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Fuelling costs
The highest jet fuel prices for five years are starting to break through into cargo pricing. Swissair Cargo, Canadian Air Cargo, KLM Cargo, American Airlines Cargo and South African Airways Cargo have all put fuel surcharges on shipment costs. Source: Airline Business
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A330 boost
Emirates has given the A330 programme a massive boost with an order for 16 200 series and options on seven more. The aircraft will replace the carrier's core fleet of A300s and A310s with first delivery set for January 1999. Source: Airline Business
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Volga scheduled
Russian cargo operator, Volga-Dnepr Airlines, has moved into scheduled passenger services with four weekly flights from Ulyanovsk to Moscow in November, using a Yakovlev Yak-40. Source: Airline Business
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No to franchise
British Airways has scrapped plans to franchise its Beirut, Amman and Damascus services to its rival in the region British Mediterranean. BA cited a failure by the UK independent to meet unspecified conditions. Source: Airline Business
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Modi legal threat
Lufthansa has initiated legal action in India to recover three Boeing 737-200s from erstwhile partner, Modiluft. Source: Airline Business
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Rip it up
British Airways plans to extend its E-Ticket electronic ticketing system throughout its domestic network during 1997 as part of a $15 million upgrade of the service. United Airlines, which developed the system, has signed up IBM and BA's consulting arm, Speedwing, to cooperate in its global marketing and distribution. ...
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Less tickets
Lufthansa has extended its ticketless travel system to European flights between Düsseldorf and London/Heathrow and Paris/CDG. This follows full coverage of its domestic network after successful trials on the Frankfurt-Berlin route. Source: Airline Business
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E-block sale
Aer Lingus has launched Europe's first Internet seat auction with thrice-weekly sales of tickets between Dublin and five UK airports. The six-week trial runs to 12 December and follows the carrier's earlier auction on its transatlantic routes. Source: Airline Business
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One battle
The Italian transport ministry has stripped Alitalia of its role as slot coordinator for Italian airports. The move follows a complaint by Air One, which was forced to abandon plans to launch Milan-Naples in late October when it received none of the 391 new weekly slots at Linate. At press ...
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United trust
The US DOT has awarded antitrust immunity to United and SAS and confirmed immunity extends to the tripartite alliance which includes Lufthansa. Source: Airline Business
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What a liability
Iata hopes the US DOT will soon approve its new liability scheme, which now has 67 signatories. Iata objected to the DOT's October demands to give US courts jurisdiction whenever US nationals are involved in accidents. Source: Airline Business
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100 shares
Aviation Industries of China is to hold 46 per cent of the AE-100 regional jet project, with British Aerospace and Aérospatiale holding 39 per cent and Singapore Technologies 15 per cent, says the Financial Times. Source: Airline Business
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Swiss stake
Swissair and Austrian Airlines were due to sign a deal at presstime to buy 18.37 per cent of Ukraine International Airlines. Source: Airline Business
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Taesa tamed
The peso's crash halted Taesa's assault on the two incumbents. But with fortunes reviving, will Mexico's third airline bare its teeth again. Before 'La Crisis', Taesa Airlines terrorised Mexico's two major carriers. With lower-than-bus fare prices, it captured a quarter of Mexico's domestic traffic in its first two years of ...
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Air-India bits on the block
India's new government has outlined plans to sell a minority stake in Air-India next year. The airline is among 40 state-owned companies targeted for partial sell-off in a bid to raise Rs50 billion (US$1.4 billion). It is not clear how much of Air-India will be sold off but ...
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Airbus lines up Douglas
McDonnell Douglas' decision to shelve plans to develop its MD-XX long-haul jet leaves the way open for the company's Douglas Aircraft division to forge a partnership with Airbus or Boeing. Since talks about a merger with Boeing stalled earlier this year, Airbus appears to be front-runner. Airbus Industrie's ...
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Iaca calls for even charter
European charter carriers are flexing their muscle in a bid to lower airport charges at Amsterdam/Schiphol, while the resolution of a spat between two of the largest operators could open the way for any European Union charter operator to serve third countries from anywhere in the single market. ...