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Stories Collection

- British Airways reported a net profit to shareholders for the fiscal second quarter ...
- United Airlines edged closer to bankruptcy but also possibly toward meeting the cond...
- JetBlue Airways selected GE Capital Aviation Services to provide lease financing for...
- Assn. of European Airlines members reported an 8.8% decline in passenger traffic in ...
- Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a Delta Connection carrier, is adding two daily nonstop...
- Certification for the Embraer 170 was delayed for a second time and the company has ...
- Sabre in partnership with Air France signed a five-year contract under which Sabre w...
- In what had been the most closely watched sales campaign since Ryanair's mega-Boeing...
- American Airlines elevated Daniel P. Garton to executive VP-marketing, succeeding Mi...
- SkyWest Airlines will begin additional daily Delta Connection nonstop services betwe...
- A number of Regional airline operators in Europe are rethinking the role of the regi...
- Aerolineas Argentinas reached a deal with most of its creditors to restructure its d...
- Japan Airlines System Corp., the holding company for the new JAL Group comprising Ja...
- For proactive people in the business world, crisis also can mean opportunity. Down t...
- Delta Connection is expanding service at Reagan Washington National Airport with 20 ...
- Aircraft Leasing and Management arranged the lease of a 737-300 to Aviation Partners...
- It isn't enough that European Regional airlines have to operate in an environment wh...
- The downturn in commercial aviation has accelerated a restructuring that already was...
- Malev Hungarian Airlines took delivery of a CRJ200 from Bombardier. The carrier hold...
- Air Canada completed an engine sale/leaseback transaction with GE Engine Leasing and...
- In a period of airline history increasingly marked by the emergence of a hungry and ...
- Traditional thinking dictates that a government should protect its national airline,...
- The development of the information technology required for smoothly functioning netw...
- Japan Air Commuter took delivery of its first Q400, which will be based in Kagoshima...
- China's long-planned consolidation of its airline industry took a significant step i...
- Sabre Holdings selected Nejib Ben -Khedher as managing partner-Sabre Consulting, Vin...
- There is a saying here in Houston, home of ExpressJet and its parent Continental Air...
- Assn. of European Airlines members reported an 8.8% decline in passenger traffic in ...
- In a move intended to conserve cash as the due dates for its massive debt repayments...
- Atlas Air selected Stanley Wraight as senior VP-marketing & commercial strategy,...
- High-speed controller-pilot data link communications, launched in its first-ever dai...
- US Airways President and CEO David Siegel reiterated that the airline intends to go ...
- US Dept. of Transportation's Oct. 2 decision not to challenge the broad codesharing ...
- At a time when airlines are rationing plastic utensils to save money, few are in the...
- Mesaba Holdings, parent of Mesaba Aviation, announced an agreement to acquire Billin...
- It is difficult not to feel sympathy for the leaders of several US airlines who came...
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AIRCRAFT VALUES
Aircraft Year Built 2002 * 2007 ** 2012...
- Bombardier Aerospace said it will lay off 1,980 employees, including 20% of manageme...
- Some years ago, easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou argued that the new breed of lo...
- Saab Aircraft Leasing is introducing its newly modified 340A all-cargo version that ...
- TRENDS
Top 25 Airlines
Jan.-Sept. 2002
Airline RPKs (000)
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- Japan Airlines ordered two 747-400Fs and converted orders for five 777-200s into ord...
- Bankrupt US Airways Group, in a surprising development, chose Retirement System of A...
- Desperate times call for desperate measures, and with US airlines expected to lose a...
- Bombardier's new CRJ900 derivative was awarded a type certificate by Transport Canad...
- DHL Worldwide Express acquired a 30% stake in Cathay Pacific Airways' wholly owned c...
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- Delta Air Lines chose John Selvaggio to head its new low-cost strategy, Richard W. C...
- El Al trimmed its second-quarter net loss 54% from $32.5 million to $14.9 million de...
- Air New Zealand underlined its support in principle for a regional alliance deal wit...
- European Airline Traffic
August 2002
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- Austrian Airlines Group reported a pre-tax profit of [euro]4.3 million ($4.2 million...
- US Airways intends to eliminate some 200 flights, or 12.9% of its current schedule o...
- JetBlue Airways, the only airline currently offering live satellite television progr...
- Full-service maintenance, repair and overhaul has become the marketing mantra for Bo...
- Mesaba Airlines is furloughing 50 pilots and eliminating two flight crew bases in an...
- LanChile was granted the traffic rights it requested for its proposed Ecuador-based ...
- Qantas set the stage for its ambitious expansion program and the potential acquisiti...
- Alitalia Group reported a net loss of [euro]49 million ($48 million) for the first h...
- US Majors Traffic
August 2002
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- US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta promised months ago that by year end his a...
- Former Ansett subsidiaries Kendell Airlines and Hazelton Airlines were relaunched un...
- TAM, Brazil's second-largest carrier, reported a net loss of 223.1 million reais ($6...
- Lufthansa Technik Budapest, a joint venture of Lufthansa Technik AG (85%) and Malev ...
- Air France was forced to cancel most of its flights Sept. 6-9 owing to a four-day st...
- US Major network airlines moved broadly in Aug.-Sept. to restrict the reuse of unuse...
- Singapore Airlines, like its home country, has spun an economic miracle over the 30 ...
- The feud between the Air Line Pilots Assn. and Mesa Air Group ratcheted up a notch w...
- Ozires Silva stepped down from the helm of Varig Aug. 19 amid the worst financial cr...
- Sabena Technics won a contract with Virgin Express for C checks on four of its 737-3...
- Lufthansa Group reported a net loss of [euro]27 million ($26.5 million) for the firs...
- National Airlines reached an agreement for a financing package valued at approximate...
- United Airlines' new Chairman, President and CEO Glenn Tilton was facing a decision ...
- Amid the current quiet that has becalmed the industry's equipment manufacturers, Int...
- US Airways backed out of a tentative agreement that was reached Aug. 11 with the pil...
- China Eastern Airlines and Rolls-Royce and announced the signing of a $100 million, ...
- Virgin Atlantic will retrofit its 747-400s with Rockwell Collins' new active matrix ...
- TAMPA of Colombia agreed to lease four 767 freighters from GE Capital Aviation Servi...
- Midwest Express will reduce its workforce by 200-250 by year end, move up the sale o...
- European Commissioner for Competition Policy Mario Monti said the EC soon will close...
- Not all of the news coming out of the airline industry these days is bad. At Korean ...
- What do you get when you combine What operations of six geographically distinct Euro...
- The long and torturous relationship between CCAir and the Air Line Pilots Assn. is i...
- Virgin Blue is planning to break our of the Australian domestic market and operate t...
- An A318 powered by CFM65-5 engines flew for the first rime on Aug. 29. The CFM-power...
- Boeing avoided a potential shutdown of its commercial aircraft production lines afte...
- Air Canada, which returned to profit in the second quarter and anticipates a profita...
- KLM raised the possibility of eventually joining the SkyTeam alliance, a step chat s...
- Former Cathay Pacific Airways and Ansett Australia CEO Rod Eddington took the pilot'...
- A report by the US General Accounting Office offers Congress a blueprint for revisin...
- EVA Airways posted a net profit of NT$760 million ($22.4 million) in the six months ...
- Assn. of European Airlines appointed Lufthansa Corporate VP-International Relations ...
- Air Berlin, which has been operating to 35 tourist destinations mainly around the Me...
- James Loy, Acting Transportation Security Administration head, announced that airlin...
- American Airlines will consolidate an estimated 5,000 management and support staff f...
- UK-US open skies talks are at a standstill again after the US rejected a so-called m...
- You're in the cockpit of a Boeing 747, your eyes lead from a cluster of controls, mo...
- Copa placed firm orders for four 737-700s and two 737-800s. It also announced option...
- China Southern Airlines earned 123.2 million yuan ($14.9 million) in the first half ...
- TAP Air Portugal reduced its net loss in the first half of 2002 to [epsilon]65 milli...
- EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou is to step down from his post as chairman when ...
- FAA announced Sept. its intent to develop and implement within the next year a plan ...
- Southwest Airlines' pilots approved an interim labor agreement with the carrier that...
- US airline pilots will be permitted to carry guns in the cockpit under a bill passed...
- The last Frenchman to lead Europe really didn't have to worry too much about profits...
- Ethiopian Airlines will acquire six 737-700s and six 767-300ERs through a combinatio...
- Thai Airways reported net income of 9.23 billion baht ($82.1 million) fur the third ...
- Bmibaby is "actively looking" to open a third UK base next year to support...
- Finnair Group reported net income of [euro]15.4 million ($14.9 million) for the firs...
- Delta Air Lines will cancel its daily nonstop services from Atlanta to Buenos Aires ...
- Answering a question that was not being asked, five US Majors have entered into broa...
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AIRCRAFT VALUES
Aircraft Year Built 2002 * 2007 ** 20...
- Gulf Air tapped Rashid Khan as regional customer service mgr.-Asia & Pacific, Lo...
- UPS and its 1,140 aircraft mechanics, flight simulator technicians, utility workers ...
- All Nippon Airways and Hokkaido International Airlines will begin joint operations, ...
- Virgin Express reported a pre-tax profit of [epsilon]2.9 million ($2.8 million) in t...
- Swiss reported a net loss of Sfr447 million ($295 million) for the first half of 200...
- Continental Airlines intends to remove 11 MD-80s from service by the end of 2003, br...
- TRENDS
Top 25 Airlines
Jan.-June 2002
Airline RPKs (000)
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- Sept. 10-12 Supply Chain & Logistics, Georgia International Convention Center, A...
- Around the world, low cost airlines are booming. Everywhere, that is, but in Asia, w...
- Delta Air Lines will provide shop visit maintenance for the CF34 engines on CRJ airc...
- LanChile's second-quarter net loss widened to $9.3 million from $2.58 million last y...
- SAS Group earned Sek968 million ($101 million) in the second quarter ended June 30, ...
- Vanguard Airlines at the end of July suspended all operations indefinitely and filed...
- Malaysia Airlines unveiled the details of restructuring plans that it believes will ...
- FACTS & FIGURES
AIRCRAFT VALUES
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Aircraft Built 2002 * ...
- After 31 years and several economic downturns, Southwest Airlines continues to valid...
- More than 250 Comair pilots have asked to sign on to a lawsuit filed against the Air...
- A Pulkovo Airlines Il-86 crashed July 28 shortly after takeoff from Moscow Sheremety...
- KLM Group reported net income of [euro] million ($11 million) for the fiscal first q...
- Midwest Express and its flight attendants were released from mediation by the Nation...
- Fatigue cracks up to 9 in. long in the rear fuselage where a repair was done in 1980...
- JetBlue Airways reported net income of $14.6 million for the second quarter to June ...
- With more flights to North America than any other African or Middle Eastern airline ...
- `Those who do not learn from history are forced to repeat it."-George Santayana...
- American Eagle, the Regional affiliate of American Airlines, announced an "agre...
- Bmi british midland, British Airways, KLM, Lufthansa and SAS sent a joint letter to ...
- British Airways posted earnings of [pounds sterling]40 million ($62.7 million) for t...
- Frontier Airlines lost $2.9 million in its fiscal first quarter ended June 30 compar...
- Cathay Pacific Airways reported net income of HK$1.41 billion ($179.5 million) for t...
- While the airline industry continues to focus on managing through the present crisis...
- Geoff Dixon has hardly put a foot wrong in his 18 months at the helm of Qantas. Thro...
- Atlas Worldwide Holdings, parent of Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo, lost $34.2 millio...
- SN Brussels Airlines and American Airlines signed an agreement allowing the carriers...
- European Commission will approve two already operating transatlantic alliances--that...
- Calgary-based WestJet reported net earnings of C$12.3 million ($7.8 million) for the...
- Australian and New Zealand governments ratified an open skies pact that enables Qant...
- US Major airlines slowed the hemorrhage of red ink in the second quarter compared to...
- United Airlines elevated Jake Brace to executive VP & CEO, Bob Meiz to VP-financ...
- Airborne reported net profits of $457,000 in the second quarter ended June 30 compar...
- European Airline Traffic
July 2002
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- US Majors Traffic
July 2002
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- America West and Hawaiian Airlines signed an agreement calling for reciprocity of fr...
- The French government at the end of July said it intends to reduce its 54.4% stake i...
- Security processing at US airports one year after the Sept. 11 attacks has the sophi...
- Southwest Airlines selected Ron Faulkner as station mgr.-Las Vegas, Diane Fatten as ...
- Joe O'Gorman, Chairman, CEO and President of DHL Airways died on Aug. 10, of a massi...
- MyTravel Group's no-frills carrier will be called MyTravelLite and will operate out ...
- A Eurowings offshoot to be branded German Wings will enter the low-fare market from ...
- ATA Holdings, parent of American Trans Air, announced a major reorganization under w...
- Within days of US Airways' bankruptcy filing, United and American Airlines each anno...
- Korean Air reported net income of 195.4 billion won ($161.9 million) for the first h...
- Last year certainly wasn't the most propitious year in which to open a new airport. ...
- Saab Aircraft Leasing has placed two Saab 340s with Scotland's Loganair and two with...
- Lufthansa Consulting was selected by the government of Madagascar to revamp national...
- Bmibaby, launched just five months ago, announced a "massive increase in flight...
- Triumph Group for $10 million acquired from Timco Aviation Services the assets of Ae...
- Air Canada returned to profit in the June quarter, reporting net income of C$30 mill...
- US Airways has set an aggressive schedule to emerge from bankruptcy in the first qua...
- As the first airline mechanic to be appointed to the National Transportation Safety ...
- Bombardier Aerospace named Adria Airways of Slovenia as Europe's first Bombardier-re...
- Mexico canceled the planned construction of a $2.3 billion international airport in ...
- Aer Lingus, reporting delayed financial results for the year ended Dec. 31, said it ...
- ARINC introduced a new check-in and boarding system for midsize airports called MUSE...
- Caption: ATW Editor-in-Chief Perry Flint (left) and Senior Editor Geoffrey Thomas we...
- Perhaps it was Winston Churchill who remarked that "America always does the rig...
- Great Plains Airlines signed an agreement with bankrupt Fairchild Dornier to acquire...
- There was no lack of things to talk about at this year's Farnborough Air Show, despi...
- Mesa Airlines pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Assn., filed suit against M...
- Cintra reported a 710 million peso ($71.5 million) net loss for the April-June perio...
- Ryanair's net income surged 67.8% in the fiscal first quarter ended June 30 to [euro...
- John Magaw, head of the Transportation Security Administration, resigned July 18, re...
- SriLankan Airlines posted a profit of 1.4 billion rupees ($14.5 million) for the fin...
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- Two conditions must exist in order to create an active market for passenger-to-freig...
- Delta Connection Comair's flight attendants ratified a new five-year contract. The 6...
- Varig said it will fold its two subsidiaries, Nordeste and RioSul, into its main ope...
- Iberia Group's second-quarter income rose 7.8% to [euro]75.9 million ($74.2 million)...
- Midway Airlines signed a letter of intent with US Airways under which Midway will op...
- Thai International Airways is to sell 400 million shares, of which 300 million will ...
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- Vietnam Airlines will take delivery of a PW4060-powered 767-300ER leased from Aasett...
- Alianza Summa, the strategic and commercial alliance of Avianca, Aces and SAM, said ...
- US Majors Traffic
June 2002
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- Air Canada is spinning off its MRO operation into a standalone subsidiary with its o...
- Irish startup SkyNet launched six-times-weekly service June 25 on the Shannon-Amster...
- The July 1 midair collision between a Bashkirian Airlines Tu-154 and a DHL Worldwide...
- For the past decade, Western aircraft manufacturers have been looking at Russia and ...
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