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Investors favour Valu
For some carriers media scrutiny at times of misfortune adds fuel to the fire. But not for ValuJet Airlines. The darling of Wall Street and consumers alike seems to have sidestepped a recent spate of bad luck. Lewis Jordan, president of the Atlanta-based carrier, waves off suggestions that ...
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The digital age: A virtual reality?
Second-guessing future developments will help airlines in key areas like distribution.Good morning. It's 0800 local time on 1 August 2005. This synthesised, virtual reality, digital Airline Business newscast is brought to you, wherever you are, by satellite from London. The top stories this morning: * United Lufthansa buys final tranche ...
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Indian feed for starters
A third tier of Indian feeder carriers is emerging as more turboprop operators, backed by state governments and investment from home and abroad, start up in a potentially lucrative market. The smaller carriers will fill the gap below the country's jet operators, which, with profitability still eluding them, ...
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Latvian revamp?
The Latvian government and privatisation agency have given the go ahead for Baltic International USA (BIUSA) to set up a new Latvian flag carrier in a joint venture with SAS, according to BIUSA. The move means Latavio will close or be reduced to charter only. SAS refuses to confirm its ...
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LAX land fee row rolls on
US airlines continue their landing-fee battle with Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), but so far all they have made is a small dent in the increases, as new fees are imposed and the validity of the old ones is largely upheld by the Department of Transportation. In late ...
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Iberia insists it is viable
As Spain assumes the presidency of the European Union, Iberia's management has taken a new tack in trying to convince the European Commission and industry critics that it should receive its controversial Pta130 billion ($1.07 billion) in state aid. Having blamed the recession, devaluation of the pesata, competition ...
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CAI rejigs its restructuring
Having so far failed to achieve new concessions from its employees, Canadian Airlines International has said its 30 June deadline was an 'arbitrary' date, and that it needs 20 per cent less in labour savings than estimated in April. Since passing the deadline without new contracts, management at ...
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Swedes root for Carlzon
A long-awaited shakeup in the ownership of Swedish independent Transwede will see a shift towards charter operations and a retreat back into scheduled domestic services. The change also sees the return of ex-SAS chief Jan Carlzon to the industry as president of new holding company Transpool and chairman ...
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Germans win out on codes
A recent report on codesharing for the German ministry of transport has pushed Bonn to the centre of the debate in Europe, as Brussels prepares to launch its own long-awaited study. The report by the quasi-independent state research institute, DLR, is the first of its kind in Europe, following the ...
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Commission targets UK
The European Commission is set to extend its legal challenge aimed at the six member states talking 'open skies' with the US to include the UK, in a seemingly unbalanced bid to win external competence in air service negotiations. At presstime, the Commission was set to initiate legal ...
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Sanders/ITT Joint Bid
Lockheed Martin's Sanders unit and ITT Avionics have teamed to bid for the integrated defensive electronic-countermeasures (IDECM) system to be used to defend US military aircraft, including the US Navy's McDonnell Douglas F-18E/Fs. Under the teaming arrangement, Sanders would serve as the prime contractor. Both firms supply the Pentagon with ...
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A clash of cultures
French ire and English sang froid characterise the European- defence debate after the UK chose a US helicopter. Douglas Barrie/LONDON JACQUES CHIRAC, the French President, "deplores" the UK's choice of the Westland/McDonnell Douglas WAH-64D Apache Longbow as its next attack helicopter, while his head of ...
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Renaissance transport
Is the choice of military transport now between, the Lockheed C-130 Hercules or the Future Large Aircraft? Or can a fleet of small transports, integrated with larger ones, provide an alternative approach? Harry Hopkins/NAPLES THE ALENIA G222 is among the few 5-10t-payload loading-ramp-equipped transports, which are still ...
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Nagoya A300 families to sue CAL and Airbus
RELATIVES OF VICTIMS killed in the 1994 China Airlines (CAL) Airbus Industrie A300-600R crash, in Nagoya, Japan, have decided to sue the aircraft manufacturer and Taiwanese carrier, for substantial damages. Families of 124 of the crash victims are jointly seeking around '100 million ($1.16 million) each in compensation ...
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TransBrazil ditches 777
TRANSBRASIL HAS cancelled its order for three Boeing 777s. The Brazilian carrier informed Boeing of its decision just days before the Paris air show, held during June, but the US manufacturer has yet to announce the move officially. Transbrasil ordered the aircraft in 1993, originally for delivery starting ...
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Russian regrets?
The initial enthusiasm for East-West joint projects appears to be waning. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW AT THE END OF THE 1980s, political and economical changes in the Soviet Union opened the way for a series of co-operative agreements between Western and Soviet aerospace companies. Now, five years ...
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Visionary approach
Surrey Satellite Technology is funding the development and launch of a new MiniBus space platform. Tim Furniss/GUILDFORD SMALLER, FASTER, CHEAPER - these are the qualities by which the products entering the burgeoning "smallsat" market are described. Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is one of the pack leaders; ...
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High-speed trains pose no threat to aircraft services
Sir - A recent report to the International Civil Aviation Organisation-CAEP, High-speed trains - competition and competitive power, written by Jan Veldhuis (Netherlands Civil Aviation Authority), Alf Schmitt (Germany) and myself, provides minimal support for the apprehensions put forward by "name withheld" and Haluk Taysi of Airbus (Flight International, Letters, ...
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IPTN MPA plans set back
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE INDONESIA'S air force has again pushed back its planned order for six Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) CN-235 MPA maritime-patrol aircraft by a year, representing a further setback for the programme. IPTN had been hoping that the air force would launch the MPA version ...