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Stories Collection
- Boullioun Aviation Services dosed its first Export Credit Agencies-supported financi...
- Aero Continente Chile last month ended its operations within Chilean territory. The ...
- Nav Canada will implement RVSM between 29,000 ft. and 41,000 ft. inclusive in airspa...
- American Airlines will eliminate paper tickets over the next 18 months "as a wa...
- Bmibaby is to set up its second base at Cardiff International Airport following its ...
- European air traffic management, after decades of pathetic performance, has become a...
- Air Malta will lease seven A319s 9s and five A320s, all powered by (FM56-58s, tram [...
- It is every operations manager's fantasy: An inbound flight experiences a nagging te...
- Air New Zealand named Shane Warbrick CFO. American Airlines appointed Jeffrey C. Cam...
- Aeroflot signed an agreement with Kharkov Aviation Production Assn. to rake 25 52-se...
- International Aero Engines and MTU Maintenance Zhuhai signed an agreement relating t...
- FAA awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for the next-generation En Route Automatio...
- Air 2000 will be the launch customer for CIT's Zonal Drying System for the A320 base...
- European Commission ordered Deutsche Post AG to repay [euro]572 million ($551.5 mill...
- TRENDS
Top 25 Airlines
Jan.--April 2002
Airline RPKs (000)
1...
- JetBlue Airways and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey finalized a $46.5 ...
- South African Airways firmed a previously announced commitment to acquire 41 Airbus ...
- Ever since Malaysia-Singapore Airlines snubbed its nose at IATA and offered free dri...
- Bombardier reached an agreement with CaseBank Technologies Inc. to provide diagnosti...
- KLM ordered CF6-80C235Fs to power three 747-400ER freighters and GE90-94Bs to power ...
- SIA Engineering Co. exercised its option to acquire an additional 10% stake in Singa...
- US DOT announced that foreign airlines serving the US must install new armored cockp...
- MTU Maintenance Hannover won an 11-year fly-by-the-hour contract to maintain, repair...
- Thomas Cook AG, Europe's third-largest tourism group, revised its forecast for the c...
- Airbus selected Goodrich to supply the A380 pylon fairing rear secondary structure f...
- The unveiling of the new 747-400 Quiet Long Range at this year's Singapore Air Show ...
- Austrian Airlines Group said it plans to form a new European Regional carrier to ope...
- Atlas Air and its pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Assn., reached an agree...
- The consortium that bought Sydney Airport for a record A$5.6 billion ($3.1 billion) ...
- US House of Representatives passed a bill permitting airline pilots carry firearms i...
- Messier-Dowty unveiled its new landing gear test center in Gloucester. The 3,000-sq....
- Preussag AG, onetime steel and mining conglomerate, formally completed its mutation ...
- Airbus CEO Noel Forgeard expects the company to deliver 300 aircraft--70 widebodies ...
- What defines a Regional airline? In the US and Canada, Regionals' route networks ten...
- Sale of former Ansett subsidiaries Hazelton Airlines and Kendell Airlines at pressti...
- FedEx posted a record profit of $710 million, up 22% over $584 million earned in 200...
- All Nippon Airways and Hokkkaido International Airlines (Air Do) signed a memorandum...
- US NTSB Chairman Marion Blakey will be nominated to succeed Jane Garvey as FAA Admin...
- European Airline Traffic
June 2002
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- Lufthansa Group CEO Jurgen Weber forecast that the company will have an operating re...
- Lufthansa's recent launch of a six-times-weekly, all-business-class service between ...
- Alitalia said it will buy six ERJ-145s and six Embraer 170s and is taking an option ...
- Lufthansa Cargo AG is selling its 25% stake in DHL International to Deutsche Post Wo...
- The mystery deepened into the loss of China Airlines Flight 611 on May 25 after init...
- Two America West pilots were fired by the airline and had their pilot licenses revok...
- Sirocco Aerospace International secured a 25%-less-one-share holding in Tupolev and ...
- Having achieved tentative cost-cutting agreements with most of its unions-including ...
- The domestic penetration of low-cost scheduled airlines is panicking network carrier...
- Hopes for a bailout of insolvent Fairchild Domier were dealt potentially fatal blows...
- A 707 crashed July 4 in Bangui in the Central African Republic, killing all onboard....
- Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon said the airline expects to better its profit target for the ...
- Southwest Airlines and its mechanics, represented by the International Brotherhood o...
- Cyprus Airways, which last year withdrew a bid for 51% of Olympic Airways, plans to ...
- Following in the footsteps of Ryanair, Virgin Express will establish a base at the C...
- When Ryanair launched its first continental base in April 2001 at Charleroi Airport,...
- Delta Air Lines tapped Chautauqua Airlines to operate as a Delta Connection codeshar...
- Egyptian Aviation Minister Ahmed Shafiq announced formation of EgyptAir Holding Co.,...
- Boeing reported net earnings of $751 million on $13.9 billion in revenue in the seco...
- Frontier Airlines filed an application with the Air Transportation Stabilization Boa...
- Lufthansa and DBA will receive [euro]71 million ($70.3 million) from the German gove...
- Faced with spreading low-Fare competition and slack business demand, European flag c...
- Lufthansa confirmed at presstime that it canceled its order for 60 regional jets tha...
- FACTS&FIGURES
AIRCRAFT VALUES
Aircraft Year Built 2002 * 2007 ** 201...
- Debis AirFinance placed a Tau 658-1 5-powered F100 on operating lease for 29 months ...
- Israeli government approved contentious plans for 100% privatization of El Al starti...
- Goodrich Corp. agreed to acquire TRW's Aeronautical Systems businesses--formerly Luc...
- Midwest Express raised $20.4 million in net proceeds through a private placement of ...
- Italian prosecutor Giullano Turone said he will ask a judge to charge 11 people, mos...
- European Commission told Air France and Alitalia on July 1 that it has "serious...
- Atlantic Coast Airlines cancelled its order for 32 Fairchild Dornier 328JETs in favo...
- International Lease Finance Corp. announced the placement of four aircraft with thre...
- European Court of First Instance annulled a 1999 European Commission decision bannin...
- Aer Lingus was shut down fur five days at an estimated cost of [euro]2 million ($1.8...
- Midwest Express Chairman and CEO Timothy Hoeksema said the airline expected to be in...
- The investigation into the May 25 inflight breakup of a China Airlines 747-200 just ...
- Top 25 Airlines
Jan.--March 2002
Airline RPKs (000)
1 American ...
- Chalets
Advanced Technical Products C5-C6
Aerospace Industries A...
- EgyptAir: This spring the US NTSB's final report on the crash of EgyptAir 990 in Oct...
- Dornier NA., the US subsidiary of Fairchild Dornier, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
- Atlas Air and its pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Assn., were released fr...
- Britannia Airways will add a new no-frills, low-cost product to its traditional char...
- KLM extended its codeshare with Continental Airlines, which was to end June 30, unti...
- Air Line Pilots Assn. welcomed a decision by a US federal court that permits FAA to ...
- China Airlines reported a pre-tax profit of NT$1.26 billion ($37 million) for the fi...
- Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands (AMS), saw a 0.2% decrease in traffic last y...
- World Airline Traffic Results--2001
Africa/Middle East
Airline ...
- Gulf Air's owner states agreed at a meeting at the end of May to inject 300 million ...
- Preussag CEO Michael Frenzel said the company plans to order 80 new aircraft to repl...
- Swiss is around one year away from becoming a member of oneworld, President and CEO ...
- Northwest Airlines confirmed that it will defer delivery of six of 22 Airbus narrowb...
- China Eastern Airlines asked CAAC to raise the current foreign-ownership cap from 35...
- World Airline Fleets 2001
Aces(20)
727-200 4
A320-200 ...
- World Airline Financial Results--2001
Africa/Middle East
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- Varig and TAM posted encouraging financial results for the 2002 first quarter. Varig...
- Condor and JMC will disappear as charter airline brands in mid-2003--along with the ...
- European Parliament on June 11 voted in favor of plans to redesignate slots as belon...
- American Trans Air "dramatically" reduced its walkup and refundable fares ...
- ICAO Cauncil approved "in principle" the establishment of a "global a...
- US MAJOR CARRIERS
System traffic * -- January 2002
Pa...
- Fleet Summary 2001
Jets
Boeing
737 3,465
MD-80 ...
- The World's Top 25 Airlines
In RPKs
RPKs
Rank Air...
- Alianza Summa, the joint operational and commercial management alliance of Avianca, ...
- Virgin Express reported "an expected seasonal" loss of [euro]6.7 million (...
- Rockwell Collins agreed to acquire Airshow Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Actern...
- United Airlines flight attendants were awarded $48 million by an arbitration panel t...
- Worldspan on June 3 announced that it will evaluate "new pricing strategies&quo...
- US REGIONAL & SPECIALTY CARRIERS
Traffic--January 2002
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- Airborne Express: The worsening economy and Sept. 11 took a heavy toll on the expres...
- The ancient -- and perhaps apocryphal -- Chinese curse, "may you live in intere...
- Peru's Aero Continente, which competes with LanChile, had its operating license revo...
- Air Lib announced that the commercial court of Paris upheld its claim that Crossair,...
- Pratt & Whitney selected MTU Aero Engines to provide a replacement HPC for the t...
- US Airways on June 10 applied to the Air Transportation Stabilization Board for a fe...
- Star Alliance approved the addition of Asiana Airlines to the global airline group i...
- WORLD AIRLINE TRAFFIC -- 2002
Pass. 02/01 RPKs 0...
- Running an airline is a bit like working a jigsaw puzzle, and airlines sometimes nee...
- Aero Turbine introduced Chris Gray as VP-engine sales & leasing.
Air Jamai...
- Summer this year in the green fields of southwest England--Farnborough, be precise--...
- Cintra, the holding company for AeroMexico and Mexicana, announced in late May that ...
- British Airways signed a three-month trial agreement with Connexion by Boeing to ins...
- US DOT awarded a contract potentially worth up to $1.37 billion to Boeing and Siemen...
- United Airlines partially shored up the service gap left by the demise of its former...
- United Airlines and its pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Assn., reached a ...
- AIRPORT TRAFFIC
February 2002
Car...
- Alaska Airlines: In a terrible year, Alaska relatively speaking bad a pretty good ye...
- Rolls-Royce signed a five-year agreement to provide engine health monitoring service...
- Emirates ordered two additional Trent 700-powered A330-200s valued at $279 million f...
- Aces: The Colombian carrier has joined with Avianca and SAM in the Summa Alliance, a...
- US NATIONAL CARRIERS
System traffic *-January 2002
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- Iberia's maintenance division won a five-year contract for component maintenance of ...
- Lufthansa's new all-business-class service between Dusseldorf and Newark that began ...
- US Airline pilots will not be permitted to carry firearms in the cockpit, Transporta...
- Air New Zealand announced significant changes to its domestic and international oper...
- Bmi british midland in mid-June scrapped its traditional "full-service" fa...
- US FUEL COST AND CONSUMPTION
March 2002
Total ...
- Adria: The Slovenian carrier, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, saw i...
- Pan Am International Flight Academy is offering type ratings on the Saab 340, BAe 14...
- Airbus A340-600 powered by Trent 500s achieved JAA type certification May 29 after a...
- AirTran: Heading for another strong growth year with a 17% capacity increase in Augu...
- Lufthansa Technik and Air Malta are creating a joint company, Lufthansa Technik Malt...
- TAP Air Portugal reported a net loss of [euro]45.5 million ($42.1 million) for the f...
- CanJet Airlines, the proposed revival of the Canadian low-fare carrier that was acqu...
- Lufthansa announced the signing of an MOU with interline partner Shanghai Airlines c...
- American Airlines Chairman and CEO Don Carty believes that the crisis facing the US ...
- AIRCRAFT DATA
737-500/600 DC-9-30
MTOW, ...
- Air Canada: Joining the 2001 trend of losses, Air Canada stood out for branding its ...
- Rockwell Collins is offering an advanced data link communications system for Regiona...
- The World's Top 50 Airports
January-December 2001 vs. 2000 *
Top Airports by Mo...
- US Airways announced a planned expansion of regional jet operations using the Potoma...
- Cintra, the holding company for AeroMexico and Mexicana, announced that the group po...
- At a time when many airlines are striving to get the right mix of routes, customers,...
- Pilot leaders at PSA approved a new contract with the airline, a wholly owned subsid...
- Unisys agreed to collaborate with the cargo units of United, Northwest and Air Canad...
- US Majors Traffic
April 2002
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- Southwest Airlines will introduce its first coast-to-coast nonstop service Sept. 15 ...
- Air New Zealand upgraded its forecast for the current fiscal year ending June 30 to ...
- Virgin Atlantic's shareholders plan to increase the airline's capital by [pounds ste...
- In a move with potentially far-reaching implications, Lufthansa will initiate transa...
- Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide and the airlines serving Frankfurt A...
- Facts&Figures.
AIRCRAFT VALUES
Aircraft Year Built 2002 * 2007 ** 20...
- The integration of British Airways' separate Regional airline operations has had a r...
- Two small carriers, one of them lacking an operating certificate, won bids for Essen...
- Australia's Patrick Corp., which recently purchased a 50% stake in Virgin Blue for $...
- Goodrich named Harry Arnold VP and GM-commercial programs for its aerostructures bus...
- WestJet posted a first-quarter net profit of C$7.1 million ($4.5 million), up 22.4% ...
- JAL Group lost [yen]36.73 billion ($287.5 million) in the year ended March 31 versus...
- Iberia said its operating loss narrowed to [euro]5.2 million ($4.7 million) in the f...
- US Airways indicated that it could file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization if ...
- The bad news continued for Fairchild Dornier, which fieldfor insolvency April 2. A m...
- Space was sold out before the end of 2001," says the organizer of the biennial ...
- What began as a family feud within If( the union representing pilots at most US Maj...
- Pilots at Mesa Air Group's struggling CCAir subsidiary reached an agreement on a new...
- Cathay Pacific said it will take over services to Brussels, Manchester and Dubai ope...
- Honeywell, in partnership with Dunlop Aerospace, said it was awarded a contract to b...
- Zip is the name of the new Air Canada unit to be based in Calgary that will begin fl...
- European Airline Traffic
April 2002
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- Preussag AG, which operates Europe's biggest leisure-travel company, has bundled maj...
- EasyJet tentatively agreed to purchase Go Fly Airways (Go) for [pounds sterling]374 ...
- If too many cooks can spoil the broth in what has become a logistics-dominated arena...
- As had been anticipated, the financial bloodletting that began in the first quarter ...
- US Airways chose Neal Cohen as executive VP & CFO, Michelle V. Bryan as executiv...
- Pilots and flight attendants at America West found a way to voice their opposition q...
- Japan Airlines Cargo this month is expected to became the fourth member of the newly...
- NAV Canada implemented RVSM in northern Canadian airspace in April, providing six ad...
- Air Canada reported a net loss of C$219 million ($140 million) in the first quarter ...
- UK's National Air Traffic Services said it hopes to have a new equity partner soon t...
- Austrian Airlines Group, declaring it is on target to break even in 2002, mid a seri...
- J.A. Donoghue
There is a certain similarity between the efficiency of a full-s...
- JetBlue earned $13 million in the first quarter, nearly double its net income of $6....
- The short-haul marketplace is changing. From our perspective we needed to lower our ...
- NTSB appointed Robert Sturgell senior policy advisor to the chairman, David Balloff ...
- Certification and first delivery of the Embraer 170, set to occur in the fourth quar...
- Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, parent of the namesake airline and Polar Air Cargo, re...
- FAA issued a proposed rule to implement Reduced Vertical Separation Minima for all a...
- SIA Engineering Co. signed an MOU to buy a 25% stake in Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenan...
- Lufthansa Technik increased revenues in 2001 by 14% over the year before, raising pr...
- Bmi british midland incurred an operating loss of about [pounds sterling]12 million ...
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- Many people promote customer relationship management as a strategic necessity if air...
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