Kenneth Reed has been named president of McDonnell Douglas-Canada in Malton, Ontario. The plant manufactures wings and other components for Douglas commercial aircraft. Reed was VP-missile production in Titusville, Fla.
A jet aircraft out of service for maintenance in April drove Midwest Express's capacity and traffic down from record levels a year earlier. The carrier flew 100.6 million revenue passenger miles, a 4.2% decrease from April 1995, and capacity was down 1.5% to 154.5 million available seat miles. The load factor slipped 1.8 percentage points to 65.1%. The number of passengers flown fell 2.9% to 121,000.
Citing mandated reductions in funding and service for essential air service, two American Eagle carriers announced this week plans to terminate services and a third got the go-ahead to suspend some of its operations. Wings West gave 90-day notice of its intent to drop service at Oxnard, Calif., Sept. 4. Offering daily nonstop roundtrips between Oxnard and Los Angeles using 19-seat Jetstream aircraft, the carrier noted that United Express operator Mesa Airlines operates eight daily nonstop roundtrips on the route using 19-seat Beechcraft aircraft. It said a Feb.
Fiscal 1997-2002 budget resolutions urge efforts toward FAA financing reform to accommodate assumed reductions in transportation spending. The House resolution, now before the Budget Committee, calls for an air traffic control privatization study. The Senate resolution, approved last week by the Budget Committee, assumes continued efforts toward alternative financing of transportation infrastructure and cites the FAA reauthorization bill as a vehicle to explore innovative financing.
Weber Aircraft will provide first-class seats to Thai Airways for five new 747-400s and nine retrofit 747-400s. Thai is the first airline to select "both the 8080 Electric 'Flat Bed' feature and our new Privacy Divider," Weber said.
Orlando Jet carrier AirTran Airways flew 101.4 million revenue passenger miles in April, 275% more than in April 1995, and capacity rose 216% to 132.7 million available seat miles. The load factor for the month was 76.5%, a gain of 12.1 percentage points. The airline handled 115,500 passengers for the month. The low-cost carrier, which operates 10 737s, recently said it will begin flying between Orlando and Greensboro on June 19.
Cathay Pacific Airways took delivery of its first Boeing 777 Friday and plans to begin service with the aircraft on May 17. Cathy's 777s are powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines.
DOT issued a show cause order last week tentatively approving antitrust immunity for the Lufthansa/United alliance. Pending final approval, the two would join the ranks of Northwest/KLM, the only carrier group with similar protection, obtained in 1992. Also in line for immunity are alliances of Delta/Swissair/Sabena/Austrian Airlines and American/Canadian International. The department promised to act on their bids shortly.
Although the National Transportation Safety Board and FAA are sometimes at odds over aviation safety issues, NTSB Vice Chairman Bob Francis and FAA Administrator David Hinson are in complete agreement on the Global Analysis and Information Network's potential for enhancing safety. "This is as important as anything any of us are working on," Francis said last week as FAA unveiled GAIN.
Harold Williams, a retired Air Force major general, has been named president of Fairchild Aircraft, which is negotiating acquiring control of aircraft manufacturer Dornier from Daimler-Benz Aerospace of Germany.
Transportation would face significant funding cuts under the budget resolutions, but not as great as those contemplated last year. Federal outlays for transportation over six years would drop from a baseline of $230.4 billion to $217.6 billion in the House budget resolution and $212.2 billion in the Senate resolution. Last year's budget resolution assumed outlays of $205.9 billion in fiscal 1997-2002. Assumptions are not binding - the appropriations committees may allocate funds as they wish within the total discretionary cap.
DOT approved applications of World Airways and Southern Air Transport for additional services between the U.S. and South Africa. World asked for two more weekly frequencies in the market, bringing its total to seven, so it could operate daily New York-Johannesburg service, via Accra, Ghana (DAILY, May 7). The carrier argued it needed daily services to compete effectively with South Africa Airways, the "entrenched incumbent at New York," and to maximize the benefit of its code-share arrangement with Continental.
Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, appointed Robert Cotter director- displays and mission computers and Paul Cotter program manager-C-130J, both for the Avionics Division.
As the United-Lufthansa bid for antitrust immunity nears approval, so does the U.S.-Germany open skies agreement. The way may be clear for President Clinton and Chancellor Kohl to sign it when they meet May 23 in Milwaukee. The agreement was initialed Feb. 1.
U.S. Major Carriers Operating Revenues and Expenses The Year 1995 Operating Operating Revenues Expenses (000) (000) The Year 1995 America West $ 1,561,849 $ 1,407,116 American 15,608,464 14,640,876 Continental 4,919,025 4,680,825
The Canadian government has ruled for a second time that Greyhound Lines of Canada needs a license if it wants to move ahead with plans to start marketing and selling air travel through a deal with Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd. The government decision was made after Greyhound asked the National Transportation Agency of Canada to reconsider its position, announced last month.
Granted orally to Swissair an exemption renewing its authority to conduct scheduled combination service between Cincinnati and Zurich under a code- share/blocked-space arrangement with Delta.
Hyundai Space and Aircraft Co., Seoul, selected Andalucia Aeroespacial, Seville, to build leading edge slats for the wings of Douglas Aircraft MD- 95s. Douglas said the subcontract reflects the growing global nature of the aerospace business. Andalucia will build the slats as 10 subassemblies, five for each wing, to be assembled into a whole when installed on the aircraft. The subcontract has an initial value of $7.5 million and possible future value of up to $60 million. Hyundai is one of 15 major supplier-partners on the MD-95 program.
The board of directors of Pacific International Airlines has taken over the day-to-day running of the airline from Danny Wright, interim president and general manager. A replacement general manager has yet to be named. The carrier also promoted Rima Saleh to director of marketing. Saleh, previously the director of ground operations, replaces Susan Desotelle, who is leaving the company. Pacific International is an FAA Part 121 certificated, supplemental air carrier that provides passenger charter services to U.S. tour operators.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) asked ACCESS U.S.-Japan Chairman Gerald Baliles last week to "confirm" that the coalition "does not embrace the negotiating approach" of American, a founding member. In the approach Pressler was referring to, the U.S. would trade future beyond-Japan rights for early increases in U.S.-Japan service.
