Networks – Page 1399
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Reno Loses
Battles between Southwest Airlines and the United Shuttle for California's low-fares market has taken its toll on Reno Air. The fledgling regional operator saw net losses almost double to $14 million in 1994. Source: Flight International
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Pacific bus stops
Hawaiian operators plan to tap a predicted growth in South Seas tourism. Guy Norris/HONOLULU Hawaiian guitar music wafts across the palm-fringed beach near Waikiki on a balmy afternoon. High overhead, locally based airliners look like partners in paradise as they shuttle to neighbouring islands. ...
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Cathay issues cost warning despite rise profit rise
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has issued further warnings over falling yields and rising costs, despite reporting a 4% increase in net profits for 1994. Profits ended the year broadly in line with analyst expectations at HK$2.4 billion ($310 million), but Cathay chairman Peter Sutch ...
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Keeping in touch
Air-to-ground telephones for airline passengers are becoming more commonplace. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Passengers on certain British Airways flights are the first in the UK to enjoy something US air travelers have come to expect - air-to-ground telephones on aircraft. BA is the first airline to put ...
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Wake analysis shows little hope of growing capacity
LASER-BASED ANALYSIS of aircraft wake-vortices at London Heathrow Airport suggests that there is little hope of increasing runway capacity by reducing separations. Researchers believe that real-time provision of vortex information to controllers could sometimes assist with tactical air-traffic control (ATC), but few, if any, strategic gains are realisable. ...
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Qantas profit clears the way for privatisation
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE QANTAS AIRWAYS reports a profit increase of nearly 80% over the first half of its financial year, clearing the way for the Australian Government to sell its remaining 75% stake. The results, likely to be the last before the long-awaited share flotation, shows ...
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Canadian Airlines wins two-thirds of US slots
CANADIAN AIRLINES HAS been awarded two-thirds of the 24 free airport-slots open to Canadian airlines as part of the bilateral air agreement signed recently with the USA. Air Canada has been allocated the remainder. Canadian will serve six of ten free slots at Chicago O'Hare and ten of ...
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NOx emissions up, says DLR expectations
AIRCRAFT ARE emitting more nitrous oxide into the atmosphere than expected, although the resulting atmospheric damage remains insignificant, says the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR). In an interim report on its research into harmful substances in aviation, the DLR says that jet aircraft worldwide emit 2.8 million tonnes ...
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Fokker losses hit record
High in 1994 FOKKER SANK TO record losses in 1994 as the group struggled to cope with plummeting aircraft sales and "cut-throat" competition. Nearly DFl 1.4 billion ($790 million) were wiped off the Netherlands manufacturer's sales over the year, as the number of aircraft deliveries were ...
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Austrian Airbus
Austrian Airlines has taken delivery of the two Airbus Industrie A340s it ordered in 1991. They are the carrier's first ultra-long-range aircraft, and will be used on direct routes from Vienna to Tokyo, Johannesburg and Beijing. Delivery was delayed by around a year. Airbus has now delivered 51 A340s to ...
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Northwest Mesaba
Northwest Airlines has struck a deal, which will give it effective control over Mesaba Aviation, a Northwest Airlink carrier which provides feeder services into the Minneapolis and Detroit hubs. Northwest will achieve control by raising its stake in Mesaba's parent, Airtran, to nearly 30%. In exchange, Northwest will drop objections ...
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ERS 1 success story
When the ERS project began, it was seen as providing a remote-sensing satellite to provide systematic, repetitive, global coverage of the ocean, coastal zones and ice caps. It soon took on an "environmental" mantle. The ERS 1 has exceeded its planned operational life by 50% and has acquired, more than ...
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Maintenance
FINNAIR MAINTENANCE In the production of our Airliner Maintenance Directory (15-21 February), the country header for Finland and the entry for Finnair were unfortunately omitted. The details for Finnair are as follows: FINNAIR, Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, 01530 Vantaa. Tel: +358 (0) 818 81; fax: +358 ...
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Transaero plans more routes inside Europe
INDEPENDENT RUSSIAN airline Transaero plans to begin scheduled services to Frankfurt and Berlin from 26 March. It already serves Tel Aviv and Eilat, and serves London in conjunction with Riga Airlines Express of Latvia. In June, it is due to start serving Faro and Malaga. In ...
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Lifting the gloom
The mood at GAMTA's annual conference in London was very different to that in 1994. Kieran Daly/LONDON The second half of the 1990s will test Europe's general aviation (GA) operators beyond precedent, but it may also reward them, as never before. What is beyond doubt is that ...
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Brazilian Skyjet begins operations
A NEW BRAZILIAN charter carrier, Skyjet, has started operations with flights to Margarita Island in Venezuela, Cancun, Mexico and the Virgin Islands, operating a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30. Skyjet will take delivery of a second DC-10 by the middle of this year. It hopes to operate it on proposed ...
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Swissair supports Fokker 100
SWISSAIR HAS written to Fokker to make clear that it has no criticism of the Fokker 100, despite its probable dropping of the type from its fleet. The airline says, that its public comments on the Fokker 100's economics, when it said that the aircraft had "accounted ...
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EC tries to close ranks over US open-skies deals
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROPEAN TRANSPORT ministers will be asked to toe the line on a common "open-skies" policy for the European Union in a crucial meeting to be held in Brussels on 13-14 March. The matter has moved to the top of the agenda as the ...
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Corporatised NZAC cuts ATC cost charges
AIRWAYS CORPORATION of New Zealand, which supplies air-traffic services to the country, has reduced its charges by a further 3% for en route instrument-flight-rules operations and international airport-approach services. The reductions follow a 10% discount already in place from October 1994. Airways Corporation chairman, Rex Loach says, that ...