All Strategy news – Page 1165
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Airlines seek to delay 'Stage 4' noise controls
Kevin O'Toole/GENEVA THE INTERNATIONAL Air Transport Association (IATA) is likely to press for a delay in the implementation of proposed new aircraft noise and emission standards, which it estimates could cost the airline industry as much as $50 billion. Recommendations on new standards are due to ...
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Aviareps enters leasing business
AVIAREPS, THE UK-based airline representation group, has acquired a Boeing 737-300 from GE Capital Aviation Services for use in the Portuguese market where it has no link-up with a local airline. The aircraft, contracted out to tour operators throughout Europe, is based in Portugal and is flown by ...
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TWA refiles
Trans World Airlines (TWA) has won the backing of its creditors to go ahead with its "pre-packaged" Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, aimed at smoothing the airline's latest restructuring plan. Creditors had feared that they would be left vulnerable if an unplanned filing took place during the debt-for-equity restructuring. TWA plans ...
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Satellite-navigation-approach first for Alaska Airlines 737-400
AN ALASKA AIRLINES Boeing 737-400 has been flown successfully on satellite-navigation (satnav)-based instrument approaches to a 300ft (90m) decision height at Juneau, Alaska without using any ground-based navigation aids. The pioneering flight was undertaken by Boeing and Smiths Industries as a proof-of-concept demonstration to the US Federal Aviation ...
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Air France gives Europe to Air Inter
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR INTER, traditionally France's domestic trunk airline, is to become the Air France Group's low-cost European operation, if plans unveiled by the Group's chief executive, Christian Blanc, go ahead. Blanc says that the operation would be running by 1997, when the intra-European-Union "open-skies" policy ...
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United
Judy Bishop has been named vice-president for North America sales at United Airlines, of Chicago, Illinois. She was formerly regional manager for passenger sales. Dan Walsh becomes vice-president for the North America East Region. Walsh, who will be based in New York, was previously Los Angeles, California, regional manager for ...
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Has ValuJet broken the mould?
ValuJet has been rewriting the rules for low-cost US start-ups, but for how long can it keep on growing? Kevin O'Toole/ATLANTA ValuJet's success has been remarkable by any standard. With its own distinctive brand of low-cost operations, and scant regard for conventional wisdom, the start-up carrier has stormed ...
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Monarch to take on Alitalia leases
Gnter Endres/LONDON MONARCH AIRLINES is on the verge of taking over the contentious wet-leased Boeing 767-300ER operation, now provided by Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services on behalf of Alitalia. The new deal is an extension of a long-standing agreement between Monarch and Ansett, under which the UK ...
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Australia cuts price of Qantas
THE AUSTRALIAN Government has slashed the expected price of its remaining 75% stake in Qantas, in a bid to boost the privatisation, which has been flagging in the face of weak financial markets and expectations of a poorer operating performance from the airline group. Estimates for the price ...
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Avatar rockets into top ranks
A NEW COMPANY has propelled itself into the top level of the world's spares resellers with a $400 million cash deal to buy Delta Air Lines' surplus-parts inventory. Avatar Alliance believes that the acquisition of some 17 million parts for 12 aircraft types "...may be the largest transaction ...
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Appointments
Graham Atkinson has been named vice president Atlantic division for United Airlines. This gives him responsibility for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Board of Airline Representatives in the UK has appointed Peter North as its first chief executive. Ed Bavaria has been named deputy ...
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Managing Asia's growth
Aeropolitics, rising costs and physical impediments to growth are the biggest challenges posed by the tidal wave of growth forecast for the Asia-Pacific region. David Knibb reports from the Airline Business/ Reed Exhibitions conference on 'Managing Airline Growth in Asia', held in Singapore.Asia's growth defies superlatives. ...
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The yen factor
The strength of the Japanese yen is having major repercussions throughout the airline business. David Knibb looks at the impact.The Japanese even have a word for it. Endaka describes the inexorable rise in the value of the yen. It's not a new phenomenon; the yen has been appreciating for at ...
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Routing for growth
Airlines have added and abandoned new routes at a substantial rate in the past two years, but US carriers and those based in more liberal markets dominated the picture. Report by Reed Travel Group Market Analysis and Airline Business. Market expansion is one of the most pertinent ways to ...
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Pyramids in the sky
Egyptair has seen off domestic competition and traffic is returning after a couple of years of decline. Chairman Mohammed Rayan talks to Sara Guild about his lofty plans for the carrier's future. There appears to be a discrepancy between the plans and ideas of Egyptair's chief executive and those of ...
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Airline news
All Nippon Airways will begin routes from Osaka/Kansai to Shanghai, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur in mid-July. The routes are subject to approval by Japan's Ministry of Transport. Philippine Airlines has begun a three time a week service from Manila to San Francisco using B747-400s. SilkAir and ...
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Crisis looms in Thailand
Thailand faces the renewed prospect of its airline industry falling prey to political vested interests in the wake of the dissolution of the Thai government on 19 May and the elections set for 2 July. The dissolution has meant the departure of both the transport and finance ministers, ...