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Empire builders in fight to the finish
Make no mistake, it's a battle - a fight to the finish. A battle for territory, for customers, for markets, for revenue streams. A strategic war in which treaties are made with friendly powers, only to be abrogated when those powers turn out to be not quite as friendly as ...
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Final bow for three chiefs
Three of the longest serving airline chiefs shocked the industry by resigning within weeks of each other in May, with at least two seemingly forced out. The departure of Ron Allen, Delta Air Lines' chairman, president and chief executive, appears to have surprised Allen himself. Neither Allen nor ...
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Senate grills the two Bobs
As theatre goes, it was in a class of its own. And as the curtain went down on a US Senate hearing into the US-UK open skies talks in early June, the prospect of progress seemed as remote as ever. The general consensus was that Robert Crandall and ...
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Sun blazes a trail for SAA
The experience gleaned during the sell-off of state-owned South African carrier Sun Air should help ease the partial privatisation of South African Airways. But there are strong doubts that the flag carrier will be in any fit shape to meet the government's stated end-of-year deadline. Captain Johan Borstlap, ...
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Iberia starts to fight back
Iberia is finally squaring up to its aggressive Spanish competitors by integrating the group's three main carriers. The Spanish flag carrier has seen its domestic monopoly slip over the last three years as private operators Spanair and Air Europa started expanding into scheduled services. But Iberia ...
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BA places a no strike bet
British Airways' plan to reap £1 billion a year in efficiency savings by March 2000 could suffer a severe blow if two separate ballots of cabin crew and ground staff, the latter over the airline's plan to sell its catering operations, result in support for strike action. Both ...
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BA hit by tit for tat ban
Air services between the UK and Nigeria were suspended in early June as a reciprocal ban of British and Nigerian registered aircraft assumed wider political implications. The UK Department of Transport banned Nigerian-registered aircraft from British airports in mid-May due to alleged poor safety standards. The Nigerian government ...
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Airline News
Swissair and Delta Air Lines started codesharing on 1 June from Zürich to New Orleans, Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale, Portland, Memphis, Nashville, Phoenix and Tallahassee via Atlanta or Cincinnati. Swissair was to start three weekly Zürich-Sarajevo services on 9 June. Crossair launched twice weekly Basle-Dublin services on ...
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Network agility
Will the gap widen between the most sophisticated European players in network management and those that have not yet grasped the concept fully? By Luis Rivera, Lucio Pompeo and Alberto Martin. Five years ago, network management was still quite an abstract concept for most European airlines. Though many had heard ...
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Airlines unite over Africa
Rising concerns over air safety in most of Africa have spurred several major European carriers to support a South Africa Airways' initiative that could see some countries boycotted if they do nothing to improve the parlous state of their air traffic control systems. In May SAA put forward ...
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Aeropostal in legal dispute
The parties behind the resurrection of Aeropostal are caught up in a legal dispute over money and control of the Venezuelan carrier. On first appearances, the carrier has made a miraculous comeback after going bankrupt in October 1994. Aeropostal's president Nelson Ramiz says the airline was due to ...
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Frontier loss grows
Losses at Frontier Airlines doubled, to $12 million, over the latest 1996/7 financial year to March. The three-year-old carrier, based at Denver International, Colorado, hopes that three more Boeing 737-300s, bringing the fleet to 11 by the start of 1998, will help profitability, while talks continue over a possible merger ...
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Kiwi financing
Kiwi International Airlines expects a bankruptcy-court ruling in July over the $16 million rescue plan put in place by orthopedic surgeon Dr Charles Edwards and Wasatch Enterprises. Kiwi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 1996 and was forced to suspend services, but began flying again at the start of ...
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Southcentral upgrades
Raytheon Aircraft has delivered two used Beech 1900Cs to SouthCentral Air, of Kenai, Alaska. The airline has options on four additional 1900Cs and will use the aircraft to replace cabin-class piston twins now flown on scheduled services. Source: Flight International
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Delta heads south
Delta Air Lines has begun services to South America, with a daily round-trip Boeing 767 flight from Atlanta, Georgia, to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The airline will also seek additional authority to expand services to Brazil and other South American countries. Source: ...
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Suckling
The president and chief executive of Fairchild Dornier, Jim Robinson (pictured left) was present at London Stansted Airport on 9 June to see unveiled a Dornier 328-100 operated by Suckling Airways in Air UK colours. Suckling Airways managing director Roy Suckling (right) and Air UK executive chairman Henny Essenberg (centre) ...
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Saab shapes up for the future
Saab Aircraft hopes to complete a study by the end of the year aimed at mapping out its future strategy. Gert Schyborger, who took over the reins as president at the Swedish civil-aircraft manufacturer earlier this year, says that until the study is complete he will not be ...
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Northern exposure
Max Kingsley-Jones/TORONTO Fortunes of Canadian charter airlines have been mixed in recent years. Established names have disappeared, to be replaced by new carriers seeking to Ìll the void, as the market itself has begun to undergo a metamorphosis. The country's inclusive-tour "holiday" market has traditionally broken ...
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Canada considers sanctions over US overflight charges
Graham Warwick/WASHington DC CANADA IS considering sanctions that could be imposed on the USA if it fails in legal efforts to ban overflight fees introduced by the US Federal Aviation Administration in May. Options range from levying similar fees on US airlines overflying Canadian airspace to asking the ...
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BA's Paris security dispute settled
British Airways says that it has withdrawn its legal action against Aéroports de Paris (ADP) for failing to provide adequate baggage check-in security at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG)Airport. BA says that the action follows ADP's provision of a new passenger check-in location. The seven-week dispute, which BA ...