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Tomorrow's flight plan
They call it the autonomous aeroplane. An aircraft which can be navigated around the world independently of any ground navigation aid and which, rather less easily, can return to earth anywhere in any weather. Technically the concept is a practicable one. Whether it will be coming to an airport near ...
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Don't just talk
Leading airlines have long talked about spinning off or even selling their non-core operations but there are finally signs that they are putting their words into action. T Wakelee Smith of SH&E assesses what progress has been made.For several years now, airline experts and management gurus have expounded on the ...
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A fourfold future
How will airline passengers acquire travel products in the future? Can the airline industry retain control of the distribution pipeline through which carriers sell their products and get information on their customers, or will the large travel agencies take over? By Jay Rein, Michael Gelhausen and Scot Hornick. Ten years ...
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Staying in business
Iata's director general Pierre Jeanniot is preaching the benefits of market economics and privatisation to member airlines while carrying out the association's own extensive internal review and restructuring. Interview by Jacqueline Gallacher. Pierre Jeanniot is no stranger to government bureaucracy, nor to market restrictions. As president and chief executive of ...
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A changing game plan
In coach class passengers are contentedly gazing at seatback video screens, absorbed in a broad range of quality in-flight entertainment. Live television and radio vie for passengers' attention with the latest movie releases of 2005. Adults while away the hours making purchases of questionable wisdom or slowly gambling away their ...
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2005: An airline odyssey
In ten years time, what will have become of the conventional wisdom of the airline industry? In looking ahead 10 years, this survey concentrates on how the electronic revolution will reshape the airline business. But first, Mead Jennings balances the projected technological advances against less quantifiable developments in labour ...
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Slots to grumble about
Virgin seems to have it all, well almost. Improving profitability, strong international codeshare partners and a highly successful brand name. But further expansion is hampered by the independent UK carrier's old bogey: slot restrictions at London/Heathrow. Sara Guild examines Virgin's dilemma.Washington, none; Philadelphia, none; Chicago, none; Boston, none; Bombay, none; ...
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Malaysians so 'ruthless'
I refer to your editorial 'Meeting Market Needs is Essential' (Airline Business, May). This is timely advice to carriers bent on taking rapid steps to realise their goals. Malaysia's national carrier is also experimenting with the new approach. In doing so, it has uprooted the very structure of ...
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Be innovative to succeed
The article on the Southwests of Europe (Airline Business, June) brought this idea of the carbon copy strategy into my mind again. I find it amazing how companies always want to duplicate something which has been successful elsewhere, with the idea that they also will get a competitive advantage out ...
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GRA presents fairer picture
While I thought that Mead Jennings' article on codesharing (Airline Business, June 1995) was a reasonable portrayal of GRA's study, there are a few statements that I take issue with. Where you note that we qualified our results and therefore discounted our findings before they were presented, it ...
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Airline news
South African Airways has begun a weekly service between Cape Town and Frankfurt, as well as between Johannesburg and Dar es Salaam. The service will use Alliance's B747SP. Emirates has launched twice weekly services from Abu Dhabi to Beirut originating from its base in Dubai. Transaero ...
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A new breed?
The US airline industry has produced several waves of startup carriers at various points in its history. The latest such surge, centred on low-cost entrants, started in 1992 with the recession in full swing and is now slowing in the swell of an economic upturn. Mead Jennings examines the new ...
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Air France sale to bail out Chirac?
There is a paradox at the heart of the economic strategy being pursued by the new Chirac administration in France. The highest priority of President Jacques Chirac's government is the reduction of unemployment. This was the centrepiece of his campaign for the presidency, his main preoccupation at the G7 ...
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Ramli row on airport cuts
Malaysia Airlines chairman Tajudin Ramli is ruffling government feathers in his drive to make the airline fully profitable, by calling for the closure of some of Malaysia's domestic airports. The airline's domestic operations, which account for about a third of its revenue, have been a drain on profits. ...
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Plummy it isn't
The resolution of the 30-year conflict at Tokyo's Narita Airport over a 550 square metre piece of plum tree farming land in the centre of the aircraft parking stands still does not clear the way for a second runway. Eight co-owners gave the plot to the New Tokyo International Airport ...
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China set for airport spree
Foreign investment is being sought by China's eastern provinces to help fund an array of new airports to be built at an estimated cost of more than US$5 billion. The area accounts for nearly one third of the nation's air passenger traffic and the deputy director of the ...
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Squeeze on down under
The strict conditions placed on the linkup between British Airways and Qantas on the Kangaroo route by the Australian Trade Practices Commission may have appeased the Asian carriers, but some of Europe's majors are feeling the squeeze in the highly competitive Europe-Australia market. Lufthansa has opted to abandon ...
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Blanc brings Inter change
With sleight of hand and a change of name, Christian Blanc, now heading up both Air Inter and Air France, has dissipated the social unrest brewing around him. Air Inter's unions were against being merged into Air France Europe, wanting instead independence and the ability to develop freely. ...
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Japan cool on codesharing
Judging from attitudes recently expressed in Tokyo, codesharing is not the key to solving the Japan-US dispute. It may have provided the way out of the US-Germany bilateral impasse, but with Japan trying to instill pan-Asian unity on aeropolitical issues, Tokyo believes extensive codesharing rights for US carriers would upset ...
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FedEx sways on Subic Bay
Amidst all the heat generated from the trade friction between the US and Japan on aviation matters, Federal Express stands out as the clear winner at home and abroad. In Washington, the express freight company's political sway has influenced the highest reaches of government. In Asia, the Japan dispute has ...