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private investigations
A new European directive on data protection is threatening to change the rules for airline alliance partners seeking to share customer details. Imagine the global alliance makers as players on a Monopoly board, all lined up at the start and keen to roll the dice. The world's major airlines ...
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Russian rates hit North Korea income
"Open your skies and they will come." That was the message North Korea heard when it agreed with the International Civil Aviation Organisation to allow commercial flights through its heavily guarded airspace. Yet, since that agreement took effect in April, use of North Korean airspace has been below projections. ...
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Pockets of growth
It should come as no surprise that in the USA, much of what can or cannot be done about capacity growth will boil down to politics. In keeping with all of American life, politics weaves its way through all of the major issues: not least the struggle to raise ...
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Keen to grow but loath to sell
There is no doubt that many of Eastern Europe's key airports are in dire need of upgrading and expansion. As elsewhere in the world, governments are casting around for private finance, but as yet privatisation itself is not on the agenda. Despite the trauma which followed the collapse of ...
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Gleaming Gardermoen
Can Norway's attractive new hub at Gardermoen carve out an international role in the Scandinavian market? Oslo's futuristic new airport at Gardermoen can probably lay claim to being Europe's last major new opening this side of the millennium. It is undoubtedly a gleaming example of Norwegian architecture, coming complete with ...
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Mixed fortunes in US results
Every US chief executive expects to find the next economic downturn around the corner - a fact acknowledged by United Airlines chairman Gerald Greenwald when he said: "Yes, Virginia, there's a bear market out there. How big, how bad and how long it stays remains to be seen." But when ...
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Flourishing in Florida
As Miami's major airport struggles to keep pace with the fastest growth in the USA, its smaller rivals are making a bid for more international service. Growth in Florida is a bit like the sunshine - there's always plenty to go around. No matter which way you slice the ...
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SAA dumps sale guidelines
Widely accepted guidelines for the privatisation of South African Airways (SAA) have been turned on their head by chief executive Coleman Andrews. The South African Government had said that it would sell off 49% of SAA, with 30-35% going to a single foreign partner and the balance finding its ...
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Preparing for downturn
Any analysts keen to spot signs of an end to the boom, will have found much to whet the appetite as the major US airlines posted their third quarter financials. Even before the results were fully out, nervous equity markets had begun to downgrade earnings estimates for next year. It ...
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Seoul cuts Korean flights
South Korea's transport ministry has spanked Korean Airlines (KAL) with a cutback of 20% in domestic flights. For the next six months, KAL cannot operate 138 weekly flights on 10 of its best domestic routes and must suspend two of its 28 weekly flights to Tokyo. The carrier stands to ...
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Cretans welcome Dutch move
Dutch scheduled and charter airline Transavia has become the first non-Greek airline to operate a domestic schedule in Greece, following a change in the rules by the Greek aviation authorities in line with European Union (EU) rules. Transavia, which has built up a strong following in Greece over many ...
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Moscow tussle continues
Virgin Atlantic and British Midland are still fighting it out over Moscow route rights. The two rivals are taking their cases for a new London Heathrow to Moscow route back to the UK's Civil Aviation Authority after John Prescott, the UK Secretary of State for Transport, ruled that it had ...
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Continental seeks justice
The US Department of Justice's (DOJ) decision to mount a legal challenge to the proposed purchase of a 14% stake in Continental Airlines by Northwest Airlines throws a question mark over the future shape of the alliance. Continental Airlines insists it will pursue the pact and that the two airlines ...
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Reining back on growth
Not so long ago, the issue exercising minds in much of Asia Pacific was whether airport capacity would be able to keep pace with the region's roaring traffic growth. Since last year's economic turmoil took hold, the concerns have changed. After decades of topping the growth tables, the region ...
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Star attracts a galaxy
The Star Alliance will expand to nine full members before the end of 1999, following All Nippon Airlines' (ANA) decision to join. ANA president, Kichisaburo Nomura, says his company will take up full membership at the start of October 1999, following the example of Ansett and Air New Zealand, ...
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Newsline Asia
Mandarin merger - China Airlines has set a June 1999 target date for the merger of its subsidiaries Mandarin Airlines and Formosa Airlines. The merged carrier will retain the Mandarin name, but will focus entirely on domestic services. Garuda shake-up - Debt-ridden Indonesian airline Garuda has appointed a new ...
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BA/American put alliance brakes on
Faced with declining yields across the North Atlantic, British Airways and American Airlines have confirmed plans to postpone a full alliance for up to five years. But their revised plans for limited codesharing have failed to dispel US opposition. BA now plans to codeshare with American in the US ...
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Airports Gearing up to grow
An unprecedented enthusiasm for commercialisation is sweeping the world's airports. Old public service concepts are out. The new creed is cost containment, private finance, aggressive marketing and even acquisition strategies. But before the airline customers start to celebrate, there are potential penalties as well as gains from this latest trend. ...
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Airports can be low cost too
Spurred on by the low-cost carriers, Europe's local airports have begun to reinvent themselves as low-cost alternatives to the major hubs. Much attention has been lavished on the rise of Europe's low-cost airlines. But it is not only the carriers which are cutting costs. Following fast on their heels ...
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Royal Air Maroc gets back on track with record
Royal Air Maroc has staged a dramatic turnaround, underlined this year by what promises to be a record haul of profits and some ambitious expansion plans. Official figures have yet to be published for the Moroccan flag carrier's latest 1997/8 financial year to October, but it is confident that ...