Good Week

Lotus F1
 © Max Kingsley-Jones
Tony Fernandes The Air Asia boss needs to turn his wings upside down and stick to the ground as team principal of Lotus F1, which is being brought back to Formula 1 for 2010 by a Malaysian consortium to replace BMW Sauber. Fernandes knows F1 – Air Asia currently sponsors Williams – but has his work cut out for him; Lotus last raced in F1 in 1994 and went bust. The racing team is separate from the UK car maker, owned by Malaysia’s Proton.

 

 

Bad Week

JAL 747
 © Rex Features
Japan Airlines The carrier -which the Financial Times called "the world's worst major operator by almost any metric you care to mention" -hopes a happy outcome to US-Japan "open skies" talks will by mid-October let it reach a deal to slash routes, cut 6,800 jobs and tie itself to a foreign partner - probably American Airlines or Delta Air Lines. Air France-KLM has also been named as a possibilty. JAL lost ¥99 billion ($1.1 billion) in the second quarter.

 

 

 

Source: Flight International

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