Herbert Lanese was named president of McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, effective immediately. Lanese, who had been deputy president, succeeds John Capellupo, who will retire at the end of March from MDC's largest operating unit.
Continental is challenging American over unused U.S.-Brazil authority, requesting 14 weekly frequencies to operate scheduled Newark-Sao Paulo and Newark-Rio de Janeiro combination service. It proposes daily DC-10-30 service on both routes, beginning June 6. American applied earlier for seven frequencies to operate daily New York-Rio de Janeiro nonstops with 162-seat 767-200ERs (DAILY, Feb. 12).
Emery Worldwide said yesterday it has begun daily DC-8 direct air freight flights from its Brussels hub to its Dayton sortation center, "providing the only Next-Business-Day delivery service for heavyweight express cargo shipments from Europe to all major markets throughout the U.S." David Beatson, president, said the new service supplements the "substantial heavyweight cargo capacity Emery provides to customers on scheduled airline carriers between North America and Europe. Emery is currently Europe's ninth largest purchaser of scheduled airline capacity."
New Aircraft Orders And Options November 1995 Last 12 Months Firm Orders Options Orders Options Carrier # Type # Type Engines Del Dates # Type # Type BWIA Intl 2 A321-100 - V2500 Jun96-Oct96 2 A340-300 - 5 EMB145 5 EMB145 Cathay
New Jet Aircraft Deliveries November 1995 Last 12 Months Carrier # Type Engines Delivery Air Canada 1 767-300ER PW4060 1 Air Littoral 1 Fokker 70 Tay620-15 4 Air Macau 1 A321-100 V2500-A1 0
Delta's success in reducing its unit costs to 8.6 cents in the December quarter from 9.6 cents in March 1994 has drawn a lot of attention, but little has been said about the larger success of Alaska Airlines.In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Alaska said it cut its unit costs 20% between 1992 and 1994 and a further 7% between 1994 and 1995.
USAir this week established a site on the Internet's World Wide Web. Its home page offers flight schedules, fare information, company facts, history, news releases and destination route maps at http://www.usair.com.
The nation's airlines yesterday joined much of the rest of the aviation industry in opposing new work rules proposed by FAA for commercial pilots.The Air Transport Association, supported by two widely known human factors experts whose work was cited by FAA when it proposed the rules, went a step further than other industry groups and asked for dismissal of the entire proceeding.
Sky Trek International Airlines has applied for a certificate authorizing it to operate charter service. The proposed carrier plans to begin operating passenger charters in the near future using 165-seat 727-200s.
Horizon Air said it will switch to larger aircraft in some markets this spring and add frequencies in others. Starting April 7, the carrier will add a fourth daily flight from Seattle to Calgary, using a 37-passenger de Havilland Dash 8. It will add a ninth daily flight between Seattle and Bellingham, also using a Dash 8. Some service between Seattle and Port Angeles will be upgraded to a 31-seat Dornier 328 from an 18-seat Metroliner.
Sabena's board of directors yesterday replaced resigning Chairman, President and Chief Executive Pierre Godfroid with a three-person team (DAILY, Feb. 27). Jan Juyghebaert was named chairman and Phillipe Suinen vice chairman, on an interim basis, and Paul Reutlinger, Swissair's executive VP-marketing and ground services, became chief executive. Swissair owns a controlling interest in Sabena. Two other top Sabena officials - Gery Daeninck, chief operating officer, and Raymond Aelvoet, executive VP-flight operations - also resigned.
USAir yesterday cut fares to Florida from U.S. destinations by as much as 40%. The discounts apply to 21-day advance-purchase tickets, which require roundtrip travel and are non-refundable.
BFGoodrich said it has called for redemption of its 7% subordinated debentures due Aug. 15, 1997. Redemption price is $1,000 plus accrued interest to the redemption date of March 25, 1996, of $7.78 per $1,000 principal amount of the debenture. There are $9.06 million of the debentures outstanding.
UPS Properties will begin construction this spring on a 250,000-square-foot speculative warehouse and distribution facility on 83 acres of its land in Essex, Md., the company said yesterday. The facility will be ready for occupancy in September. UPS said the facility will be the first of many speculative warehouses planned for the site in the next few years. UPS Properties said it plans to develop nearly 1.5 million square feet of distribution/warehouse space on the site by 2003. Based in Atlanta, UPS Properties is a wholly owned subsidiary of UPS.
The fiscal 1997 DOT appropriations process opened yesterday with airports pushing for more money, airlines advocating air traffic control projects, general aviation opposing user fees and FAA unions seeking statutory protections for employees' right to organize.
Air France will increase its Washington Dulles-Paris service from seven weekly flights to 10 as part of its summer schedule, June 14-Oct. 20. The added service, a second daily 747 flight on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, will be non-smoking.
TWA plans to begin operating its new service between St. Louis and Toronto May 1 if not earlier, said an airline spokesman. Using MD-80 aircraft, the carrier will operate twice-daily nonstop roundtrip service on the route, with single-plane service to New Orleans and San Diego. DOT awarded the service to TWA last week, granting it immediate, temporary authority to start the flights pending the final decision of the U.S.-Toronto second-year service proceeding (DAILY, Feb. 26).
Agreement has been reached with some of the parties on sharing the estimated $1.4 million cost of recovering the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Turkish-owned 757 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean Feb. 6 shortly after takeoff from the Dominican Republic, National Transportation Safety Board Jim Hall said yesterday.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) will begin operating one weekly 747 flight between Tokyo and Vienna starting April 1. The service will replace three of five weekly roundtrips partner Austrian Airlines operates with an A340 aircraft. Austrian will continue to operate the other two frequencies. ANA also said it will add a frequency in the Tokyo-Paris market, boosting its service to seven flights per week from the current six. ANA will fly a 747-200 between Tokyo and Vienna, continuing on to Paris but without taking on passengers. It does not have local traffic rights.
Boeing 747 Systemwide Aircraft Utilization Per Day Third Quarter 1995 B747-100 Northwest TWA Number of Aircraft Operated 23 9 Total Fleet Operations Departures 37 16 Block Hours 283 122
Denver International Airport (DIA) recorded an 80% reduction in delays in its first year of operations, compared with Stapleton Airport, which it replaced, according to Fred Isaac, administrator of FAA's Northwest Mountain Region. The true anniversary is Feb. 28, and FAA statistics are for the first 11 months, Feb. 28, 1995-Jan. 30, 1996. Delays per 1,000 operations at the new airport are only one-fifth those at Stapleton, Isaac said.
