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JAL debates global alliance
Paul Lewis/Singapore Japan Airlines (JAL) is putting the final touches to its new code-share agreement with American Airlines, but is still debating the merits of joining British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways and Qantas to form a planned new global alliance. The two carriers are due to sign an ...
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EC views Malpensa transfer as anti-competitive
The European Commission's (EC) transport directorate has ruled against Italy's plan to transfer the majority of airlines now operating at Milan Linate to the new hub at Malpensa. Transport commissioner Neil Kinnock says the Italian transport ministry decree forcing airlines with routes on which fewer than 2 million passengers ...
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Asia crisis misses Lufthansa and SAirGroup
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The Asian economic crisis has failed to dent the performance of two of Europe's flag carriers, with Germany's Lufthansa Group and Swissair owner SAir Group showing big increases in pre-tax profits for the first six months of 1998. The Lufthansa Group's pre-tax profits on ordinary activities ...
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BWIA links up with Continental for revamp
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC BWIA International Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding on a code-share agreement with Continental Airlines as part of a three-year strategic revamp to make the Caribbean carrier profitable. Talks have also been held with Delta Air Lines, but Continental "-is the preferred option", BWIA says. ...
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SAA chief urges government protection
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN South African Airways (SAA) chief executive Coleman Andrews has urged Pretoria to cut jet fuel prices and use regulatory powers to defend SAA on international routes while it reorganises its fleet and network. Andrews told a parliamentary committee that SAA could save up to R80 ...
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Garuda embarks on major restructure
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Garuda Indonesia's newly appointed president has embarked on a comprehensive overhaul of the financially stricken carrier, involving new financing for a reduced fleet of aircraft, cutting routes, new code-share agreements, the axing of over 40% of the airline's staff and the sale of non-core businesses. "What ...
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Have four engines, will travel far
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON When Airbus Industrie launched its four-engined fly-by-wire A340 family in June 1987, it was the first all-new long-range widebody for a generation, and seemed to catch Boeing on the hop. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10-derived MD-11 provided the only competition for the A340 for several years as Boeing ...
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KLM uk goes on the offensive
KLM uk has struck back at Stansted-based rival Go by revealing the first phase of a revamp of operations at its London hub. The airline says it aims to tackle the low-fare division of British Airways head on, with an increase in frequencies to Edinburgh, Scotland, to seven services a ...
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Sensing safer skies
Guy Norris/SEATTLE The aviation industry's continual search for safer skies is reaching "crusade" status as the chilling implications sink in of predicted traffic growth on accident rates. The US Federal Aviation Administration, for example, expects "a serious accident" every week by 2015 unless some radical changes are made. That ...
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More than one
South Korea scrapped a single carrier policy which prevented its two international carriers from competing on many overseas routes. Meanwhile Korean Air has agreed to expand its codeshare agreement with Delta Air Lines into a global marketing arrangement. Source: Airline Business
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Debonair move
Low cost carrier Debonair is to launch its first London/Gatwick service in October, to Barcelona. Source: Airline Business
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Aces trumps
Bogotá has convinced Washington that Aces can fly new Airbus A320s to the US even though Colombia remains in category 2. Category 2 freezes US routes and fleets for foreign airlines, but Aces' tests and pressure from Colombian officials convinced the FAA to exemptthe airline's new jets. Source: Airline ...
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Air Afrique in crisis again
Air Afrique hopes to overcome its worst crisis yet by privatising and forming a strategic partnership, but critics say the airline's chairman has mismanaged and should resign. The heavily indebted Côte d'Ivoire-based carrier, owned by 11 African states and Air France, has defaulted on payments for four Airbus A310-300s ...
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Airline News
Transbrasil and TAP Air Portugal began codesharing on services between Lisbon and Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Fortaleza on 30 June. TAP intends to expand in Brazil via Transbrasil's domestic network, as part of an agreement signed in 1997. Swissair was to begin codesharing with THY Turkish Airlines, ...
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Report weakens airport campaign
First, the good news. According to an official report, most of the runways in the US national airport system are in good to excellent condition. The bad news is that this may not be good for the airports. It will not be good news if the report, compiled by ...
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US alliances meet silence
A Wall Street analyst is predicting that none of the proposed US domestic airline alliances will be approved by the Department of Transportation because of the unfavourable environment in Washington DC and concerns about competition. Candace Browning, an analyst at Merrill Lynch in New York, points out that the ...
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North America: communication lines are open
If the millennium bug decides to take a bite out of the US airline industry, it will not be through lack of dialogue on the subject. Perhaps characteristically, Americans see communication as the primary frontline weapon in the war against potential computer chaos at the birth of the new century. ...
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Europe: few direct answers
Will Europe's aviation industry be ready for the year 2000? The honest answer is that nobody yet knows. To date, companies have largely been preoccupied with their own internal compliance issues, but the wider debate over how the issue will affect the industry as a whole has only just begun. ...
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Slot sale ban challenged
The UKOffice of Fair Trading (OFT) has broadly accepted the European Commission's conditions for approval of the BA-American transatlantic alliance but has criticised the ban on slot sales and the demand that the US-UK market be opened to all European Economic Area carriers. The OFT's director general, John Bridgeman, ...
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Profits for better and for worse
Airline profits may be at an all-time high but can the industry keep them there? It's just déjà vu all over again. So a disillusioned sportsman is said to have remarked on seeing his team once again collapse to defeat. There may be more than a few in the airline ...