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All Nippon Airways will begin routes from Osaka/Kansai to Shanghai, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur in mid-July. The routes are subject to approval by Japan's Ministry of Transport. Philippine Airlines has begun a three time a week service from Manila to San Francisco using B747-400s. SilkAir and ...
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Financial results
Air Canada cut its operating loss from C$12m to C$7m. Passengers and yields both rose 6%. There were C$40m of non-operating gains in 1994. Operating income trebled to US$162.2m, moving ANA into the black. Boosted by the Kobe earthquake and the strong yen, traffic rose 6.1%. ...
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Crisis looms in Thailand
Thailand faces the renewed prospect of its airline industry falling prey to political vested interests in the wake of the dissolution of the Thai government on 19 May and the elections set for 2 July. The dissolution has meant the departure of both the transport and finance ministers, ...
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SAA boosted by Lufthansa
The cooperation agreement between South African Airways and Lufthansa is a major boost for the African carrier, while the pact nearly completes the German flag's global net of alliances. SAA has sought a European partner for more than two years and senior general manager John Hare says few ...
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Taiwan takes direct route
Conceding the inevitable, Taiwan has taken the first fateful steps that could lead to direct air links to China within two years. But Beijing's willingness to facilitate such flights will depend on whether CAAC pragmatists prevail over policy ideologues who hope to capitalise on Taipei's recognition that direct links are ...
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Sino thaw is set to grip
Chinese aviation appears to be experiencing a thaw as two recent events show that both outsiders and the CAAC have growing confidence in China's airlines. China's transition from bank-guaranteed to asset-based financing received a boost with the recent decision of an operating lessor to commit aircraft to a ...
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Japan urges Asian forum
Japanese officials in Asia-Pacific have completed a diplomatic offensive to win support for a major regional aviation forum that Japan hopes will lead to tighter government cooperation on air transport policies. The initiative is emerging as the first serious attempt to bring together high level government officials capable ...
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Phone-in plan riles agents
Japan's travel agents are up in arms over a new ticketing drive by the country's major airlines which allows domestic travellers to bypass agents by ordering airline tickets directly over the telephone and paying by credit card. Initiated by the country's biggest carrier All Nippon Airways in April, ...
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Qantas all set to float
With its long awaited A$2 billion (US$1.4 billion) public flotation now in sight, Qantas has taken steps to reassure prospective local investors that privatisation is not a step on the way to integration with 25 per cent stockholder British Airways, and that the company remains committed to European markets. ...
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Ansett carry on regardless
Ignoring recent losses and the imminent purchase of 50 per cent of its stock by Air New Zealand, Ansett Australia has decided to push ahead with plans to expand its embryonic international operations in Asia. Managing director Graeme McMahon says a third Boeing 747-300 will be leased for ...
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Capital plans out of Africa
Two African airlines are moving closer to privatisation, as Kenya Airways seeks an airline investor and Air Tanzania awaits the government's plan for its intended sell-off. International Finance Corporation, the World Bank body advising the Kenyan government, has written to all Iata members requesting expressions of interest in ...
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Latin sales close to end
The opening of the bidding for Bolivia's LAB and what remains of Ecuatoriana should bring to a close the troubled airline privatisation process in Latin America. Consolidation could be the emerging trend, as evidenced by events in Chile and Peru. Advisers for both LAB and Ecuatoriana are placing ...
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Ghosts, phantoms and funnel flights
Some airlines are manipulating schedules to get improved marketing visibility.When is a new route not a new route? Answer: When it's a codeshare, funnel flight, ghost flight, change of gauge, or yet another figment of a marketing executive's fertile imagination. The intention behind the survey of new route developments in ...
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Merger plan draws blank
Yet again political expediency is muddying the debate over Air Inter's future, as its merger with Air France Europe looks set to be sidelined to minimise social unrest. Christian Blanc, who took over the chair of Air Inter when Michel Bernard unexpectedly resigned in mid-May, has proposed an ...
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US-UK slow movement
Although the early June US-UK 'interim' agreement found favour with United Airlines and British Airways, the US Department of Transportation now faces considerable pressure from rivals American Airlines, Continental Airlines and TWA to broaden Heathrow rights in the next round of negotiations. However there has at least been ...
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TWA are set to file anew
A second trip into bankruptcy protection appears inevitable for Trans World Airlines. For months, carrier executives have been trying to corral creditors into supporting an ever changing plan that would see the airline enter bankruptcy with a pre-packaged debt restructuring for the second time in three years. This ...
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Euro pilots strike out
Continuing management efforts to cut the European majors' operating costs are resulting in clashes with pilots at KLM, SAS and Alitalia. If pilots do not concede the need to reduce costs, carriers may seek alternatives. KLM is insisting on a longterm programme to cut its aircrew costs, which ...
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Africa's Alliance prepares to launch scheduled services
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON ALLIANCE, THE NEW African long-haul venture led by South African Airways (SAA), is gearing up for the launch of scheduled services in July, and says that new routes and aircraft are likely to follow. The venture has its origins in protracted talks between ...
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Impact of high-speed competition: the real threat
Sir - Andrew Chuter is right to warn the airlines of the impact of high-speed rail services (Flight International, 7-13 June, P94). The real danger threatening domestic and short-haul European services, does not come from the TGV high speed train, however, but from the willingness of governments to sink ...
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BA poised for Gatwick relaunch
David Learmount/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS IS TO base an additional eight wide bodied aircraft at London Gatwick Airport, to fly routes transferred from the carrier's premier international hub, Heathrow. Robert Ayling, BA's managing director, says that, with a growth rate of 6% a year and severe ...