All Strategy news – Page 1168
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Tunnel vision?
Are Europe's airlines underestimating the impact of high-speed rail services? Andrew Chuter/LONDON If the old maxim that the customer is always right still has meaning, then the airlines that ply the world's busiest air route between London and Paris have a fight on their hands. ...
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Bite of the underdog
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas will be competing in some vital sales contests in the near future Kieran Daly/LONDON The next few months will see the outcomes of some of the most significant aircraft sales contests in the history of the aviation business. Purchase decisions to ...
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Exhausting issues
Aviation is coming under fresh attack from environmental lobbyists. Andrzej Jeziorski/Berlin There was an air of apologetic embarrassment about environmentalist Karl Schallabock as he gave his presentation on air transport and the environment at the Berlin Climate Summit in March. The audience at ...
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Jobs: unacceptable behaviour
Sir - An interesting juxtaposition of opinion emerges between Gordon Bretag's views (Flight International, Letters, 10-16 May, P89) and the comments of Emirates' Capt. Graham Jenkins in the article "Next-century strategy" (Flight International, 17-23 May, P34). Mr Bretag typifies the attitude of many in his position, where applications ...
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Japanese airlines climb back as recovery accelerates towards profits
JAPAN'S BELEAGUERED airlines have posted a brighter set of figures in the latest round of results for the 1994/5 financial year. The improvements come largely from a mix of cost-cutting programmes and a gathering recovery in the Japanese passenger market. Japan Airlines (JAL) managed to slash its ...
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Current outlook
The latest long-term forecasts from Boeing and Airbus point to better times. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Given that they more or less failed to flag up the most severe downturn in airline history, the casual observer could be forgiven for having less than absolute faith in the ...
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Mesa considers Continental Express take-over proposal
Guy Norris/PHOENIX THE MESA AIR GROUP, the largest independently owned regional carrier in the USA, is considering the possible purchase of the rival Continental Express operation. Mesa Air chief executive Larry Risley confirms that the proposal was considered and discussed by the board at a meeting ...
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Kenya Aerotech
Nairobi, Kenya-based ground-handling company Kenya Aerotech has appointed Simon Watts general manager for field services. He was formerly a consultant with Kuwait Airways and has also served with British Airways. Source: Flight International
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Southern Air
Stephen Van Gordon has been appointed senior vice-president of technical services for US carrier Southern Air Transport, of Miami, Florida. He was formerly general manager for airframe maintenance at United Airlines. Michael Vogt has been named director of sales for the Pacific Rim. He was most recently regional manager for ...
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Fly America in the ointment
The failure of US and UK aeropolitical negotiators to reach agreement on a proposed 'mini deal' in mid-April was just another chapter in years of fractious negotiations between the two countries. But the tripping point was so small that even veteran negotiators turned away in disgust at their inability to ...
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Orders
Aero Lloyd has ordered four A321s and two A320s direct from Airbus Industrie, worth $306 million. In addition the German charter will lease four A320s and six A321s from Los Angeles-based lessor ILFC. Delivery of the V2500 powered aircraft will begin in early 1996. United Airlines has ordered ...
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Appointments
Capt ST Deo, Capt JRD Rao and PJ Crasta have been appointed deputy managing directors at Indian Airlines. NC Ghosh has replaced RN Saxena as director of finance. Bob Taylor has been named managing director European services for American Airlines. John Garel has been appointed senior ...
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JAL's new head
Japan Airlines has appointed Akira Kondo as its next president and Akio Kohno as executive vice president. Kondo is presently the senior managing director, corporate planning and will succeed Matsuo Toshimitsu, who will remain on the board. Source: Airline Business
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Even bidding
Nine consortia including Air France, Continental, Vasp, Taca, Aces, and Carnival Airlines are bidding for a 50.1 per cent stake in Ecuatoriana. Business plans plus a minimum working capital sum of $10 million must be submitted by mid-June. Source: Airline Business
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US antipathy gives focus
Nations in Asia-Pacific ponder the benefits of a single market. Aeropolitics in the Asia-Pacific region are at something of a crossroads. The US has always been a single market, and the European Union created a single market in 1993. But the Pacific Rim nations remain aeropolitically fragmented, and this could ...
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Suppliers in demand
What enlarged role could suppliers and manufacturers play as airlines look to outsourcing as a cost control mechanism? Kevin P Michaels and William D Angeloni of the Canaan Group explore the possibilities.Airline suppliers have already endured a tumultuous decade - order boom followed by order bust, complicated by the constant ...
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A question of give and take
Many airlines have become more demanding of marketing alliances and are now prepared to abandon bad agreements or switch partners to get the right benefits.To the untrained eye the level of alliance activity over the past year could seem rather subdued compared to the frenetic activity of previous years. Some ...
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Not so easy
Where are the Southwests of Europe? As 1997 fast approaches, Sara Guild talks to the sole example, Ryanair, and looks at the difficulties of establishing the profitable low cost, low fare European airline. Tentative inquiries from the US are reaching the ears of would-be European airline companies. Two years away ...
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Making it work
Though airline alliances will come and go in the years to come, this survey demonstrates that they will almost certainly remain a strong feature of the industry. Despite some significant deletions since last year, particularly in the realm of route specific cooperation, each time an agreement has died another partnership ...
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Chinese drop guarantees
Air China has made history as the first Chinese airline to finance most of a new aircraft purchase without a bank guarantee. But the chances that others will soon follow suit have diminished with a recent rating downgrade for non-sovereign Chinese debt. Pressure has been mounting on China's ...