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Viasa routes reallocated
Venezuela's new secretary of transport, Julio Marti, has reversed his predecessor's course and redistributed the routes of bankrupt Viasa to three airlines. Aeropostal is the big winner, gaining rights on three continents. Aeropostal has been awarded Canada, Chile, Cuba, France, Germany, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. Aserca has won Brazil ...
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News in brief
Summer ice - Northwest Airline plans to increase its seasonal weekly service between Tokyo and Anchorage, Alaska to twice a week during the summer of 1999. The airline will use McDonnell Douglas DC-10s instead of the Boeing 747 it has been using. Paris,Texas - American Airlines will start daily ...
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Swiss World dream ends
Transatlantic start-up Swiss World has been forced to suspend operations at the start of December, only three months after inaugurating its low-fare Geneva-New York route. The airline blames the collapse on its inability to raise capital in the current economic climate, although sources close to the carrier talk of mistakes ...
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ElAl go-ahead
The Israeli Government is finalising a deal with El Al's employees that will enable the carrier to launch its long awaited 49% initial public offering by the second quarter of 1999. But there are no plans to lift the expensive ban on flights during Jewish holy days. Source: Airline ...
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Could you please confirm
No-one can hope to predict when a crisis will strike but you can be ready to limit the damage to brands and reputation It is the moment every airline executive dreads. To be woken in the early hours of the morning by the insistent summons of the telephone and ...
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Money well spent?
Interactive inflight entertainment technology may not have lived up to its promise as a lucrative new revenue stream, but carriers are spending more than ever on the technology to retain a competitive marketing edge. Airlines have already spent a fortune on inflight entertainment (IFE) and the sums are getting ...
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Taking action over passives
In the battle to cut distribution costs, the airlines are fighting hard to reduce computer reservation fees for passive and duplicate bookings. But despite progress on both sides of the Atlantic, the issue remains a cause of tension. Passive or duplicate ticket bookings may be sound harmless enough, but airlines ...
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Vanity fare
Luxury seats, gourmet meals and complimentary amenity kits are all commonplace in business class. As premium products continue to improve is there a future for first class or will its adepts start to want more value for money? The fallout from the global financial crisis in the second half ...
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Brazilian seeks trainer backing
Kate Sarsfield Backers are being sought for a Brazilian basic trainer which its designer says has attracted attention from several potential customers. Joseph Kovacs, who led design of the Brazilian Neiva Universal and Embraer Tucano trainers, has built and flown a prototype of his K-51 Peregrino. His son, Andr‚ ...
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FiFth GIV for FSI
FlightSafety International has launched production of a fifth Gulfstream IV full flight simulator, to be installed in early 2000 at its Philadelphia/ Wilmington learning centre. Source: Flight International
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E&S upgrades H-60s
Lockheed Martin has picked Evans & Sutherland Harmony image generators and 40 x 200í panoramic displays to upgrade visual systems on US Navy Sikorsky SH-60B/F and HH-60H simulators. Source: Flight International
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FSC buys CRJ by CAE
CAE Electronics has sold a Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet Series 200 full flight simulator, with MaxVue Plus visual system, to Friendship Simulation for installation at its Hoofdorp training centre in the Netherlands by next September. Source: Flight International
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Lufthansa adds A340
Lufthansa Flight Training has ordered an Airbus A340-300 full flight simulator from CAE Electronics, which will be installed at its Frankfurt training centre in February 2000. Lufthansa has selected Evans & Sutherland's new ESIG-3800 visual system for the simulator, with options to replace the SP-X visuals on all its existing ...
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Citation landmark
The 2,500th Honeywell-equipped Citation business jet has rolled off the assembly line at Cessna's Wichita, Kansas, plant, marking a 20-year association between the avionics supplier and the aircraft manufacturer. Source: Flight International
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Embry order
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has become the largest user of Cessna's new 172R Skyhawk, with delivery of 10 aircraft taking its fleet to 61 - 53 based at its Daytona Beach, Florida, campus and eight at Prescott, Arizona. Source: Flight International
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FBO launch
Mercury Air Group has opened a fixed base operation at Charleston International Airport, South Carolina, with two hangars large enough to accommodate the Gulfstream V and ramp space for a Boeing 727-sized aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Charter aircraft
UK's Oxford Aerocharter (Oxaero) has added a third Cessna Citation 1 to its Oxford Airport-based charter fleet. Source: Flight International
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Fractional Delay
Corporate Jet Gulf (CoreJet) has delayed the launch of its JetPartners fractional ownership programme until the second quarter of 1999, blaming the withdrawal of a Middle East investor as the reason for the postponement. The programme, originally scheduled to begin operations from Dubai this month, is planned to start with ...