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AB25: Former Continental Airlines chairman and CEO, Gordon Bethune
Today's airline industry in the USA is more stable, secure and safe than ever before. Safety throughout the industry is enhanced tremendously by advanced technology in aircraft systems, training and through increased commitment of our air carriers and our government writes former Continental Airlines Chairman & CEO Gordon Bethune
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AB25: US State Department, John Byerly
It was in 1985, the year Airline Business was founded, that I landed my first job in aviation as the State Department lawyer responsible for air services negotiations and policy. writes John Byerly, US Deputy Assisntant Secretary, Transportation affairs
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Garuda formally signs SkyTeam accession pact
Garuda Indonesia has officially inked an agreement that will see it joining the SkyTeam alliance in 2012. Indonesia's flag-carrier will spend the...
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AB25: IATA chief executive, Giovanni Bisignani
Air transport today is almost unrecognisable compared with the 1985 industry in which Airline Business was born writes Giovani Bisignani, IATA director general
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AB25: Lufthansa chairman, Juergen Weber
Stability and control are the essence of safe flying and succeeding as a business. On average, the airline industry is confronted with the challenge of new innovative cycles every 10 to 20 years. Keeping the craft on course and in trim and finding the right power-setting to master any potential ...
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ALTA 2010: Aeromexico adds three 737-800s and one 767
Aeromexico is adding three Boeing 737s and one 767 to its fleet this month as part of a plan to further increase capacity ahead of the upcoming peak season.
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Qantas to resume limited A380 services
Qantas Airways will resume limited Airbus A380 services on 27 November, more than three weeks after an uncontained engine failure forced one of its aircraft...
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Business - good week
CATHAY PACIFIC The Hong Kong-based carrier forecast a record full-year profit of at least HK$12.5 billion ($1.61 billion), two years after it posted a record...
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ICAO's aviation emissions reduction plan heads for Cancun
Can ICAO's emissions framework help when the United Nations attempts to form a new climate change resolution to replace the Kyoto protocol?
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ALTA 2010: Aerolineas to grow 737NG fleet through ILFC leases and new order
Aerolineas Argentinas has agreed to lease 10 ex-Virgin Blue 737-700s from ILFC and is planning to place an order with Boeing for 14 additional 737-700/800s.
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ALTA 2010: Aeromexico plans to launch Panama, resume Toronto
Aeromexico is planning to launch service to Panama City, Toronto and possibly Vancouver early next year as the carrier continues to look at new network opportunities...
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Mexicana's new owner secures union concessions required for re-launch
Mexicana's unions have approved new contracts with the grounded carrier's new owners, moving Mexicana one step closer to potentially re-launching operations.
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Air Canada's pilots union fights to keep age-60 rule
Air Canada's pilots union has appealed to the country's Federal Court to maintain a mandatory age-60 retirement rule at the carrier.
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AB25: Indigo Partners managing partner, Bill Franke
Cabinets and hard drives are filled with the collective thoughts and analyses of many better-positioned chroniclers than me that cover the evolution of commercial aviation over the past quarter of a century writes Bill Franke, manging partner of Indigo Partners and former America West chief executive
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AB25: Former BMI chairman Sir Michael Bishop
The business of air transport is a tumultuous industry, whose financial fortunes are frequently dictated by economic, aeropolitical, criminal or geological events far beyond the day-to-day operation or control of an airline's management itself writes former BMI chairman Sir Michael Bishop
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AB25: Ohio State University professor Nawal Taneja
The airline business model has changed dramatically in the past 25 years as a result of numerous forces, such as the development and the resounding successes of low-cost carriers; incorporation of evolving information and distribution technologies; efficiencies and effectiveness of advanced regional jets; establishment and subsequent growth of the Gulf-based ...
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AB25: Spencer Stuart executive Michael Bell
What have the past 25 years taught us about leadership in the airline industry? In a few words: "It's tough as hell" writes Spencer Stuart's Michael Bell
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AB 25: Turkish Airlines looks back at the milestones of 25 years ago
Looking back, 1985 was no exception - just another turbulent year for commercial aviation writes Abdullah Nergiz, co-ordinator - executive vice presidency (commercial), Turkish Airlines
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United sets 12 December launch for Dulles-Lagos
Star Alliance member United Airlines has set a 12 December launch date for new daily service between Washington Dulles and Lagos, Nigeria. The flights...
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AB 25: Brian Havel on why open skies is a milestone not the culmination of liberalisation
When faced with the prospect that the "end of history" was imminent, Nietzsche responded with revulsion to what he saw as the coming stultification of the human race. We, too, should experience a similar horror at the prospect that air transport liberalisation has reached its apotheosis through "open skies" writes ...