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Airline BusinessBunk-beds to lounges: ultra-long haul interiors straddle comfort and economics
As Qantas nears its decision on undertaking ultra-long-haul flights, what should it pay heed to, in designing its cabin features?
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Airline BusinessWhy strong Ryanair and Wizz February traffic offers few clues to coronavirus impact
Monthly traffic figures for February released by Ryanair and Wizz Air today offer little indication of the impact on air travel demand of the spread of the coronavirus into Europe.
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Airline BusinessEuropean carriers hunker down for tough times from coronavirus outbreak
Any doubts as to whether the impact of the coronavirus outbreak would spread beyond Asia to European airlines has been answered by a slew of cost-savings measures, capacity cuts and warnings of potential earnings hits in the past few days.
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Airline BusinessHeathrow ruling suggests new legal front in airline sustainability battle
The UK appeal court’s ruling that plans for a third runway at London Heathrow airport are unlawful on climate grounds is in line with intensifying pressure on a commercial aviation industry that had been enjoying years on largely unconstrained growth.
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Airline BusinessTourism key as Turkish carriers target growth return in 2020
A mixed picture in which tourism grew strongly but domestic traffic was sharply down lay behind the first year in a decade in which annual passenger numbers fell at Turkey’s two biggest carriers in 2019.
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Airline BusinessHow Martin Gauss carved a European niche for Air Baltic
Walk into Air Baltic’s boardroom at its Riga International airport headquarters, and your eyes are immediately drawn to a table featuring dozens of tiny Airbus A220-300 models adorned with the carrier’s distinctive green livery.
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Airline BusinessWhat airlines must do to achieve greater gender diversity
It’s about time that the aviation industry took serious action to address its major gender balance disparity.
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Airline BusinessCoronavirus tests fundamental weaknesses in Asia-Pacific airline market
As the coronavirus continues to affect airlines’ networks and demand for passenger travel and freight services, the spotlight is falling on Asia-Pacific’s airlines and their ability to weather the storm.
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Airline BusinessWhy Ryanair is still more likely to bide its time than bid for Air Italy
Ryanair’s move to hold a press conference in Milan today sparked some press speculation that the low-cost carrier was about to make a bid for the assets of collapsed carrier Air Italy.
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Airline BusinessNorwegian counts costs of 737 Max and Trent 1000 disruptions
Norwegian estimates that disruption from the Boeing 737 Max grounding and ongoing issues with the Rolls-Royce Trent engines on its 787 fleet have led to a combined NKr1.7 billion ($183 million) net loss for 2019.
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Airline BusinessHow low-cost carriers have capitalised on Italian airline failures
No European country’s carriers have struggled to secure or retain a leading presence in their own market more than Italian operators, as the collapse of Air Italy further illustrates.
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Airline BusinessWhy did Air Italy fail?
Air Italy’s collapse on 11 February reflects its inability to overcome a number of challenges in an Italian market that continues to be as tantalising for new entrants as it is punishingly tough on them.
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Airline BusinessWhy South African Airways network cuts prove painful to implement
One thing perennial struggler South African Airways has not been short of over the years is restructuring plans. Its latest, proposed under formal restructuring, features a further retrenchment that continues the paring back of its network.
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Airline BusinessANA, SIA look for big network effect with joint venture
The proposed joint venture between All Nippon Airways and Singapore Airlines could offer substantial benefits to both Star Alliance carriers. The chief executives of the two airlines, Yuji Hirako of ANA and Goh Choon Phong of SIA, announced the plan at a joint press conference at a Tokyo hotel on ...
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Airline BusinessWhich airlines are most exposed to mainland China amid the coronavirus?
Airlines are continuing to suspend international capacity to mainland China in the wake of the coronavirus – but the significance of such decisions to their overall networks varies wildly.
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Airline BusinessHawaiian full year income falls as competition increases
Hawaiian Holdings, the parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, says net adjusted income for the full year 2019 fell 25% to $219 million compared to the same period a year ago as it faced stiff new competition on some of its stronger routes within the Hawaiian Islands, to the US mainland and to Japan.
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Airline BusinessWhat does LOT’s purchase of Condor mean for Europe’s airline market?
The conventional wisdom in the European airline industry tends to be that inevitable consolidation will be based around growth of the five biggest groups: Air France-KLM, EasyJet, IAG, Lufthansa Group and Ryanair.
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Airline BusinessRyanair heads European traffic as airlines slow pace in 2019
Strong growth at its new Austrian unit Lauda helped low-cost carrier Ryanair reclaim its position as the biggest European airline group by passenger number in 2019, though overall growth among leading carriers in the region lagged previous years.
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Airline BusinessAmerican Airlines posts strong 2019, expects 737 Max in second half of 2020
American Airlines posted higher revenue and profit figures for the full year 2019 than a year earlier, as strong demand countered fallout from the Boeing 737 Max crisis.
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Airline BusinessFreighter conversions fall away sharply in 2019
Freighter conversions fell 33% in 2018, with declines in the widebody, narrowbody, and regional aircraft freighter segments. Cirium fleets data shows that 2019 saw 74 commercial aircraft converted to freighters, down from 110 in 2018. Source: Cirium fleets data Freighter conversions by year Widebody conversions halved ...