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Christmas bonus
Airbus received a late Christmas present when lessor ILFC placed an order for up to 40 of its aircraft in late December. Firm orders comprise eight A319s, 13 A320s and nine A321s. ILFC also took an option on 10 aircraft. Source: Airline Business
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Garuda sells
Garuda Indonesia has sold nine Airbus A300B4s to a private Indonesian company for around $85 million as part of its fleet renewal programme. Meanwhile, Northwest has acquired two DC-9-32s from Alitalia. Source: Airline Business
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Basic instinct
outhwest is the first customer for Sabre's new participation level 'Basic Booking Request', which will make two current levels, 'On Request' and 'Call Direct', redundant when it comes on-line in May. The product is aimed at low-cost carriers. Source: Airline Business
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Amadeus in tune
Amadeus and System One have announced their long-awaited plans to merge. Under the agreement, Amadeus, Continental Airlines and EDS will each hold a third of the equity in System One, which will become an Amadeus marketing company. Source: Airline Business
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Council expects
Vincent Siew has been named to chair Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council. The Council expects to play a major role in resolving the Beijing influenced impasse between Hong Kong and Taiwan over renewing the bilateral. Beijing insists that Taiwanese bound for China should fly directly, rather than via Hong Kong. ...
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Thai's new chief
Thai Airways has appointed Amaret Sila-on as chairman. He is a non-military appointee with wide ranging commercial and governmental experience. Source: Airline Business
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Caledonian sold
British Airways has surprised the charter market with the sale of Caledonian Airways for $25.4 million to UK leisure company Inspirations. Source: Airline Business
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DHL invests
DHL Worldwide is reported to have paid $3 million for a 3 per cent stake in Air Afrique. Source: Airline Business
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Virgin backs out
Virgin has terminated its franchise with South East European Airways after the Greek carrier failed to maintain the lease on its A320. Source: Airline Business
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Right of passage
Delta has become the first US partner of Passages, the Asian FFP, and All Nippon Airways becomes the first Japanese carrier to join. Source: Airline Business
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Orly response
Air France is taking on Lufthansa, the largest of its new competitors at Paris/Orly airport, with 12 weekly flights from Orly to Frankfurt. Sabena, KLM and Lauda Air all began operations from Orly in January. Source: Airline Business
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BM rail link up
British Midland is discussing possible ticket transferrals with Eurostar, the cross-Channel rail company. This would allow passengers to fly from London to Paris or Brussels and return by train, or vice versa. Source: Airline Business
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US FFP defeat
The US Supreme Court has ruled that passengers can sue airlines over changes made to frequent flier programmes. This allows a group in Illinois to proceed with a case against American Airlines. The carrier decided in 1988 to impose some retroactive restrictions on free travel awards. ...
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Virgin go-ahead
A US court ruled that Virgin Atlantic can proceed with its case against British Airways under US anti-trust law. The judge reasoned that acts outside the US can violate its laws if they have the effect of restricting US competition. Source: Airline Business
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Handling trouble
The ground handling debate is underlining the challenges facing the European Commission in policing Europe's single market. The trouble with the European Commission is that it has too many difficulties putting its laudable objectives into action. Ground handling offers the latest example of this. A year after ...
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Big liability
Aviation insurance suffered a bad year in 1994, with a steep rise in combined hull and liability losses. Claims increased by some $1 billion, almost doubling to an estimated $2.2 billion, according to Airclaims. Premiums amounted to some $1.3 billion, trebling the shortfall in the amount needed to cover claims. ...
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DOT scales back the Clinton way
In targeting the Department of Transportation for halving from its 1993 level, the Clinton administration is not only seeking to get ahead of the Republican-controlled Congress in its frenzy to downsize federal government, it is also courting opposition from airlines and airports. Transportation secretary Federico Peña has announced the administration's ...
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ANZ weighs Oz options
Air New Zealand is believed to be close to deciding on a bold strategic move towards domestic operations in Australia, despite Canberra's shock decision late last year to abandon the proposed Australia-New Zealand single aviation market. Sources say ANZ majority shareholder Brierley Investments Ltd is considering two options, ...
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Sense stems Pacific pride
South Pacific island governments are finally taking steps to stem the flow of red ink that has bedevilled most of their tiny national airlines for the past decade. At presstime, aviation officials from the dozen isolated nations were studying a comprehensive new report designed to set them back ...
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Africa set for key changes
With Zambia's government admitting defeat in maintaining its national carrier, new contenders have lost little time in proposing a replacement. And Kenya Airways is readying itself for the transfer of up to 80 per cent of the state holding into the private sector. A joint venture carrier between ...