Airline News - Africa / Middle East.Oct 2, 2006 Airlines in the Middle East recorded the strongest RPK RPK Republican Party of Kentucky RpK Rocketplane Kistler (Oklahoma City, OK aerospace company) RPK Revenue Passenger Kilometre RPK Random Player Killing (gaming) growth, up 11.9%, but this was more than matched by a 13.7% rise in ASKs and load factor slipped to 78.7%, below the industry average. African airlines' traffic was up 8.9% against a 7.3% gain in seat capacity and load factor was 72.4%. North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. carriers saw international RPKs rise 5.8% against a 5.9% boost in capacity, but still led all regions with a load factor of 82.7%. Airlines in the Asia/Pacific experienced a 5.3% increase in traffic while ASKs climbed just 2.6% and load factor reached 77.5%. Europe RPKs rose 3.5%, but with ASKs up 4.3%, load factor fell to 80.4%. Airlines in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. saw international traffic plunge 8.5%--in large part owing to the radical downsizing (1) Converting mainframe and mini-based systems to client/server LANs. (2) To reduce equipment and associated costs by switching to a less-expensive system. (jargon) downsizing at Varig--with capacity down 9% and load factor at 76.9%. Sep 29, 2006 Emirates Emirates will launch daily 777-300ER service between New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of JFK and Dubai via Hamburg Oct. 29. The carrier enjoys fifth freedom rights between the US and Germany and is offering an introductory New York-Hamburg roundtrip fare of $425. Also, from Oct. 1 Emirates will substitute a 777-300ER for an A340-500 on one of its two daily nonstop services between New York and Dubai. Following introduction of the third daily service, it will be offering nearly 1,000 seats per day between NY and the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. with the start of the winter season, noted Senior VP Commercial Operations, the Americas Nigel Page. Sep 25, 2006 Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopian Airlines added a fourth weekly Addis Ababa-Washington Dulles frequency. Sep 25, 2006 Etihad Airways Etihad Airways appointed Josephine Boulus country manager for the US. Sep 25, 2006 Qatar Airways Qatar Airways will launch four-times-weekly service from Doha to Dar Es Salaam Dar es Salaam Largest city (pop., 1995 est.: 1,747,000), capital, and major port of Tanzania. Founded in 1862 by the sultan of Zanzibar, it came under the German East Africa Co. in 1887. Jan. 9, bringing its network to 71 destinations. The route will be operated with an A319 in a two-class configuration of eight seats in business class and 102 in economy. Sep 29, 2006 Royal Jordanian Royal Jordanian will move its Bangkok operations and airport services from Don Muang to Suvarnabhumi tomorrow. The carrier operates five weekly nonstop flights to the Thai capital using A340s. Sep 27, 2006 Royal Jordanian Royal Jordanian started twice-weekly Amman-Moscow Domodedovo service using two-class A320s. It is the 19th international carrier operating regular flights to DME (Distributed Management Environment) A network monitoring and control protocol defined by the Open Software Foundation (now The Open Group). DME was not widely used. DME - Distributed Management Environment . Sep 25, 2006 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Sep 25, 2006 |
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