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Japan poised to renounce?
Deadlocked US-Japan passenger negotiations are testing the resolve of both sides, as the mood in Tokyo swings towards renunciation and the US attempts to avoid passenger talks this year. Early June talks in Tokyo became bogged down when the US insisted on resolving outstanding issues, principally plans by ...
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Mirror images
Japan's two largest carriers are eyeing each other's traditional markets as they struggle to rectify the advantages enjoyed by their US rivals and the disadvantages of Japanese airport congestion. Successful cost-cutting remains the key. Mark Odell reports on their progress from Tokyo and then scrutinises domestic deregulation Japanese-style. Put the ...
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Good relations
Why are most airports building up their marketing efforts to airlines? What are the most effective techniques? Why should airlines listen? Mike Haworth explains.As well as being clearly recognised as one of the most important factors in regional economic development, airports are increasingly acting like 'normal' businesses. And like ...
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Sempati sale signals float
In a move to boost its balance sheet before going public, Indonesia's Sempati Air is to sell 40 per cent of its equity in a private deal to an Indonesian-Malaysian consortium. Coupled with a planned public offering of another 20 per cent later this year, Sempati will make ...
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Euro-continent is slow to recover
The long period of expansion for the global economy, which began in the United States five years ago, looks set to pickup momentum again this year and next as the Japanese business machine springs back to life. However, the performance of the industrial countries as a group looks distinctly patchy ...
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Immune deficiency syndromes
US transportation officials have long been quietly offering antitrust immunity as a gift for opening up international markets to their airlines. Now immunity is being sought on a grand scale, but the Department of Justice is wary. Mead Jennings reports.The question won't be asked officially for another year, but Elliott ...
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Hungarian dance
While it awaits the next stage of privatisation, Hungary's flag carrier is busy improving its efficiency. Richard Whitaker reports from Budapest. Ask a Malev executive what the carrier's ownership structure will be in a year's time, and the response will be very simple: it's almost anybody's guess. But ask about ...
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Lax tax rules hit at costs
As US carriers report record earnings during the first quarter, some analysts are cautioning that the windfalls, in good measure due to the lapse of the 10 per cent ticket tax at the start of this year, are disguising a rise in unit costs. On one of the ...
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CNAC enters with Dragon
Hong Kong's handover has come a year early for Dragonair. Yielding to Chinese pressure, Cathay Pacific and the Swire group have agreed to cut their holdings in Dragonair and allow China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) to take control. Peter Sutch, Cathay's chairman, describes this as 'an accommodation of PRC aviation ...
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UPS closes on Taipei hub
The decisions by United Parcel Service and DHL to launch Asian hubs commit all four of the big express cargo carriers to the Orient. The question now is which of the differing strategies will work and whether they will avoid the bloody shakedown that followed a similar scramble four years ...
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A clearer direction?
A spring-clean of the alliance movement has taken place over the past year, with many of the majors dusting off and discarding some of their older, redundant agreements and focusing instead on developing newer ones. Meanwhile the number of alliances continues to grow as more pertinent agreements are added by ...
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Twin trouble over China
The extraordinary growth in China's air travel market has come as a welcome boost for the world airline industry but it is also sparking serious confrontation between rival carriers of two Asia-Pacific nations over route rights. In South Korea, Korean Air and rival Asiana Airlines are tussling over ...
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More cash as heads roll?
Indonesian flag carrier Garuda is undergoing more management upheaval as it struggles to implement a critical fleet modernisation programme and lift performance after one of its toughest years. In the face of intense competition on key domestic and international routes from local rival Sempati and more efficient foreign ...
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Thai weighs cargo option
Thai International wants to take full ownership of a proposed national all-cargo operator being set up to tap into the impressive 15 per cent growth in freight traffic - almost double the annual rise in passenger numbers. Thai's management is proposing to set up the as yet unnamed ...
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Virgin buys into Europe
With the Virgin Group's takeover of 90 per cent of Euro-Belgian Airlines (EBA), continental Europe is getting its first taste of the US low-fare, short-haul carrier craze. In return, the US management team of Brussels-based Virgin Express is getting its first taste of the vagaries of the European market. ...
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Iata fares badly over price fixing
Over the past 20 years, US officials have never missed an opportunity to utter their contempt for the tariff conferences that the International Air Transport Association holds for member airlines. The meetings, during which fare ceilings for international travel are set, have been exempted from antitrust laws since 1945. But ...
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Props back in Dusseldorf
Düsseldorf's move to ban turboprop aircraft has failed following legal action by three operators and the airport has agreed a 3 June restart date. Germany's second busiest airport has a longstanding slot shortage and faces additional handling problems as a result of a serious fire on 11 April. ...
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Sun shines on BA empire
Danish regional Sun-Air has signed a franchise agreement which will see it operating as British Airways Express from August. The deal marks the first time BA has franchised its Express brand to an airline based outside the UK, although 49 per cent-owned TAT European Airways of France is licensed to ...
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An oriental approach
Ministry of Transport officials are still smarting from criticism of the latest deregulation initiative in the Japanese domestic market. On the surface, the complaints seem justified as basic fares are set to increase across the board. But a main architect of the plan insists the benefits will come from the ...
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BA savours American pie
The impending alliance between American Airlines and British Airways confirms that US international aviation policy over the last two years has had a dramatic impact on the global airline industry. BA and American officials were preparing the accord at presstime. Sources say that a two-year discussion finally yielded ...