DOT granted Northwest authority to operate scheduled combination service between the U.S., on the one hand, and Dresden and Leipzig, Germany, via Amsterdam. Northwest will operate the service under its code-share agreement with KLM, beginning on or about Dec. 15. Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG, a strategic partner of KLM, operates Amsterdam-Germany segments of Northwest's and KLM's U.S.-Amsterdam-Germany flights, using ATR-42 and ATR- 72 aircraft.
DOT has tentatively found Eagle Jet Charter Inc., operating as Eagle Jet, fit, willing and able to operate scheduled interstate combination service. With its new authority, the Las Vegas-based air taxi operator, currently holding authority for charter service using small airplanes, plans to convert its charter operations to scheduled service, providing one daily scheduled roundtrip between Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon, using 44-
Surveyed by the British Airline Pilots Association, two out of five U.K. pilots admitted falling asleep on the job. In one incident, a pilot strayed into a no-fly zone over the former Yugoslavia while asleep. In another, a captain woke up to discover that his first officer also had nodded off.
A tourism, technology and telecommunications forum and exposition, TravComm '95, is scheduled Dec. 4-6 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Miami. The event is sponsored by Caribbean/Latin American Action in cooperation with the International Institute of Tourism Studies, George Washington University and the Caribbean Hotel Association. DOT Secretary Federico Pena will speak at a luncheon Dec. 6, and invited to speak Dec. 5 is Sylvia Hernandez, Secretary of Tourism for Mexico.
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Regional airline traffic grew faster than capacity by an average of 1.4 percentage points during October in The DAILY's 13-airline sample. Traffic, measured by revenue passenger miles, rose at an average rate of 23.4% during the month. That is versus 22.1% for capacity, measured in available seat miles. Rapidly expanding Florida-based Gulfstream International again paced the sampling with a 139.5% increase in RPMs versus a 106.8% jump in
...Wider`BFe has been in operation since 1934, operating every de Havilland of Canada product except the Buffalo. With its government contract, it is protected from most competition and provides the only transportation to much of the country, including 25 STOL airstrips and 12 larger airports. One 10-minute flight in the far north chops four hours 50 minutes off the same surface trip. The communications ministry is requiring new bids for the
Granted orally an exemption to Amerijet International Inc. to engage in scheduled all-cargo service between Miami, on the one hand, and Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia, Venezuela, on the other, via intermediate and beyond points named in the U.S.-Venezuela aviation agreement, and to integrate this authority with its existing exemption and certificate.
Norway's Wider`BFe's Flyveselskap, which has enjoyed an exclusive contract with the nation's Ministry of Communications to provide scheduled air service to the many STOL airstrips along the country's rocky northwest coastline, now faces competition. Norway is a member of the European Community's aviation structure and must put such service out for bids. If the entire system is put out for a single contract, Wider`BFe officials say they
Airlines say Illinois Senate legislation to create a regional airport authority to run Chicago's airports and build another at Peotone is "beating a dead horse." The bill's $30 million for administrative costs is "just a handout for consultants and lawyers who have made a profession out of harassing O'Hare," according to Air Transport Association President Carol Hallett.
American Eagle has carried 75 million passengers in its 11-year existence - the first regional carrier that can make that claim, the carrier announced last week. In the 11 years, Eagle's operation has grown from 60 daily flights to seven cities to 1,600 daily departures to more than 150 destinations in the U.S., Canada, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Eagle operates 266 turboprop aircraft that range in size from the 19- seat Jetstream 32 to the 64-seat Super ATR (ATR 72).
Pan Am Historical Foundation last week honored 30 pilots, navigators, radio operators and flight engineers who flew the China Clipper and its sister ships on the 60th anniversary of the inauguration of air service across the Pacific to Asia. The flights reduced travel time between North America and Asia from 17 days - aboard the fastest vessel - to five.
U.S. will focus during the rest of 1995 on improving relations with Asian nations, beginning tomorrow with the continuation of all-cargo talks with Japan in Washington. On Wednesday the U.S. will resume negotiations with India, also in Washington, and it will convene talks with Thailand and China during the week of Dec. 18. Open skies will be on the agenda when the U.S. and the Czech Republic meet Dec. 5-8 in Prague. There still is no date for new negotiations with Germany.
Continental was on track to set a record for Boston operations on Thanksgiving Day - one year with no ground mishaps. The carrier said 16,000 Continental and Air Canada departures operated mishap-free during the year. In addition, Boston completed its 13th consecutive month of making its baggage goal and is ranked fifth this year in the customer complaint ratio.
National Mediation Board will count ballots Nov. 29 for union representation of flight attendants and pilots at the four AMR Eagle carriers. The original ballot count, scheduled Nov. 14 and 15, was postponed due to the federal government shutdown.
A delegation of Taiwanese aerospace industry executives, headed by Yin Chi- ming, director general of Taiwan's Industrial Development Bureau, will visit the Czech Republic to conduct a feasibility study on cooperation in producing small commercial aircraft. Several Taipei daily newspapers recently reported that a number of Taiwan companies are interested in forming strategic alliances or joint ventures with the Czech Republic's state-run Aero Vodochody Company.
FAA has backed a National Transportation Safety Board call for wider inspections of General Electric CF6 turbofan high-pressure compressor spools in search of signs of cracks from dwell time fatigue, but the agency rejected NTSB's proposed inspection interval (DAILY, Aug. 29). The safety board wanted no more than 4,000 cycles between inspections, but FAA said in a newly issued airworthiness directive it would require initial and repetitive ultrasonic and eddy current inspections based on more engine- specific criteria worked out among NTSB, FAA and GE.
In the aftermath of United's decision not to pursue USAir, the outlook for the smaller carrier seems to be brightening. Gruntal Investment Research said yesterday it was "boosting the rating for USAir from Underperform to Neutral now that the big hit from failure of UAL talks is history." The investment firm added that the carrier "hit the top end of our down-side $8-$10 target last week."
Eastwind Airlines is extending a promotion under which full-fare customers buy a second seat on flights to Jacksonville and West Palm Beach for only $1 each way. The fares are good from Trenton, N.J., or Greensboro, N.C., between Nov. 29 and Dec. 14. Eastwind also has added special flights between Nov. 21 and Nov. 27 because of demand. The fares do not require advance purchase or a Saturday night stay.
Raytheon's Beech King Air 350 business aircraft has become the first western jetprop to win Russian certification, the company said. It also is the first to be certified to the new rules applicable under AP23, the Russian equivalent of FAR 23, Amendment 42, Raytheon said. Raytheon's Hawker midsize business jet received Russian certification two years ago.
Qantas plans to introduce additional service Friday between Melbourne and Saigon for 13 weeks. The supplementary service comes in response to demand for travel between Australia and Vietnam during the holiday season, including the Lunar New Year in February, said Geoff Dixon, the airline's group executive general manager-commercial. Qantas operates one flight per week between Melbourne and Saigon via Sydney with continuing service to Singapore.
FAA has told Oracle Telecomputing Inc. of Canada it will not allow Boeing Defense and Space Group to be the prime contractor in the agency's Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) program. The FAA decision appears to be based on the selection of seven companies - one of them Oracle - allowed to submit proposals to FAA on the STARS program earlier this year. More recently, Boeing joined with Oracle, BDM, MCI and Formation to compete for the program. Boeing was listed as the prime contractor.
Delta said its proposed Atlanta-Rome flights would "inject new gateway service to an underserved region in order to maximize competition against Alitalia and provide optimum nationwide online service coverage." Also competing for the new service, slated to become available April 1, 1996, are Northwest for Detroit-Rome and USAir for Philadelphia-Rome services.
AlliedSignal Aerospace won FAA approval to market a solid-state cockpit voice recorder (CVR) that stores two hours of digitally recorded sound. Most current CVRs record only the last 30 minutes of sound. The European Joint Aviation Authorities soon will require a two-hour capability to increase the probability of having recorded sound from the onset of a problem until an accident occurs, AlliedSignal said. The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that FAA adopt a similar rule.
