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US carriers gripe over China routes
David Knibb SEATTLE All three US carriers that have been tentatively awarded new rights to China have asked the US Department of Transportation (DoT) for more flights than they have received. Of the 17 new weekly flights allowed under the China-US bilateral between now and next April, the DoT ...
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AB Airlines becomes a low-fares casualty
Industry analysts have been keenly awaiting a first casualty among the new generation of low-cost airlines. The waiting was finally over last month as London-based AB Airlines went into administration. AB has been around since late 1993, but came to the fore a year ago as it made a ...
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KLM, Alitalia produce the goods with cargo deal
Peter Conway LONDON Airline alliances tend to generate much rhetoric about cargo partnerships, but little action. However, the tie-up between KLM and Alitalia, announced in July, looks set to be different. Cargo departments within the two carriers have already gone further in their planning than KLM's long-running tie-up with Northwest. ...
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KLM uk eyes low-cost route
Lois Jones LONDON Fierce competition from low-cost carriers at its London Stansted base is forcing KLM uk to rethink its market position and restructure. Launching its own no-frills service is one possibility. The KLM regional subsidiary is to axe six unprofitable routes from 12 September and streamline its fleet. The ...
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Milan protest reignites
Nine airlines have complained to the European Commission over a ruling forcing them to move all flights from Milan Linate to Milan Malpensa in early November. Air France, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Iberia, Lufthansa, Olympic Airways, Sabena, SAS and TAP Air Portugal say the new airport is not ready to ...
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Routes
Tunisian tie-up - Air France and Tunisair are to extend their codeshare agreement, under way in Tunis, Lyon and Marseilles, to cover all flights between Tunisia and France by next year. Copenhagen meets Cracow - SAS introduced a daily service between Copenhagen in Denmark and Cracow in Poland on ...
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Majors eye Kennedy terminals
Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are weighing up major investments in new terminal facilities at New York's Kennedy Airport, already in the middle of a massive $9 billion redevelopment programme for new terminals and infrastructure. Delta and United operate from outdated and overcrowded facilities while many of ...
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Routes
SriLankan/MAS codeshare - SriLankan Airlines, formerly Air Lanka, has agreed to share codes with Malaysia Airlines on flights between Colombo and Kuala Lumpur. Under the agreement, MAS is adding its code to thrice-weekly services being operated by the Colombo-based carrier. JAS and Northwest in Japan - Japan Air System ...
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Profits on a plateau
Kevin O'Toole In the final analysis, the airline industry's financial results for 1998 were once again a mix of the encouraging and the depressingly familiar. Overall profitability came out at almost identical levels to the year before. The industry should perhaps take heart from that fact, given the dire ...
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Stormy weather
Carole Shifrin WASHINGTON DC Air traffic delays are not unique to Europe. The USA is also being forced to look hard at upgrading services After some fierce attacks by several top airline officials on the Federal Aviation Administration's running of the US air traffic control system, airline and FAA ...
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Controlling the future
Peter Bennett VIENNA Commercialisation, privatisation and the empowerment of Eurocontrol are possible solutions to Europe's growing delays. The solution for Europe's air traffic delays is simple. First, look at the causes - a fragmented air system controlled by a patchwork of control centres that leads to the inefficient management ...
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Raising the internet stakes
Dennis Blank ORLANDO The explosion of online travel booking in the USA - stimulated by offerings of bargain basement ticket fares - is attracting the wrath of travel agents. But US major carriers cannot ignore this rapidly growing marketplace. This year, the customary late summer round of airfare bargains across ...
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TAP Air Portugal signs deal with pilots' union
Barry Cross LONDON Following two and a half years of labour unrest, TAP Air Portugal has signed an agreement with pilots' union (SPAC). As part of the new deal, all employees will now receive previously agreed increases of 3% for both 1998 and 1999. The pilots' working week will ...
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Negotiating change at ALPA
Karen Walker WASHINGTON DC ALPA's new president, Duane Woerth, says he is not afraid of change. But the US pilots he represents are beating the same drum: they expect to see their airlines' profitability reflected in new contract negotiations. If Duane Woerth is looking for a fight, he does a ...
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Union blues
Jane Levere NEW YORK For all the talk of change in the airline industry, contentious pilot-management relations seem to many to be set in stone. Industry observers believe two imminent contract negotiations - at Delta and United - will set the benchmarks for labour relations generally. When the ...
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BA reins in again
Lois Jones LONDON British Airways may have stayed profitable through the last recession but it is now fighting to stay out of the red For over a decade British Airways has been the shining example of how a profitable airline should look. But it could be about to fall from ...
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CAL goes on spending spree
Nicholas Ionides ATI SINGAPORE Taiwan's China Airlines (CAL) has finalised a long-awaited fleet renewal plan with $5.6 billion worth of orders for up to 36 aircraft from Airbus Industrie and Boeing. The split order, the largest in the history of Taiwanese civil aviation, covers firm orders for 13 Boeing ...
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Air India on the offensive
Ravi Prasad NEW DELHI India's state-owned carriers, Air India and Indian Airlines, are clashing over the right to fly routes from the subcontinent to the Persian Gulf. Loss-making Air India is lobbying the civil aviation ministry to wrest these lucrative routes from its domestic rival, which is fighting back ...
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Philippines toughs out 'protectionist' attack
Nicholas Ionides ATI SINGAPORE The Philippine Government has come under attack for growing protectionism in its air services policy, but mounting criticism appears only to have toughened its stance. Accusations of protectionism were lodged by Taiwan in July when its national carrier, China Airlines (CAL), was hit with a 30-day ...
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Better times beckon in the South Pacific
David Knibb SEATTLE Airlines of the South Pacific islands have had one of their best years ever, led by Fiji's Air Pacific. Two of the region's chronic losers are showing profits, but the scene at Air Niugini stays turbulent. Fijian flag carrier Air Pacific had a record year, posting ...