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Ghosts, phantoms and funnel flights
Some airlines are manipulating schedules to get improved marketing visibility.When is a new route not a new route? Answer: When it's a codeshare, funnel flight, ghost flight, change of gauge, or yet another figment of a marketing executive's fertile imagination. The intention behind the survey of new route developments in ...
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Iberia bullish on state aid
Iberia is on the offensive as the European Commission settles down to consider the submissions of third parties opposed to the request of the Spanish government to inject Pta130 billion ($1.07 billion) into its flag carrier. Top management came to London in early June to underline the claim ...
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Merger plan draws blank
Yet again political expediency is muddying the debate over Air Inter's future, as its merger with Air France Europe looks set to be sidelined to minimise social unrest. Christian Blanc, who took over the chair of Air Inter when Michel Bernard unexpectedly resigned in mid-May, has proposed an ...
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US-UK slow movement
Although the early June US-UK 'interim' agreement found favour with United Airlines and British Airways, the US Department of Transportation now faces considerable pressure from rivals American Airlines, Continental Airlines and TWA to broaden Heathrow rights in the next round of negotiations. However there has at least been ...
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TWA are set to file anew
A second trip into bankruptcy protection appears inevitable for Trans World Airlines. For months, carrier executives have been trying to corral creditors into supporting an ever changing plan that would see the airline enter bankruptcy with a pre-packaged debt restructuring for the second time in three years. This ...
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USAir boost: BA doubts
The winding down of Continental Lite has helped USAir increase yields and bounce back into profitability, and the airline now has agreements with three out of its four unions. However, the proposed employee board representation has thrown up a potential conflict with partner British Airways. Investors in USAir, ...
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Euro pilots strike out
Continuing management efforts to cut the European majors' operating costs are resulting in clashes with pilots at KLM, SAS and Alitalia. If pilots do not concede the need to reduce costs, carriers may seek alternatives. KLM is insisting on a longterm programme to cut its aircrew costs, which ...
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Saudi picks US
Saudia has defined its $6 billion order for US jets - 22 Boeing 777s, five B747-400s, 29 MD-90s and four MD-11 freighters, according to the Wall Street Journal. Source: Airline Business
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The great plunge
NASA's Galileo space probe will shortly be released into a 170,000km/h plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere. Tim Furniss/LONDON On 13 July, an 340kg instrumented probe, will be released from NASA's $1.4 billion Galileo spacecraft, 80 million kilometres away, from the planet Jupiter. The 1.25 x 0.86m ...
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American Leases
American Eagle has clarified reports of its latest order for Saab 340B Plus turboprop aircraft, saying that the transaction was a lease, not a purchase. It also plans to exercise an existing option to return to Saab 26 of its older 340s, including 16 340As. Source: Flight International
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Africa's Alliance prepares to launch scheduled services
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON ALLIANCE, THE NEW African long-haul venture led by South African Airways (SAA), is gearing up for the launch of scheduled services in July, and says that new routes and aircraft are likely to follow. The venture has its origins in protracted talks between ...
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Fairey progresses with S-70B Decklock
FAIREY HYDRAULICS has completed initial testing of its new Decklock landing system for the Sikorsky S-70B family of naval helicopters. The one-year development programme should culminate in the production of a unit suitable for aircraft trials. The Decklock consists of a pair of steel jaws attached ...
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NASA tests Pathfinder airbag
NASA LEWIS RESEARCH Center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, is conducting tests of an airbag landing-gear system which will provide the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft with a soft, upright landing when it lands on the rugged terrain of Mars in 1997. The Mars Pathfinder is the first ...
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China United Deal
China United Airlines has become the third Chinese customer for Israeli avionics manufacturer Rada Electronic Industries, which has sold the airline automatic-test equipment worth $1.2 million. The SMART commercial-avionics test station has been developed to test an aircraft's electrical systems and electronic equipment. Source: Flight International
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Stretch revives Il-76 prospects
Ilyushin has rolled out a stretched, re-engine, version of its successful Il-76 Candid freighter. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW It is almost a quarter of a century since the Ilyushin Il-76 freighter (NATO codename Candid) made its first appearance in the West at the 1971 Paris air show. Although a ...
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EC135 Wins New Friends
Eurocopter has won eight new orders for its new EC135 light helicopter in standard and emergency-medical-services (EMS) configurations. Two EMS helicopters are to go to the Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht (German air rescue), three to Petroleum Helicopters in the USA, and one to the Pittsburgh-based Centre for Emergency Medicine, for operations in ...
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Impact of high-speed competition: the real threat
Sir - Andrew Chuter is right to warn the airlines of the impact of high-speed rail services (Flight International, 7-13 June, P94). The real danger threatening domestic and short-haul European services, does not come from the TGV high speed train, however, but from the willingness of governments to sink ...
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BA poised for Gatwick relaunch
David Learmount/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS IS TO base an additional eight wide bodied aircraft at London Gatwick Airport, to fly routes transferred from the carrier's premier international hub, Heathrow. Robert Ayling, BA's managing director, says that, with a growth rate of 6% a year and severe ...
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Merger mania
Europe still has a long way to go to match the strategic power of big US alliances. Julian Moxon/PARIS Only an optimistic visionary would have come out of the Paris air show maintaining that the European aerospace industry had begun seriously to re-organise itself. After all, ...
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Confidence confirmed
Reassurance that business aviation is bubbling again was provided at Paris. Graham Warwick/PARIS If confirmation was needed of the recent resurgence in business aviation, then Paris provided it. The industry is experiencing its biggest backlogs since 1977, and most manufacturers reported production-rate increases to cope ...