Air Berlin is to step up its competition in the UK marketplace by creating its third European hub at London Stansted, adding domestic UK routes to its schedule and expanding the number of international flights. First routes from Stansted will be Glasgow and Manchester.
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Northwest Airlines announced that Anna Schaefer has been named vice president
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GoJet Airlines, a new carrier based in St. Louis, Missouri, has taken delivery of three of six Bombardier CRJ700 regional jets under a lease agreement with General Electric Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS).
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Northwest Airlines announced a systemwide October 2005 load factor of 82.9%, 2.6 points above October 2004. Northwest flew 5.9 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) and 7.1 billion available seat miles (ASMs) in October 2005, a traffic decrease of 4.0% and a capacity decrease of 6.9% versus October 2004.
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American Airlines reported an October load factor of 77.1% (74.9% in 2004). Traffic grew by 1.5% year over year, on a 1.5% reduction in capacity. The airline reported 10,873 million RPM (10,717 in 2004). International traffic increased by 4.4% relative to last year, on a capacity increase of 4.7%. Domestic traffic was essentially flat compared
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American Eagle Airlines reported systemwide traffic for October increased 21.2% from October 2004, on a capacity increase of 16.3%. System load factor was 72.5% (69.6% in 2004). The airline reported 721 million RPM (595 in 2004). American Eagle boarded 1.7 million passengers in October, up 9.8% from October 2004.
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Airbus’ third A380, MSN 2, performed its first flight on 3rd November. The flight lasted three hours and took the aircraft over Southern France. During the flight, all systems were checked out and the whole flight envelope was cleared. The tests performed were similar to those of a serial production plane. The aircraft joins the
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British Airways announced a pre-tax profit of
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Ryanair confirmed that many of its Dublin pilots will exercise share options which at the current share price have a profit of approx. EUR50,000 each. These share options (which formed part of the 5 year pay, benefit and share option scheme collectively negotiated directly between the Dublin pilots and the airline in November 2000) fall
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Ameco Beijing will perform D check and flynet installation on a Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft (DABVX). It
