Frontier Airlines appointed Rula Fakhouri city manager at its new station in Los Angeles and Al Hepner city manager at San Francisco. The carrier launched service this month from its Denver hub to the two California points.
Dutch carrier Martinair has been selected to receive the bronze award from the Hospitality Sales&Marketing Association for airline advertising in 1994. The Dutch carrier also was one of five airlines selected recently to receive the Distinguished Airline Award from Alrod International.
Fokker said yesterday that Brazilian regional carrier Transportes Aereos Regionais (TAM) has ordered eight F100s jetliners and 10 F50 propjets. Also, an undisclosed customer has ordered six F100s, the Dutch manufacturer said. The contract was signed in Sao Paulo in the presence of Fokker's new owner, Manfred Bischoff, chairman of the management board of Daimler-Benz Aerospace. With the latest orders, TAM will increase its F100 fleet to 23 by the end of the first quarter of 1996.
Lack of pilot unity at Federal Express is hampering the efforts of Air Line Pilots Association members to persuade management to agree to their contract terms. The pilots and the company became free to engage in self- help measures at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, when the 30-day cooling-off period in their contract talks expired. The pilots' Master Executive Council has authorized pilots to initiate self-help measures that now only include declaring all overtime flying as "struck" work, but which the MEC says will escalate over time if the two sides remain at odds.
Loral Air Traffic Control said yesterday it has completed on schedule development of the software for FAA's Display System Replacement (DSR) program. Last April, Loral was awarded a $898 million contract for the DSR, which will replace current aging display processing computers and provide new, advanced workstations for controllers. The next phase of the program, involving system integration of DSR software and hardware, is expected to be completed on schedule in March 1997, said Robert Welte, division president.
U.S. Major Carriers Traffic October, 10 Months 1995 (000) October October % 1995 1994 Change America West Revenue Passenger Miles 1,131,241 964,918 17.2 Available Seat Miles 1,680,077 1,550,083 8.4 Load Factor (%) 67.3 62.2 American
Shorts Group of Bombardier said it is investing 5 million pounds in its advanced composites plant at Dunmurry in Belfast. The investment will enable Shorts to extend its advanced composites business and will lead to 155 new jobs, the company said. The plant now produces composite structures for the Canadair Regional Jet, the Learjet 45, the Lockheed C- 130 and for nacelle systems.
Delta has withdrawn its complaint against India, saying it now has received acceptable slot times at Bombay for Frankfurt-Bombay flights it plans to begin Dec. 1. The carrier filed the complaint last month, saying it was denied its right under the U.S.-India bilateral agreement to operate daily service to Bombay because of India's failure to provide usable slots (DAILY, Nov. 9). (Docket OST-95-805)
Early holiday fare sales and scaled-back capacity yielded some stunning if not record-breaking load factors for U.S. carriers during the Thanksgiving holiday. Favorable weather throughout the country produced completion factors greater than 99% and a high number of on-time arrivals.
BWIA International Airways has leased two Airbus A321 aircraft, powered by IAE V2500-A5 engines, from International Lease Finance Corp., the carrier said yesterday. The aircraft, which will be delivered next June and October, was recently selected by passengers as the best in its class, the carrier said. BWIA will operate the aircraft from points it serves in the Eastern Caribbean to North and South America, replacing MD-83s.
Aeromexico said it has signed a code-sharing agreement with Air France. Effective Nov. 1, the accord will provide more flights, an improved schedule and more convenient connections on Mexico-Paris flights, said Aeromexico. Initially, the carriers will offer eight flights a week on the Mexico-Paris-Mexico route. Under the agreement, flights arriving in Paris will be serviced at Charles de Gualle Airport, Terminal A-2, and passengers will accumulate frequent flyer miles on both airlines' programs.
Boeing during the weekend delivered the fourth special freighter modified this year for Atlas Air, a freighter leasing company. The 747-200 Combi was modified into a freighter at Boeing's Wichita modifications center. It will go into service with British Airways.
Export-Import Bank said it approved financing to support the $95.8 million lease of three 737-300 aircraft to startup carrier Shandong Airlines. Deliveries are scheduled in December, January and August. The aircraft will be sold to a special-purpose corporation that will lease them to the airline. Shandong, the third largest province in China, was described as the country's fastest-growing region. The carrier plans to fly the 737s on internal routes connecting Jinan with Beijing, Shanghai and other major centers.
International express shipments will exceed one million per day next year and could reach 1.1 million per day before the end of 1996, according to a study by Air Cargo Management Group, a Seattle-based aviation consulting firm specializing in the air freight and express industry. In mid-1995, there were 875,000 international express shipments per day, about 16% of domestic U.S. express shipments.
Lufthansa is installing leather seats on all of its Boeing 737 and Airbus aircraft deployed on European routes, including new A319s scheduled to join the fleet in July 1996. Supplied by Keiper Recaro, the seats are scheduled to be in place on the 737s by next month and on all other aircraft by early 1997.
FAA has scheduled a review of its aviation safety initiative Dec. 6-7 in New Orleans. The agency launched the effort following last January's safety summit in Washington, attended by senior executives of airlines and aviation industry firms. In February, FAA issued the results of the summit's working groups in a report calling for zero accidents and making aviation safety a shared responsibility. The working groups will be reassembled at the New Orleans meeting to review what has been accomplished and make changes and adjustments, if necessary.
Delta is urging DOT to investigate the citizenship of Laker Airways and ensure that it will be free of foreign control or influence. Saying it "does not generally participate in garden variety certification/fitness proceedings," Delta maintained that Laker's application "is anything but garden variety," involving a bid for a U.S. carrier certificate "by a company that may well be controlled by a U.K. citizen."
A surprised Boeing executive said he was led to believe that striking workers represented by the Machinists union would approve a new contract. Instead, the workers rejected the contract, with more than 60% opposed. Larry McKean, senior VP-human resources, said Boeing "continues to believe the contract proposal is realistic, reasonable and necessary in order for us to compete successfully in the global market." He said, "We are extremely disappointed the company's proposal for a new contract was rejected.
Marriott is offering getaway gift certificates to its 1,000 hotels worldwide. The certificates are available in denominations of $25, $50 and $100. In addition, weekend getaway certificates are available for $99- $149.
Delta's economy class was ranked best in the world in Business Traveler International's seventh annual survey. The 2,000 international frequent flyers polled by the magazine ranked Delta as the second-best airline for international business travel, behind Singapore Airlines.
The convention, exposition, meeting and incentive travel industry in the U.S. generated an estimated $82.8 billion in direct spending in 1994 that supported 1.6 million jobs, according to a Convention Liaison Council study. The tax revenues for the government amounted to $12.3 billion.
Granted orally an exemption to Eurowings to conduct code- sharing operations with Northwest and KLM on the Amsterdam-Germany segments of Northwest's and KLM's U.S.-Amsterdam-Germany scheduled flights.
Northwest's Machinists union members have begun meeting to consider contract proposals and bargaining issues for the five Machinists groups whose contracts are up for negotiation next fall. The union represents 24,000 employees who expect wages to snap back to 1993 levels on Oct. 1, 1996, and want other benefits for the concessions they made last year to help the company return to profitability. All five contracts become amendable at the end of September.
Precision Standard reported a loss of $1.4 million on sales of $29.1 million for the quarter ended Sept. 30. In the same quarter last year, the company made a profit of $700,000 on sales of $36.6 million. For the year to date, Precision Standard has lost $1.5 million on sales of $112.4 million, compared with a profit of $1.4 million on sales of $107.4 million last year.
