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Sky Opener
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC US Department of Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater has blazed a trail of open skies agreements around the globe. Now he is looking to this December's DoT international aviation summit in Chicago to provide a launch platform for the next step. Rodney Slater has a vision. "I ...
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Malév sees alliance as top priority
PETER BENNETT VIENNA Malév has admitted for the first time that it is to seek direct talks with all five of the global alliances, after a consultancy report from SH&E labelled this a top priority for the Hungarian flag carrier's privatisation. A Malév board meeting in early November decided to ...
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In Brief
EC to tackle ATC delays The Association of European Airlines has gained backing from the European Commission (EC) for a political solution to the worsening delays in Europe's airspace. EC vice-president and Transport Commissioner Loyola De Palacio has given the issue prominence in her transport work schedule, following the ...
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Olympic maps out recovery plan
GÜNTER ENDRES ATHENS November could go down in history as the month when Olympic Airways finally turned the corner in its perennial battle for survival. After the completion of a 12 week evaluation, the new BA Speedwing management team led by former Air Europe managing director Rod Lynch has ...
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Virgin reluctanctly accepts alliances as a fact of life
KEVIN O'TOOLE CHICAGO Even a maverick like Richard Branson is forced to admit that joining an airline alliance is fast becoming a "fact of life". Speaking during Virgin Atlantic's inaugural flight to Chicago, he revealed that contacts have taken place with three of the global groupings. "It's inevitable that ...
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Taking on the World
PETER BENN VIENNA Consolidation appears to be taking shape in the airport world as major groups and financial investors alike begin to build positions with a string of recent acquisitions and management contracts. But where is the trend headed? Airlines have been busy developing their alliance strategies for years, ever ...
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Back in Business
DENNIS BLANK ORLANDO Since the crash in 1997, ValuJet has reinvented itself under the AirTran name. Its latest chief plans to keep profits rolling. It is more than three years since ValuJet crashed into the Florida Everglades, shutting down operations and dashing the hopes of a host of US low-cost ...
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Up to the Minute
KEVIN O'TOOLE CHICAGO A new Internet company is pitching into the battle to sell late available space and hoping to establish a new on-line business model in the process. "We're travel evangelists," says David Miranda, with all the visionary brio that the world has come to expect of a would-be ...
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Getting the e-price right
KEVIN O'TOOLE CHICAGO The advent of the Internet has begun to change the way that the world does business, but for the airline industry many of the issues that it brings are already familiar. While businesses anxiously puzzle out what implications the Internet will have for their sales, it seems ...
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ANZ ownership debate hots up
The debate surrounding foreign ownership of Air New Zealand has been further fuelled by the decision by Brierley Investments, a long-standing major shareholder, to reincorporate in Bermuda and move its headquarters offshore to Singapore. Earlier this year, when the airline was vying with Singapore Airlines for a half interest ...
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Hong Kong starts US bilateral round
Hong Kong and the USA were due to have opened their first round of air services talks in four years in mid November in a key test of Hong Kong's resolve to liberalise. The two-day round was due to have begun on 17 November in Washington DC with ...
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KAL to face further operating ban
NICHOLAS IONIDES/ATI SINGAPORE Korean Air (KAL) faced further criticism in November when a US NTSB report concluded that the 1997 crash of one of its Boeing 747-300s on Guam was largely due to pilot error. South Korea's Civil Aviation Bureau (KCAB) - also criticised in the report for not ...
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Routes
Fourth Chinese city Malaysia Airlines has launched scheduled services to Xiamen, making it the fourth Chinese city to which it operates. The carrier already operates services to Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai and has been operating charter flights to Xiamen for seven years. Shared flights to Seoul Korean ...
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Cape Town service hits a setback
ROGER MAKINGS JOHANNESBURG Plans by Nationwide Air, a domestic South African carrier, to link with Virgin Atlantic in starting a new service between Cape Town and London Heathrow have met with initial failure. Nationwide had applied for a temporary licence to fly the route weekly using a wet-leased Virgin ...
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Tokyo's promised runways get nearer
DAVE KNIBB SEATTLE Three separate initiatives, including a decision on a new airport, are underway to boost runway capacity in Tokyo, which remains Asia's biggest and most congested gateway. Construction could start before the end of the year on a second runway at Narita, allowing more room for regional services ...
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Reclaiming ATC
Taking air traffic control services away from government is starting to look like a necessity as Europe and the USA continue to battle with near-gridlock. But airlines too will have to be realistic about the cost of renewing the neglected infrastructure. For years, airlines on both sides of the ...
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Alitalia and KLM seek to add Northwest to alliance
TOM GILL LONDON KLM and Alitalia have started their joint venture and may be close to gaining US anti-trust immunity for a tripartite alliance with Northwest Airlines. The formal launch of the "virtual merger" at the beginning of November was accompanied by much shuttling of senior executives between Rome, Milan ...
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Capitol route to chaos
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Everyone in the USA agrees that urgent action is needed to cope with increasing capacity constraints. The problem remains how to wrench control from Congress. Democracy may have notched another coup on 10 November, but it was a bitterly disappointing day for the US air traffic ...
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In Brief
AA-BA revisit alliance In a move that has drawn fire from UK rival British Midland, British Airways has submitted a joint application with American Airlines for US approval to start codesharing between Chicago and New York, and eight UK cities, excluding London. The alliance partners also aim to share ...
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Air France joins call for single US-EU market
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Air France chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta says he strongly supports transatlantic negotiations between the European Union and the USA and he wants to see the creation of a "transatlantic common aviation area". Spinetta, speaking in November at the International Aviation Club in Washington DC, said a ...