Delta is offering special Saturday fares from its Cincinnati hub to 69 points in the East and Midwest, discounting some tickets as much as 83%, based on the unrestricted coach fare. Delta said fares are as low as $78 roundtrip to Columbus, Dayton, Fort Wayne, Huntington/Ashland, Indianapolis, Lexington and Louisville. The fares are good for travel on a Saturday, with a return flight the same day or any Saturday up to 30 days from departure. The fares are available for both Delta and Comair flights.
Air Canada will launch daily nonstop service between Montreal and Atlanta on July 4. The airline already operates four daily flights between Toronto and Atlanta. Southbound flights from Montreal will be operated with DC-9s, while northbound flights will be flown with A320s. The Montreal-Atlanta service will be the fifth new route launched by Air Canada since Canada and the U.S. signed an open skies agreement in February.
Continental is raising BusinessFirst fares to Europe, effective June 12, except in the two markets it serves jointly with Alitalia - Newark- Rome/Milan. Fares for service from Newark to London and Manchester will rise 3% eastbound and 20% westbound. Fares from Newark to Paris, Frankfurt, and Madrid, eastbound only, will be 3% higher. Houston-London fares will go up 18% in both directions, Chicago-London 3% eastbound only, and Los Angeles-Paris 5% eastbound only. Continental said only that the increases are "reflecting the strong demand" for BusinessFirst.
UND Aerospace at the University of North Dakota said it is changing its management structure following a safety audit by the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), and has named a safety director who will report directly to the dean of the aviation college. UND said it contracted for the audit before the DOT/FAA aviation safety summit in January at which all air carriers were advised to undergo internal safety audits. FSF reviewed management and organization structure, flight instruction, air service operations, safety programs and maintenance during the 10-day audit.
THY Turkish Airlines' passenger traffic increased 15.7% during the first four months of this year to 2.69 billion revenue passenger kilometers. The number of passengers boarded rose 22.2% to just under 2.3 million, and the airline's cargo traffic was up 11.9% to 74.4 million freight ton kilometers.
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Air Canada is now online through the Internet and CompuServe. Users can access information on Air Canada's Aeroplan program, complete schedule and new services and alliances. "As we serve more new destinations and offer more new services around the world, we are looking for new and effective ways of informing and entertaining our customers - and potential customers," said Chairman, President and Chief Executive Hollis Harris.
DOT's Office of International Transportation and Trade has scheduled a public meeting June 20 to discuss concerns and issues regarding transportation in the Western Hemisphere. Comments from the meeting will be used in developing the agenda for a conference of transport ministers from the region. The proposed Western Hemisphere Transportation Initiative stems from a meeting in October of 12 transport ministers and from the Summit of the Americas in December.
Emirates will sponsor the 1995 Miss World Pageant, scheduled Nov. 20 in Sun City, South Africa. The sponsorship initiative coincides with the scheduled June 3 launch of Emirates' twice-weekly service from Dubai to Johannesburg and the Comoro Islands. It also supports the marketing cooperation agreement signed with Sun International.
Europe is opposing a U.S. bid to ban the use of gambling devices on U.S. and non-U.S. aircraft, even in international airspace. The measure would violate a central principle of international aviation that one state cannot unilaterally impose its view on another country's aircraft when flights are conducted outside the first state's territory, said a diplomatic note endorsed by 18 European countries and the European Community.
Shuttle America Airlines is seeking a certificate to start up passenger service within the U.S. The proposed carrier is planning to operate between Long Beach, Calif., and Chicago Midway Airport, using a leased MD- 80 aircraft. Shuttle maintains that a significant niche in both the business and leisure travel markets has developed at Long Beach since it was recently abandoned by major air carriers.
SAS has warned its pilots it will implement a lockout for three days this month if no agreement is reached by June 9 on wage levels, and will cancel all flights on those days. SAS pilots held a strike Friday, as planned, after failing to reach an agreement with management in negotiations with the Danish mediation board that lasted through Thursday night. Because of strike notices given by the SAS pilots' unions for June 9, 12 and 14, SAS said it will proceed with the lock out if no pact is in place on June 9.
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association appointed Rick Hodges director- legislative communications. General Aviation Manufacturers Association elected Edward Bolen senior VP/general counsel.
DHL Worldwide Express promoted George Gonzalez to director-operations and transportation for the Latin America and Caribbean region. Swissair appointed Werner Rohrer general manager-marketing for North America and Dieter Luethi general manager-Western region of the U.S.
Loral Federal Systems said its new ground control software is ready for navigation missions for Global Positioning System satellites. Loral said tests proved the ground control system can modify software onboard GPS Block IIR satellites' reprogrammable processors, a new feature of the next- generation spacecraft. This capability will enable controllers to program the spacecraft computers from the ground and add new mission features when in orbit. The company said it also established a telemetry link for evaluating the spacecraft navigation positioning data.
New Entrant carrier Presidential Air is seeking additional time to complete its FAA certification process. The carrier notes that since getting its certificate last May to begin interstate and foreign charter flights (DAILY, May 18, 1994), several significant changes have taken place. The airline has replaced several key staff members and revised its original marketing plan, which now uses Airbus A300-B4 aircraft instead of Boeing 737s. Presidential said it scrapped plans to use 737s when it found it "financially advantageous" to lease the A300s.
The turnover last week by the Navy to the FAA's Eastern Region of airspace over Bermuda will provide more efficient flight management, according to John Walker, air traffic division manager. And along with a reduction in vertical separation from 2,000 to 1,000 feet beginning in early 1997, even more airspace will be made available, Walker said. The West Atlantic is experiencing some of the largest traffic growth, as Europeans "have discovered" the Caribbean and Florida, "so there is tremendous demand," Walker said.
FAA Administrator David Hinson and other top ranking agency executives will tout GPS at a two-hour seminar at the Paris Air Show. FAA also will have a fiber optic display on satellite navigation, data link and free flight.
- In Federal Register dated May 26...Superseded an airworthiness directive on Hartzell Propeller HC-92 series propellers concerning inspection of the blade shank area...Issued an AD on Bell 206 series helicopters requiring replacement of certain crosstube assemblies...Proposed to supersede an AD on Robinson R22 helicopters concerning checks for slippage of the tail rotor drive.
Civil Aviation Administration of China, CFM International and GE Aircraft Engines broke ground Friday for a new aircraft engine maintenance training center in Chengdu, China. The new school will open in 1997 and will support operation of CFM56, CF6 and GE90 engines. Training is to begin soon in temporary facilities, with CFM and GE supplying engines and providing instructional staff.
Officials from U.S. and Brazil are slated to conduct three days of talks in Washington, beginning tomorrow, covering the full range of aviation activities between the two countries, said a DOT spokesman. Officials will be looking toward liberalizing the existing agreement by increasing carrier designations, adding scheduled and charter frequencies, liberalizing passenger and charter cargo operations, and code-sharing provisions.
FAA has renewed a prohibition against overflights or flights by any airline serving the U.S. from Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). It further prohibited any flights to or from the U.S. by an aircraft serving an intermediate point on the way to Serbia and Montenegro. FAA cited national security reasons for its action. A previous prohibition expired Aug. 26, 1994.
Kiwi International's traffic, boosted by a two-for-one promotion, hit a record in April and more than doubled in May 1995 from May 1994. Kiwi carried 141,000 passengers in April and 149,573 passengers in May. The airline says it has seen a tremendous response to its new Bermuda service, launched about 10 days ago.
