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Do not pass 'go'
So British Airways' no-frills start-up is "Go"; but will it - and what sort of response will it attract from powerful European competitors like Lufthansa? Even more important, from where will the passengers come to make these no-frills airlines work? The justification for an existing airline to launch a ...
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Dragon goes to sea with USMC
The US Marine Corps (USMC) is to test a maritime variant of the BAI Aerosystems Exdrone unmanned air vehicle (UAV) following positive results during a recent series of exercises. The USMC Warfighting Laboratory is upgrading ten BQM-147A Exdrones to Dragon drones with a shipboard launch and recovery capability, heavy-fuel ...
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Italian debut
Debonair has won a $164 million five-year contract from the Italian regional government of Calabria to operate services from Reggio and Lamezia to Rome, Turin, Florence and Bologna. Source: Airline Business
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Boeing hits 568
Boeing says it finished 1997 with total orders for 568 airliners valued at $42.8 billion compared with 460 firm orders worth $29.6 billion reported by Airbus Industrie. Boeing's net orders, subtracting cancellations and conversions to other models, totalled 502 aircraft worth $39.1 billion. Source: Airline Business
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Las Vegas loser
British Airways has beaten Virgin Atlantic to the last US gateway from the UK under Bermuda 2. The CAA chose BA's London-Denver route over Virgin's London-Las Vegas proposal. Source: Airline Business
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Rwanda rosette
Alliance Air has taken over Air Rwanda's operations and will start services to Kigali on 1 March. The new airline, to be called Alliance Express, will offer a regional network, taking in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, and dovetailing into Alliance Air's international services. Source: Airline Business
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Swiss gets one
Air One has signed a preliminary agreement to sell a large minority stake to Swissair by April, and for greater collaboration between the two airlines. Source: Airline Business
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HK slowdown
The opening of Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport is to be postponed by two months until 6 July due to delays in completing a rail link. Source: Airline Business
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London Routes
Over 50 airlines have already committed to attend Routes in London, the 1998 route development forum organised by Airline Business and ASM and sponsored by BAA plc. British Airways is the official carrier for the event, which takes place on September 21-22. Contact ASM on tel +44 161 839 0747, ...
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DOT spotlights fare changes
The US Department of Transportation began publishing its domestic airline fares consumer report in response to an increasing number of inquiries about ticket prices. The first report, for the third quarter of 1996, was released in June last year and the latest report is based on data for the second ...
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Appointments
Michael Harrington has been appointed deputy chief executive and chief operating officer of Debonair. Billy Lam Chung-lun has been named deputy chief executive officer of the Airport Authority of Hong Kong. Christian Heinzmann has joined VLM as managing director. VLM founder Freddy van Gaever has been appointed vice ...
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Aircraft News
Virgin Atlantic has ordered eight Airbus A340-600s with eight options, while Lufthansa has ordered 10 A340-600s. Swissair has ordered six A330-200s and one A321 for delivery in 1999 and 2000. Leisure International Airways has ordered two A330-200s. Olympic Airways has ordered two A340-300s, plus two options, for ...
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French stick over partner
Doug Cameron Investment bankers are sharply split over Air France's ability to secure a strategic airline investor and Air France's advisers have retreated from supporting a trade sale after the collapse of its planned Alitalia agreement. Air France plans an equity issue of FFr18 billion (US$2.9 billion) in ...
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Eye of the tiger
National flag carrier Air India is being readied for a merger with its domestic partner Indian Airlines and at least partial privatisation. But once again political change threatens to scupper the progress made so far. Tom Ballantyne reports from Mumbai. If anyone had doubts that Mumbai-based flag carrier Air-India was ...
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ACI feels out of pocket
Karen Walker Girding itself for a battle with the airlines and with Congress, the Airports Council International, North America, will raise its profile in 1998 with hopes of increasing pressure on those who control its members' funding sources. The ACI is sticking to its controversial claim that US ...
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Brazil cracks the fare nut
Brian Homewood Brazil, a country with some of the highest internal air fares in the world, has taken the first tentative steps towards deregulation by allowing unrestricted charter flights. The Civil Aviation Department (DAC) has given the go-ahead for any nationally-owned company to operate charters on any route ...
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Islands apart
A grand plan for Air Jamaica to be the focus of closer cooperation in the Caribbean region has failed to materialise, and instead would-be partners like BWIA continue to pursue their own separate strategies. Karen Walker reports. According to a joke that circulates in the Caribbean, St Peter allows newly ...
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No more red China blues?
Tom Ballantyne China's airlines are getting their first taste of capitalism as the country's carriers drastically slash their air fares and liberalisation hits the region. The Civil Aviation Administration of China has given its 27 CAAC-approved airlines the go-ahead to cut prices by up to 40 per cent ...
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Carriers free private parts
Doug Cameron Belgium-based City Bird's rocky initial public offering suggests that the recent spate of successful IPOs by European airlines may be over. Last year, low-cost European airline stocks benefited from a surge in interest from US investors who moved heavily into Ryanair and Virgin Express. However, the ...
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Deflation alarm bells ring again
Deflation is not an economic term which has tripped off the tongue in the last three decades. Far from it. A series of political crises in the Middle East, starting with the six-day war in 1967, triggered 30 years of almost continuous inflation, fuelled by surging oil and commodity prices ...