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Hawaiian set to post profit
American Airlines has reprieved Hawaiian Airlines for the fourth time over $6.9 million in payments due on its leased DC10s, as the carrier continues its restructuring efforts after emerging from bankruptcy 14 months ago. The payments Hawaiian owes American represent lease and maintenance charges that accumulated late last ...
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More power to the unions
United Parcel Service faces the prospect of dealing with stronger unions that rival Federal Express, following a ruling that the Kentucky-based express freight company is covered by laws favouring unions. Unless reversed on appeal, UPS will be subject to the general US law that protects union rights to ...
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Two birds, one stone
In a major strategy shift, Indian Airlines will transfer its unprofitable routes into a stand-alone subsidiary, operating a mix of turboprops and jets. But the main aim is to counter its parent's shortage of senior pilots. Airlines Allied Services will operate Indian Airlines' short haul flights, and take ...
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Past keeps AmWest shy
With the resolve of a carrier that has returned to health but the hesitancy of one that only emerged from bankruptcy protection last year, America West Airlines has instituted its first growth programme in four years. Its 29 per cent growth plan over two years is conservative compared to the ...
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East stakes going west
Western investors are showing a willingness to gamble in the vast aviation markets of China and Russia, with the prospect of a partially foreign owned Chinese regional and a foreign controlled Siberian airline. US financier George Soros wants to take advantage of Beijing's clearance earlier this year for ...
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Bonn eyes open skies
US and German transport officials are planning a round of December talks that could lead to open skies between the two countries by early 1996. However, what has become a strong link between open skies and antitrust immunity - sought by the United-Lufthansa alliance - could be a stumbling block ...
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Midwest offer
Kimberly-Clark has sold off 70 per cent of Midwest Express, a US regional carrier, in an initial public offering of 4.5 million shares. Provision has been made for Kimberly-Clark's holding to drop to 20 per cent if underwriters take advantage of a further option by late October. Source: ...
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Express trial grinds to halt
After a year's trial of its innovative Lufthansa Express product, the German carrier has cherry-picked parts of the pilot scheme for a revamp of its domestic operation. A poor performance halted the extension of the pilot to the whole system as originally planned. The German flag carrier was ...
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Settlement day
After a year of arbitration, American Airlines and its flight attendants have reached a five-year pay deal. The new pact gives the attendants a rise of 17 per cent, back dated to 1992. In exchange American can impose productivity measures, including cutting the number of attendants. Source: Airline ...
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USAir courts main rivals
As speculation rose to fever pitch over the possibility of USAir selling out to United Airlines or American Airlines, all participants concerned stressed one word to describe the current state of the deal: 'preliminary'. Whatever the outcome, sources at USAir stress the talks are a culmination of a ...
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Airline news
Singapore Airlines has started twice-weekly services to both Cairns and Macau using A310 aircraft. SilkAir has launched a twice-weekly service between Singapore and Vientiane in Laos with Fokker 70s. ANA is seeking regulatory approval to start services between Osaka/Kansai and Rome. The carrier has also completed ...
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Overhead protector
Political change highlights Israel's use of sophisticated UAVs Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE POSSIBLE Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights as part of a peace deal with Syria has put unmanned platforms high on the list of substitutes for the ground-based intelligence sensors, which Israel now operates along ...
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Spacewalk challenge
The STS69 space-walk has paved the way for assembly of the international Space Station. Tim Furniss/LONDON A 6H 46MIN SPACE-WALK BY two astronauts on 16 September, during the STS69/Endeavour mission, has given NASA more confidence in the ability of crews to assemble the international Space ...
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Please explain the plane in Spain
Sir - In June, I saw a large ruined castle on a hill above the village of Coruna del Conde, Spain, on the battlements of which, mounted on a plinth and visible from more than a kilometre away, is a full-size jet fighter with a Spanish roundel. The ...
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Refined simplicity
Cessna's Ultra has all of its family's virtues, and more. Harry Hopkins/WICHITA FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, over the years, has flown several members of Cessna's family of straight-winged business jets, including the Citation II, IIS and V. The latest member of that family is the Ultra, a ...
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Alenia G222 hopes ride on C-130J deal
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA ITALIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Alenia is trying to launch a new variant of its G222 military transport on the back of the Italian air force's proposed purchase of the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules II. The company wants development of the G222J, as the derivative is ...
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International tactics
Taiwan's international carriers are engaged in a bitter battle for market share. Paul Lewis/TAIPEI COMPETITION IS heating up between Taiwan's two established international players, flag carrier China Airlines (CAL) and four-year-old Eva Airways. Ambitious fleet-expansion plans, the opening up of profitable trunk routes to Hong Kong and ...
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P&W test fires Russian rocket engine
PRATT & WHITNEY has successfully test-fired an RD-120 rocket engine on a test stand at the firm's Government Engines & Space Propulsion rocket test site in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was the first US test firing to be made of the flight-qualified Russian-made rocket engine. The RD-120 ...
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Virgin may expand Manchester services
VIRGIN ATLANTIC IS considering expansion of its Manchester operations following the successful launch of its 1996 service to Orlando, Florida. With 40% of available seats for the summer period pre-sold in the package-holiday market and scheduled bookings looking "healthy", the carrier is interested in other transatlantic opportunities. ...
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Canada injects extra funding into CAATS programme
TRANSPORT CANADA IS to contribute an additional C$75 million ($55.7 million) to the Canadian Automated Air Traffic System (CAATS) under an amended contract with Hughes Aircraft of Canada. The additional money pushes the project's total budget to C$734 million. An independent report by Intermetrics of McLean, Virginia, suggests, ...