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Double trouble
Boeing's 33,000 unionised machinists went on strike in early October over concerns of job security and the company says there is 'no immediate likelihood of reconciliation'. At presstime, British Airways was still awaiting delivery of its first GE-engined B777. Source: Airline Business
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Agent blues
The traditional role of the travel agent in distributing airline products is being challenged by CRS pricing polices, ticketless travel, the Internet and commission capping by airlines. Does this mean the end of the travel agent as we know it? Chris Lyle discusses the implications.In theory, travel agents should be ...
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Growing up
The flag carriers of the scattered Pacific islands are maturing and learning how to cooperate both with one another and major airlines. However, geography and colonial legacies remain the biggest obstacles to their future development. David Knibb reports. Isolation makes the scattered Pacific islands different from all other developing countries. ...
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Czech or cash?
The communist legacy has left CSA Czech Airlines short of cash, but the national carrier is underpinned by an expanding economy and a flourishing tourist industry. Jackie Gallacher reports from Prague. Ask any manager at CSA Czech Airlines what the carrier's key challenge is for the future and the answer ...
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EVA enjoys the fruits of youth
If spectacular improvements in efficiency and productivity are a measure of success, then on the surface at least Taiwan's international newcomer EVA Airways appears to be setting new standards. Productivity, measured in terms of revenue per employee, soared 62 per cent last year. Unit costs plunged 21 per cent and ...
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Profit share: a stroke of genius
Singapore Airlines' chairman J Y Pillay has absolutely no doubt that in an unforgiving airline industry, survival rests on the continuing struggle to improve productivity and keep ahead of costs. And there can be little doubt that Pillay's message is getting through at an airline which consistently turns in some ...
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Getting IT right
What does a business do when none of its computer systems support its core business processes? Simple. It realigns its information technology with those processes, then develops a plan to put the systems in place. UK-based Britannia Airways has done just that, showing how IT can add significant extra ...
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Designer networks
Management Fewer market restrictions mean more carriers are free to plan their networks with the passenger's complete journey in mind and can adapt their pricing and distribution policies to match. By Richard Bond.Deregulation brings with it plenty of changes but none so great as in the area of network management. ...
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Gains will come from change
KLM has made impressive leaps in efficiency since it launched its cost control programme in 1991. But with the sizeable efficiency boost in the last financial year driven more by expansion than by productivity measures, the carrier is now facing a future of diminishing gains. The carrier is keen to ...
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Growth spurs on drive for cuts
Air Canada, in the midst of a significant growth phase, is attempting to counteract the costs of expansion with employee productivity gains and new technology. Air Canada expects to double its transborder service to the US within the next three years and in recent months has added new flights ...
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Get smart inside the system!
For Northwest Airlines, record profits this year have been less a result of recent, company-wide efficiency programmes than of a series of initiatives - including route restructuring, employee concessions and alliance-building - stretching back several years. Nonetheless, 'smarter' flying and pricing have produced lower costs and higher yields for the ...
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China cuts its numbers
Beijing has formally declared its intent to consolidate China's airlines after two years moving in that direction. The number is set to shrink by 40 per cent, but more carriers are likely to receive international designation as well. Li Zhao, deputy director of the Civil Aviation Administrat- ion ...
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Cape crusaders
Helped by the traffic boom, South Africa's domestic carriers are expanding into regional markets. By Sara Guild.Like most South African businesses in the post-apartheid, post-general election period, the domestic airlines are looking for opportunities - outside South Africa. Although international foreign tourist arrivals to South Africa should rise 30 per ...
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Fruits of change
South African Airways has had a year of radical change. Profitable at last, bolstered by high load factors and a new partnership with Lufthansa, the carrier is optimistic about the future. Sara Guild reports from Johannesburg. The days of the orange and blue aircraft are numbered. By the turn of ...
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More than a fleeting gain?
At Malev Hungarian Airlines, a major improvement in efficiency is one of the main outcomes of a modernisation programme that started back in 1991 but only really started to take root last year. Indeed, commercial director Ferenc Turi says the restructuring has really only just begun in earnest. 'We are ...
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Moving targets
Singapore Airlines' chairman J Y Pillay calls it 'The genius of the organisation at work.' Productivity has become a mantra in an airline industry which is desperate to find ways of improving its long term financial performance. All airline managers are putting in a great deal of effort to improve ...
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Twice bitten
After its second exit from Chapter 11, TWA is attempting to reinvent itself, from new livery to balance sheet. Mead Jennings talks with CEO Jeffrey Erickson. If Trans World Airlines Inc could receive one dollar for each time its death has been predicted in the past nine years, it probably ...
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EU in strain over monetary union
The prospect of moving ahead to European Monetary Union by 1 January 1999 is looking increasingly bleak. Despite a recent attempt by finance ministers to patch up political differences among the leading European countries, there is only a slim chance that a viable group of nations will meet the economic ...
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Financial results
Aeromexico was helped by US traffic growth, a stronger peso, and cuts of 600 employees and seven aircraft. Second-quarter net was $98m. Air NZ improved 36% despite the Kobe earthquake and the temporary grounding of its B737s. Alitalia's first-half loss was better than last year's, but ...
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Garuda puts on brave face
Indonesian flag carrier Garuda is seeking more codeshare partners after trimming dozens of flights and dropping several destinations from its global network amid speculation of mounting financial problems. The carrier has cut four European cities - Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Madrid - from its winter schedule and cut ...