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The quest is on for market power
In coping with more airline consolidation, regulators could well be out of their depth.In a recent television interview, a reporter asked a simple question: 'Why would anybody want to buy an airline which has lost over $3 billion in the last five years?' Put like that, the interest being ...
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Manila puts US on hold
Yielding to persistent pleas from Manila, the US has agreed to delay open skies provisions set to take effect next year under the bilateral. But in return Washington has extracted expanded cargo rights and a phased expansion of passenger services. Under provisions drafted in 1982 and already postponed ...
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Hawaiian set to post profit
American Airlines has reprieved Hawaiian Airlines for the fourth time over $6.9 million in payments due on its leased DC10s, as the carrier continues its restructuring efforts after emerging from bankruptcy 14 months ago. The payments Hawaiian owes American represent lease and maintenance charges that accumulated late last ...
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Growing up
The flag carriers of the scattered Pacific islands are maturing and learning how to cooperate both with one another and major airlines. However, geography and colonial legacies remain the biggest obstacles to their future development. David Knibb reports. Isolation makes the scattered Pacific islands different from all other developing countries. ...
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Getting IT right
What does a business do when none of its computer systems support its core business processes? Simple. It realigns its information technology with those processes, then develops a plan to put the systems in place. UK-based Britannia Airways has done just that, showing how IT can add significant extra ...
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Get smart inside the system!
For Northwest Airlines, record profits this year have been less a result of recent, company-wide efficiency programmes than of a series of initiatives - including route restructuring, employee concessions and alliance-building - stretching back several years. Nonetheless, 'smarter' flying and pricing have produced lower costs and higher yields for the ...
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Profit share: a stroke of genius
Singapore Airlines' chairman J Y Pillay has absolutely no doubt that in an unforgiving airline industry, survival rests on the continuing struggle to improve productivity and keep ahead of costs. And there can be little doubt that Pillay's message is getting through at an airline which consistently turns in some ...
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More than a fleeting gain?
At Malev Hungarian Airlines, a major improvement in efficiency is one of the main outcomes of a modernisation programme that started back in 1991 but only really started to take root last year. Indeed, commercial director Ferenc Turi says the restructuring has really only just begun in earnest. 'We are ...
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Financial results
Aeromexico was helped by US traffic growth, a stronger peso, and cuts of 600 employees and seven aircraft. Second-quarter net was $98m. Air NZ improved 36% despite the Kobe earthquake and the temporary grounding of its B737s. Alitalia's first-half loss was better than last year's, but ...
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Express trial grinds to halt
After a year's trial of its innovative Lufthansa Express product, the German carrier has cherry-picked parts of the pilot scheme for a revamp of its domestic operation. A poor performance halted the extension of the pilot to the whole system as originally planned. The German flag carrier was ...
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European rules must be tighter
Sir - In your editorial "Associate membership" (Flight International, 20-26 September), "bizarre anomalies just around the corner" is a good description of what is being allowed to happen to civil aviation within the European Union. This particular club (non-affiliated) must be the only such to charge high subscription ...
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EVA enjoys the fruits of youth
If spectacular improvements in efficiency and productivity are a measure of success, then on the surface at least Taiwan's international newcomer EVA Airways appears to be setting new standards. Productivity, measured in terms of revenue per employee, soared 62 per cent last year. Unit costs plunged 21 per cent and ...
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PAL struggle: end in sight?
The seven-month standoff over control of Philippine Airlines between chairman Lucio Tan and the government is still delicately poised, but a compromise may yet settle the dispute. The future of the struggling Philippine flag carrier has been in limbo since March, when the government shareholders invoked a 1992 ...
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Strong results encourage SIA
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) turned in another strong profits rise over the first half of its financial year and is "cautiously optimistic" that the improvement will continue, helped by signs of an upturn in passenger traffic. Group net profits for the six months to the end of September were ...
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EasyJet launches with easy fares
THE EASYJET Airline Company (Flight International, 9-15 August) is to start scheduled services from London Luton Airport on 10 November, with three daily services (two at weekends) to Glasgow, adding similar frequencies to Edinburgh on 24 November. Services will initially be operated by GB Airways with Boeing 737-200s, until EasyJet ...
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Designer networks
Management Fewer market restrictions mean more carriers are free to plan their networks with the passenger's complete journey in mind and can adapt their pricing and distribution policies to match. By Richard Bond.Deregulation brings with it plenty of changes but none so great as in the area of network management. ...
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Growth spurs on drive for cuts
Air Canada, in the midst of a significant growth phase, is attempting to counteract the costs of expansion with employee productivity gains and new technology. Air Canada expects to double its transborder service to the US within the next three years and in recent months has added new flights ...
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France to open competition
FRANCE IS to open up internal competition within its domestic air market from January 1996, in preparation for the fierce competition, which is expected to follow the completion of the European single air market in April 1997. The French Government says that it will allow all French operators ...
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Swiss show true colours
No sooner had Brussels given Swissair access to the single European market through its investment in Sabena than the Swiss government played the protectionist card, opening itself and the Commission up to criticism. The Swiss government was acting within the UK-Swiss air services agreement when it refused to ...
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China cuts its numbers
Beijing has formally declared its intent to consolidate China's airlines after two years moving in that direction. The number is set to shrink by 40 per cent, but more carriers are likely to receive international designation as well. Li Zhao, deputy director of the Civil Aviation Administrat- ion ...