All Strategy news – Page 1169
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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 ...
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Home sales, closed ranks
The sale of stakes in three of Taiwan's larger domestic airlines in less than a month appears to be linked to Taipei's plan to open international routes to these airlines. EVA Air paid $13 million for 20 per cent of Great China Airlines and $18 million for 32 ...
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Cathay HK role threat
The future of Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific looks increasingly uncertain as it attempts to fathom the motives behind a China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) application for an air operator's certificate in the territory, in a move to set up a Chinese-controlled, Hong Kong-based international airline to compete with Cathay. ...
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Air NZ to take Ansett
News Corporation's Rupert Murdoch has agreed to sell his 50 per cent share in Ansett Australia to Air New Zealand for around A$500 million (US$365 million). But an announcement was delayed as Air NZ and its controlling shareholder Brierley Investments continued tough negotiations with the other Ansett shareholder, TNT, over ...
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JAL: cancel US bilateral
Japan Airlines has fired the opening shot in expected Japan-US aviation talks by calling for cancellation of the existing bilateral so that both sides can start with a clean slate. With talks imminent, JAL is signalling its determination to urge a harder line that is consistent with Tokyo's growing resistance ...
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Bells ring in the changes
Time will tell whether the three recently announced major alliances are merely marriages of convenience or opportunities for long-term harmony and success. The wedding bells are ringing again. If successful, this month's three major new airline alliances will all change the balance of power in their respective markets. But ...
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Lessors bid to save FSCs
US cross-border tax leases involving foreign sales corporations (FSCs) appear to have been dealt a fatal blow by a recent US Internal Revenue Service ruling that eliminates accelerated depreciation mechanisms. But sources indicate US lessors are still looking at ways around the ruling, despite some estimates of a ...
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Weber wins Nordic prize
For SAS the search is over. But KLM now finds itself without any major European partner and is fast running out of available options. The Scandinavian flag carrier solved its European partner problem by forging close ties - but no equity swap - with Lufthansa. The alliance is ...
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Swissair set to buy way in
Swissair is not often accused of acting in haste. But the manner in which it is has approached buying a 49.5 per cent stake in Sabena smacks of desperation, brought on by its exclusion from the single European aviation market. European Commission approval for the deal appears little ...