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Zaire offers Sabena stake in new airline
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS THE ZAIRE Government has offered Sabena a 51% stake in a new airline being formed to take over from defunct Air Zaire. The proposal was formulated during a visit by a Sabena delegation to the Zaire capital Kinshasa. The proposal does not ...
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El Al plans Stansted-Newark service
ISRAELI FLAG CARRIER El Al is replacing its one-way summer flights from London Stansted to Newark, New Jersey, introduced for technical reasons, with three scheduled return flights a week, to be flown with a Boeing 757. An additional weekend service will be operated between Stansted and Tel Aviv. ...
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BMA asks for EC help in Swiss row
BRITISH MIDLAND (BMA) has asked the European Commission (EC) to protest to the Swiss Government over its refusal to allow Swiss passengers to purchase BMA's new low-fare tickets in Switzerland. Because Switzerland is not a member of the European Union (EU), the EC is virtually powerless to ...
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New MEA chairman maps out route to efficiency
THE NEW CHAIRMAN of Middle East Airlines (MEA), Khaled Salaam, has lost no time in outlining the steps necessary to pull the airline out of its financial difficulties and modernise an aging 14-strong fleet. Salaam, as well as signaling his intention of initiating a cost-cutting programme to make ...
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MAS chief barters orders for slots
MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) chairman Tajudin Ramli has threatened to stop any further purchases of Airbus Industrie aircraft unless France grants the carrier additional landing rights in Paris. The Malaysian flag carrier wants to increase its services between Kuala Lumpur and Paris from twice a week to twice daily. ...
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Orient makes expansion plans
RELAUNCHED THAI domestic carrier Orient Express Air (OEA) plans to acquire additional wide body aircraft and extend its services to Asian and European destinations. According to a senior airline source, OEA is negotiating to purchase three ex-British Airways Lockheed L-1011 TriStars. The aircraft are intended for use on ...
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Alta launches with Beech 1900Cs
SANTIAGO, CHILE-BASED REGIONAL CARRIER Alta Airlines has begun operations with 19-seat Beech 1900Cs acquired from Raytheon Aircraft. Eight aircraft are to be in service by the end of September, and the airline has seven more on option. The aircraft are convertible to all-cargo configuration. Source: Flight International
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Swissair sacrifices jobs in bid for profit
SWISSAIR IS TO shed 1,600 jobs over the next 18 months in an effort to pull its flight operations back into profit. The Swiss carrier says it also plans to renegotiate pilot contracts. The airline hopes that the majority of the job losses, which represent around 10% ...
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FAA sets up safety- monitor database
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is planning to have a database for monitoring the air-transport industry's "safety health" operational by February 1996. The new Safety Performance Analysis System (SPAS) will have data entered by FAA field inspectors as they carry out periodic checks of airlines and installations. SPAS ...
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USAfrica fights for frequencies
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC USAFRICA AIRWAYS IS challenging a US Department of Transportation (DoT) decision to reallocate the carrier's seven frequencies in the US-South Africa market to World Airways and Southern Air Transport. USAfrica, which shut down operations and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, ...
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Associate membership
THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) is having trouble managing its relations with neighbors near and far. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the case of air services. Partly, this is because the European Commission (EC) does not have the authority to control member states' air-services agreements. Partly, also, the EU ...
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Aeroflot DC-10 ready for service
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines expects to start cargo services with a leased McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10-30CF at the end of this month - the first MDC aircraft operated by the Russian carrier. The aircraft will enter service on routes serving Moscow and the Far East when crew training, being undertaken ...
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Code TAP failure
Delta Air Lines is to end its code-sharing agreement with TAP-Air Portugal on flights between Lisbon and New York, accusing TAP of failing to make sufficient efforts to sell the stipulated 60 seats a day on Delta flights. TAP denies the accusations. Source: Flight International
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Uncomfortable with 777 ETOPS
Sir - The article on the British Airways Boeing 777 General Electric GE90 delivery date and extended twinjet operations (ETOPS) certification (Flight International, 6-12 September, P4) makes me feel uncomfortable. ETOPS, I am told, is a means by which a two-engine aircraft can be flown over water. The ...
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Icelandic
Icelandair and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) have extended their 1993 marketing agreement to include a code-share on all flights between Iceland and Scandinavia. The Icelandic flag carrier operates from its Reykjavik hub to Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm, while SAS operates two daily flights to Reykjavik during the summer. Icelandair already ...
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Peril of departing from standards
Sir - As more aircraft are in competition for slots in increasingly crowded routes, air-traffic control (ATC) has resorted to assigning aircraft non-standard levels to facilitate traffic flow. I witnessed recently a competent controller in a non-radar environment having to berate the crew of a European flag carrier ...
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Canadian codeshare
Canadian Airlines International and Malaysia Airlines have formed a commercial alliance for the launch of a new service between Canada and Malaysia, starting on 3 November. The carriers will operate two joint services a week between Vancouver and Kuala Lumpur, via Taipei. Source: Flight International
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Cabin comforts
Trends in aircraft-interior design are being dominated by the increasing need for passenger comfort and entertainment Gunter Endres/LONDON THE CABIN-INTERIORS market has undergone significant changes in the past few years, prompted largely by the recession in the air transport industry. The inability of airlines to finance ...
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Maintenance rates hit SASCO
SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace (STAe), is urgently looking at ways of reviving its subsidiary maintenance company, Singapore Aviation Services (SASCO), after suffering a large loss in the first six months of the year. STAe made a net loss of S$49 million ($34 million) compared with a small S$12 million ...
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Contracting the inside out
Bombardier is the latest to contract out interiors Kevin O'Toole/BIGGIN HILL IN AN ERA OF standardisation, the cabin interior remains one of the few parts of an aircraft where the airline customer still has a chance make its mark. For the customer, it ...