Hawaiian Airlines' April traffic rose 21.7% to 324.4 million revenue passenger miles from 266.4 million in April 1995. Available seat miles were up 22% to 412 million from 337.7 million. Hawaiian carried 432,210 passengers during the month. The load factor for April remained unchanged at 78%. For the first four months, Hawaiian's traffic rose 23.9% to 1.259 billion RPMs and capacity was up 22.8% to 1.656 billion ASMs. Load factor was up one point to 76%.
Air France flew 4.8 billion revenue passenger kilometers in April, 17.9% more than in April 1995, as capacity increased 8.3% to 6.4 billion available seat kilometers. The passenger load factor was 75.6%, an increase of 6.2 percentage points. The number of freight ton kilometers fell 3.2% to 385 million.
Ending a five-month search, Canadian Airlines International has chosen Gee, Jeffrey&Partners to be its new advertising agency, effective June 15. Canadian currently uses BCP, which has held the carrier's account for the past eight years. Ogilvy&Mather of Calgary provides all direct marketing. DDB Needham Worldwide handles advertising in Hong Kong, Gary Hendrick and Associates in Calgary for Canadian North and Canadian Air Cargo, and Ken Koo Creative Group in Vancouver for Asian advertising in Canada.
ILA, the biennial Berlin air show being staged this week for the third time, intends to become the second-largest event of its type in Europe, after Paris. Compared with ILA, the U.K.'s Farnborough show "will look pale," said Eberhard Birke, manager of Germany's aerospace industry association, which organized the Berlin show. ILA '96 welcomed back Daimler-Benz Aerospace, which passed up the 1994 event. In all, it drew 574 exhibitors from 29 countries, compared with 422 exhibitors in 1994 and 487 in 1992.
Regional fare war may be shaping up in the Pacific Northwest. New- start F28 operator Air 21 has announced plans to launch one daily roundtrip in the Eugene-Seattle market June 17 with an unrestricted walk-up roundtrip fare of $98. Horizon, with five Dornier 328 turboprops, plans to match the fare effective June 9, limiting the number of the cheap seats available, however. There was no immediate reaction from United Express WestAir, which also offers five daily turboprop roundtrips. Unrestricted fares have ranged up to $408 in the 234-mile market.
Lufthansa says that with the activation this week of two new flight simulators, its simulator center at Berlin Schonefeld Airport became the most modern in Europe. The devices doubled the facility's capacity. The Lufthansa and Lufthansa CityLine's Berlin Simulator Center, set up in 1992, has spent approximately 50 million Deutschmarks in capital investments since then. Starting out with two simulators - for the Airbus A310 and the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet - the center took delivery in late April of another CRJ simulator and one for the Avro RJ85 jet.
Alamo Rent A Car is searching for a site near Calgary and Toronto to double its facilities in Canada in the next 12 to 18 months. Alamo said it also is looking for expansion opportunities in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Quebec City. It currently operates on-airport counters at Montreal Dorval and Vancouver airports.
The Defense Department has taken ValuJet temporarily off the list of airlines that members of the military services can use when they are on duty, a Pentagon spokesman said yesterday. Following Saturday's crash of ValuJet Flight 592, the Pentagon's Commercial Airlift Review Board placed the airline into "temporary non-use" status for 30 days. ValuJet can appeal the decision. After the 30 days, the Pentagon will review the suspension and reinstate the airline, suspend it from the DOD program or continue the "non-use" status.
Food and Hotel Indonesia '97, the country's largest trade show for equipment in the restaurant and hotel industries, is scheduled Feb. 19-22, 1997, in Jakarta. For more information, contact Philip Jenkinson at PT Pamerindo Buana Abadi at 06-22-132-5560, fax 06-22-133-0406.
Delta said yesterday it will redeem all $800 million of its 3.23% convertible subordinated notes due June 15, 2003. Redemption will be at 78.23% of the principal amount at stated maturity of each note, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date. The payout will be made June 17. The notes also can be converted to common shares.
A group including former Chairman Carl Icahn has sold its remaining stake in TWA, according to a filing at the Securities and Exchange Commission. The group reported to the SEC that it had sold 3.67 million shares between May 3 and May 14 at prices of $16 to $18 a share. The group no longer holds a stake in TWA, the filing said.
American Automobile Association will offer travel and other information on America Online's Travel Channel for the next six months. AAA Online also offers information on airlines and cruises, insurance, traffic safety, travel tips, tour packages and discounts.
United launched a fare sale yesterday, reducing tickets to points in the U.S. and Canada as much as 45% off the 21-day advance purchase price for summer and early fall travel. Tickets must be purchased by May 28 and travel must be completed by Oct. 8. The fares require a 14-day advance purchase and a Saturday-night stay. Most of the larger airlines matched United in competing markets.
DOT has instituted the 1996 U.S.-Japan All-Cargo Service Proceeding to select a new primary and backup carrier to provide scheduled all-cargo service in the U.S.-Japan market. Under the April 1996 memorandum of understanding between the two countries, the U.S. may designate an additional U.S. all-cargo carrier, which may operate as many as six weekly flights and serve any point in Japan except Tokyo (DAILY, March 28). The flights may operate beyond Japan to one point in another country, but the U.S.
The price of a good hotel room in Ho Chi Minh City has been on the decline for the past three years, falling as much as 50%. A four-star hotel now costs $100 to $120 on average for a night's stay.
Qantas applauds a decision by a federal court in Australia finding that frequent flyer benefits from business travel should not be taxed, the carrier said yesterday in a statement. In the ruling, made yesterday, the court found that travel benefits accrued by frequent flyer program members are not taxable as income according to ordinary concepts under the general income provisions of Australia's Tax Act.
China Eastern Airlines has taken delivery of the first of eight Airbus A340s, becoming the first carrier in the People's Republic of China to operate the jet, according to Airbus Industrie. China Eastern will begin using the jet in June for nonstop service between Shanghai and Los Angeles. The aircraft is configured for three classes of service with 289 seats. It is powered by CFM56-5C4 engines.
A Miami court has granted a request by the International Airlines Travel Agent Network for a preliminary injunction prohibiting Global Alliance of Travel Entrepreneurs (GATE) from issuing travel agent identification cards with the IATAN trademark. The injunction also freezes the assets of GATE, its officers and a co-owned travel agency, Island Travel. IATAN is seeking to collect damages equal to the profits the company earned by allegedly infringing on its trademark.
U.S. Major Carriers Latin Share of Service Fourth Quarter 1995 Total Revenue Departures America West 756 American 22,326 Continental 6,277 Delta 2,990 United 4,193 USAir 1,454 Total 37,996 Average Number of
America West launched daily Phoenix-Boston and Phoenix-Philadelphia nonstops yesterday, building on its three daily flights to Columbus and one to Las Vegas from each of the East Coast cities. The new service uses A320 aircraft configured for 12 passengers in first class and 138 in coach. On June 6, the carrier will launch daily service to San Antonio from Phoenix and Las Vegas and twice-daily service between Seattle and Anchorage.
India's national carrier, Air-India, and its domestic airline, Indian Airlines, will turn their engineering departments into two separate companies, airline officials said Tuesday. The airline managements have appointed consulting firm McKinsey and Co. to advise them on restructuring issues, such as the transfer of assets. The companies are reorganizing because the billions of rupees they have invested in engineering facilities have not yielded adequate returns because of inefficient operations and labor unrest.
Burlington Air Express has launched Zip 'n Ship, an Internet-based service that tells customers what levels of service are available to U.S. destinations. Users access the company's World Wide Web site at http ://www.baxworld.com and enter the zip code of the destination. Service levels available to the chosen zip code are shown.
The Allied Pilots Association at American warned yesterday of a possible pilot strike if contract negotiations, in their 100th week, do not make progress soon. The APA, in a statement issued yesterday at AMR Corp.'s annual meeting in Dallas, said the union does not want to see another disastrous strike at the airline. "But, if our current management continues to delay and fails to bargain fairly, we fear they will again stumble off this cliff.
Weber Aircraft said it will supply first-, business- and economy-class seats to Korean Airlines for its Boeing 777 aircraft. The company, which supplies business-class seats for the carrier's 747s, is scheduled to begin deliveries for the 777 in November.
