All Analysis – Page 133
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Global challenges require domestic solutions for space sustainability
Though many nations recognise the need to coordinate to solve collective problems in space, there is little consensus on how to approach them, say international...
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ANALYSIS: Google faces fight on the searches
TripAdvisor and Expedia lead complaints to Europe's competition regulators about fairness of online firm's algorithm, writes Martin Cowen. Google is...
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ANALYSIS: Myanmar opportunities beckon for carriers
Myanmar's airline industry is set to open up after the country's emergence from two decades of diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions. By-elections...
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ANALYSIS: EC green light for BMI acquisition leaves Virgin out in the cold
Virgin Atlantic's hopes of disrupting International Airlines Group's (IAG) purchase of BMI from Lufthansa look increasingly forlorn, following regulatory...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Lessors spurn CSeries overtures
Despite claimed, and significant, performance and operating economic advantages over its narrowbody competitors, top lessors appear unwilling to embrace...
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ANALYSIS: Air France restructure targets seven key areas
Alexandre de Juniac, chairman and chief executive of Air France, has delivered a damning indictment of the carrier's performance, claiming the airline shows...
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ANALYSIS: Uncertainty prompts freighter operators to cut back
It is by no means as bad as the 2008-9 crisis, but there is a nervous mood in the air cargo market at present, with cargo managers downbeat about prospects...
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ANALYSIS: Pinnacle looks to 50-seat jets for bankruptcy exit
Pinnacle Airlines' filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 1 April is no April Fool's joke. Despite the unfortunate timing of the announcement, which...
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ANALYSIS: Mixed 2011 for Asian and European carriers
Market uncertainty and high fuel prices began to take a further grip on Asian and European airlines in the fourth quarter of 2011, leading to a fall in...
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ANALYSIS: Fuel hikes stretch new found US airline profitability
As a group, US airlines entered the year hedging fuel bets, budgeting costs and pricing tickets for the price of a gallon of jet fuel to average about $3.13...
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ANALYSIS: Airbus 'more exposed to trade sanctions' than Boeing
With appeals of the US and European Union complaints against illegal subsidies to Airbus and Boeing now settled,...
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ANALYSIS: Google looking to make big impact on airline distribution
Google spent less than $2bn to buy 79 businesses in 2011, the largest being its $700m cash purchase of flight data specialist ITA Software.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Soaring demand drives Airbus to plug freighter gap
Airbus's decision last week to launch a passenger-to-freighter conversion programme for its A330 twinjet was long overdue. The airframer's own global market...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: US carriers stick to the game plan to turn profits in 2011
Consecutive years of profit give North American airlines hope that financial step-change is sustainable
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AnalysisANALYSIS: European airlines' winter of discontent
Collapse of Malev and Spanair in the space of seven days spells out depth of hard times facing the region's carriers.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Indonesian airlines fly high
Flurry of aircraft orders underlines growth potential for airlines in Southeast Asia's fastest growing market.
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ANALYSIS: Addressing the stagnation in North America's airline industry
Region's airlines have delayed the inevitable and now face increasing fleet investment needs, even in zero-growth scenarios