DOT issued yesterday "The Regulatory Reinvention Initiative Report," which details FAA efforts to reduce regulatory costs while maintaining safety. FAA Aministrator David Hinson said the report "describes these efforts and outlines future ways to make the agency more responsive to the public."
Air New Zealand's management yesterday posted a record after-tax profit of NZ$260.2 million (US$174.5 million) for the year ended June 30 and said the company's shares are undervalued on the stock market.
U.S. Major Carriers Share of Latin Service First Quarter 1995 Total Revenue Departures America West 374 American 23,398 Continental 7,503 Delta 3,352 United 4,098 USAir 1,775 Total 40,500 U.S. Major Carriers Share of Latin Service First Quarter 1995
Asiana Airlines and Northwest have asked DOT for renewal of their authority to provide U.S.-Korea service under a blocked-space, code-sharing arrangement. The deal authorizes Northwest to buy blocked space and place its code on Asiana's flights between Seoul and New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu and Saipan. Also, Asiana has acquired seats and placed its code on Northwest's Detroit-Seoul service. For winter 1995, Northwest will operate three-times-weekly Detroit-Seoul service, using Boeing 747-400 aircraft.
Airline political action committees (PACs) were quick to switch their allegiance this year to the new Republican majority in Congress, and even a few labor unions doled out substantial portions of their funds to Republicans. Most aviation industry unions are continuing to support Democrats almost exclusively, however. Before last year's congressional elections, airlines and unions both gave most of their money to the Democrats, who had controlled one or both houses of Congress for 40 years.
Reps. John Duncan (R-Tenn.), Jim Lightfoot (R-Iowa) and other legislators Thursday will introduce FAA reform legislation. A news conference is scheduled at 9 a.m. in Room 2253 Rayburn.
Air cargo's 0.7% growth in July followed the same trend as passenger traffic, "increasing by smaller and smaller amounts as we have gotten further into the year, and now registering a decline on the domestic side," according to the Air Transport Association. Domestic freight was down 1.3%, its first decrease this year.
Air France will launch its new long-haul service product, L'Espace, on Sept. 11. The centerpiece of the $100 million inflight and ground service upgrade is L'Espace, French for space or seat. First class will be marketed as L'Espace 180, with seats that can recline to a "virtually horizontal position," or about 180 degrees. The first-class cabin on 747- 400s will have 13 seats with 92-inch pitch, up from the current 62 inches.
Continental's pilots union has ratified a two-year contract providing wage and work rule improvements for its 3,800 members. The contract, tentatively agreed to at the end of June, is the pilots' first collective bargaining agreement since 1983. The contract is a step forward in bringing Continental pilot pay and work rules up to industry standards, and the signing was announced by the Independent Association of Continental Pilots (IACP) and Continental on Friday, which coincidentally was dubbed Go Forward Day.
American assailed United's petition for reconsideration of the DOT order granting American authority to provide scheduled combination service between Los Angeles and Guadalajara. In the petition, filed last month with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DAILY, Aug.
China Airlines' Dynasty Flyer members will receive 1,000 bonus miles each time they rent a car from Hertz through Nov. 30. After Nov. 30, the bonus will drop to 500 miles. CAL and Hertz have cooperated in promotions since 1989, when Hertz began offering car rental discounts to CAL's frequent flyers.
U.S. airlines have been assured that immigration, customs and agricultural inspection will not be eliminated or cut back if a federal budget impasse causes the government to shut down Oct. 1, according to the Air Transport Association. But ATA has not yet received a response to questions it asked the administration about how a shutdown would affect air traffic control and weather service personnel.
An expected antitrust immunity bid by Delta for arrangements with its European code-share partners is likely to push Belgium to sign the open skies agreement it negotiated with the U.S. Belgian flag carrier Sabena is among the partners, and an open skies regime is a prerequisite for antitrust immunity. Belgium is the lone holdout among the nine European countries that worked out open skies deals during the spring. The others signed the pacts more than two months ago.
BWIA International Airways is co-sponsoring an international conference, "Harmony in Diversity," at which the Dalai Lama is scheduled to speak. The conference will take place Sept. 15-17 in Trinidad and Tobago. The Dalai Lama will travel on BWIA to Port of Spain to address the conference.
Airborne Express is scheduled to open a $60 million second runway system tomorrow at its main hub and sort center at Airborne Airpark in Wilmington, Ohio. On hand for the opening will be Ohio Gov. George Voinovich, Airborne Express Chairman and CEO Robert Cline and ABX Air, Inc., President Carl Donaway. The 9,000-foot runway is part of a near-complete $120 million expansion project at the airport, and Airborne said it is believed to be the largest privately funded airport runway in the country.
Japan Airlines' passenger traffic grew 12.8% in July over the year-ago month, to 5.64 billion revenue passenger kilometers. The number of passengers boarded increased 12.9% to 2.2 million, and the airline's cargo traffic rose 5.6% to 319.6 million cargo ton kilometers. Through the first seven months of this year, JAL's passenger traffic increased 9.6%, and its passenger enplanements rose 13.1%% to 13.4 million. Cargo traffic increased 9.7% to 1.77 billion CTKs.
has applied for renewal for two years of its authority to provide service between New York and Paris. Operating nonstop in the market since May 1987, the carrier flies one daily 767 roundtrip. (Docket OST-95-531)
Penn State researchers trying to find more efficient methods of processing jet fuel are focusing their efforts on the use of aluminum compounds. "These mesoporous zeolites are innovative and will continue to be important as we are forced to use the heavy, bottom-of-the-barrel crude oils and the liquid fuels derived from coal," said Dr. Chunshan Song, assistant professor of fuel science and associate director of Penn State's Laboratory for Hydrocarbon Processing Chemistry.
Lufthansa is introducing a package of value-added services for American Express Cardmembers traveling from the U.S. to destinations in 18 Eastern European countries.
U.S. Major Carriers Share of Atlantic Service First Quarter 1995 Total Revenue Departures American 5,226 Continental 1,075 Delta 7,859 Northwest 1,235 TWA 2,212 United 3,527 USAir 520 Total 21,654 U.S. Major Carriers Share of Atlantic Service
Alaska and Horizon Air say they have streamlined their baggage check-in service for passengers using the Seattle-Tacoma Airport parking garage. Through a contract with a new company, Express Baggage Service, travelers can drop their bags in the garage at a price of $2 for one bag, $4 for two or three bags and $5 for four or five. Passengers proceed to their gate and avoid congestion in the main terminal. Tips are not accepted. The first of four baggage check-in sites opened Monday at the garage.
