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China Hongkong may fly domestic as well
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA NATIONAL Aviation's (CNAC) planned start-up carrier China Hongkong Airlines is considering operating domestic services within China as well as flights to Hong Kong. The company is moving quickly to begin operations as soon as it is granted a Hong Kong Air Operator's Certificate. ...
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Gains will come from change
KLM has made impressive leaps in efficiency since it launched its cost control programme in 1991. But with the sizeable efficiency boost in the last financial year driven more by expansion than by productivity measures, the carrier is now facing a future of diminishing gains. The carrier is keen to ...
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Fruits of change
South African Airways has had a year of radical change. Profitable at last, bolstered by high load factors and a new partnership with Lufthansa, the carrier is optimistic about the future. Sara Guild reports from Johannesburg. The days of the orange and blue aircraft are numbered. By the turn of ...
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Cape crusaders
Helped by the traffic boom, South Africa's domestic carriers are expanding into regional markets. By Sara Guild.Like most South African businesses in the post-apartheid, post-general election period, the domestic airlines are looking for opportunities - outside South Africa. Although international foreign tourist arrivals to South Africa should rise 30 per ...
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Canadian ends Shanghai
Canadian Airlines International has dropped its service from Vancouver to Shanghai via Beijing, citing "huge" losses. Twice weekly Vancouver-Beijing flights will continue. Source: Flight International
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Garuda puts on brave face
Indonesian flag carrier Garuda is seeking more codeshare partners after trimming dozens of flights and dropping several destinations from its global network amid speculation of mounting financial problems. The carrier has cut four European cities - Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Madrid - from its winter schedule and cut ...
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US boost as Ozberg nears
Cathay Pacific has launched an immediate review of its North American expansion strategy after the signing of a landmark air service agreement with the US. The breakthrough comes as welcome relief to Hong Kong negotiators embroiled in a bitter bilateral dispute with Australia. The US deal was forged ...
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British World retains Black Gold route in the Shetlands
BRITISH WORLD Airlines (BWA) has won a fierce contest to renew a five-year deal to ferry oil-industry workers between Aberdeen and Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands. The £50 million ($88 million) contract awarded by Shell UK Exploration and Production, is also believed to have been fought for, by Newcastle-based Gill ...
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Twice bitten
After its second exit from Chapter 11, TWA is attempting to reinvent itself, from new livery to balance sheet. Mead Jennings talks with CEO Jeffrey Erickson. If Trans World Airlines Inc could receive one dollar for each time its death has been predicted in the past nine years, it probably ...
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Two birds, one stone
In a major strategy shift, Indian Airlines will transfer its unprofitable routes into a stand-alone subsidiary, operating a mix of turboprops and jets. But the main aim is to counter its parent's shortage of senior pilots. Airlines Allied Services will operate Indian Airlines' short haul flights, and take ...
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Bilateral talks collapse as USA snubs UK concessions
THE USA HAS WALKED away from the latest round of bilateral talks with the UK, despite an offer of two new routes to Heathrow within a year and the possibility of giving a third US carrier access to the airport. Sources close to the talks, which were broken ...
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BA boosts Gatwick hub
Employee groups have given a guarded welcome to British Airways' decision to move more longhaul services from London/Heathrow to Gatwick, but negotiations over staff costs continue. 'We're reluctant to subsidise further growth at Heathrow through lower salaries at Gatwick,' says George Ryde, national secretary of the Transport and ...
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USA awards Vancouver rights to six
THE US Transportation Department has awarded rights to six US airlines to operate new services to Vancouver, which become available during the second year of the liberalised US/Canada air-service pact. The Department has also opened the bidding, for seven new carriers, to bid for services to Quebec and ...
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Asiana close to the grade
Asiana Airlines has moved a step closer to parity with its bigger rival, Korean Airlines, after receiving its first routes to Europe and Australia, two key parts of the globe that were previously off limits to South Korea's second carrier. Asiana plans to launch service to Brussels via ...
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Open skies for Asean?
Aviation authorities from the Association of South East Asian Nations members are expected to start their first round of talks on implementing an intra-regional open skies policy after the Asean summit in Bangkok in mid-December. In a report following a September meeting in Brunei, Asean economics ministers suggested ...
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Past keeps AmWest shy
With the resolve of a carrier that has returned to health but the hesitancy of one that only emerged from bankruptcy protection last year, America West Airlines has instituted its first growth programme in four years. Its 29 per cent growth plan over two years is conservative compared to the ...
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USA targets South America
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES will offer flights between Newark (New Jersey) and Lima in Peru, via Bogota in Columbia, and American Airlines will increase services to Brazil, under liberal new bilateral agreements secured by the USA with Peru and Brazil. Continental is the third US carrier to serve Peru, but ...
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Alaskan start-up
Air Cargo Express, a new Fairbanks, Alaska-based freight airline, has begun operations with a single Douglas DC-6. The carrier, which now runs a four times weekly cargo between Fairbanks and Barrow, plans to acquire further DC-6s and enlarge its network. Source: Flight International
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US airlines break records
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON NET PROFITS for the major US airlines topped $1 billion in the third quarter after a clutch of record-breaking performances. Although passenger and capacity figures remained virtually unchanged, yields rose by 5.5% across the industry, with none of the carriers posting a decline. ...
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Airline news
Singapore Airlines has started twice-weekly services to both Cairns and Macau using A310 aircraft. SilkAir has launched a twice-weekly service between Singapore and Vientiane in Laos with Fokker 70s. ANA is seeking regulatory approval to start services between Osaka/Kansai and Rome. The carrier has also completed ...