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IASA hits Malta...
Malta's national civil-aviation safety-oversight organisation has received the grade of Category 3 (unacceptable) under the US Federal Aviation Administration International Aviation Safety Assessment programme. Source: Flight International
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Fokker rescue plan
A team of Malaysian Government investors has been in the Netherlands meeting potential Dutch partners in a last ditch effort to save the bankrupt aerospace manufacturer Fokker Aircraft. State-run investment company Kazanah Nasional is discussing joining a DFl1.1 billion ($640 million) rescue effort with the Dutch Deleye Investment Group (DIG), ...
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Seven Sisters are no poor relations
The Seven Sisters, as Washington now refers to the US major carriers which are united in their determination to rid themselves of the ticket tax, have lost their cause. The 10 per cent flat-rate tax lives again, giving a reprieve to the low-cost, low-fare airlines - at least until 30 ...
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Airline News
Delta Air Lines is to start codesharing on Aeromexico flights to six Mexican cities from New York/JFK ,Los Angeles, Miami, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth. Aeromexico will buy seats on Delta flights from Atlanta to Frankfurt, Washington/Dulles, Philadelphia and Detroit and from Dallas-Fort Worth to Boston. Delta was also to add ...
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Airbus and Boeing agree to differ
It's time once again to upgrade airline and aerospace industry filing systems, as extra cupboards and stronger shelving are pressed into service. Yes, the forecast season is with us again. Every day, a new volume arrives, to be scanned before being filed away to gather dust until data is required ...
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Hawaii high-low
One year after its latest rescue, Hawaiian Airlines appears to have broken its pattern of successive, but unsuccessful fixes and seems to be stronger than ever. Yet the carrier is still vulnerable. Report by David Knibb. First it was a Japan Airlines subsidiary taking a stake to help Hawaiian buy ...
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Haneda slot handout fails
Japan's transportation ministry distribution of the 40 long-awaited roundtrip slots at Tokyo/Haneda has disappointed the country's prospective startups and cast doubts over the government's desire to further competition. The handful of ambitious new startups, which had hoped to win enough slots to make their discount operations viable, are ...
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US head for Lufthansa
Lufthansa is searching for a second Asian partner but the airline's new president and chief operating officer, Frederick Reid, says he remains committed to the relationship with struggling Thai Airways International. Further development of 'a highly developed alliance system' is one of the three issues Reid identified as ...
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Supporting roles
The maintenance market is evolving rapidly to meet airlines' needs for lower costs and higher efficiency. By George H Ebbs After decades out of the limelight, MRO - the business of maintaining, repairing, and overhauling commercial aircraft - is finally receiving attention, and with good reason. Annual MRO expenditures ...
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Happy families?
The debate in the aerospace industry over future product lines is sharply focused on the two extremes - the regional jet and the 'superjumbo'. Karen Walker looks ahead as the manufacturers vie to fill the gaps in the market, and Mark Odell presents a summary of current and planned jets. ...
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Miami stuck in legal vice
A US Department of Transportation ruling on how payment should be divided for the new terminal at Miami International Airport could have a big impact on future airport funding. The $975 million project, planned to be completed by the year 2003, became the centre of a legal dispute ...
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Star will rise in Myanmar
Myanmar's government is using aviation as a key policy tool in its drive to develop regional ties. The country should witness the birth of its fifth airline next year under a joint venture with Indonesia but the deal has sparked speculation that the days of the current flag carrier, Myanmar ...
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Too few sales but lots of potential
Despite much recent fanfare about airline participation in the online revolution, ticket-selling on the Internet is still a relatively rare phenomenon and has yet to have much positive impact on carriers' bottom lines. But its potential is undisputed and airlines uniformly consider their experience to be an invaluable education about ...
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PAL secures capital boost
Things are starting to happen fast at Philippine Airlines. The carrier is set to increase its capital four-fold in less than a year, a move that should help PAL finance its fleet renewal and also strengthen chairman Lucio Tan's control. Tan successfully ended a boardroom struggle last September ...
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AA pilots to strike deal?
Presidential intervention may have prevented a strike, but as another deadline loomed in the American Airlines pilots dispute, AMR chairman Bob Crandall admitted he was unsure how to resolve the central issue of regional jets. The Allied Pilots Association, which represents American's pilots, is haggling for wage increases. ...
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Forget Paris
While other French carriers are dragged in to the vortex of troubles affecting the French airline industry, Régional Airlines has found a successful niche on the sidelines and is expanding it. Lois Jones reports. At the sight of a fight some people bare their fists; others walk away. While TAT, ...
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Time running out for SAA
The effects of foreign and domestic competition have cast doubts over this year's planned partial privatisation of South African Airways. SAA is suffering from a shortage of long-haul aircraft and is losing market share to British Airways and Virgin Atlantic as a result. And its domestic competitors believe ...
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Blood, sweat and Gore
The aims of the Gore Commission report are laudable but Karen Walker and Dave Knibb ask whether the recommendations are workable. Financially, most US airlines had cause to celebrate by the end of last year, but 1996 had its darker side. A total of 380 people were killed in US ...
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. . . as Swiss go stateside
Swiss caution and American zeal seem as unlikely a combination as yodelling and rock music, but Swissair is certain that an American chief executive at its helm will fashion a more international outlook. Swiss national pride undoubtedly took a knock following Swissair's decision to hand over operating control ...