The Airlines Reporting Corp.'s Joint Advisory Board-Agent Reporting Agreement decided last week to recommend adoption of travel agency on-site branch locations - in the same building as a corporation, for example - as a permanent feature of its operations. During its semi-annual meeting, the JAB-ARA endorsed a plan to work with current customer premises locations to convert to the new on-site category.
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport named Aviation Director George Spofford to head the airport expansion project and appointed Deputy Aviation Director Patricia Walker director of airports.
Mexicana has applied for authority to operate combination service between Morelia, Mexico, and San Jose, Calif. The carrier wants to operate five- times-weekly roundtrip service on the route using A320 aircraft, starting today.
Denver officials planning the new Denver Airport should have involved airlines earlier in the planning process and should have foreseen a need for a system to back up the sophisticated baggage handling prototype developed for the airport, the General Accounting Office told Congress last week at a House Transportation and Infrastructure aviation subcommittee hearing to investigate "Denver International Airport, What Went Wrong." GAO told the panel its investigation of DIA's development, cost and airfield construction turned up several "lessons learned" for future constru
U.S. Major and National Carriers Maintenance Expenses Fourth Quarter 1994 % Of Total Operating Systemwide Expenses America West $ 28,415,556 9.06 American 316,330,000 8.52 Continental 166,487,000 13.49
Delta Shuttle is offering a 50% discount on fares for some of its service during the Memorial Day weekend. A $72 one-way fare, down from $147, is available for originating and return flights between 12:01 a.m. May 27 and 2:30 p.m. May 29. There is no advance purchase or minimum stay requirement, and reservations are not necessary. The fare does not include a $3 passenger facility charge.
Delta has reached an agreement with Swissair to expand their code-sharing service beyond Zurich to Tel Aviv, beginning Sept. 3, when Delta discontinues its daily service to Tel Aviv via Paris. The accord is subject to government approval. Delta would sell seats on Swissair's daily flights with A310 aircraft. The U.S. carrier operates code-sharing flights to Zurich from Cincinnati, and Swissair flies them from Atlanta, Frankfurt, Munich, New York and Stuttgart.
The new U.S.-Peru agreement, which increases service opportunities between the two countries, has prompted DOT to extend until further notice the schedule for its Miami-Lima Service Proceeding to select a carrier for new scheduled combination service. The department had consolidated applications of United and Carnival Air Lines and called on carriers to submit responses by April 28, direct exhibits by May 12, rebuttal exhibits by May 26 and briefs by June 9 (DAILY, April 17).
S&P Friday revised its outlook on McDonnell Douglas Corp. and McDonnell Douglas Finance Corp. to positive from stable because of increasing profitability, cash flow generation and liquidity, and "significant" improvement in the contract performance of the C-17 military transport. The likelihood of additional C-17 orders later this year provides McDonnell Douglas with upside revenue potential, the rating agency said.
Aero Club of Washington will present its 1995 Trophy for Aviation Excellence to Edward Stimpson, president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, at a luncheon tomorrow at 12 noon at the Capitol Hilton, 16th and K Streets, N.W., Washington. For further information, call 703-327-7082.
Travel professionals using the new Denver Airport this week were impressed with its beauty but highly skeptical about its capacity - parking is full, trains are packed and exit toll plazas create backups. Reacting to reports that the terminal is sinking, some in the industry have dubbed it "the leaning tower of Pena."
House and Senate budget committees last week approved separate budget resolutions, keeping in place all the assumptions included in the proposals offered by chairmen John Kasich (R-Ohio) and Pete Domenici (R-N.M.). The House and Senate are expected to consider their respective budget resolutions this week. Adoption of a final budget resolution will allow Congress to move forward on appropriations and reconciliation bills that reflect the resolution's overall spending and revenue mandates.
Air Canada is mulling the consolidation of most administrative functions of its now wholly owned regional subsidiaries. The carrier recently completed the acquisition of Air BC - the last affiliate not already completely owned - and is spinning off Northwest Territorial Air to employees and an Inuit investor group. Other owned regionals are Air Nova in the Maritimes, Air Alliance in Quebec and Air Ontario. Areas of consolidation being considered include training, maintenance, accounting, purchasing and scheduling.
Federal Express is seeking authority to expand its scheduled all-cargo service between the U.S. and Canada by adding a traffic stop in Great Falls, Mont., to its Memphis-Calgary/Edmonton route, operated with 727- 200s. (Docket 50339)
Bay Air Cargo is seeking authority to operate charter all-cargo service between Brazil and the U.S. The new Brazil cargo carrier proposes to begin service using a 707-321-C, leased from Florida West, and expects service to include three weekly roundtrip charters between Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro and Miami. (Docket 50338)
United Express affiliate Great Lakes Aviation posted a net loss of $1.725 million for the quarter ended March 31 on total revenues of $15.7 million. By comparison, the carrier earned a $321,000 net profit for the quarter ended March 31, 1994, on total revenues of nearly $16 million.
DHL Airways and Polar Air Cargo are contending for the single open designation for scheduled all-cargo services beyond the U.K. with local fifth-freedom traffic rights. The U.S.-U.K. Air Services Agreement permits three U.S. carriers to operate the service. Federal Express, United Parcel Service and Evergreen International are designated, but Evergreen is not using the rights. DOT initiated a U.K. Fifth-Freedom All-Cargo Proceeding to select a replacement and received applications from Atlas Air Cargo, Polar and DHL. Atlas has dropped out.
An FAA/industry plan to take advantage of unused airport capacity by permitting aircraft to hold up to 15 minutes at their destination, in use at six airports, is working so well that it will be expanded to at least 25 airports, Donald Eddy, FAA assistant program manager of operations for the air traffic control system command center, said yesterday. The program departs from the policy of holding aircraft on the ground, waiting for departure, until a slot opens at the destination. What is called the "managed arrival reservoir program" began Jan.
India's national carrier, Air-India, has shortlisted eight banks for providing it with a bridge loan of US$113.5 million for aircraft acquisition, senior AI officials said. The state-owned SBI Caps is the only Indian bank. The rest are Chase Manhattan, Kredit Bank, Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Barclays Bank, Societe Generale and Standard Chartered Bank. In all, 27 banks and financial institutions worldwide submitted loan tenders. The most attractive bid is from Chase Manhattan, followed by Kredit Bank and Citibank, officials said.
Northwest has asked DOT for the rights to begin scheduled combination between Boston and Delhi/Bombay, India, and to continue services to two Mexican and two Japanese destinations. The carrier is proposing daily DC- 10-30 roundtrips on both services to India, to be operated via Amsterdam. It also has applied for renewal of its authority to operate combination services between Detroit and Cozumel, Mexico, and between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Acapulco, Mexico.
The proposed budget resolution pushed by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) assumes collection of fees for airlines' use of slots at the four high-density airports, a proposal that would cost airlines $500 million a year (DAILY, May 3). But key leaders on the Senate Commerce Committee, which would have to implement the assumption, told Domenici this week that the committee will "vehemently oppose" imposition of slot fees or other measures that increase airline costs.
SAS Group yesterday reported first quarter pre-tax earnings of 78 million Swedish krona (US$10.9 million) despite an unrealized, exchange rate- related charge of 383 million krona (US$53.4 million), and an operating profit of 529 million krona (US$73.7 million). In the first quarter last year, SAS Group suffered a pre-tax loss of 101 million krona despite a positive exchange rate effect, and an operating loss of 101 million krona.
AlliedSignal said its new TFE731-40 engine was selected to power the new Dassault Falcon 50EX business jet, a 12-passenger aircraft with a range of more than 3,000 nautical miles at 525 miles per hour.
Collins says it is advancing toward a goal of delivering to FAA in December 1999 a TCAS IV (traffic alert and collision avoidance system) prototype that will give pilots advisories on horizontal as well as vertical maneuvers. A limited installation program is scheduled to begin in December, 2000. TCAS IV will take advantage of differential Global Positioning System technology to determine exact aircraft positions. For passive surveillance, it will incorporate automatic dependent surveillance in addition to existing Mode C and Mode S capabilities.
