All Strategy news – Page 364
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: LCCs continue to blur the lines with charter operators
Long-held assumptions that the rise of the European low-cost carriers would lead to the death of the package charter business look ever less convincing these days.
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InterviewINTERVIEW: Monarch chief executive Andrew Swaffield
This time last year Monarch Airlines was battling to finalise crucial labour deals and investment talks to give it breathing space to secure its future and complete its evolution from charter to scheduled leisure carrier.
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News
Missing BAe 125 inquiry considers possible 737 collision
Senegalese investigators are looking into the possibility that a missing British Aerospace 125 executive jet collided with a Boeing 737-800 before disappearing over the Atlantic Ocean.
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NewsHeathrow urges UK government to back expansion
Heathrow airport’s director of strategy, Andrew Macmillan, has urged the government to support the construction of a third runway at the facility, stating it can “either support Heathrow or do nothing”.
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News
Regulator acknowledges power of Aeroflot-Transaero tie-up
Russia’s competition regulator is to examine the impact of an Aeroflot acquisition of Transaero, after the flag-carrier’s board approved plans to take control of the struggling private airline.
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NewsReunion debris came from MH370: French justice ministry
French authorities have confirmed that aircraft wreckage recovered in July from the island of Reunion is from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
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NewsAmerican to debut new heritage jets this fall
American Airlines will debut its last three heritage jets this “autumn”, says chief integration officer Beverly Goulet.
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NewsMH370: Drift model places flaperon in east Indian Ocean
German oceanographic analysis indicates that the aircraft component washed up on Reunion in July probably originated from the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean.
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NewsWelcome to the new flightglobal.com
We're pleased to announce the launch of a new-look flightglobal.com.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: BA logs in to Silicon Valley economic boom
Norman Y Mineta San Jose International airport continues to slowly spread its wings internationally, as British Airways logs into the heart of Silicon Valley with new service to London Heathrow from May 2016
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AnalysisANALYSIS: MAS marks first year since turnaround plan
One year after Malaysia state investment fund Khazanah Nasional announced its radical 12-point recovery plan for Malaysia Airlines (MAS) there are signs of progress, but analysts are still dubious about the carrier's prospects.
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News
Air Mediterranee to boost African network this winter
Air Mediterranee will start new services to Senegal, Cape Verde and the Canary Islands this winter.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Virgin Australia, Qantas play it cool down under
With turnarounds in the fortunes of Qantas Airways and rival Virgin Australia, both carriers are keeping their cool in the core domestic market.
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NewsMAKS: A350-900 makes Moscow debut as Aeroflot continues review
Airbus has debuted the A350-900 at the 12th Moscow air show (MAKS-2015) at least three years ahead of the first delivery to the type’s only customer in Russia.
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NewsBoeing checks cabin system effect on smoke after 787 fire
Boeing is developing models to assess how environmental control systems might carry particles and gas from a fire in the emergency locator transmitter, in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines 787 fire at London Heathrow.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The end of the gold rush for Asia-Pacific alliances
Just over one year ago in April 2014, SriLankan Airlines joined the Oneworld Alliance. Not content to hold the ceremony in the capital city of Colombo, the carrier deployed one of its Airbus A340-300 aircraft to fly media and dignitaries 150km to the newly built, but remote, Mattala Rajapaksa International ...
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NewsTrigana crash site yet to yield flight-data recorder
Indonesian search personnel are still hunting for the crucial flight-data recorder from the crashed Trigana Air ATR 42-300.
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NewsQantas firms order for eight 787-9s
Qantas Airways has announced an order for eight Boeing 787-9s that will be used to replace five of its ageing 747-400s and allow for future international growth.
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NewsEthiopian 787 fire probe seeks assurance on battery defences
Investigators are seeking assurances that aircraft systems powered by lithium batteries are adequately protected against short-circuit, after formally attributing the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 ground fire to thermal runway in the emergency locator transmitter.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Iberia chief executive Luis Gallego
You don't have to go further than Iberia's Madrid headquarters to get a sense of the new direction in which chief executive Luis Gallego is seeking to take the airline.