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1986
1986 - 0005.PDF
AIR TRANSPORT British regionals prepareto hit Europe LONDON ~ Backed by grants of £450,000 per route, seven British second- and third-level air lines are about to launch services on 13 new routes from UK regional airports to major and regional airports on the Continent. The UK Civil Aviation Authority has finally decided which airlines are to benefit from a subsidy offer made by British Airways to its smaller competitors at the time when BA might other wise have been threatened with having some of its network and assets sold off to the competition. The possi bility arose when the CAA was directed to study the possible effect of the incipient privatisation of the relatively huge BA on British air trans port industry as a whole (the "9001b gorilla effect", to borrow a nickname usually applied to United). British Airways was not broken up for distribution, but its offer of grants to help British airlines (with the exception of British Caledonian) start up new routes from UK regional airports where BA operates has been taken up enthusi astically. Seven airlines are to launch 13 new services to Europe. The grants of £450,000 per route are to be paid over a period of three years, beginning in Helicopter airline for Tokyo? The Aero Asahi Corporation is expecting soon to get permis sion to set up a passenger transport service using Bell 412 helicopters. The intention is to provide service among Tokyo's Narita and Haneda Airports, and Tokyo Heliport. Asahi has already run a similar service during the Tsukuba Expo '85. April 1986. Ace Aviation gets Glasgow to Brussels and to Hamburg; Air Ecosse, Glasgow-Dublin; Air Europe will fly Manches ter-Gibraltar; Birmingham Executive Airways gets four destinations, all from its Birmingham base—Amster dam, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart; Connectair is to take the grant for Man chester-Rotterdam; Dan-Air will fly three new routes all out of Manchester—to Amsterdam, Oslo, and Stock holm; and, finally, Euroair will operate Aberdeen- Esbjerg. The CAA says that if the Department of Transport can obtain the traffic rights for Glasgow-Gothenburg and Birmingham-Oslo, then the grants for those service-start ups would go to Ace and BEA respectively. Pickled pistol picked up LARNACA In Larnaca Airport, Cyprus, a Palestinian was apprehended when he was trying to board a Swiss aircraft. The Palestinian had a Jordanian passport and he was carrying two bottles of French wine. Suspicions were aroused when a signal on the security X-ray machine was different from normal, so the passenger was stopped and searched. It was found that the two bottles of wine contained, apart from the wine itself, one pistol and two grenades. A potential hijacking was thus averted. NEWS SCAN UK commuter operator South East Air (SEA) is to take over services from Shore- ham, on the south coast, to the Channel Islands from Jersey European Airways (JEA). SEA, which has formally applied for a route licence from the UK Civil Aviation Authority, plans to launch operations on January 6, the day after JEA leave. Midway Airlines, America West, and Continental Airlines are the three fastest-growing carriers in the USA. Chicago-based Midway claimed 0-5 per cent of the total US traffic in the first three quarters of 1985, a 78 per cent leap over its previous share. America West accounted for 0-7 per cent of traffic (up 69 per cent) and legally bankrupt Continental claimed 5 per cent (up 39 per cent). Eastern Airlines plans to launch Miami-Madrid ser vices in mid-1986 following the green light from the US Department of Transport ation. Air Canada and Air New Zealand have signed a commercial agreement to feed traffic into each others' networks by offering joint fares and promotions, and by co-ordinating schedules. The two carriers have complemen tary route structures and expect substantial traffic gains. Air Canada, in particu lar, hopes that Air New Zealand traffic will feed into its London-Singapore service which began last January. For the first six months the service averaged load factors of just above 50 per cent. RUNNING PERFECTLY? Now, yes! But what happens when a breakdown occurs? Will it mean a serious budget shortfall? Not if you are covered by our unique Aircraft Engine Breakdown Insurance Policy. Contact us now- Hall and Clarke Insurance Consultants Ltd 67 Park Royal Road London NW10 7JJ Telephone: 01-965 8444 Telex: 945060 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 4 January 1986
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