Networks – Page 1361
-
News
Air New Zealand signs up to buy a stake in Ansett
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Air New Zealand (ANZ) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TNT to acquire an initial 25% interest in Ansett Holdings for A$200 million ($151 million). ANZ chairman Bob Matthew says, that a formal agreement on the two-stage A$425 million purchase, is ...
-
News
Harris may start 'no-frills' airline
AIR CANADA CHAIRMAN Hollis Harris may invest in an US-based "no-frills" airline, which could be in operation as early as June 1996. Harris confirms in an interview with the Canadian Financial Post that at least four "core" investors are already examining whether to take a stake in the ...
-
News
Formosa will take 328-110 in February
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) expects to deliver its first improved-performance Dornier 328-110 turboprop to Taiwan's Formosa Airlines in late February 1996. Delivery of the five aircraft ordered by Formosa has been delayed by the need to develop and certificate short take-off and landing improvements to the 328-100 for flights ...
-
News
Air Macau starts
Air Macau has started commercial operations, launching its first services to Beijing and Shanghai on 9 November. The new carrier has taken delivery of its first Airbus Industrie A321 and is due to receive its second 178-seat aircraft at the end of November, under a lease agreement with International Lease ...
-
News
Crandall attacks liberalisation progress
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON IN ANOTHER FIERCE attack on the lack of progress being made in UK-US liberalisation, American Airlines chairman Bob Crandall says that he is against any deal which falls short of giving the carrier an equal footing to that of British Airways at London Heathrow. ...
-
News
Air-traffic-controller strikes blamed for European delays
Julian Moxon/PARIS STRIKES BY AIR-TRAFFIC controllers and the shortage of airport and airspace capacity are being blamed for a serious increase in departure delays in Europe during the July-September period. The Association of European Airlines (AEA) describes as "appalling" the figures for the three months, in ...
-
News
Munich on defensive as Asian airlines pull out
INDONESIAN CARRIER Garuda and Japan Airlines (JAL) have withdrawn from services to Munich Airport, leaving the airport management company, Flughafen Munchen (FMG), defending its growth record. According to the airport authorities, JAL pulled out over a question of traffic rights, while Garuda's decision was part of an overall ...
-
News
Room for expansion at Air Seychelles
AIR SEYCHELLES has unveiled plans for new routes and aircraft, to enable the airline to grow with the development of tourist traffic - which has the scope to double to at least around 250,000 people a year. Executive chairman Freddie Karkaria says that he is considering opportunities to ...
-
News
Turkish order maintains Douglas recovery
Turkish charter operator Onur Air has ordered five McDonnell Douglas MD-88s and taken options on five more, continuing the fourth quarter turn-around in the fortunes of Douglas Aircraft. Up to the end of September, Douglas had taken orders for just 11 twinjets during the whole of 1995. The ...
-
News
Valujet will open up more hubs
VALUJET, THE low-fare US airline entrant which is competing head-to-head with USAir in the eastern USA, is creating additional hub operations at Boston, Massachusetts, and Orlando, Florida. The profitable low-cost operator, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, successfully expanded its operations in 1994 at Washington's Dulles International. The Boston build-up ...
-
News
Jordan/Israel services launch planned in 1996
ROYAL JORDANIAN Airline subsidiary Royal Wings plans to launch a direct air service between Amman, Jordan, and the Israeli City of Tel Aviv starting in early 1996. The start-up carrier has signed a lease agreement with Bombardier de Havilland for a single Dash 8-300 turboprop to operate on ...
-
News
BA shrugs off US doubts
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS chairman Sir Colin Marshall shrugs off uncertainties over the fate of its US partner USAir, although he admits that the UK carrier has few clues over the likely outcome of the United and American Airlines approaches to the US airline. "We ...
-
News
Air India makes loss and expects worse to come
AIR INDIA SWUNG firmly back into the red in the first half of its financial year, and losses could rise higher depending on the outcome of wage negotiations with pilots and ground engineers. First-half losses of $23 million are expected to double when the airline reports for its ...
-
News
Airbus prepares for shortened A330 launch launch imminent
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS preparing to launch the shortened version of the A330 long-range wide body twinjet "before the end of the year", for service entry in 1998. The manufacturer has been pushing to launch the 250-seat A330-M10 as soon as the market showed sufficient ...
-
News
Egyptian airline takes Metros
ORCA AIR, a new Egyptian airline based at Sharm el Sheikh on the tip of the Sinai peninsula has ordered, two 19-seat Fairchild Metro 23s and taken options on four more. The aircraft will be the first 23E models, incorporating an electronic flight-instrumentation system (EFIS) cockpit. The first ...
-
News
Dash for growth
Bombardier Regional Aircraft landed a double coup at the show, confirming an order from Great China Airways of Taiwan for six de Havilland Dash 8-400s, with options on a further six. The aircraft will replace Dash 8-300s operated by the Taiwanese carrier. The second deal is with Japanese carrier Ryuku ...
-
News
US airlines move to end passenger-liability limits gathers pace
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON US AIRLINES HAVE become the latest to put their signature to an inter-carrier agreement which should see the scrapping of all passenger-liability limits within the next year. Under the new agreement, which was endorsed at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) annual general ...
-
News
Teleflex/GE join forces
TELEFLEX AND GE Aircraft Engines have agreed to form a joint venture, called Airfoil Technologies International, to repair commercial aero-engine fan blades and compressor aerofoils. The venture, which will be 51% owned by Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania-based Teleflex, is expected to begin operations before the end of this year. ...
-
News
Transavia seals Boeing 737 deal
Peter Legro (left), chief executive of Dutch charter and scheduled airline Transavia, has confirmed an order for eight Boeing 737-800s, with an option on a further 12, in a signing ceremony at the airline's headquarters at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Boeing president Ron Woodard is seen countersigning the order, which is ...
-
News
KLM reporting a record first half
BRITISH AIRWAYS HAD a clutch of record traffic figures and its highest-ever profits to show as the group revealed an "outstanding" set of results for the first half of the financial year. Net profits climbed to £323 million over the six months to September, as sales broke through ...