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KEVIN O'TOOLE CHICAGO A new Internet company is pitching into the battle to sell late available space and hoping to establish a new on-line business model in the process. "We're travel evangelists," says David Miranda, with all the visionary brio that the world has come to expect of a would-be ...
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Hong Kong starts US bilateral round
Hong Kong and the USA were due to have opened their first round of air services talks in four years in mid November in a key test of Hong Kong's resolve to liberalise. The two-day round was due to have begun on 17 November in Washington DC with ...
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KAL to face further operating ban
NICHOLAS IONIDES/ATI SINGAPORE Korean Air (KAL) faced further criticism in November when a US NTSB report concluded that the 1997 crash of one of its Boeing 747-300s on Guam was largely due to pilot error. South Korea's Civil Aviation Bureau (KCAB) - also criticised in the report for not ...
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Routes
Fourth Chinese city Malaysia Airlines has launched scheduled services to Xiamen, making it the fourth Chinese city to which it operates. The carrier already operates services to Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai and has been operating charter flights to Xiamen for seven years. Shared flights to Seoul Korean ...
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Cape Town service hits a setback
ROGER MAKINGS JOHANNESBURG Plans by Nationwide Air, a domestic South African carrier, to link with Virgin Atlantic in starting a new service between Cape Town and London Heathrow have met with initial failure. Nationwide had applied for a temporary licence to fly the route weekly using a wet-leased Virgin ...
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Tokyo's promised runways get nearer
DAVE KNIBB SEATTLE Three separate initiatives, including a decision on a new airport, are underway to boost runway capacity in Tokyo, which remains Asia's biggest and most congested gateway. Construction could start before the end of the year on a second runway at Narita, allowing more room for regional services ...
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Reclaiming ATC
Taking air traffic control services away from government is starting to look like a necessity as Europe and the USA continue to battle with near-gridlock. But airlines too will have to be realistic about the cost of renewing the neglected infrastructure. For years, airlines on both sides of the ...
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Alitalia and KLM seek to add Northwest to alliance
TOM GILL LONDON KLM and Alitalia have started their joint venture and may be close to gaining US anti-trust immunity for a tripartite alliance with Northwest Airlines. The formal launch of the "virtual merger" at the beginning of November was accompanied by much shuttling of senior executives between Rome, Milan ...
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Capitol route to chaos
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Everyone in the USA agrees that urgent action is needed to cope with increasing capacity constraints. The problem remains how to wrench control from Congress. Democracy may have notched another coup on 10 November, but it was a bitterly disappointing day for the US air traffic ...
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In Brief
AA-BA revisit alliance In a move that has drawn fire from UK rival British Midland, British Airways has submitted a joint application with American Airlines for US approval to start codesharing between Chicago and New York, and eight UK cities, excluding London. The alliance partners also aim to share ...
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Air Jamaica set for expansion
Air Jamaica, which has been transformed since privatisation four years ago, is continuing to expand by adding new routes to the USA and starting a St Lucia-based regional carrier. It also plans to add three more Airbuses to its fleet, which has been replaced since local businessman Gordon "Butch" Stewart ...
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In Brief
WTO rules on aircraft tax Washington has appealed against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that foreign sales corporations are an illegal subsidy. US exporters use these corporations to shield income from tax. That creates opportunities for tax-based leasing on such exports as aircraft. If the ruling stands, Boeing ...
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In Brief
Vanguard to boost short-haul Kansas-based Vanguard Airlines has signed a letter of intent to lease six Boeing 737-200s from US Airways Leasing &Sales for delivery in the first quarter of next year. By expanding its fleet of 13 737-200s the airline says it will be able to pursue its ...
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The first signs of light?
Results of the summer's capacity hike are starting to show through in Europe's latest results, but Commerzbank's Chris Tarry detects signs that the worst may be over. Leading off the latest round of reporting for the major European airlines, both KLM and British Airways have provided the first tangible evidence ...
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Brighter spots on horizon for USA
Given heavy losses from Trans World Airlines and US Airways, the latest round of third quarter results from the US majors could have played much worse on Wall Street than it seems to have done. Most aviation analysts were keen to point to some bright spots on the industry's horizon ...
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Slots Logjam
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS KEVIN O'TOOLE LONDON Hopes are growing that the new team at the European Commission could finally end the long wait for new regulations on airport slot allocation. Even the contentious issue of slot trading could be back on the agenda. Could Europe at last be ...
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Life in the Hot Seat
NICHOLAS IONIDE COLOMBO After a tough year, SriLankan Airlines chief executive, Peter Hill, is confident that the future of the troubled carrier will improve As he takes his seat in the boardroom, SriLankan Airlines chief executive officer Peter Hill has a request: that he is not quoted verbatim. His request ...
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Battle for the Big Apple
JANE LEVERE NEW YORK The USA's north-east corridor, long a hotbed of airline competition, is entering a new phase of battle as traditional players face new rivals. And not all of them come with wings. There is much at stake in the lucrative north-east corridor of the USA. Salomon Smith ...
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Judge rules out Canadian's takeover
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Everything came to a screeching halt late on the last business day before shareholders were set to vote on the counter-proposals from Onex and Air Canada. Quebec judge Justice Wery ruled that Onex's offer to acquire 31% of Air Canada and merge it with Canadian was illegal. ...
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Europe nears harmonised working hours
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS Key industry organisations are close to a general agreement on how part of the European Union's Working Time Directive, which sets a range of binding standards on working hours, can be applied to aviation. On 15 October, the European Commission (EC) and industry groups agreed a ...