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ANA Star gazes after signing deals with Lufthansa and United
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has signed its codesharing agreements with Lufthansa and United Airlines, suggesting that it may now join their Star Alliance. At the same time, the airline's pilots are to suspend their strike action. Under the new alliances, ANA will codeshare on 11 routes to the USA ...
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Colombia crash turns spotlight on codesharing
Codesharing and other airline marketing links have come under international media scrutiny following the fatal crash on 20 April of an Air France flight operated by Ecuadorian airline TAME. The Boeing 727-200Adv, carrying 51 passengers and 10 crew, hit high ground in cloud about 3min after take-off from Bogota, Colombia, ...
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King Solomon flies Convair 580
A new specialist Australian airline, King Solomon Airways, will begin operations in May flying between Cairns in northern Queensland and the Solomon Islands' capital Honiara. An ex-Cypress Airlines of Canada Convair 580 will be operated, flying hotel guests on behalf of Brisbane based Island Hotels group. Source: Flight International
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China demands CAAC shake-up
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has been instructed to submit proposals by the end of April on drastic reductions to the size of its organisation, in line with a wider Chinese Government push to cut the country's bloated bureaucracy. China's newly installed premier Zhu ...
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East Europeans set to join single skies
A comprehensive air transport agreement between the European Commission (EC) and 10 East European states has been drafted and could take effect early next year. Frederik Sorensen, head of airline policy at the EC's transport directorate, says that the accord will create "a complete integration" of the countries into ...
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FedEx MD-11 fleet swells to 60 after Swissair and LTU deals
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC FedEx is raising its reliance on the Boeing MD-11 freighter, with a decision to almost double its planned fleet of MD-11Fs to 60 through deals for more new and secondhand aircraft. The US parcels carrier, which now operates 20 MD-11Fs, last week disclosed that it ...
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Airbus ponders commercial market prospects for Beluga
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Super Airbus Transport International(SATIC) and Airbus believe that the growing success of the Beluga's third party cargo charter business could see an external market develop for the aircraft with outsized cargo carriers. The A300-600 based Beluga was designed, built and certificated for Airbus by the Toulouse-based Aerospatiale/Daimler-Benz Aerospace ...
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Marketplace
-Olympic has added its second Boeing 737-300, an ex-Western Pacific aircraft on lease from Boullioun Aviation Services. -Northwest Airlines has concluded a deal with Fortis Aviation's Alliance AirInvest to acquire three ex-Thai International McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30ERs. The three aircraft have been delivered and will enter service later this year after ...
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Legend starts
US start-up Legend Airlines has unveiled plans to build a six-gate "executive terminal" at Dallas Love Field, Texas. The carrier intends to begin interstate services with 56-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s later this year. Source: Flight International
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Six new entrants win US airport slots
Six smaller US airlines have been awarded coveted take-off and landing rights at Chicago O'Hare International and New York's La Guardia, as part of efforts by the Department of Transportation (DoT)to open up slot-controlled airports to new competition. America West Airlines, Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA), American Eagle's Simmons Airlines ...
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Eurocontrol tests pilot-controller link
A major step was taken towards operational datalinks for air traffic management (ATM) on 14 April when a Lufthansa Boeing 747-200 en route from Frankfurt to Miami accepted clearances from traffic controllers in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The preliminary Eurocontrol test of the PETAL-II air to ground datalink saw Maastricht ...
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Quiet Wing 727 modification gets FAA approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a supplemental type certificate (STC) to DuganAir Technologies for a modification package which allows Boeing 727-100 and -200s to meet Stage 3 requirements without hushkits. The "Quiet Wing System" has been under development for four years. It combines winglet technology developed by ...
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Routes
-Malaysia Airlines has inaugurated its new thrice weekly service to New York's Newark Airport via Dubai, its third North American destination and its first to the US East coast. -Northwest Airlines is to launch a twice weekly non-stop service between Las Vegas and Tokyo from June, taking further advantage of ...
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Concern grows over Sydney noise regime
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas and Ansett have warned of mounting chaos at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport following an Australian Government directive on overflying the city's suburbs which has effectively halved off-peak capacity at the airport. Controllers have also raised safety concerns. A new long term operating plan (LTOP) had ...
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TWA firms up plans for more MD-83s
Trans World Airlines (TWA) has firmed up its plans for additional Boeing MD-83s with the signing of a $1.1 billion order for 24 aircraft. It emerged earlier this month that the carrier was discussing an order with Boeing for 24 MD-83s, which would see production of the former McDonnell ...
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Britannia ponders Australian venture
Britannia Airways is believed to be eyeing the southern hemisphere for its next off-shore subsidiary, with a new Australian operation under consideration. The UK-based charter carrier has already established a start-up operation in Germany and a Swedish-based carrier, built on the acquisition of existing charter airline Blue Scandinavia. ...
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Reno sheds staff
Reno Air is to shed 330 of its 2,000 staff and slim down its management in an effort to restore profits. Source: Flight International
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GEC targets greater access to USA through Tracor purchase
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC GEC hopes that its $1.4 billion acquisition of Tracor will improve the UK company's access to US Department of Defense (DoD) business. The deal will make GEC-Marconi's North American arm the sixth largest US defence electronics contractor, more than doubling the unit's annual revenues to a ...
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Varig profit adds to Latin American recovery
More good news has emerged from the Latin American airline industry, with Brazilian carrier Varig returning to profit in 1997 after six successive years in the red. Varig's main airline operations ended the year with a net profit of Real27.8 million ($24.2 million), turning around a loss of Real64 ...
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Single Mandate
British Airways and American Airlines appear on the verge of securing the long-awaited competition approval for their alliance from the European Commission (EC) with Brussels insiders set to give a mid-May date and a painful but probably realistic demand for slot surrender at London Heathrow. With some irony, however, ...