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British Midland reveals Eurostar impact
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH MIDLAND (BM) admits that competition from the Channel Tunnel rail link from London to Paris and Brussels effectively halved its potential profits in 1995, but group chairman Sir Michael Bishop says that the airline has now weathered the worst of the Tunnel's impact. Although the airline managed ...
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Swissair considers stake in new low-cost Italian carrier
SWISSAIR IS IN talks with Italy's new low-cost carrier, Noman, on commercial links which may lead to it taking a share of up to 33% in the airline. Noman, which was formerly known as Fortune Aviation, began scheduled passenger operations on 22 January, offering no-frills services between ...
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SIA struggles with depressed yields
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DESPITE RELEASING another strong set of group results for its latest financial year, Singapore Airlines (SIA) admits that its core airline business is coming under intense pressure from increased competition and a strengthening Singapore dollar. The overall group profit climbed by 12%, to ...
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Israeli expansion
Israeli regional airline Emek Wings is expanding its fleet to compete on domestic scheduled services with Arkia. The airline operates three Shorts 330/360s and is to acquire two ex-Continental Express ATR 42-300s in July. Source: Flight International
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Training must be a viable industry
Sir - I refer to your leader "Unique Internationalism" and story "AST becomes first victim of UK training policy" (Flight International, 8-14 May, P3, P6). Rumours of the demise of Air Services Training (AST) predate either National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) or foreign training. In fact, the school is ...
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KLM objects
Dutch flag carrier KLM has complained to the European Commission about price dumping by Air France on routes between Hanover-Marseilles, Mulhouse and Stockholm and Marseilles and Stockholm. It says that the French carrier should not be allowed its final, Fr5 billion ($833 million), tranche of state aid as a result. ...
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Planetary passport
Will there ever be a universal pilot's licence? David Learmount/LONDON LIKE THE "UNIVERSAL" language Esperanto, a world-standard for pilots' licences seems like a good idea, but no-one puts it into practice. Unemployed pilots dream of being able to follow work wherever in the world the ...
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Working relationship
Private Israeli airline Arkia has expanded into an international charter operator. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE THREE ONE-STOREY prefabricated office buildings at Dov Airport in Tel Aviv reflect the spartan way in which Israeli private airline Arkia is managed. Arkia was founded in 1950 by Israeli ...
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Delta tie-up
Delta Air Lines, Austrian and Malev Hungarian Airlines have begun code-share/blocked-space service on Delta's daily Boeing 767 flights between Atlanta, Vienna and Budapest. Source: Flight International
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BWIA drops EMB-145 plans, renegotiates A340 order
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BWIA HAS ABANDONED its intentions to operate up to ten Embraer EMB-145s and is rethinking its plans for an Airbus long-haul fleet. The airline, however, discounts rumours that it is talking to Boeing again. The Caribbean-based carrier, which signed a letter of intent ...
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Saab 2000 'main problem' is more to do with speedy service
Sir - I read the story on the Saab 2000 "Deutsche BA suspends deliveries" (Flight International, 10-16 April, P5). I believe that the aircraft deserves better publicity than this. As a pilot who has had 18 months' experience of flying the 2000 through two European winters, I am able to ...
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Boeing schedules September delivery for first F-22 wing
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS ON schedule to deliver large sub-assemblies for the first pre-production F-22 air-superiority fighter to its partner Lockheed Martin in September, amid rising confidence that the first flight will take place on time in late May 1997. Boeing's two biggest sections of ...
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GE and P&W join forces on 747X
Paul Lewis and Guy Norris/SEATTLE GENERAL ELECTRIC and Pratt & Whitney have agreed to joint development of an engine to power Boeing's new-generation 747 models, the 747-500/600X. Meanwhile, Boeing is expecting to be complete definition of the new models by mid-year. The surprise teaming of ...
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Regional and utility aircraft directory
Fokker's demise is the most dramatic in a series of upheavals taking place throughout the regional-aircraft industry Compiled by Andrew Doyle and Jennifer Pite/LONDON Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FOKKER IS DOWN, the count almost over, but the winner is far from clear: not the customers left with unfulfilled orders for ...
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El Al profits boost
EL AL TURNED IN net profits of $15 million in 1995 and expects to improve on the performance this year, helped by rising traffic between the USA and Israel. The Israeli flag carrier says that it expects to make gains from its improved access to US gateways and ...
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ANZ plans twice-weekly Australia-Shanghai flights
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ), plans to use up its remaining Australian fifth-freedom rights, by flying twice weekly between Australia and Shanghai. The carrier says that it will "probably" operate the services from Sydney, but has not ruled out using its Brisbane hub. General manager sales and marketing international ...
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Star in the ascent
TURKISH AD HOC cargo carrier Star Airways is preparing to enter the passenger business in June according to Jaime Baldwin, Star Airways' deputy general manager for legal and regulatory affairs. Initial operations will provide inclusive-tour charters from Europe to Turkey and Northern Cyprus, using yet-to-be specified narrow-bodies, probably ...
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Aviall continues disposals in quest for core profits
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AVIALL IS TO sell its aerospace-fastener operation, in another step towards its ambition of stripping the group back to its profitable aircraft-parts distribution business. An agreement was signed at the end of April to sell the fasteners-distribution unit to a new company formed ...
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Dusseldorf is re-opened to regionals as ban is lifted
EUROPE'S REGIONAL airlines have forced Germany's Dusseldorf Airport to drop a ban on all turboprop flights after the airport authority conceded in court that it would have more capacity available within a month (Flight International, 1-7 May). The court directed that all turboprop aircraft must be allowed back ...
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BA's franchising goes offshore
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS has announced its first offshore franchise deal, with Sun-Air of Scandinavia. The UK carrier expects the deal to be the first of similar international agreements. The link with Sun-Air is effective from 1 August, and will provide the carrier with a ...