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China Southern set to inaugurate cross-strait operations Friday

Thursday July 3, 2008

Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines is expected to be the first Chinese mainland carrier to operate a charter flight across the Taiwan Strait Friday, with Taiwan's China Airlines following suit later that day from Taipei to Shanghai. [more]

Thursday July 3, 2008

SkyEurope Airlines this week opened its fourth base at Kosice. It has invested €30 million in the facility, which it is calling a "satellite hub" and where it expects to handle 340,000 passengers this year, up 80% from 2007. It is offering 11 daily flights from the airport to Split, Bratislava, Prague, London Stansted, Dublin and Manchester.

BA prefers new Heathrow runway to BAA breakup

Wednesday July 2, 2008

British Airways is retreating from its position that BAA should be broken up (ATWOnline, March 12), according to a letter the carrier sent to the UK Competition Commission that was obtained by The Independent. BA wrote that it now is "concerned that ownership separation may prove counterproductive in so far as it diverts BAA management attention away from expansion of runway capacity or creates uncertainty around the status of government policy, thereby jeopardizing construction of a new runway at Heathrow. Reform of the regulatory regime may therefore be preferable in remedying BAA's lack of investment."

Tuesday July 1, 2008

Sterling Airlines no longer will staff bases permanently at Aalborg, Billund, Malmo and Gothenburg Landvetter from Jan. 1 and will focus on its operations at Copenhagen, Stockholm Arlanda and Oslo Gardermoen, the LCC announced yesterday. "Both the management and the unions of Sterling Airlines are working together to avoid dismissals," it said, claiming the decision was made "in order to concentrate its efforts and make the company more efficient." Affected employees who do not accept a voluntary redundancy package will be relocated to the three remaining bases, although Sterling will continue to fly to the airports. "This demands that we gather our operations around the three central bases while allocating more resources to updating our fleet and optimizing our routes," President and CEO Reza Taleghani said. "We are designing the [voluntary redundancy] plans to be attractive enough to attract the necessary number of employees."

Tuesday July 1, 2008

Alaska Airlines said it now is using diesel-powered preconditioned air units in conjunction with ground-based electricity in place of onboard APUs at 19 gates at its Seattle hub. The ground units burn approximately 10 times less fuel than APUs and are expected to conserve more than 1.1 million gal. per year, saving $2.6 million at current prices. The carrier expects to have 14 more units in place at Anchorage, Portland, Ore., and San Francisco later this year. It also said it completed the retrofit of all eligible 737s with blended winglets in early June.

US, Brazil reach expanded air services agreement

Friday June 27, 2008

The US and Brazil yesterday announced an enhanced air services agreement that will provide for a nearly 50% increase in passenger flights between the countries while eliminating restrictions on the number of airlines that can fly the routes. [more]

Friday June 27, 2008

L-3 Security & Detection Systems said its VIS-HR high-resolution automated explosives detection system won STAC approval for compliance with European Union Commission Regulation No. 1448/2006--Standard 2.

EC passes Single European Sky legislation

Thursday June 26, 2008

The European Commission yesterday adopted the second package of legislation for a Single European Sky, which it said would eliminate up to 16 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions (a 10% improvement per flight) and save airlines approximately €2.4 million per year. [more]

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