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Tough finding the right niches
There are encouraging signs of start-ups and expansion in Europe though financial returns and yields are low. Europe's regional airlines are emerging from the recessionary gloom comparatively unscathed. The last three and a half years have seen their share of closures, but on balance the sector is growing. ...
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French malaise
Air France is moving in the right direction to achieve profitability but some serious contradictions risk undermining its credibility. Jacqueline Gallacher reports from Paris.Air France Group is on the defensive these days, but after receiving a highly controversial FFr20 billion ($4 billion) in state aid, who wouldn't be? With appeals ...
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Networkers of the future
As deregulation bites, Europe's airlines will have to chose between being network managers or capacity or service providers, says an analysis by consultants McKinsey & Company. Europe's airline industry has traditionally been characterised by monolithic national carriers with strong links to their national governments, a lack of competition on routes, ...
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Transfers hold key to growth
North American regionals and majors will become even more tightly linked as future commuter operations grow.The increasing trend whereby major airlines transfer short-haul jet routes to regional carriers is expected to encourage the growth of regional airlines in the US and Canada. Already, 95 per cent of regional airline passengers ...
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Indian scene starts to slip
The long-awaited clear out in the overcrowded Indian domestic market appears close at hand, with the owners of at least one private operator considering pulling out of the business. As the private domestic operators report declining load factors and plunging profits, the owner of Damania Airways is seriously ...
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Talks labour on rocky trail
Negotiations between labour and management continue unabated at USAir, whose pilots in late March agreed in principle to a concessions-for-equity deal. Meanwhile, Canadian Airlines International is following the lead of its US counterpart by threatening unions with a corporate downsizing if concessions are not obtained. USAir negotiators finally ...
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Open skies, open scraps
As Canadian carriers prepare for flights to the US under the open skies agreement, US airlines are competing for temporary awards of rights to Toronto that could become permanent. Since the US Department of Transportation gave out 17, ostensibly temporary, US-Canada route awards in February, there has been ...
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Unwelcome package
Overcapacity is continuing to reduce aviation insurance rates at a time when they are already badly out of kilter with operating costs and claims. So far the reinsurance markets have borne the brunt. Gordon Mackenzie reports.Aviation underwriters with a superstitious bent saw it as an ill omen when, at the ...
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Psyched up
Austrian Airlines is bouncing back after three years without profit. Carrier president Herbert Bammer says alliances and open skies with the US could lead to a turnaround. Mead Jennings reports. A small airline from a small country: Austrian Airlines has two of the essential ingredients for an inferiority complex, ...
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SIA to seek replacement for A310
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) is expected to issue a request for tenders for a new medium-haul passenger aircraft, as a partial replacement for its fleet of Airbus Industrie A310s. The airline is understood to be looking to order up to 17 new wide bodies, plus a similar number ...
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Bombardier poised to make Dash 8-400 engine choice imminent
BOMBARDIER WILL select an engine for the de Havilland Dash 8-400 "by the end of April", says Regional Aircraft division president Pierre Lortie. Board-level approval to offer the 70-seat high-speed regional turboprop to airlines is expected at the same time, he says. Lortie was speaking at the 19 ...
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777 completes its joint certification
On 19 April Boeing's 777 became the first of the US manufacturer's commercial airliners to receive simultaneous type/design and production certification from both the US and European airworthiness authorities. The certification ceremony at Seattle, Washington marks the first milestone in Boeing's co-operative and concurrent certification (CCC) programme begun ...
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US-UK bilateral talks stall again
U S AND UK negotiations over a new bilateral air-services agreement have again stalled, although the UK Department of Transport says that it expects a fresh round of talks to be tabled soon. Despite what is described as a more optimistic atmosphere, the last two rounds of talks have produced ...
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Crash and murders hit China Airlines profits
CHINA AIRLINES (CAL) has reported a sharp cut in 1994 profits following the crash of an Airbus A300-600R a year ago and the slump in the number of Taiwanese tourists visiting China. The airline's 1994 pre-tax profit plunged to NT$642 million ($25 million), down from NT$3.4 billion. CAL ...
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Sensible Approach
The failure of the recent conference in Montreal on landing systems to come out in favour of a single solution will have been a great disappointment to the proponents of individual systems - but it will have been greeted with sighs of relief just about everywhere else. Not only does ...
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Australia heads for Hong Kong dispute
HONG KONG AND Australia are heading for confrontation over Qantas fifth-freedom rights from Hong Kong to Singapore and Bangkok. The Australian carrier has built a substantial market network, using the three Asian destinations as hubs for services to Europe, and for tourism products within Asia. On 20 April, ...
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MarkAir returns to bankruptcy
MARKAIR, THE Alaska-based carrier which emerged from Chapter 11 in 1994, has again sought federal bankruptcy-court protection following a demand for overdue lease payments from General Electric's GE Capital Aviation Service (GECAS). MarkAir filed for Chapter 11 after GECAS warned the carrier that it would repossess four ...
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United orders six Boeings in fleet renewal
US CARRIER UNITED Airlines has ordered two Boeing 747-400s and five Boeing 757s worth $570 million. The six aircraft form part of the major fleet re-organisation announced by the airline last week (Flight International, 19-25 April). Under the plan, new types such as the Boeing 777, 757, and ...
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Open for business
Heralded as "the airport for the 21st century", sceptics began to believe that Denver International (DIA) might not see its first passenger until then. Technical problems involving the airports automated baggage-handling system, delayed DIA's grand opening four times, for a total of 16 months. Each month cost the ...
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Continental will offload Lite
CONTINENTAL Airlines has announced that it is finally scrapping its low-fare Lite operation and has reached agreement on aircraft deferrals with Boeing. The news came as the airline revealed that net losses grew to $613 million in 1994. The troubled carrier has already trimmed back heavily on ...