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Boeing hits bottleneck
Boeing is trying hard to swallow a bitter pill of late delivery charges and costs linked to production delays and to get back on top of its aircraft production rate buildup. Boeing's decision to shut down its B747 and B737 production lines for a month follows a frenzy of ...
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Latin airport sales closer
Brazil and Argentina are both looking to private investors to help finance airport expansion, as traffic in the region increases following the creation of the Mercosur free trade zone incorporating Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Brazil has included airports on its list of assets to be privatised by the ...
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Hangover cure
Karen Walker 'Swire prince' are words often whispered in the wake of David Turnbull, an acknowledgement of his rapid rise through the management strata of the Swire Group. His 21 years of experience at Swire have been tested severely over the last 12 months, however, since he inherited one ...
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Taiwanese ties that bind
China Airlines may have replaced the national flag on its aircraft tail with a plum blossom, but it is still struggling to disentangle itself from government interference. The reins of power controlling China Airlines are firmly back in the grip of Taiwan's ministry of transport and communications, after the ...
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China cries out for more
The announcement of a $50 billion order by China for Boeing aircraft coincides with an unseemly scrap for the Airbus aircraft ordered four years ago. Some carriers are set to miss out on their request for Airbus A320s and A321s as demand outstrips the 30 aircraft ordered by China ...
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Shanghai shangrila
Lois Jones Any visitor to Shanghai is easily charmed by its bewildering mix of old and new. Neon lights bejewel 1920s façades, and rickshaws vie for space with resplendent new Volkswagens in the city's ever-widening roads. It's fitting that as the main carrier serving China's eastern gateway, China ...
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Chinese revolution?
What gets bigger must get smaller. An unlikely paradox? Not for the Civil Aviation Administration of China. In its eyes, domestic traffic growth makes only one conclusion possible - the number of airlines must fall. Most airline CEOs would be positively drooling. A population of 1.224 billion is set ...
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Southern belle
Lois Jones Chairman Mao would not have approved. If, as Mao alleged, western-style commercialism and capitalism are corrupt, then China Southern Airlines is rotten to the core. As China closes the book on socialist economic dogma and emancipates its state-owned enterprises, China Southern is one of the first ...
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Sabena lures City Bird
Sabena has stepped up the defence of its Brussels base by taking an option to buy up to 25 per cent of City Bird, the low-cost Belgian long-haul start-up. However, the deal threatens to send out confusing signals to Sabena's alliance partners and passengers who are already struggling with ...
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Autumn break is big turning point
The severe turbulence seen in global equity markets this autumn will have a lasting impact on the climate in which publicly-quoted corporations operate. In purely economic terms it almost certainly signals an end to the exceptional growth seen around the world over the last few years. But its financial impact ...
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Garvey/Slater: great team work
In her first major public speech as the US Federal Aviation Administrator, Jane Garvey may not have set the industry on fire, but the underlying message - coupled with recent announcements made by the Department of Transportation - was unmistakeable. Garvey is putting the FAA back on the straight and ...
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Airline News
Air France relocated its London/Heathrow-Strasbourg service to London/City on 27 October, and began codesharing with Finnair on three daily Paris/Charles de Gaulle-Helsinki flights. Jersey European Airways is oper-ating franchise services for Air France on Paris/CDG- Birmingham-Glasgow. Air France has launched a new twice weekly Paris/CDG-Newcastle service in a franchise deal ...
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Alliances: decision time approaches
There can be few more important commercial issues for airlines than the future shape of their alliances. A series of regulatory decisions about major alliances is about to be made. The outcome will determine the shape of the airline business, for the next several years at least. At the ...
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Airlines drop French polish
French carriers are lining up to follow the lead taken by startups Virgin Express and EasyJet, with the first no-frills operator due to enter the market by the end of March 1998. A former EuroBelgian Airlines commercial director, Bernard Brejoux, is working on plans to launch a low-cost operation, ...
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Hong Kong lowers fees
It sometimes pays to complain. Airlines have won their battle against the proposed fees at Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok airport, which were originally to have been double those at Kai Tak. After more than a year of heated negotiations, the airport authority has sliced between 25 per ...
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Japan-Taiwan make a deal
After a decade of talks Japan and Taiwan have finally reached an agreement on increased air services, including clearance for a Taiwanese carrier to operate directly into Osaka for the first time in quarter century. Under the deal, Taiwan's EVA Airways will be allowed daily flights into Osaka/Kansai airport ...
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US veers to port in Japan
The US is continuing its hard line in bilateral talks with Japan in the wake of its victory over the shipping showdown with Tokyo. The chances of an outline agreement being signed at the Apec economic summit in Vancouver on 24 November seemed slim but an accord seemed imminent. ...
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Jet propelled into action
India's second biggest domestic airline, Jet Airways, is shedding long-time equity partners and forging links with new allies, as well as gearing up to take on rivals Air India and Indian Airlines on international services. It's all change as far as Jet's partners are concerned. Middle East operators Gulf ...
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Born again airlines
Karen Walker. Those low-fare, low-cost US airlines still standing as the year draws to a close may well wish to take a bow. In sharp contrast to the US majors, for them 1997 will have been a year of survival rather than profitability. For the low-cost airlines that are ...
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Nine cry foul over Milan
The complaint by nine major operators at Milan/Linate airport to the European Commission about next year's transfer to the new Malpensa airport reflects their concern over the threat that Malpensa poses to their own hubs. While Alitalia could not develop Malpensa into a hub alone, the Italian flag carrier ...