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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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Sino thaw is set to grip
Chinese aviation appears to be experiencing a thaw as two recent events show that both outsiders and the CAAC have growing confidence in China's airlines. China's transition from bank-guaranteed to asset-based financing received a boost with the recent decision of an operating lessor to commit aircraft to a ...
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Routing for growth
Airlines have added and abandoned new routes at a substantial rate in the past two years, but US carriers and those based in more liberal markets dominated the picture. Report by Reed Travel Group Market Analysis and Airline Business. Market expansion is one of the most pertinent ways to ...
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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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Pyramids in the sky
Egyptair has seen off domestic competition and traffic is returning after a couple of years of decline. Chairman Mohammed Rayan talks to Sara Guild about his lofty plans for the carrier's future. There appears to be a discrepancy between the plans and ideas of Egyptair's chief executive and those of ...
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FAA approves FANS-1 package
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has issued a formal type certificate for Boeing's future air-navigation system (FANS-1) installation package for Rolls-Royce-powered Boeing 747-400s. The system provides for automatic position reporting and other operational communication by satellite from anywhere in the world. The FANS-1 incorporates a comprehensive flight-management-system ...
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Europe on course for TCAS by year 2000
Julian Moxon/PARIS Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC EUROCONTROL IS TO recommend mandatory introduction to Europe of an aircraft collision-avoidance system from the 2000, after a 26 June meeting of its committee of management. The move had been expected, and is supported by the European Joint Airworthiness ...
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First 737-400 delivered to JAL
JAPAN AIRLINES (JAL) HAS TAKEN DELIVERY of its first Boeing 737-400. The aircraft, the first of four 737-400s ordered by the Japanese flag carrier, will enter service in September on domestic routes, primarily from Osaka's Kansai International Airport. The services will be operated in conjunction with Japan TransOcean Air, 51%-owned ...
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First French CL-415 delivered
BOMBARDIER HANDED over the first Canadair CL-415 amphibious fire fighting aircraft to France's Securite Civile on 13 June following modification to cure water-tank leakage problems. Operations are scheduled to begin by the end of June. Launch-customer France had refused to take delivery of the CL-415 until problems of ...
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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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Air Macau goes for Airbus
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has won a close fight with Boeing to provide aircraft for start-up carrier Air Macau, which is to begin operations soon after Macau's first international airport opens for business in November. Air Macau is to lease two A320s and two A321s, both powered by International Aero ...
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IATA forecasts record airline profits
Kevin O'Toole/GENEVA THE international airline industry could be on course to turn in the highest profits in its history if over-capacity continues to decline, according to predictions from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). IATA estimates that its members made a net profit of $1.8 ...
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Australia-Hong Kong row escalates
A MAJOR ROW between Hong Kong and Australia over Qantas' fifth-freedom rights beyond Hong Kong has moved to open confrontation, raising the prospect of a total ban on all flights between the two countries by their respective carriers. Hong Kong had imposed a limit of 50% of Hong ...
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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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Back to break-even
The world airline industry ended 1994 close to break-even, but cost of reduction is still top of the agenda. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON At times, it seemed that it would never happen, but the world airline industry at last appears to have ended its record run of ...
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Row delays FedEx Subic Bay opening
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC FEDEX HAS DELAYED by 30 days the scheduled 3 July opening of its Subic Bay, Philippines, hub because of a bilateral-air-services dispute between the USA and Japan After a hiatus in talks between the two nations over Japan's refusal to let FedEx ...
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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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Lufthansa Expands
Lufthansa has extended its network in the CIS with the introduction of passenger and cargo flights to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. Lufthansa and Lufthansa Cargo, have begun operating a joint twice weekly Airbus A320 service, from Frankfurt to Baku. Source: Flight International
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Transavia gains, misses targets
TRANSAVIA AIRLINES blames declining fares and rising costs outside its control for failing meet its profit targets in the year to 31 March. Net profits were Dfl23.5 million ($16.5 million), just 0.7% ahead of the 1993/4 figure and well below the 15% margin targeted by the airline. Transavia ...
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MDC discusses 100-seater production with Chinese
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has entered into discussions with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) on the joint development and production of a 100-seat passenger aircraft. Initial talks centre on either assisting China with the development of a new 100-seat aircraft or expanding the existing MD-90 TrunkLiner programme to include ...