Avro International Aerospace said last week three airlines have ordered seven of its regional jet aircraft, bringing to 50 the total sold this year. Avro said that Lufthansa CityLine ordered two RJ85s following an order for five announced in September. Turkish Airlines ordered four RJ70s, and National Jet Systems of Australia ordered one RJ70.
AlliedSignal Aerospace named Gregory Summe president-AlliedSignal Engines, replacing James Robinson, who was named executive VP of Learjet. Arinc appointed William Fromme VP-strategic planning. KDI Precision Products appointed Sal Mira president and chief executive. Million Air Reading named Jon Swartzentruber VP-sales and marketing and Robert Zedaker chief financial officer. Raytheon Aircraft Company named Daniel Grafton VP.
Thiokol Corp. and the Carlyle Group announced Friday formation of a jointly owned affiliate to acquire Howmet Corp. and certain of its affiliates including the Cercast unit, from Pechiney International, a multinational French firm, for $750 million. Howmet, with revenues of about $900 million a year, manufactures precision castings of superalloys and titanium used primarily for jet aircraft and industrial gas turbine engine components. The Cercast unit builds aluminum and copper alloy investment castings for commercial aircraft and defense electronics industries.
General aviation aircraft shipments for the third quarter increased 23.9% to 259 aircraft and billings rose 65.8% to $802 million from the same period last year, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association reported. Through the first three quarters, units shipped rose 16% to 714, while billings increased 42.3% to $2.1 billion, GAMA said. Edward Stimpson, GAMA president, said that "all indications point to positive recovery for general aviation manufacturers.
Air Line Pilots Association subsidiary, Universal Pilot Application Service, announced that TWA will begin hiring pilots for a November training class, drawn almost entirely from UPAS. TWA estimates it will fill 150 pilot positions at a rate of about 30 per month. UPAS maintains a database of pilot candidates and their qualifications.
Continental is creating special travel packages, including airfare, hotel accommodations and concert tickets, for the only U.S. concert in 1996 by The Three Tenors - Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras. The singers will perform July 20 at Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, N.J.
Rep. William Lipinski (D-Ill.) apparently will become ranking Democrat on the House Transportation aviation subcommittee, replacing Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.), who now is ranking on the full committee.At the most recent subcommittee hearing, Chairman John Duncan (R-Tenn.) welcomed Lipinski to the post. Lipinski expressed a desire to serve but added that there is "nothing official on that."
Hollings then turned to Southwest Chairman Herb Kelleher: "Mr. Kelleher, you're a good low-cost operator, how about you buying USAir?" Kelleher responded, "That just may leave us as a good operator without the low-cost part."
Officials at Delta recently took delivery of four electric tow tractors for use as baggage tugs on a test basis at Salt Lake City Airport. "It is an initiative made on our own," said Delta spokesman Todd Clay. "We will put the vehicles through daily operations there to evaluate how they will operate in a number of conditions." Clay said Delta's "Continuous Improvement Team," which recommended the electric tug test, will continue to look at a number of alternative fuel-powered ground service equipment.
Delta and Austrian Airlines plan to begin code-sharing service from New York and Washington to Kiev and Odessa via Vienna this month. The carriers will offer seven weekly roundtrips between the U.S. cities and Kiev, beginning Oct. 28, and six weekly roundtrips between the U.S. points and Odessa, beginning Oct. 29. All the new service will be aboard Austrian aircraft. Delta said its code-share service on Austrian's aircraft is the result of a recent liberalization of the agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine.
American Stock Exchange announced it will trade options on American Depositary Receipts of Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft (stock/option symbol DAI) beginning Oct. 16. DAI will open with strike prices of 45, 50 and 55, with position limits of 4,500 contracts. Initial expiration months will be November and December of 1995 and January and April next year.
Master Executive Council of United's Air Line Pilots Association has elected 727 Captain Michael Glawe chairman and representative on United's Board of Directors. He was chairman of ALPA's Grievance Committee and helped draft a joint United/ALPA statement of principles that encompasses a new balanced approach to traditional labor/management relations. The statement recently was signed by the union and corporate officers.
U.S. airlines, which will begin reporting their September quarter financial results tomorrow, are expected to post a record cumulative operating profit of $2.2 billion-$2.3 billion, representing the 11th consecutive quarter of improved industry results, according to PaineWebber analyst Sam Buttrick.Buttrick attributes the improved results largely to better domestic unit revenues resulting from the demise of Continental Lite.
Malaysia Airlines has taken delivery of the first of two 747-200s converted into full freighters by Boeing Wichita. The airplane arrived in June. Gross takeoff weight was increased from 820,000 pounds to 833,000 pounds, enabling the aircraft to carry 124 tons of cargo up to 4,000 miles. Boeing is predicting the air cargo industry will grow 6.6% annually over the next 20 years and that, to handle that volume, nearly 600 more large-capacity freighters (more than 50 tons) will be required by the year 2014.
Federal Express is urging DOT to defer Air Micronesia's bid for expanded all-cargo authority until that carrier provides additional information about its service plans. Last month, Air Micronesia applied for authority to operate scheduled all-cargo service between Guam, Philippines, and a point or points in Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia (DAILY, Sept. 26).
Air Canada will begin nonstop service between Toronto and Washington Dulles on Oct. 29. The airline will operate three daily roundtrips using 50- passenger Canadair CL-65 jets. Air Canada already serves Washington Dulles from Ottawa three times a day, as well as Washington National three times a day from Montreal and five times a day from Toronto.
Singapore Airlines expects its entire fleet of Boeing 747s to be -400s by the end of the century. The carrier took delivery of its 34th 747-400 on Saturday and has 29 more on order and option. According to SIA, it accounted for 22% of total 747-400 production at Boeing's Everett facility last year.
Responding to DOT inquiries, Delta, Swissair, Sabena and Austrian have spelled out in greater detail their objectives and the potential effects of their proposed alliance agreements. The carriers filed last month (DAILY, Sept.
New indirect air carrier Sterling One is marketing nonstop service from Long Beach to Chicago, beginning Dec. 1. Sterling One has an agreement with AvAtlantic for the service on AvAtlantic's 727s, a company representative said. To promote the service, Sterling One is offering a free roundtrip ticket with the purchase of a second. The free ticket will be given away on one day only - Oct. 24 - although it is good for one year. The price of a one-way ticket is $175.
Fuel Costs and Consumption U.S. Majors, Nationals and Large Regionals September 1994 - August 1995 Total Total Cost Gallons (Dollars) 1994 September Domestic 1,013,701,830 556,606,983 International 371,412,306 224,652,996 System Total 1,385,114,136 781,259,979 October
- In Federal Register dated Oct. 10...Issued an airworthiness directive on certain Airbus A300-600 aircraft requiring inspections for cracks in bolt holes where parts of the main landing gear are attached to the rear spar...Issued an AD on several Air Tractor series aircraft requiring inspection of the front spar attachment lugs...Revised an AD on Canadair CL-215-1A10 aircraft concerning the right aileron and aileron tab...Proposed an AD on CFM International CFM56-3C series engines to require reducing the low-cycle fatigue retirement lives for certain fan disks.
America West has lowered leisure fares by up to $70 off the regular excursion price for travel through Feb. 29 in North America. Tickets must be purchased by Oct. 20.
Second in departures from Denver Airport will be 15-month-old Frontier Airlines, which will have 23 daily flights with tomorrow's new schedule. Frontier will have seven 737s in service, including two newly leased 737- 300s. United and its United Express affiliates have the largest number of departures.
Midwest Express Airlines flew 9.9% more revenue passenger miles last month than in September a year ago on 0.9% more capacity, boosting its load factor 5.2 percentage points to 63%. The number of passengers boarded increased 10.8%. Through the first nine months of this year, Midwest Express's traffic increased 21.6% on 18.5% more capacity, producing a load factor increase of 1.7 points to 64.8%. Sept 95 Sept 94 9 Mths 95 9 Mths 94 RPMs 87,612,000 79,725,000 880,313,000 723,962,000
