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Air Liberte launch
Air Libert‚ is to launch a three-times-a-week scheduled service from Bordeaux to Newark/New York on 1 April. The service will use Airbus A310-300s and will be the first transatlantic operation for the fast-expanding French independent airline. Source: Flight International
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A340 findings indicate ozone is 'not being destroyed'
PRELIMINARY results from an experiment being carried out to study the effects of pollution at airliner cruising altitudes suggest that ozone is not being depleted, says Airbus Industrie. Five Airbus A340s (two operated by Air France, two by Lufthansa and one by Austrian Airlines) are involved in the ...
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Seizing the initiative
Russia is taking steps to improve air-safety and save its international reputation. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW THE INTERNATIONAL furore, which followed the loss of an Aeroflot Russian International Airlines Airbus A310, en route from Moscow to Hong Kong, in March 1994, proved to be the catalyst, which prompted Russia's ...
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Malaysian Boeing choice was driven by capacity criterion
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE AIRCRAFT-SEAT capacity, rather than price, appears to have been the deciding factor in Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) selection of the Boeing 777 over the rival Airbus A340. Boeing had been widely expected for some weeks to win the MAS order with a combination of ...
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Spain takes DASA guidance systems
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has delivered the first of three flight-guidance systems ordered for the Spanish Sistema Integrado de Vigilancia Aerea observation-drone project. The contract was awarded by the Madrid-based National Aerospace Technology Institute, which is leading the programme. The guidance system - which includes an on-board ...
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Air Libert, plans new routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH DOMESTIC airline Air Liberte is poised to take advantage of the 1 January 1996, liberalisation of French skies (to national airlines only) with plans to launch 23 new domestic routes in the first six months of this year. Air Liberte President Lotfi ...
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777 delivery
China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-200. The twinjet will be used on routes from Guangzhou to Shanghai and Beijing. The carrier has ordered six General Electric-GE90-powered 777s, including two -200 versions. Source: Flight International
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World Airways seeks share of transatlantic leisure markets
US CARRIER WORLD Airways is bidding to re-enter the transatlantic-passenger charter business. Perceiving a strong demand in the leisure market because of the weak dollar, the airline is planning to introduce routes from Germany, Switzerland and the UK from May. Application has been made for weekly routes from ...
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Varig president leaves within first year
VARIG PRESIDENT Carlos Willy Engels has stepped down after less than a year in charge of the Brazilian flag carrier. Officially, the company cites personal reasons for his departure, although it is believed that results for 1995 were not good enough to satisfy creditors who also sit on the Varig ...
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Vietnam disappointed
A shortage of available slots has forced Vietnam Airlines to postpone plans to add new routes to London and Frankfurt. The airline will instead concentrate on increasing frequencies to destinations in Asia. The Vietnamese national carrier has announced a 55% increase in total passenger traffic, to over 2.2 million, for ...
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UPS pricing first
UPS, has become the first package-delivery company to implement distance-based pricing for air-express services. Prices for short-distance shipments will drop by up to 40% and long-distance rates will rise by up to 28%. Source: Flight International
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Delta used UK slots in disguise
Sir - In reply to the letter "US carriers should think again" (Flight International, 3-9 January, P39), Mr Howard is mistaken in thinking that Delta ever had slots at London Heathrow. What he recalls seeing were McDonnell Douglas DC-8-33s painted in Delta Air Lines' colours, beginning in 1969, which were ...
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India agrees to foreign stakes
The Indian Government has approved plans to allow foreign investors to take stakes of up to 40% in domestic airlines. The entry of foreign carriers into domestic services has been put on hold until India has completed its air-service modernisation programme, however. Although the Government has agreed in ...
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Business Express cancels remaining RJ70 orders
BUSINESS EXPRESS IS TO cancel nine remaining firm orders for Avro International Aerospace RJ70s, following its decision to return the three aircraft, which it already operates and to withdraw from jet-powered operations (Flight International, 10-16 January). The orders are being converted into options. Avro says that it and ...
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GECAS set to seal $8 billion order
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES ONE OF THE LARGEST commercial-aircraft orders ever placed is expected to be announced within the next few weeks by GE Capital Services (GECAS), the leasing arm of US engineering conglomerate General Electric. The deal is widely expected to include orders and options for ...
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The fight goes on
Airliner markets are on the mend, but the fight for orders remains as fierce as ever. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE AIRLINER MARKET is finally on the upturn. While 1995 may not have been a vintage year for the big-three jet-aircraft manufacturers, the tally of new orders was respectable ...
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Delta warns on CRS charges
DELTA AIRLINES has warned computer-reservation-system (CRS) operators to cut CRS distribution charges to air carriers or face losing the business to emerging alternative electronic and ticketing systems. "Continued rate increases will only encourage Delta and other carriers to implement practices designed to minimise or eliminate the distribution of ...
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Business Express will return RJ70s
Andrew Doyle/LONDON US REGIONAL OPERATOR Business Express is to hand back all three of its Avro International Aerospace RJ70s to the leasing company, casting doubts over the future of its remaining nine firm orders and eight options for the type. The first of the three ...
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Boeing beats rivals to Malaysian deal
Andrew Chuter/LONDON BOEING HAS made a clean sweep of a $4 billion Malaysian Airlines (MAS) order for long-range, high-capacity, aircraft, beating Airbus and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to a deal, which could eventually cover 65 aircraft. MAS was expected to announce on 9 January an order ...
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Malev receives Fokker 70s
MALEV HUNGARIAN Airlines has taken delivery of the first of four Fokker 70s which it plans to put into operation in the first half of this year. Three of the aircraft are on lease from International Lease Finance and the fourth is being purchased directly from Fokker. Malev expects to ...