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AirlinesWESTJET: FEBRUARY 2001 RESULTS
CALGARY, ALBERTA, Press Release: "WestJet Airlines (TSE:WJA. - news) announced today that its Revenue Passenger Miles (RPMs) grew 53.1% to 125,714,411 in February 2001 from 82,089,927 in February 2000.... more
AirlinesBRITISH AIRWAYS TAKES OVER BRITISH REGIONAL AIR LINES AND MANX AIRLINES
LONDON, The GPB78 million deal will boost regional flying. "The purchase is a further step in British Airways' previously announced plans to co-ordinate better its various short-haul businesses and reduce... more
AirlinesSAS EXPANSION COMMENCES WITH NEW SUMMER TRAFFIC PROGRAM
STOCHKOLM, The major expansion of the SAS aircraft fleet and traffic program commences with the launch of the summer 2001 traffic program and the opening of a new transatlantic route, Copenhagen-Washington... more
AirlinesCATHAY PACIFIC DOUBLES PROFITS
HONG KONG, Cathay Pacific Airways' net profit more than doubled last year, rising to $641. The record result was scored by cost-cutting measures, the strengthening economies across the region, the resulting... more
AirlinesALSO SUTER RESIGNS FROM SAIRGROUP
SWITZERLAND, Moritz Suter resigned his charge, taken in January, of general manager of air sector of SAirGroup, keeping the task of director of Crossair regional airline. Before Suter, also the president... more
AirlinesDE PALACIO: NO COMMENT ON ALITALIA RICAPITALIZATION
BRUXELLES, BELGIUM, European member of Transport board Loyola De Palacio denied to answer about ricapitalization of Alitalia of 1997, worth 1300 USDm, which was blocked by European Commission; the EC... more
AirlinesNEW PARTNERSHIP KENYA AIRWAYS-AIR TANZANIA FORM
NEW YORK, According to an international agency a new memorandum of understanding has been signed between Kenya Airways and Air Tanzania that will enable the carriers to offer double daily passenger flights... more
AirlinesAIR ALLIANCE: 2 NEW SERVICES
TORONTO, Air Alliance announced that its subsidiary Air Georgian Limited will launch 2 daily non-stop air services between Manchester and Montreal, and Albany and Montreal commencing Monday, April 9, 2001.... more
AirlinesFT: KLM MAKE A NEW CONDITIONED OFFER FOR GO
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, U.S. financial newspaper Finacial Times launched again the news according which Dutch carrier KLM submitted a conditional offer to take over Go, British Airways' low cost subsidiary,... more
AirlinesNEW JETBLUE SERVICES
NEW YORK, Press Release: "JetBlue Airways, New York's hometown, low-fare carrier, today announced new daily nonstop service to Denver, CO, and Seattle, WA, from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New... more
AirlinesTHAI AIRWAYS REWARDS INFORMATIONS ABOUT POLITICAL BOMBER
THAILAND, Thai Airways said it is to offer a cash reward of $22.500 for information leading to the arrest of suspects who bombed the jet scheduled to carry Thai PM last saturday. The carrier's president... more
AirlinesDEMONSTRATION FLIGHT FROM NEW YORK TO BEIJING OVER THE NORTH POLE
ATLANTA, Press release: "Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL - news) today announced it conducted a demonstration flight on a polar routing from New York (JFK) to Beijing, China, March 3-4, 2001, using a Boeing... more
AirlinesEASYJET JAN PASSENGER TRAFFIC RISES
LONDON, The airline's number of passenger in February rose to 531,235 in February, from 413,469 in the same month a year before. Load factor was steady at 82,3%. Internet sales, as a proportion of total... more
AirlinesAEA JAN TRAFFIC GOES UP
BRUSSELS, The Association of European Airlines reported that members' passenger traffic rose 6,%% in January. The overall load factor rose 2.2%. International freight traffic increased by 3.1%. Jugoslav... more
AirlinesAIR CANADA FORCED TO CANCEL ALL FLIGHTS FOR NEW YORK, FILADELFIA ANDI BOSTON.
NEW YORK ,USA, Extreme bad weather conditions on northeastern U.S. forced Air Canada to cancel all flights from eastern Canada to New York, Philadelphia and Boston. These thunderstorms, affected heavily... more
AirlinesJOINT VENTURE TRANSAERO-CHINA AIRLINES
MOSCOW, Transaero chairman Alexander Pleshakov said that private Russian airline and China Airlines will begin jointly operating a Moscow-Taipei route in October: flights will be performed once a week... more
AirlinesINDIAN WOMAN GIVES BIRTH ON AN AEROFLOT FLIGHT
MOSCOW, Gurmeet Kaur, an indian woman has given birth to a daughter on an Aeroflot flight from Singapore to Moscow. The plane was diverted to Calcutta for an emergency landing to take the baby to h... more
AirlinesNORTHWEST AIRLINES REPORTS FEBRUARY TRAFFIC
MINNEAPOLIS, USA, "Northwest Airlines today announced a systemwide passenger load factor (LF) of 70.8 percent in February 2001, a decrease of 0.3 points from last year's February load factor. Northwest... more
AirlinesSINGAPORE AIRLINES JAN LOAD FACTOR GOES UP
SINGAPORE, Singapore Airlines today said January overall load factor was up to 0,1%, compared with the same period of 2000, at 67,7%. more
AirlinesUS AIRWAYS: FEBRUARYTRAFFIC
ARLINGTON, "US Airways reported today that revenue passenger miles for February 2001 were up 12.6 percent compared to February 2000, while available seat miles for the month increased 9.7 percent. The... more
AirlinesSOUTHWEST AIRLINES: NEW NON STOP SERVICES
DALLAS, Press Release : "Southwest Airlines Adds New Nonstop Service DALLAS, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV - news) today announced it will add new daily nonstop and direct flights... more
AirlinesAMERICA WEST: FEBRUARY TRAFFIC
PHOENIX, "America West Airlines (NYSE: AWA - news) today reported record traffic statistics for the month of February 2001. Revenue passenger miles (RPM) for February were a record 1.5 billion, up... more
AirlinesAIR 2000 TO ACQUIRE MORE BOEING 757
BERLIN, "Boeing today confirmed European leisure airline Air 2000 intends to acquire up to eight Boeing 757-200 jetliners. Delivery of the airplanes is to begin in spring 2003 and continue through 2005.... more
AirlinesVANGUARD AIRLINES: FEBRUARY 2001 TRAFFIC
KANSAS CITY, Press Release: "Vanguard Airlines, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNGD - news) reported traffic for the month of February 2001 of 81.6 million revenue passenger miles (RPMs). Capacity was 125.6 million available... more
AirlinesNEW CHATTANOOGA NONSTOP SERVICE TO PITTSBURGH BY US AIRWAYS EXPRESS
CHATTANOOGA, USA, "Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport officials today announced that starting, May 6, 2001, USAIRWAYS/USAIRWAYS EXPRESS will begin twice daily nonstop service between Chattanooga Metropolitan... more
AirlinesNORTHWEST AIRLINK TO LAUNCH NEW SERVICE TO MONTERREY, MEXICO
MINNEAPOLIS, USA, "Northwest Airlines (Nasdaq: NWAC) announced today that they will celebrate being the only carrier to offer non-stop service from Memphis, Tenn. to Monterrey, Mexico, by offering low... more
AirlinesAIR FRANCE AND GANDALF TOGETHER TO RAISE FLIGHT NUMBERS IN ITALY
PARIS, FRANCE, Sharing for the first time some domestic flight with Italian carrier Gandalf,Air France proceed in its development, placing its services also on Parma, Trapani and Pantelleria, raising the... more
AirlinesBULGARIAN GOVERNMENT STRIPS BALKAN AIRLINES OF ITS AVIATION LICENSE
SOFIA, Bulgarian government yesterday revoked Balkan Airlines aviation license, three weeks after the carrier grounded all its aircraft due to the dispute between the Zeevi Holdings Group, the Israeli... more
AirlinesPILOT PROTEST, HARD TIMES FOR IBERIA
MADRID, According to the biggest financial news-papers, Spanish state-controlled airline Iberia due to be floated on the stock market next month, said around 60 percent of its flights were delayed on Monday... more
AirlinesBAD WEATHER: AIR CANADA ADVISORY FOR FLIGHTS CANCELLED TO NORTHEASTERN U.S.
MONTREAL, Press release: "Air Canada advises that due to continuing severe winter storm conditions in the northeastern U.S., all Air Canada flights to New York (La Guardia, Kennedy and Newark), Philadelphia... more
AirlinesAIR CANADA TO LAUNCH NEW ROUTE OTTAWA-SAN JOSE
TORONTO, The first daily non-stop service between Ottawa (Silicon Valley North) and San Jose California (Silicon Valley South) was inaugurated yesterday. Air Canada created this convenient to satisfy the... more
AirlinesLUFTHANSA TO BOOST INTERNET AND MOBILE-PHONE BOOKING SERVICE
FRANKFURT, The german carrier yesterday said it will boost internet and mobile phones booking service aiming at selling a quarter of tickets that way by 2005. Lufthansa took 250.000 internet bookings last... more
AirlinesPHILIPPINE AIRLINES TO RESUME SERVICE TO CANADA
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, Philippine Airlines said today it is to resume flights to Canada on April 3 after a three-year period of financial straits. The nonstop Manila-Vancouver service will operate three... more
AirlinesAIR FRANCE TO BOOST FLIGHTS BY NEXT SUMMER
PARIS, FRANCE, The french carrier will increase flights by 9,5% in the next summer. Regarding international flights, the decision was also made to take measures against the new high-speed TGV Sud-Est... more
AirlinesNEW PRIVATE AIRLINE TO START OPERATION IN BANGLADESH
BANGLADESH, The new carrier, Ayesha Airways, will start operation from next August. It has already received permission from the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) to operate in the domestic... more
AirlinesAMERICAN EAGLE LAUNCHES NEW SERVICE DETROIT-NEW YORK
FORTH WORTH, USA, The regional affiliate of American AIrlines started today a new route between Detroit Metropolitan Airport and New York's LaGuardia Airport. The service is offered with 37-seat Embraer... more
AirlinesALASKA AIR GROUP: FEBRUARY TRAFFIC
SEATTLE, Press release: "Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE:ALK - news) today reported February passenger traffic for its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. Alaska Airlines' February traffic remained... more
AirlinesSOUTHWEST AIRLINE: FEBRUARY TRAFFIC
DALLAS, Press release: "Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV - news) announced today that the Company flew 3.3 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in February 2001, a 8.5 percent increase from the 3.0... more
AirlinesAMERICAN TO STOP TEL AVIV FLIGHTS IF IT TAKES OVER TWA
JERUSALEM, American Airlines said it will stop TWA's flights to Tel Aviv in case it takes over the airline, Jerusalem Post reported. The decision would seem to be some sort of boycott against the State... more
AirlinesSAS CARGO EMPLOYEES REACH AGREEMENT WITH AIRLINE'S MANAGEMENT
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, SAS Cargo employees have reached an agreement with the SAS management averting that way a potential strike in the next days. SAS Cargo employees now will be able to choose whether... more
AirlinesAIR BERLIN ADDS MORE BOEING 737-800
SEATTLE, "Air Berlin, a German airline that provides scheduled tourism service, has ordered two Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 jetliners and announced plans to order two more, The Boeing Company confirmed... more
AirlinesQANTAS STAFF IN STRIKING
SYDNAY, It is still in course the 24 hours strike of 800 employees of Qantas that are being abstained from the job to protest against the loss of job: the Australian company has recently announced the... more
AirlinesUNITED AIRLINES TO RESUME FLIGHTS TO INDIA
NEW DELHI, United Airlines will resume its route to India after a two-year stop, the Economic Times reported. The service is to be operated from April 1. more
AirlinesFT: KLM TO BUY GO, BUT CARRIER DENIES
LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN, According to U.S. financial newspaper "Financial Times, Dutch carrier Klm is looking to buy the low-cost airline Go, currently controlled by British Airways. But Klm denied the acquisition,... more
AirlinesAIR SICILIA TO BE PUT FOR SALE
CATANIA, Air Sicilia's president, Luigi Crispino, last saturday said in a press conference that the airline is to be put for sale. Crispino underlined that the carrier will be sold to the highest bidder... more
AirlinesATLANTIC COAST AIRLINES TO BUY THREE REGIONALS FROM UAL
DULLES, USA, Atlantic Coast Airlines today said it is to buy three regional carriers, actually owned by US Airways, Allegheny Airlines, Piedmont Airlines and PSA Airlines, from UAL. The deal is subject... more
AirlinesCONTINENTAL AIRLINES REPORTS FEBRUARY LOAD FACTOR
HOUSTON, "Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) today reported a 68.5 percent systemwide load factor in February 2001, 1.1 points below last year's February load factor. In February 2001, Continental flew... more
AirlinesHAINAN AIRLINES TO TAKE OVER XINHUA AIRLINES
SHANGAI, CHINA, Hainan Airlines board agreed to buy a 51% stake in Beijing-based Xinhua Airlines, which will be restructured. Xinhua Airlines, currently operates nearly 50 flight routes and has a fleet... more
AirlinesGEEEK PARLIAMENT AGREE TO OLYMPIC PRIVATIZATION
ATHENS, GREECE, Greek parliament approved with 138 vote against 119 and after a series of meetings, the privatization of flag carrier Olympic Airways, according will of Pasok socilaist party on power.... more
AirlinesGANDALF TO LAUNCH 13 NEW ROUTES BY THE END OF MARCH
MILAN, Following the code-share agreement with Air France, Gandalf is to operate 13 new services and 28 daily flights to France, Spain, Germany, starting from March 25. New daily flights from Pisa to Paris,... more