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Aeroflot and Volga-Dnepr plot new courses
Alexander Velovich and Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Aeroflot Russian International Airlines has launched a new corporate strategy with the introduction of its summer timetable. It incorporates the results of a 600-page report produced after a four-month study by US analysts McKinsey. The Russian carrier's new timetable features 450 scheduled weekly flights ...
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El Al faces bleak future as plans to privatise slip down Israel's agenda
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIVIsrael has effectively suspended preparation for the privatisation of El Al, causing the flag carrier's president Joel Feldschu to warn that its entire future may be under threat. Feldschu says that while it remains under state control, El Al - which is banned from flying on the Jewish ...
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Ansett's Eddington in line for top BA post
British Airways is expected within the next few weeks to name Ansett Australia executive chairman Rod Eddington as its new chief executive. If final negotiations are completed he will succeed Robert Ayling. Eddington was recruited by Ansett's 50% shareholder News Corporation in 1997, having previously occupied the top job at ...
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EasyJet orders 17 more Boeings
EasyJet has ordered up to 47 Boeing 737-700s, including options and 17 firm orders, as it prepares to create a new hub at Amsterdam Schiphol by the end of the year. The London Luton-based low-cost airline is gearing up for a tripling of traffic to 15 million passengers annually ...
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Air Canada loath to sell regional
Chris Jasper/LONDON Air Canada is to put Canadian Regional Airlines (CRA) up for sale "in the near future", although it hopes no buyer will come forward as it plans to fold the carrier into its own regional operation. CRA must be offered for purchase as a condition of Air Canada's ...
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A people business
The departure of Bob Ayling from British Airways may have had more than one simple cause, but his apparent lack of ability to motivate staff and sell his vision provide important lessons as the airline looks for a new head. It may be a well-worn maxim, but the airline ...
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SIA left in the air by Air New Zealand
DAVE KNIBB SEATTLE The long-awaited decision on whether Singapore Airlines (SIA) would plump for Virgin's Australian operation or Air New Zealand (ANZ) as its Australasian partner is still in the balance after talks between SIA and ANZ broke down. SIA chief executive Dr Cheong Choong Keong flew to Auckland ...
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KLM gives profit plan details
COLIN BAKER LONDON KLM has detailed its plans to bring the airline back to profitability next year. The measures include a cost-cutting programme and a change in fleet deployment to bring total savings of DFl700 million ($307 million). The airline says the measures, aimed to tackle rising fuel costs, ...
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Canada proposes tougher rules
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Canada's transport administration, Transport Canada, proposes to rewrite the country's aviation laws, but the Competition Bureau thinks it is not enough. In response to Air Canada's takeover of Canadian Airlines, a parliamentary committee has completed a review of the laws. Ottawa believes these need revision to ...
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Struggling VASP looks to domestic market
BRIAN HOMEWOOD RIO DE JANEIRO VASP, Brazil's third-biggest airline, is struggling to maintain its credibility after a run of embarrassing problems caused by an apparent lack of cash. The beleaguered airline, which has cut several international routes and returned four Boeing MD-11s, nearly had its landing rights suspended at Brazilian ...
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TAESA faces bleak future
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE The rise in Mexico's credit rating to investment grade may have come too late to save Taesa, the country's third largest airline. Grounded since mid-November and under government orders to raise more capital before it resumed flying, the carrier entered bankruptcy in late February. Its future depends ...
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All parcelled up
PETER CONWAY LONDON The long awaited shake-out in the logistics sector could be about tore-write the rules for airline cargo departments and express operators alike When Ocean Group and NFC, two UK companies with global logistics businesses, announced a merger a month ago, it probably did not create much ...
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Back from the Brink
NICHOLAS IONIDES JAKARTA President-director Abdulgani, at the helm of Garuda Indones President-director Abdulgani does not mince his words about Garuda Indonesia's troubles over the past few years. "If changes had not happened, Garuda may have collapsed - it really was that serious. Garuda has had deep financial and big ...
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Europe Online
COLIN BAKER LONDON European carriers have issued a response to the threat of the online travel market by clubbing together to launch their own joint website First it was the turn of the US majors to launch a joint Internet site. At the end of February, the European majors ...
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Blue sky thinking
Colin Baker LONDON The aims of Europe's environmental policy have been There is little argument that last November's policy paper on transport and the environment from the European Commission was a comprehensive piece of work. Yet, while the air transport industry may agree on the broad aim of a ...
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Argentina wary of US open skies agreement
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE August is the earliest Buenos Aires will reconsider its decision to suspend Argentina's open skies bilateral with the USA. But if the present mood prevails, the bilateral faces a tough future. At least four US officials have met with their Argentinian counterparts since the new government in ...
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Scramble for AeroPeru routes starts
Almost a year after AeroPeru stopped flying, Lima has revoked the airline's operating permit and confirmed that its international routes are available for re-allocation. For TACA Peru and LanPeru, the move comes none too soon. The director general for air transport (DGTA) delayed cancelling AeroPeru's permit because a group ...
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Show time
Jane Levere NEW YORK Providing passengers with the latest advances in on-board entertainment is a definite marketing plus, but reliability and maintenance are real issues. The in-flight entertainment (IFE) industry is gearing up to enter the high-tech world of e-mail and Internet access and carriers are clearly keen to let ...
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Changing channels
Tom Gill LONDON Global distribution systems face unprecedented challenges to their traditional businesses as the Internet gathers pace "They have had a very easy life for a very long time. But distribution is no longer secure. Supply is no longer secure. Other people have replicated the technology functionality at a ...
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Play by the rules
David Knibb WASHINGTON DC As momentum grows to liberalise the skies, the rules for fair and open competition become more important. But few agree on what they should be. When Grupo TACA accused Continental Airlines last November of predatory pricing and capacity dumping, a charge the latter denied, it ...