Western Pacific Airlines will offer vacation packages with its air logo partner, the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs. Packages are available for as low as $179 per person for a two-night trip from Phoenix, Las Vegas, Wichita and Oklahoma City. Packages include air fare and hotel accommodations, with options for a hot air balloon ride, spa use and golf outings.
U.S. District Court in Atlanta has denied an emergency request for a preliminary injunction brought by the Air Line Pilots Association and dismissed ALPA's lawsuit against Atlantic Southeast Airlines that sought to prohibit the carrier from operating the BAe 146. ASA put the jets in service Friday in operations to Chattanooga, Columbus, Ga., Asheville, N.C., Fort Walton Beach and Panama City. In February, it will use the aircraft at Myrtle Beach. ASA operates four of the aircraft.
Pratt&Whitney is folding together its engine aftermarket operations to offer airline customers a fleet management program. P&W acted nearly half a year after rival General Electric made the same move, creating a business approaching $2 billion in sales.
In Federal Register dated Nov. 22...Superseded an airworthiness directive on Bell 206 helicopters concerning the engine power-out warning sensor...Superseded an AD on Robinson R22 helicopters concerning inspection for slippage of the tail rotor drive...Proposed to supersede an AD on Boeing 737-200 aircraft concerning fail-safe straps on the engine inlet attach ring.
Federal Express Friday continued to say operations were proceeding normally after the sixth day of self-help measures pilots. The Air Line Pilots Association said, however, that measures implemented by the union - refusing overtime and alerting the public that package service could be disrupted - are having an increasing impact on operations. ALPA said that unofficially, IBM and Motorola have dropped their FedEx contracts, but FedEx said the report was false. ALPA said loads are down, apparently because of the pilot actions.
Alitalia's latest cost-cutting program may end the discounts the carrier offers to politicians (20% to 50%), priests (25%) and journalists (30%), according to Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
Boeing 727 and 737 Systemwide Aircraft Utilization Per Day Second Quarter 1995 B727-200 American Continental Delta Number of Aircraft Operated 80 47 134 Total Fleet Operations Departures 305 165 655 Block Hours 686 419 1,146
Kiwi International Air Lines has selected Travel Impressions, Farmingdale, N.Y., to sell Kiwi Vacations. Travel Impressions will sell only Florida packages initially. Prices begin at $305 for travel from Atlanta and a three-night stay in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area. Kiwi's packages formerly were sold by Concord Vacations.
Airlines began the short-term winter fare sales season Friday. Northwest is advertising up to 25% off the regular low fare for travel throughout the U.S. and Canada. Tickets must be purchased by Dec. 6 for travel Dec. 14- Jan. 7. TWA said it is offering savings of up to 35% from St. Louis, and up to 25% from other hubs and Hawaii. The tariffs are valid for travel Dec. 8-Jan. 7. Tickets must be purchased by Dec. 6. USAir reduced prices in 12,000 U.S. and Canadian markets for travel Dec. 14-Jan. 7, with a Dec. 6 purchase deadline.
Total orders for Rolls-Royce Tay 650 engines for the Fokker 100 and Tay 620s for the Fokker 70 now total 357. Rolls's volume was boosted by a recent order by Transportes Aereos Regionais of Brazil for eight Fokker 100s and another order, from a customer not identified by Fokker, for six F100s. Fokker said the lead engines on the F100 now have accumulated more than 17,000 hours and 15,000 flights, and that individual engines have remained on the wing for more than 10,000 flights.
American is increasing its marketing efforts targeted at gays and lesbians. A new employee group - Gay&Lesbian Employees at AMR (GLEAM) - is creating local chapters and the carrier has appointed a sales manager-gay and lesbian community. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, in its Skyword magazine, said corporate America has begun to recognize that gays and lesbians are largely mobile and upscale.
Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and its transportation subcom-mittee, Friday announced his retirement from Congress at the end of the 104th Congress (DAILY, Nov. 28). Hatfield, a five-term senator, likely will be replaced as chairman of the full committee by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).
America West has reduced fares at Detroit to introduce new service at Detroit Metro Airport to Phoenix and Las Vegas. The tickets must be purchased by Jan. 18 for travel Feb. 15 through March 31. America West will offer two daily departures to Phoenix and one to Las Vegas. The lowest fares are available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, and require a Saturday night stay. Fares are even lower for late evening flights. The roundtrip fare to both cities will be $278.
Canadian Airlines International and Lufthansa have reached agreement on ending their code-share service between Frankfurt and two points in Canada, Vancouver and Calgary, and they expect the program to "wind down" by June, CAI said Friday. CAI noted that code sharing was "needed to capture efficiencies in a developing market" when the carriers started it six years ago, and that its opportunities to serve Germany were limited to flights from Western Canada before Canada's International Air Transportation Policy initiative last December.
Combined passenger traffic at BAA's three London airports - Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted - is forecast to reach 113.6 million a year by 2006- 2007, up from the 81.1 million expected in the current year. The forecast, required to be provided to airport users by U.K. Civil Aviation Authority regulations, assumes construction of a fifth terminal at London Heathrow.
British Airways will not announce the results of Friday's board meeting until Dec. 11 at the earliest, said a spokesman. The board was expected to consider executive changes as CEO-designate Robert Ayling, scheduled to accept full day-to-day control of the airline Jan. 1, begins to form his team (DAILY, Nov. 30).
