News from FlightGlobal – Page 2411
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El Al focuses on A319 for short-haul needs
El Al has selected the Airbus A319 over the Boeing Next Generation 737 for its short-haul needs, but hurdles must be overcome before it can finalise an order with the European consortium. El Al has been evaluating the A319/A320 and the 737-700/800 to meet its need for new ...
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Weber demands new runway at Frankfurt
Lufthansa chairman Jürgen Weber has demanded a new runway at Frankfurt Airport, saying that the airport's capacity is already reaching its limits. Weber says that the airport is not capable of handling more than 70 or 80 take-offs an hour, and has nearly reached this limit. In a ...
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ICAO grasps global safety-oversight
Members of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have endorsed a wide-ranging plan set of recommendations to expand its Safety Oversight Programme (SOP) and give it policing powers for the first time. During a landmark conference on 10-12 November in Montreal, attended by 148 of the 185 member ...
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Swissair's offer stops Gemini from closing LTU MD-11 deal
A last-minute offer from Swissair for LTU's fleet of four Boeing MD-11s has blocked Gemini Air Cargo's attempt to acquire the aircraft for use as freighters. William Stockbridge, president of US supplemental cargo carrier Gemini, says that his failure to secure the aircraft is "very disappointing". On 17 ...
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Mesaba Airlines boosts Saab 340 backlog for 1998
Mesaba Airlines has firmed up its remaining 22 options for new and used Saab 340s, which will extend Saab's airliner production into late 1998. The Minneapolis-based airline will take delivery of 19 new Saab 340B Plus between February and December 1998, plus three used Saab 340As. The Northwest ...
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++ Tyrolean Airways has placed firm orders with Bombardier for three more de Havilland Dash 8Q series 300s and one Canadair Regional Jet series 200BLR. Deliveries are expected to be completed by the end of this year. The airline is acquiring the Dash 8Qs to accelerate the replacement of its ...
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Delta's Latin plan
Delta Air Lines says that it will increase its services to and from Latin America. The airline is building on its codeshare relationship with Transbrasil and Aeromexico, and is poised to introduce services to Argentina, Chile and Peru, in conjunction with its codesharing partners. Source: Flight International
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Swiss World faces delay in services
Swiss World Airways, Geneva's planned rival to Swissair, may have to postpone the start of its services to North America until March because of delays in getting its leased Boeing 767s onto the Swiss register. The carrier, which was proposed after Swissair withdrew most of its long-haul operations ...
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ValuJet/AirTran merger approved
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Valujet has completed the final step in its merger with AirTran Airways, after shareholders from both airlines voted to approve the deal. The new AirTran Airlines emerges into a struggling US low-cost sector, however, which is fighting for new competition- legislation ...
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Air France posts strong sales
Air France reports an encouraging 8.5% growth in passenger revenues and a strong rise in yields over the first half of its financial year to September, raising expectations of a healthy profits performance when the figures are finally announced. The group has promised a full year profit of around Fr1 ...
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Germany questions A3XX site
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Germany's bids for the final assembly of the proposed Airbus A3XX large airliner have become entangled in political arguments over the preferred site for the work. Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus (Dasa Airbus) has put forward its Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant as a prime German candidate, competing against ...
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Portugalia may list
Portugalia Airlines (PGA) is looking to list on the Portuguese stock market by the end of 1998, according to local press reports. PGA believes that, by then, its passenger numbers will have reached the 1 million mark, from 750,000 today. Source: Flight International
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Snecma takes on GE in push to double CFM56 maintenance
Julian Moxon/PARIS Snecma is mounting a determined effort to double its share of the increasingly lucrative market for maintaining CFM56 engines, competing head-on with its CFM International partner General Electric. Through its Snecma Services division, formed in January, the French manufacturer says that it intends to ...
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US Airways completes delayed shuttle purchase
US Airways, having sealed its long-awaited pilot deal, is pressing on with the acquisition of the former Trump Shuttle operation, which flies under the group's colours on the US East Coast. US Airways had expressed interest in acquiring the remainder of the shuttle service when it came up ...
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No frills
No sooner had British Airways announced plans to set up its own low-cost operation at London Stansted, than the howls of protest began from the existing no-frills carriers. Their complaint (writ large in whole page newspaper advertisements) is that the BA intends to put them out of business by fair ...
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Fairchild Dornier sets target on 70-seater
FAIRCHILD DORNIER has set itself a target of 1 April to launch its proposed 70-seat regional-jet. It is in talks with potential partners about taking a share of up to 50% in the programme. Peter Klonk, vice-president of sales, says that the programme go-ahead depends on whether the company ...
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Air Maldives signs leasing deal for Airbus A310-200
Air Maldives has become the latest customer for the Airbus A310-200, following the signing of a deal with the European airframe builder to lease a single aircraft for three years, with an option to purchase. The carrier will use the aircraft to replace a larger A300B4 on wet lease ...
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Sirocco enters Lufthansa Tu-204 talks
Sirocco Aerospace International is negotiating with Lufthansa Cargo to lease between eight and ten Tupolev Tu-204-120C freighters. A deal which could see the aircraft introduced on Lufthansa's intra-European routes during 1999 is possible in the first half of 1998. Sirocco will not comment on the negotiations. Sirocco already ...
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ERA chief speaks out on liberalisation
Regional-airline operators in the Middle East will have to persuade governments in the area to liberalise their air service agreements, cut bureaucracy and ease travel restrictions if the industry is to grow, according to Mike Ambrose, the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) director-general. Ambrose was in Dubai to gather ...
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Emirates signs for up to 12 A340-500s
Paul Lewis/DUBAI Emirates Airlines has signed a letter of intent (LoI) for 12 Airbus A340-500s, increasing the consortium's commitments for the -500 and -600 derivatives to 78 from seven international carriers. The United Arab Emirates carrier joined a growing list of launch customers, after inking an LoI to ...