an operating profit of $31 million for last year after a four-year recovery from foreign debt. That could lead to new investors this year and a listing on the country's stock exchange within two or three years. But the key to further progress is ...
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Argentina and USA talk again
Argentinian and US negotiators will meet again after failing to agree on a new bilateral. Earlier this year, presidents Bill Clinton and Carlos Menem asked their negotiators to wrap up an accord by March, which they hoped would result in an open skies agreement. A main sticking point is ...
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Micronesia faces change
Aviation ministers from four island nations in Micronesia are considering the launch of a joint regional airline to safeguard air transport in the region, now apparently heading toward less certain times. Ministers from the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru and Kiribati have retained an Australian-based ...
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Pilots hamper TAP privatisation
SAirGroup has agreed to take a stake in Tap Air Portugal, but a dispute over pilots' pay may jeopardise the Portuguese carrier's fragile profitability and remaining privatisation plans. As expected, Swissair's parent is to cement its relationship with the Portuguese flag carrier by taking a 20% stake, pending ...
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Iberia sues pilots for strike damages
Iberia is the second major airline in less than two months to sue its pilots, but American Airlines pilots have jumped to their help. Spanish pilots' union Sepla, which has announced a halt in months of escalating industrial action, is facing a possible fine of Ptas4.3 billion ($29 ...
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Alitalia defends Italy
Alitalia is considering setting up a southern Italian regional operation which observers believe may be a defensive action against similar plans by British Airways. Alitalia is carrying out a feasibility study, to be completed in June, into setting up a regional operation connecting southern Italy with other destinations ...
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Hushkit friction continues to rub on EC/USA
A readiness by the European Commission (EC) to consider possible US amendments to its new hushkit regulations does not mean that the issue will cease to cause friction between the two sides. "The Americans may suggest amendments which we find unacceptable," warns a well-placed official in Brussels. The ...
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Slot exchange - A UK high court has ruled that the former Air UK, now KLM uk, did not illegally sell its Guernsey slots at London Heathrow to British Airways. According to the presiding judge in the case brought by Guernsey, the fact that the exchange was unequal - Air ...
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LOT sell-off revived
The Polish Government has revived plans to privatise its national carrier LOT, six years after the sell-off was first announced. It aims to raise capital for the carrier and get it into a global alliance. According to Treasury Minister Alicja Kornasiewicz, a search for a partner is to ...
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Time to talk about the scope clause
Union limits on the scale and scope of regional flying are due to be brought out into the open as US regional carriers prepare to meet in Phoenix. How times have changed. In the not too distant past, regional airlines were the minnows of the aviation world, flying on "hometown" ...
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Link to the future
Europe's air traffic control datalink work is forging on Kieran Daly/COPENHAGEN and STOCKHOLM Processing in loose line astern up the east Swedish coast through the broken cloud of a winter Sunday morning, our four-strong formation is something of an oddity: a light twin turboprop flat out at 240kt (440km/h), tailed ...
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A safer place
Aviation will benefit from automobile air bag research Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC After a decade's research, the US Army will soon begin installing newly developed cockpit air bags in some of its helicopters, to improve the chances of survival in a crash. It recently placed an initial $7.1 million order with ...
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Pole position
Poland is the most strategically placed of the new NATO members Andrew Doyle/WARSAW Poland occupies the most strategically important geographical position of the three former Eastern Bloc countries recently admitted to NATO's ranks, buffering as it does northern Europe and the CIS countries of Belarus and Ukraine. In other ...
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Long wait
Hungary is struggling to perk up its air force in the face of a hostile economic climate Rene VanWoezik/BUDAPEST Poor economic conditions have forced Hungary's politicians to repeatedly delay the tough long term decisions necessary to revive the country's air force. The flying units form one of two ...
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Indian delay
The Indian Space Research Organisation has delayed first flight of its new Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle until next year. The project is over a year behind schedule. The launcher will be powered by a solid propellant first stage with strap-on motors, a liquid propellant second stage, based on the operational ...
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Singapore joins Joint Strike Fighter programme
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Singapore has become the latest country to join the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme, with Turkey and Israel expected to follow shortly. According to local defence sources, Singapore signed a letter of acceptance on 23 March to join the JSF's ongoing demonstration phase as a ...
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Storm Shadow wins Italian contest
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Andrea Nativi/GENOA Italy has selected the Matra BAe Dynamics Storm Shadow for its modular stand-off missile requirement, dealing a blow to the rival German-Swedish Taurus KEPD 350 programme. The Italian air force decision, approved by the defence ministry, has sparked a last-ditch lobbying effort by Germany, ...
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Air China joins prospective A318 launchers
Air China has signed a tentative agreement with Airbus Industrie and Pratt & Whitney to order eight PW6000-powered A318 twinjets as a trade-in for four Boeing 747SPs. A second potential launch customer, Air France, has asked CFM International to offer the CFM56-5A as an alternative powerplant (Flight International, 21-27 ...