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Mandarin merger - China Airlines has set a June 1999 target date for the merger of its subsidiaries Mandarin Airlines and Formosa Airlines. The merged carrier will retain the Mandarin name, but will focus entirely on domestic services. Garuda shake-up - Debt-ridden Indonesian airline Garuda has appointed a new ...
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Russian rates hit North Korea income
"Open your skies and they will come." That was the message North Korea heard when it agreed with the International Civil Aviation Organisation to allow commercial flights through its heavily guarded airspace. Yet, since that agreement took effect in April, use of North Korean airspace has been below projections. ...
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Taiwan eases another notch
In the wake of Koo Chen-fu's trip to China, the highest-ranking Taiwanese visit to China in 50 years, Taipei has eased direct flight restrictions another notch. The first of many Air Macau charters from Ningbo, a Chinese port, flew to Taiwan via Macau under one flight number and without ...
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Preparing for downturn
Any analysts keen to spot signs of an end to the boom, will have found much to whet the appetite as the major US airlines posted their third quarter financials. Even before the results were fully out, nervous equity markets had begun to downgrade earnings estimates for next year. It ...
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Airports can be low cost too
Spurred on by the low-cost carriers, Europe's local airports have begun to reinvent themselves as low-cost alternatives to the major hubs. Much attention has been lavished on the rise of Europe's low-cost airlines. But it is not only the carriers which are cutting costs. Following fast on their heels ...
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French flotation delayed
The privatisation of Air France may now be delayed until late 1999 as a result of weak market conditions, political opposition and investor fears of further labour troubles. Originally scheduled for summer 1998, the sale of a 20% stake in the company on the Paris bourse has been delayed ...
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Cretans welcome Dutch move
Dutch scheduled and charter airline Transavia has become the first non-Greek airline to operate a domestic schedule in Greece, following a change in the rules by the Greek aviation authorities in line with European Union (EU) rules. Transavia, which has built up a strong following in Greece over many ...
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BA and American agree 10% Iberia stake
While the alliance across the Atlantic appears to have been scaled back, British Airways and American Airlines are moving ahead with their European and Latin American links. BA and American are taking a 10% stake in Iberia, according to Spanish state industrial holding company SEPI, with BA taking at ...
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Balkan sale mysteriously delayed
Officials in the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport have postponed the sale of flag carrier Balkan Bulgarian, despite a "perfectly legitimate" bid from Balkan Air. The carrier was due to be sold by the end of the year to a consortium led by Balkan Air, which included a management team and ...
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Moscow tussle continues
Virgin Atlantic and British Midland are still fighting it out over Moscow route rights. The two rivals are taking their cases for a new London Heathrow to Moscow route back to the UK's Civil Aviation Authority after John Prescott, the UK Secretary of State for Transport, ruled that it had ...
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FAA team builder
The sceptics were out when Jane Garvey became the FAA's first female, non-pilot Administrator. But her management technique is beginning to change minds. Only 18 months after taking the helm at the Federal Aviation Administration, Jane Garvey has already served as long as the entire terms of some of ...
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Gleaming Gardermoen
Can Norway's attractive new hub at Gardermoen carve out an international role in the Scandinavian market? Oslo's futuristic new airport at Gardermoen can probably lay claim to being Europe's last major new opening this side of the millennium. It is undoubtedly a gleaming example of Norwegian architecture, coming complete with ...
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private investigations
A new European directive on data protection is threatening to change the rules for airline alliance partners seeking to share customer details. Imagine the global alliance makers as players on a Monopoly board, all lined up at the start and keen to roll the dice. The world's major airlines ...
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Reining back on growth
Not so long ago, the issue exercising minds in much of Asia Pacific was whether airport capacity would be able to keep pace with the region's roaring traffic growth. Since last year's economic turmoil took hold, the concerns have changed. After decades of topping the growth tables, the region ...
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Flourishing in Florida
As Miami's major airport struggles to keep pace with the fastest growth in the USA, its smaller rivals are making a bid for more international service. Growth in Florida is a bit like the sunshine - there's always plenty to go around. No matter which way you slice the ...
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BA/American put alliance brakes on
Faced with declining yields across the North Atlantic, British Airways and American Airlines have confirmed plans to postpone a full alliance for up to five years. But their revised plans for limited codesharing have failed to dispel US opposition. BA now plans to codeshare with American in the US ...
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Continental seeks justice
The US Department of Justice's (DOJ) decision to mount a legal challenge to the proposed purchase of a 14% stake in Continental Airlines by Northwest Airlines throws a question mark over the future shape of the alliance. Continental Airlines insists it will pursue the pact and that the two airlines ...
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Executive decisions
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESAlan Mulally, the newly appointed president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, walks eagerly to the corner of his office and turns on the computer. Like an instant "state of the nation" monitor, the screen summarises the status of every single Boeing Commercial aircraft coming off the production ...
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Thomson reveals expansion plans for Orbit subsidiary
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) has outlined plans to expand its Orbit Flight Training simulator operating subsidiary. TTS-built Airbus A320 and A340 full-flight simulators have entered service with Orbit at a centre near London Gatwick Airport. The company will also offer A310 training from December at its ...
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FlightSafety opens low-visibility course for business users
FlightSafety International has launched a training programme for low-visibility operations with business aircraft. The company's first training programme for Category IIIa operations is for the Dassault Falcon 2000 and uses a Teterboro, New York-based Level D simulator equipped with Flight Dynamics HGS head-up guidance system. Installation of the HGS and ...