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Behind the headlines
The first batch of European airline results are in for the December quarter. Chris Tarry of Commerzbank looks at what they really tell investors. From a stock market perspective, there can be little doubt that airlines are out of favour. After a recovery in sentiment in the last two months ...
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Maverick in Brazil
BRIAN HOMEWOOD RIO DE JANEIRO TAM has grown out of its regional status to become Brazil's second biggest airline. Its chief executive wants greater competition, although not an open skies deal with the USA. Every weekday morning between 06.00 and 07.00, TAM president Rolim Amaro can be found on ...
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American gives more room to stretch
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC In a move designed to steal more high yield market share and publicly address growing dissatisfaction among passengers with US airline service, American Airlines will increase leg room in the economy cabin across its entire fleet. Even if the percentage of business travellers who switch ...
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All change at Kennedy terminals
CAROLE SHIFRIN NEW YORK Swissair and Sabena are moving operations at New York's Kennedy Airport from the terminal of former partner Delta Air Lines to the new Terminal 4. The Qualiflyer alliance partners' move will take place on 26 March, with the change of winter-to-summer time flight schedules. ...
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Northwest adds new fare
Jane Levere New York Northwest Airlines is gambling on attracting a larger share of the US business traveller market by creating a new type of discounted advance purchase fare that does not include overnight an Saturday stay requirement. The new tariff, available only on US and Canadian routes, features ...
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Legend take-off renews Love battle
CAROLE SHIFRIN WASHINGTON DC Legend Airlines, a new business-traveller oriented airline, has been cleared for take-off by a US Circuit Court of Appeals after a two-year wrangle over its plan to operate from restricted Dallas Love Field. The carrier's services, which will bring long-haul scheduled flights to Love ...
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In Brief, Americas
Ecuador's SAETA grounded Ecuador's financial and political crisis has claimed SAETA and its domestic subsidiary, SAN, as victims. Both carriers cancelled all flights in early February amid reports that they were unlikely to recover. SAETA's condition worsened a year ago when an investor group discontinued its support for the ...
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Passenger Priorities
ANNIE REDMILE LONDON Corporations may be forcing their employees towards cheaper travel options, but business passengers remain attached to perks. They are also increasingly online savvy In the latest round of business travel surveys airlines have been sent mixed signals - some sobering, others encouraging - about the concerns, ...
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Drafting a new contract
TOM GILL LONDON Europe is rapidly catching up with the USA with its own passenger rights proposals First it was the turn of US politicians to get fired up about passenger rights. In fact, it looks as though the major US carriers have pre-empted that initiative with ...
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The next chapter
COLIN BAKER LONDON ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS The transatlantic row over hushkits may only be a dress rehearsal for bigger battles to come over tougher world aircraft noise limits. Time appears to be running out on the hushkit debate. There are only a couple of months to go before the European ...
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A question of choice
Engines Review Airline Business reviews the latest trends in the aero-engine market, including Boeing's decision to sign a single-source deal on its long-awaited long-range 777X and transatlantic battles over noise. Plus, analysis of the current state of orders, deliveries and market share for the main manufacturers. CAROLE SHIFRIN ...
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Pressure rises over delays
KEVIN O'TOOLE BRUSSELS While the European Commission (EC) forges ahead with its single-skies initiative, the pressure is on to avoid a repeat of the record delays which brought Europe close to gridlock last summer. Year-end figures from the Association of European Airlines (AEA) confirm that last year broke all records, ...
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Three's a crowd
MAX KINGSLEY-JONES LONDON In the aero-engines stakes, market dynamics appear to favour a two-horse race. Two may be company, but three is a crowd. It is a message on which the world's three main aircraft engine manufacturers have had cause to dwell. They know only too well the damage that ...
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JAA floats agenda to speed up rule-making processes
David Learmount/LONDON A process allowing the European Joint Aviation Authorities' to move from standards setter to executive authority is proposed in a document to be published next week. JAA secretary general Klaus Koplin says the Agenda for Change report will take the JAA as far as it can go ...
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LMAAS makes bid for A300 cargo conversion work
Guy Norris/CORDOBA Lockheed Martin Aircraft Argentina (LMAAS) is in discussions with DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) Airbus over the opening of an A300 cargo conversion line at its Cordoba site in Argentina. The move comes as LMAAS prepares to support its parent company's L-1011 TriStar freighter programme at Greenville, South ...
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UK all-cargo carrier grows with more 747s
Max Kinglsey-Jones/LONDON Airfreight Express (AFX), the UK's latest all-cargo carrier, is gearing up for expansion as it prepares to triple its Boeing 747 freighter fleet. The London Heathrow-based carrier launched operations last September following the receipt of its air operator's certificate. It is operating a single weekly scheduled trip ...
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767-400ER takes in New Zealand
Boeing took the opportunity to demonstrate its 767-400ER to Air New Zealand in February when the third test aircraft visited Auckland after hot-weather tests in Alice Springs, Australia. The aircraft, in Delta Air Lines colours, is the first to have a complete interior and had been undergoing certification testing of ...
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BA starts to build short-term 737-500 fleet as it waits for A318s
British Airways has begun to build a short-term fleet of Boeing 737-500s, with the delivery of the first two aircraft. One is an ex-British Midland example leased from Babcock and Brown, and the other on a five-year lease from Indigo Aviation, is ex-Braathens. The airline may acquire up to twenty ...
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Engine upgrade offered for A330
Pratt & Whitney is negotiating with Airbus Industrie over possible upgrades to the PW4168 engine for the A330 after its decision to suspend the PW4173 for the A330-300 (Flight International, 8-14 February). "We will do something to the 4168, probably including putting in the TALON [low emissions] combustor, and ...
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Colgan breaks jet trend with turboprop order
Colgan Air is looking to add 19- to 35-seat turboprops to its fleet and expand its recently inaugurated US Airways Express regional network. The move by the Manassas, Virginia-based carrier bucks the growing move by regional carriers away from turboprops towards larger jets. The airline has leased three ex-Mesaba ...