New Aircraft Orders And Options November 1995 Last 12 Months Firm Orders Options Orders Options Carrier # Type # Type Engines Del Dates # Type # Type BWIA Intl 2 A321-100 - V2500 Jun96-Oct96 2 A340-300 - 5 EMB145 5 EMB145 Cathay
New Jet Aircraft Deliveries November 1995 Last 12 Months Carrier # Type Engines Delivery Air Canada 1 767-300ER PW4060 1 Air Littoral 1 Fokker 70 Tay620-15 4 Air Macau 1 A321-100 V2500-A1 0
Delta's success in reducing its unit costs to 8.6 cents in the December quarter from 9.6 cents in March 1994 has drawn a lot of attention, but little has been said about the larger success of Alaska Airlines.In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Alaska said it cut its unit costs 20% between 1992 and 1994 and a further 7% between 1994 and 1995.
USAir this week established a site on the Internet's World Wide Web. Its home page offers flight schedules, fare information, company facts, history, news releases and destination route maps at http://www.usair.com.
The nation's airlines yesterday joined much of the rest of the aviation industry in opposing new work rules proposed by FAA for commercial pilots.The Air Transport Association, supported by two widely known human factors experts whose work was cited by FAA when it proposed the rules, went a step further than other industry groups and asked for dismissal of the entire proceeding.
Sky Trek International Airlines has applied for a certificate authorizing it to operate charter service. The proposed carrier plans to begin operating passenger charters in the near future using 165-seat 727-200s.
Horizon Air said it will switch to larger aircraft in some markets this spring and add frequencies in others. Starting April 7, the carrier will add a fourth daily flight from Seattle to Calgary, using a 37-passenger de Havilland Dash 8. It will add a ninth daily flight between Seattle and Bellingham, also using a Dash 8. Some service between Seattle and Port Angeles will be upgraded to a 31-seat Dornier 328 from an 18-seat Metroliner.
Sabena's board of directors yesterday replaced resigning Chairman, President and Chief Executive Pierre Godfroid with a three-person team (DAILY, Feb. 27). Jan Juyghebaert was named chairman and Phillipe Suinen vice chairman, on an interim basis, and Paul Reutlinger, Swissair's executive VP-marketing and ground services, became chief executive. Swissair owns a controlling interest in Sabena. Two other top Sabena officials - Gery Daeninck, chief operating officer, and Raymond Aelvoet, executive VP-flight operations - also resigned.
USAir yesterday cut fares to Florida from U.S. destinations by as much as 40%. The discounts apply to 21-day advance-purchase tickets, which require roundtrip travel and are non-refundable.
BFGoodrich said it has called for redemption of its 7% subordinated debentures due Aug. 15, 1997. Redemption price is $1,000 plus accrued interest to the redemption date of March 25, 1996, of $7.78 per $1,000 principal amount of the debenture. There are $9.06 million of the debentures outstanding.
UPS Properties will begin construction this spring on a 250,000-square-foot speculative warehouse and distribution facility on 83 acres of its land in Essex, Md., the company said yesterday. The facility will be ready for occupancy in September. UPS said the facility will be the first of many speculative warehouses planned for the site in the next few years. UPS Properties said it plans to develop nearly 1.5 million square feet of distribution/warehouse space on the site by 2003. Based in Atlanta, UPS Properties is a wholly owned subsidiary of UPS.
The fiscal 1997 DOT appropriations process opened yesterday with airports pushing for more money, airlines advocating air traffic control projects, general aviation opposing user fees and FAA unions seeking statutory protections for employees' right to organize.
Air France will increase its Washington Dulles-Paris service from seven weekly flights to 10 as part of its summer schedule, June 14-Oct. 20. The added service, a second daily 747 flight on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, will be non-smoking.
TWA plans to begin operating its new service between St. Louis and Toronto May 1 if not earlier, said an airline spokesman. Using MD-80 aircraft, the carrier will operate twice-daily nonstop roundtrip service on the route, with single-plane service to New Orleans and San Diego. DOT awarded the service to TWA last week, granting it immediate, temporary authority to start the flights pending the final decision of the U.S.-Toronto second-year service proceeding (DAILY, Feb. 26).
Agreement has been reached with some of the parties on sharing the estimated $1.4 million cost of recovering the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Turkish-owned 757 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean Feb. 6 shortly after takeoff from the Dominican Republic, National Transportation Safety Board Jim Hall said yesterday.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) will begin operating one weekly 747 flight between Tokyo and Vienna starting April 1. The service will replace three of five weekly roundtrips partner Austrian Airlines operates with an A340 aircraft. Austrian will continue to operate the other two frequencies. ANA also said it will add a frequency in the Tokyo-Paris market, boosting its service to seven flights per week from the current six. ANA will fly a 747-200 between Tokyo and Vienna, continuing on to Paris but without taking on passengers. It does not have local traffic rights.
Boeing 747 Systemwide Aircraft Utilization Per Day Third Quarter 1995 B747-100 Northwest TWA Number of Aircraft Operated 23 9 Total Fleet Operations Departures 37 16 Block Hours 283 122
Denver International Airport (DIA) recorded an 80% reduction in delays in its first year of operations, compared with Stapleton Airport, which it replaced, according to Fred Isaac, administrator of FAA's Northwest Mountain Region. The true anniversary is Feb. 28, and FAA statistics are for the first 11 months, Feb. 28, 1995-Jan. 30, 1996. Delays per 1,000 operations at the new airport are only one-fifth those at Stapleton, Isaac said.
FedEx Air Line Pilots Association unit's new chairman says the key members for his "team for a better ALPA" are in place, including new communications and membership committee chairmen. ALPA still is negotiating a collective bargaining agreement with the company, and the FedEx Pilots Association still is moving to unseat ALPA. The rival union says it has 1,451 authorization cards seeking a representation election.
U.S. and German officials will continue negotiations today in Washington. After breaking for the weekend, the two sides picked up the talks yesterday, addressing mainly technical issues. The issues are complex and time-consuming, requiring the coordination of various German government agencies on technical aspects of the agreement, such as customs and currency remittances, a U.S. official said. The two sides remain hopeful that they will conclude an agreement in this round, which currently has no deadline.
Objecting to DOT tentative allocation of U.S.-Germany summer frequencies, which pared back its request, United is urging the department to grant it five additional frequencies to support a second daily Chicago-Germany nonstop flight. The carrier also asked DOT to allocate to it temporarily 14 new frequencies allotted to USAir and World Airways "until such time as those carriers begin using them, and require each of those carriers to report to the department 30 days in advance of their proposed startup dates for using those frequencies." (Docket OST-95-813)
