Members of the Canadian Auto Workers union have ratified a new collective agreement with Canadian Airlines International that will reduce the airline's costs without laying off employees or cutting back wages. When fully implemented, the 38-month pact will reduce costs by more than C$17 million a year, Canadian said. "The CAW ratification means Canadian Airlines is more than half way toward our overall goal for productivity improvements," said Kevin Grayson, senior VP-human resources and corporate development at Canadian.
Hamilton Standard-Nauka, the joint-venture company formed by Hamilton Standard of the U.S. and NPO Nauka of Russia, held open house yesterday at its new facility in Moscow, where it has begun production of environmental control units for civil transport aircraft. It will ship the first units by the end of the year to Tupolev for use on the 214-passenger Tu-204 and the 102-passenger Tu-334. The facility employs about 35 people and plans to add more workers as the market develops during the next several years.
Northwest has promoted Phil Haan to senior VP-international responsible for Pacific and Atlantic marketing and country establishments. He also will be in charge of international pricing and yield management. Haan has led the Northwest/KLM alliance joint venture operating committee and the Pacific revenue team. Tim Griffin, senior VP-market planning and systems, will assume responsibility for domestic pricing, yield management and area marketing.
New Aircraft Orders And Options September 1995 Last 12 Months Firm Orders Options Orders Options Carrier # Type # Type Engines Del. Dates # Type # Type PW4084 All Nippon 10 777-300 - (1x4074) - 0 0 Asiana1 1 767-300ER - CF6-80C2 Oct 95 0 0
British Airways is offering a "winter fling" to London starting at $579. The price includes roundtrip airfare and three nights' hotel accommodation. The Taste of London package runs from Jan. 1 through March 31. The price is based on departure from Washington Dulles, and additional prices are offered from all of BA's 19 U.S. gateways and USAir's code-share cities. Six-night packages range from $669 to $1,359.
Edward Faberman, American VP-government relations, received the 1995 Lincoln Medal at the recent Ford's Theatre Gala in Washington. Faberman, a member of the Ford's Theatre Board of Governors, was presented the medal during an event honoring President Clinton and hosted by television actress Brett Butler.
With some fanfare, Mesaba Airlines, its major airline affiliate Northwest and civic officials this week celebrated the completion of Northwest's $17 million G Concourse at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Mesaba is the second largest carrier at Detroit after Northwest, and more than 75% of the regional's passengers connect to Northwest flights there.
AirTran Airways' October traffic shot up more than tenfold - 990% - to 51.4 million revenue passenger miles from 4.7 million in October 1994 with the addition of one airplane and service to four new destinations. Its available seat miles rose 487% to 96.5 million, and the load factor reached 53.2%. The carrier added eight markets in the last three months. AirTran offers service from Orlando to 17 cities with eight 737-200s.
National Air Traffic Controllers Association officials representing controllers at busy facilities in New York, Chicago and Oakland will meet Dec. 5 in Washington with Monte Belger, FAA associate administrator for air traffic services, and other agency officials to plan incentive programs to recruit and retain experienced controllers. Facilities involved are the New York, Chicago and Bay Area terminal radar approach controls; the New York, Chicago and Oakland air route traffic control centers, and the O'Hare tower.
American Eagle will add a third weekend roundtrip flight between Anguilla and San Juan Dec. 14 to meet increased winter tourist demand. Eagle VP- Marketing Joel Chusid said tourists reached Anguilla in the past by flying to St. Maarten and taking a ferry, but St. Maarten has reduced air service this winter. Eagle will operate 46-seat ATR-42s to Anguilla.
Rohr reported net income of $500,000 for its first quarter of fiscal 1996, which ended Oct. 29. The results compare with net income of $1.9 million in the same quarter a year ago. Sales declined to $150.4 million from $192.2 million, reflecting reduced deliveries of commercial aircraft. Operating income was $12.1 million, down from $15.4 million.
USAir Express PSA Airlines will begin operating a Toledo-Pittsburgh flight Jan. 6, in addition to USAir's four daily flights in the market. PSA will operate 32-seat Dornier 328s.
Tower Air has appointed two new executives in finance and operations, Morris Nachtomi, president and chief executive, announced yesterday. Josefina Essex will become chief financial officer and VP-finance. Guy Nachtomi has rejoined Tower as VP-operations. Essex worked for Ernst&Young from 1986 until 1991, managing Tower's audits. She joined Tower in 1991 as controller. Essex will replace C.V. Meserole, who is leaving the company to pursue other interests.
Taking advantage of liberalization in the European Union and within France, Alitalia will compete next year on Lyon-Nantes and Lyon-Toulouse routes. Italy's national carrier will fly beyond Lyon in daily MD-82 service from Rome and Milan.
FAA said yesterday it will end funding for seven control towers after Dec. 31 because the level of activity at them fall below its criteria for continued support. The move will affect towers at Wheeling, W. Va.; Shreveport, La.; Bloomington, Ind.; Muncie, Ind.; Lake Tahoe, Calif.; Greenbriar Valley, W. Va.; and Cape Girardeau, Mo. "In a time of declining budgets, the FAA must spend its money wisely," said Administrator David Hinson. "We cannot afford to operate control towers where there is not enough air traffic to justify it."
Northwest, Radisson Hotels Worldwide and Boeing have teamed up this year to help the Toys for Tots campaign run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Northwest is providing donation envelopes in its inflight magazine and at Worldclub locations and city ticket offices. WorldPerks members who contribute at least $50 or a FlyWrite ticket earn 500 frequent flyer bonus miles. Radisson is providing toy collection boxes and donation envelopes in its U.S. hotels.
East Line Aviation is the newest member of GETS Marketing Co. East Line will distribute the GETS automation product line throughout Russia from its Moscow office. GETS provides information management to travel-related companies.
Delta's Escape Plan members have chosen New York as their favorite travel destination. The airline polled new subscribers in the program, which offers savings on weekend trips from Atlanta and Cincinnati. Boston was in second place, while San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego tied for third. Acting on the results of the poll, Delta said it will expand the plan to new destinations, including "several 'warm places' or perhaps even a 'magical' place." Escape Plan membership costs $69 a year and enrollment will close Dec. 15.
The Sunday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, was a record-breaker for United at Los Angeles. The carrier boarded 23,676 passengers there during the day, one every 3.5 seconds, and its load factor was 87.1%. Its systemwide load factor on Sunday was more than 80% (DAILY, Nov. 28). Frontier Airlines said it carried more passengers on Monday, 4,820, than on any day in its 17 months of operations.
Mercury Air Group of Los Angeles and Carnival Air Lines have backed away from a letter of intent agreed to last month for a potential merger, Mercury said. It said the transaction cannot go through because of the inability of the companies to agree on "certain material terms and closing conditions." Mercury, a provider of petroleum products, cargo and aviation services, was to acquire all of the common stock of Carnival (DAILY, Oct. 19). A Carnival representative said it was a "friendly divorce" brought on by a disagreement over how the shares would be distributed.
Air Transport Association President Carol Hallett urged the Treasury Department yesterday "to strongly encourage" the Internal Revenue Service to withdraw a technical advice memorandum (TAM) that concluded employees who use frequent flyer miles for personal trips should be taxed for the cost of the air travel that produced the frequent flyer miles (DAILY, Nov. 29). The IRS already is beginning to back away from the policy, which technically applies only to the single company that sought IRS's advice on the matter.
FAA plans to issue next month proposed new airline pilot flight and duty time regulations that will contain the "latest scientific data available," David Harrington, manager of the air transportation section of FAA's Flight Standards Division, said yesterday. The proposed rules are a "separate effort," beyond the agency's drive to bring the safety standards of regional airlines to the level of larger carriers, Harrington told The DAILY.
Guangzhou, Macau, Singapore and Vancouver are planning to build high-tech theme parks to lure tourists. Attractions include virtual reality rides and games. The parks are being developed by Singapore Technologies, a government-backed company, and Japan's mega-computer game producer Sega. A park in Singapore may open before yearend, and Macau plans to open one at the end of 1996.
