All Strategy news – Page 488
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New volcano procedures would have trebled permitted flights
Preliminary results from the European exercise to assess revised response procedures to a repetition of the 2010 volcanic crisis indicate they would provide...
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American resumes St. Louis service as the airport recovers from a tornado
American Airlines plans to resume service to Lambert St. Louis International airport today after the facility was struck by a tornado on 22 April.
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China and Cameroon ink air services agreement
China and Cameroon have signed a new air services agreement, paving the way for the liberalisation of flights between the two countries. Under the...
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Air India 737 captain deeply asleep shortly before fatal approach
Indian investigators have cited a lethal combination of sleep inertia and over-dominance by the captain as having led to the fatal overrun by an Air India...
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Qatar Airways outlines plans for strategic partnerships
Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker has revealed that the airline is in dialogue about acquiring a stake in an unidentified airline. He has...
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WATS 2011: Australia's Rex cuts GA pilot pipeline
Australia's Regional Express Airlines no longer expects to obtain pilots from the general aviation community, a pipeline that as of two years ago had supplied...
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WATS 2011: Southwest-AirTran merger drives new training lines
Southwest Airlines' maintenance organisation is creating as many as 10 new maintenance training lines in large part to accommodate AirTran's fleet of Boeing...
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WATS 2011: Lufthansa Flight Training-Bremen Adds Sixth Mechtronix FSTD
In days prior to the World Aviation Training conference opening, Canada's Mechtronix Systems announced that Lufthansa Flight Training (LFT) is adding a sixth...
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Three-way airprox over Italy followed slack ATC handover
Lack of situational awareness after controllers changed shift led to a serious three-way air proximity incident in the vicinity of Milan nearly two years ago, Italian investigators have concluded.
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China's air transport plan: rising dragon
China has emerged as Asia-Pacific's largest player in air transport over the past decade. But its growth ambitions for the next 10 years and beyond go further. Last year China revealed a strategic vision to build a powerful civil aviation industry, with internationalisation, mass air travel and safety as three ...
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European air navigation service providers work as a team to aid SES progress
ALLIANCE FAB partnerships Parallel with SESAR Joint Undertaking-driven processes, several other complementary changes are evolving alongside...
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Single European Sky starts to show signs of progress
The Single European Sky is starting to show signs of progress, although the real surge is not likely to begin until 2013
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Qantas hopes algae will play a part in its sustainable fuel strategy
AIRLINE STUDY Algae down under Australia's Qantas Airways hopes algae will...
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Feedback: SimpliFlying's Shashank Nigam on virtual returns
As airlines increasingly embrace social media as part of their market strategies, Shashank Nigam of brand strategy consultancy SimpliFlying asks: is getting...
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Ownership: finding a new frontier
Faced with the slow pace of liberalisation, the airline industry has spawned a backdoor approach to help carriers expand their brand outside their own borders
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Market outlook: playing the cash generation game
The bounce back in performance in 2010 to what was in money, although not in margins terms, a record year, is now history. The key question for some time has been how much lower profits will be in 2011 compared with 2010 and what shape the year-end balance sheets will ...
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US Airways touts standalone model
Despite being written off many times before, the resilient Star Alliance carrier makes a play of the hand it has been dealt
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European transport strategy strikes positive note for aviation
Industry encouraged by commitment to mobility in European Commission's ambitious long-term transport policy
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JAL begins restructured life
Oneworld carrier returns from bankruptcy restructuring but faces challenges ahead as Japan begins earthquake recovery Japan Airlines has emerged restructured...