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Vanuatu faces barriers to privatisation
The decision by Vanuatu to prepare its flag carrier for privatisation is likely to hit some of the same snags experienced elsewhere in the Pacific Islands. Vanuatu, located 2,000km east of Australia, decided to sell 49% of Air Vanuatu to an international airline, following a recommendation from New Zealand ...
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Recovery route
NICHOLAS IONIDES MELBOURNE Ansett's chief executive has made a running start at turning the airline's finances around and inserting it into a global alliance. But there is still plenty of work to do. "When I arrived at Ansett we had what I have described as a Noah's ...
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A question of scale
KEVIN O'TOOLE Conventional wisdom has held back outsourcing of heavy maintenance, but as it starts to be challenged, only as few as a dozen airlines may emerge able to justify keeping work captive, argues IPG Consulting. On paper the equation looks perfect. On one side, airline boardrooms are keen ...
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Probing the costs
JACK SELLSBY LONDON IATA's upgraded maintenance accounting system offers cost transparency and gives participating airlines the best chance yet to benchmark globally Establishing the true cost of maintenance has never been a straightforward affair, even within the most sophisticated of airlines. Attempts to make meaningful comparisons between different ...
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Uneasy alliances
The global alliances have often looked more like mutually-beneficial truces between competitors than genuine joint . The Austrian Airlines move to Star seems to confirm that partners still value their independence. News that Austrian Airlines had chosen to forego its long-term partners for the bright lights of Star has ...
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Is Asia close to a turning point?
Asia's economic woes authored much of the over-capacity appearing on the North Atlantic. Chris Tarry of Commerzbank looks for sings of recovery Over the last few months much attention has been focussed on the current blood bath taking place on the North Atlantic. The conclusion very early on from ...
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EC shifts competition scrutiny to European alliances
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS After a lengthy period spent focusing on European-US aviation alliances, the European Commission's competition authorities plan to devote more effort to intra-European alliances. The intra-EU focus follows the EC's setting of conditions on the recent Alitalia/KLM alliance. The Commission ruled that the airlines should reduce frequencies ...
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UK cargo carriers pin hopes on Europe
PETER CONWAY LONDON UK cargo airlines angry at a controversial government decision that grants new rights to US operators, hope to generate the consensus needed by the European Commission to negotiate broader cargo rights with the USA. In August, the UK Government granted fifth freedom rights out of ...
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Singapore Airlines joins call for US-UK open skies
LOIS JONES LONDON UK-USopen skies talks remain in gridlock, with no sign of progress this side of the Millennium. But more players are joining the queue to offer transatlantic services and increase pressure for an open skies agreement. Singapore Airlines is the latest airline to apply pressure on the ...
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Privatisation the second time around?
PETER BENNETT VIENNA After decades in state ownership, privatisation could finally be on the cards for eastern Europe's airlines. Eastern European airlines, dogged by government procrastination, bureaucracy and stalled privatisation plans, may be about to see a change in their fortunes. Privatising the region's carriers has been ...
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Ansett reverses fortunes
NICK IONIDES ATI SINGAPORE Australia's once-troubled second carrier Ansett has reported strong year end earnings, but observers say that its turnaround has raised the stakes in a battle surrounding its ownership. Early in September Ansett reported a fourfold increase in both net and operating profit for its 1998/9 ...
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Low-cost survivors
CAROLE SHIFRIN WASHINGTON DC After years of uncertain and even disastrous performances by new entrant carriers in the USA, some seem to be thriving and even beginning to report profits. Why did these start-ups survive where so many failed? Accepted wisdom in the USA is that the fate ...
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Airport Marketing Awards
CATEGORY: Regional GOLD AWARD: Southampton International ,UK ACHIEVEMENT: Building and sustaining business traffic through developing links with key customers, media and staff. Southampton Airport, in common with many of Europe's regional airports, is focused on building business traffic and has already established itself in that role ...
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Breaking up
Breaking up is never easy - just ask Swissair and Austrian Airlines. The pair had been locked into a close relationship since 1990, but, last week, their love affair ended when Austrian packed its bags and walked out on the Qualiflyer group, having been won over by the rival charms ...
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UK airline group to bid for NATS
David Learmount/LONDON A group of nine UK airlines is preparing to bid for 49% of the country's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) when it is sold by the government in the next two years. The nine, collectively known as Airline Group, say that, as NATS' major users, it is in ...
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Key 717 deals close as Hawaiian takes 20
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH Boeing is closing on potential major 717 deals with British Airways and US low fare airline Vanguard, following the conclusion of a key deal from Hawaiian Airlines for up to 20 aircraft. "Three or four" orders for up to 50 aircraft are being finalised, says ...
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Clinton pushed to take tough line on EC hushkit plan
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Julian Moxon/PARIS The US House of Representatives is expected to vote to join the US Senate in adopting a resolution pressuring the Clinton Administration to complain to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) about European Commission policy on hushkits. ICAO would then rule on whether that policy ...
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Air China close to placing A340s on lease with Cathay Pacific
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Air China is on the verge of closing an agreement to lease its three Airbus A340-300s to Cathay Pacific as part of a fleet restructuring move that will also see its Boeing 777-200s removed. Sources in China told Flight International's sister on-line service, Air Transport Intelligence, that ...
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Boeing and BA launch spares network
British Airways has become launch customer for Boeing's Global Airline Inventory Network, a new service in which Boeing will manage the supply of expendable spare parts for the Boeing-built aircraft in the fleet. The scheme is expected to be a "win-win" situation for the airline, airframer and most spares ...
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Air Dolomiti focuses on regional jets after Lufthansa share deal
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Air Dolomiti is evaluating several regional jet types to supplement its fleet of ATR 42s and expects to make a selection "in the near future". The move follows the announcement that Lufthansa is to take a 26% stake in the Italian regional. The Trieste-based airline, which operates ...