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Time running out for SAA
The effects of foreign and domestic competition have cast doubts over this year's planned partial privatisation of South African Airways. SAA is suffering from a shortage of long-haul aircraft and is losing market share to British Airways and Virgin Atlantic as a result. And its domestic competitors believe ...
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Blood, sweat and Gore
The aims of the Gore Commission report are laudable but Karen Walker and Dave Knibb ask whether the recommendations are workable. Financially, most US airlines had cause to celebrate by the end of last year, but 1996 had its darker side. A total of 380 people were killed in US ...
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New threat to tired Thai
Beleaguered Thai Airways is facing the prospect of direct competition from a major new Thai competitor as early as next year. The new coalition government is pressing ahead with deregulation and has promised the newcomer access to all of Thai's routes. This comes as a massive blow to ...
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Virgin takes new partner
Virgin Atlantic's decision to switch US partners this August reflects the growing business links between Virgin's chairman Richard Branson and Continental's chairman and main investor, David Bonderman. Bonderman has invested in Virgin's cinema and rail activities and, a source close to Branson says, the two may look at other joint ...
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Cleaning up on yields
The benefits of a yield management system depend upon what competing airlines are doing. Peter P Belobaba and John L Wilson from MIT's Flight Transportation Laboratory explain why. Most airlines have embraced the practices of differential pricing and yield management over the past decade. By offering a range of fare ...
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Broader ties for Alliance?
Mozambique and Zambia have both expressed an interest in joining the multinational African carrier Alliance Air, as it emerges that two of its founder members are preparing to merge their operations. Talks with Mozambique's national carrier LAM have been 'ongoing for more than a year and they are ...
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US to tackle central issue
American's proposed alliance with British Airways and the prospect of US-UK open skies is grabbing all the headlines. But the Dallas-based carrier's alliance building in Latin America could temporarily overshadow that with the promise of another slanging match and the prospect of Central American open skies. The alliance ...
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SAS tightens its UK links
British Midland's holding company has finally acknowledged a conflict of interests with its British Airways franchised regional operation and is demerging the latter as it tightens its links with SAS. 'The regional operators have all taken on a BA franchise and so it was a good moment to ...
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Boeing tries to convince
Boeing's attempts to clinch a second big exclusive aircraft deal, similar to the one signed with American Airlines last November, comes at a time when the US manufacturer is trying to persuade regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to approve its merger with McDonnell Douglas. The company's ...
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CAI survives the big chill
Canadian Airlines International has survived the winter with the help of government, employees and creditors, but competition in western Canada is still growing with charter operator Canada 3000 expanding its scheduled services. Canadian's cash position has improved enough to defer searching for a C$60 million (US$40 million) credit ...
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Private funds elude Alitalia
Put your wallet away: Alitalia's no longer for sale. The carrier has abandoned its quest for private investors and turned to state holding company IRI for the full capital injection. The Italian treasury has now confirmed that IRI will inject the remaining L1.5 trillion (US$880 million) of fresh ...
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Taiwan-US open skies
Taiwan and the USA have agreed to end restrictions on flights between the two countries. The US Clinton Administration had previously hammered out similar "open-skies" pacts with Brunei and Singapore, putting it in a position to bring into force the three agreements reached so far. Talks are continuing with Malaysia ...
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Carnival joins PanAm
The merger between new Pan American World Airways and Carnival Air Lines has gone ahead, reviving the plans which were abandoned in August 1996, when the two airlines failed to agree terms for a deal. Pan Am was reborn in September 1996, when it began offering low-cost long-haul scheduled services, ...
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SIA ponders A340-500 and 777-200X
Singapore Airlines (SIA) says that it will need at least ten new ultra-long-range aircraft to open fresh routes and frequencies to the USA, after the recent signing of an open-skies bilateral air agreement between the two countries. The airline is looking at the proposed Boeing 777-200X and rival ...
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Jeanniot warns against over-expansion
Pierre Jeanniot, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has issued a stern warning to airlines to think twice before expanding their fleets. The warning follows evidence from IATA that international airlines last year failed to repeat their record profits performance of 1995. The net result ...
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Qantas disposes of Air New Zealand stake
Qantas has severed its last links with Air New Zealand, selling its 19.4% stake in the carrier. Under the terms of the long-delayed trans-Tasman single- aviation market, the move now clears the way for unrestricted Qantas entry into New Zealand domestic operations and for increased competition on international routes. ...
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Emirates' pilot
There is an infectious buzz about Dubai. The country is awash with new construction on a grand scale. Among other things, the tiny Gulf state will soon have the world's tallest and most exotic hotel to add to its tally of international golf courses, race tracks and shopping malls. It ...
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A fine balance
IT IS A BELIEF UNIVERSALLY held among airline managers that, in an upturn, their own particular airline will perform better than its competitors, and that in a downturn it will suffer less. In general, this is bunkum, but it is an unfortunate truth that it is on the basis of ...
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Chinese close in on Boeing 777 contract
There are growing indications that China might finally sign a $1 billion deal with Boeing for ten 777-200/300s during US Vice-President Al Gore's trip to the country in the last week of March. Airbus Industrie is also pushing to conclude a deal for up to 75 A320 family aircraft during ...
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GE is first to agree MoU for 777-200X/300X powerplant
General Electric has become the first engine company to sign a formal agreement with Boeing to offer a high-thrust engine for the airframe company's heavyweight long-range 777-200X and -300X twins. The move comes as Boeing applies continuing pressure on the big-three engine makers to commit to develop the 445kN (100,000lb)-thrust ...