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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Moving targets
Singapore Airlines' chairman J Y Pillay calls it 'The genius of the organisation at work.' Productivity has become a mantra in an airline industry which is desperate to find ways of improving its long term financial performance. All airline managers are putting in a great deal of effort to improve ...
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BA looks to desert 146s for quieter life
Gunter Endres/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS IS considering bringing up to 18 British Aerospace 146s into its fleet as noise regulations start to bite on European routes flown to by its UK regional service. The airline will have to stop its Boeing 737-200s flying between Birmingham and ...
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747-X plans gather speed
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES MAJOR BOEING 747 operators have been called to Boeing's Seattle headquarters in mid-November for meetings on the proposed -500X and -600X stretched derivatives, as plans for the possible 1996 launch of the next-generation 747 gather pace. Those attending include British Airways, Cathay ...
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South Africa bound
BRITANNIA AIRWAYS is to re-enter the South Africa market, probably late in 1996. The UK charter operator failed in the early 1990s to launch a non-scheduled service, citing lack of interest from holidaymakers. The airline plans to use Boeing 767-200s on the route. Source: Flight International
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Air Liberte makes a move for rival AOM
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE PRESIDENT of French airline Air Liberte, Lotfi Belhassine, has formed a consortium with the aim of acquiring rival private carrier AOM, "...if the price is right". Belhassine has for some time made no secret of his desire to purchase AOM, creating what he ...
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PNG replaces Air Niugini board
PAPUA NEW GUINEA (PNG) prime minister Sir Julius Chan has ousted Air Niugini's board and general manager, following former chairman Mike Bromley's public warnings that the airline is being "choked to death" by the Government. Bromley had cited price controls, gross under-capitalisation, inflated operating costs resulting from the ...
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Air UK Leisure narrows choice
AIR UK LEISURE has narrowed its choice of a new aircraft to replace seven Boeing 737-400s. It will choose between the Airbus A320/321 and the 737-800. The charter operator has asked several leasing companies to submit tenders by the end of November for six new aircraft. Managing director Jeremy ...
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Taiwan's domestic airlines jockey for position
FORMOSA AIRLINES with 23 aircraft, has the largest fleet of Taiwan's domestic airlines. It has two Saab 340As, six Saab 340Bs, three Fokker 50s, seven Dornier 228s and two Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2 Islanders. Another Fokker 50 will be delivered in November. Two Fokker 100s will be delivered, one in December ...
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Israeli/Jordanian airport under study
A TEAM LED BY Lockheed Martin Management and Data Systems is to conduct a feasibility study for the proposed joint Israeli-Jordanian international airport serving Aqaba in Jordan and Eilat in Israel. The Jordan civil-aviation authority has awarded the six-month US-funded study partly in a bid to resolve the ...
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Flights from Taiwan to China via Macau gain approval
TAIWAN HAS concluded a five-year commercial air agreement with Macau, which permits for the first time "through flights" to China, using the same aircraft. Under the agreement, signed on 17 October, start-up carrier Air Macau will be permitted to fly from Taipei or Kaoshiung to Macau and ...
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China Hainan plans big boost to Metro fleet
CHINA HAINAN AIRLINES is to buy an additional 19 Fairchild Metro 23 19-seat regional aircraft to meet increased demand for feeder services in China. The carrier has signed a memorandum of understanding with Fairchild Aircraft. The San Antonio, US-based manufacturer's financial division will help to finance the deal. ...
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A dying breed
VALUJET EFFECTIVELY (and finally) launched the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 on 19 October, with an order for 50. The deal will be seen by some as the launch of the last of the old-style regional jets, but its pricing appears to be all too modern. Either way, ValuJet's order will ...