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Swedes root for Carlzon
A long-awaited shakeup in the ownership of Swedish independent Transwede will see a shift towards charter operations and a retreat back into scheduled domestic services. The change also sees the return of ex-SAS chief Jan Carlzon to the industry as president of new holding company Transpool and chairman ...
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CAI rejigs its restructuring
Having so far failed to achieve new concessions from its employees, Canadian Airlines International has said its 30 June deadline was an 'arbitrary' date, and that it needs 20 per cent less in labour savings than estimated in April. Since passing the deadline without new contracts, management at ...
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Staying in business
Iata's director general Pierre Jeanniot is preaching the benefits of market economics and privatisation to member airlines while carrying out the association's own extensive internal review and restructuring. Interview by Jacqueline Gallacher. Pierre Jeanniot is no stranger to government bureaucracy, nor to market restrictions. As president and chief executive of ...
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A new breed?
The US airline industry has produced several waves of startup carriers at various points in its history. The latest such surge, centred on low-cost entrants, started in 1992 with the recession in full swing and is now slowing in the swell of an economic upturn. Mead Jennings examines the new ...
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Blanc brings Inter change
With sleight of hand and a change of name, Christian Blanc, now heading up both Air Inter and Air France, has dissipated the social unrest brewing around him. Air Inter's unions were against being merged into Air France Europe, wanting instead independence and the ability to develop freely. ...
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Big boost for liability limits
The Kuala Lumpur protocols are set to upstage the much-maligned Montreal protocols on airline liability for passenger claims. If all goes as expected, a proposal adopted by 67 airlines will be approved at the International Air Transport Association meeting in Malaysia in October. It took persistent badgering by ...
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Austria rivals set for battle
Austrian Airlines has called on partners Swissair and Tyrolean to support it in the battle against rivals Lauda Air and Lufthansa as the German Monopolies Commission investigates whether Lufthansa's influence on Lauda is a dominating one. The German carrier owns 39.7 per cent of Lauda Air, with a ...
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Ramli row on airport cuts
Malaysia Airlines chairman Tajudin Ramli is ruffling government feathers in his drive to make the airline fully profitable, by calling for the closure of some of Malaysia's domestic airports. The airline's domestic operations, which account for about a third of its revenue, have been a drain on profits. ...
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Airline news
South African Airways has begun a weekly service between Cape Town and Frankfurt, as well as between Johannesburg and Dar es Salaam. The service will use Alliance's B747SP. Emirates has launched twice weekly services from Abu Dhabi to Beirut originating from its base in Dubai. Transaero ...
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Air France sale to bail out Chirac?
There is a paradox at the heart of the economic strategy being pursued by the new Chirac administration in France. The highest priority of President Jacques Chirac's government is the reduction of unemployment. This was the centrepiece of his campaign for the presidency, his main preoccupation at the G7 ...
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Equity links act as lifeline
The chances of an airline alliance surviving are increased threefold if there are equity links between the partners, according to an analysis of all airline alliances undertaken by Boston Consulting Group. The same analysis, presented at a recent IIR/Airline Business conference, shows that the survival rate of intercontinental alliances is ...
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Slots to grumble about
Virgin seems to have it all, well almost. Improving profitability, strong international codeshare partners and a highly successful brand name. But further expansion is hampered by the independent UK carrier's old bogey: slot restrictions at London/Heathrow. Sara Guild examines Virgin's dilemma.Washington, none; Philadelphia, none; Chicago, none; Boston, none; Bombay, none; ...
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2005: An airline odyssey
In ten years time, what will have become of the conventional wisdom of the airline industry? In looking ahead 10 years, this survey concentrates on how the electronic revolution will reshape the airline business. But first, Mead Jennings balances the projected technological advances against less quantifiable developments in labour ...
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Russian regrets?
The initial enthusiasm for East-West joint projects appears to be waning. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW AT THE END OF THE 1980s, political and economical changes in the Soviet Union opened the way for a series of co-operative agreements between Western and Soviet aerospace companies. Now, five years ...
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The next windshear?
ALMOST EVERY airline flight these days, at least over the USA, seems to entail an encounter with turbulence. This is usually akin to driving over cobblestones or, sometimes, potholes, but occasionally it is like driving off a cliff. On 19 July, an American Airlines Airbus A300 hit clear-air ...
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Formosa orders Fokkers for fleet expansion
FORMOSA AIRLINES OF Taiwan has ordered two Fokker 100s and two additional Fokker 50 turboprops to expand its domestic fleet. The two Fokker 50s will be delivered in September and October, and the 109-seat twinjets in December and March 1995. The aircraft will be used on routes from Taipei to ...
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Mexican Completion
GTE Airfone has completed construction of a ground-station network in Mexico for its Advanced Digital Airfone in-flight communications system. Airborne equipment has been installed in AeroMexico aircraft. GTE says that it is the first to provide communications coverage throughout North America. Source: Flight International
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Licence to change
European pilot-training organisations at all levels will have to cope with a new set of standards. David Learmount/LONDON Most European pilots know that flight-crew licence requirements are changing to a European standard, but few could say when or describe the differences. Pilot-training organisations, on the other hand, ...
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Central European ATC centre closer
Julian Moxon/PARIS AGREEMENT HAS BEEN reached, on the first stages for a Maastricht style central European joint upper airspace air traffic control (ATC) centre, which if implemented, would significantly reduce congestion over the area. Wrangling continues over the location of the headquarters for the Central ...
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Sabena/Swissair tie-up gets EC approval
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has given its blessing to the alliance between Swissair and Belgian flag carrier Sabena. Under the deal, Swissair will take a 49.5% stake in Sabena by 2005. The EC says that it is "satisfied" about guarantees that Sabena will remain under European Union ...