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Air France shows profit
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AIR FRANCE, now in the final stretch of its restructuring plan, has posted its first full-year operating profit since 1989, but the news is tempered by uncertainty over whether the European Commission (EC) will approve the final tranche of state aid. The latest ...
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Hopping hot
Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department is focusing its investigation into a false fire-alarm aboard a new Cathay Pacific Airways Boeing 777-200, on two crates of live frogs being carried in the aircraft's hold. Over 300 passengers were forced to make an emergency evacuation on landing at Kai Tak Airport after ...
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Means to an end
IT WOULD BE EASY to assume from recent events on both sides of the Atlantic that the ultimate power of airline regulation has passed from the hands of the professional, independent, regulatory authorities to a rag-bag of customers, self-interest groups, the media, local politicians and the airlines themselves. In some ...
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EC to focus on airline competition issues
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) will increasingly turn its attention to airline-competition issues such as access to new routes, airport slots and computer reservation systems (CRS) EC Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock has pledged. Kinnock acknowledges that the EC has so far been pre-occupied with the issue of state aid, ...
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Air Inter Europe shuts 18 loss-making routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR INTER EUROPE is to close 18 loss-making routes in the third quarter of 1996 as part of money-saving measures as the carrier prepares for liberalisation in April 1997. The airline's moves towards competitiveness are threatened, however, by its pilots, who have until 30 ...
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Swiss shut tariffs door
When it came to putting its tariff structure into the Swiss market British Midland, one of the main drivers of price competition in Europe, hit a brick wall. The UK carrier launched its sixth European trunk route out of London/Heathrow into the lucrative Zurich market at the end ...
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The Tan dynasty
Lucio Tan has begun sweeping change in his first year as chairman of Philippine Airlines. He hopes a more stable future will enable him to complete the carrier's turnaround. Tom Ballantyne reports from Manila.When Philippine Airlines' chief financial officer Jamie Bautista set out in early June to raise money in ...
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Spoils of war
PAL's convoluted ownership structure has been at the heart of its continuing problems. At present the controlling stake of 67 per cent is owned by PR Holdings, while the remaining 33 per cent is in the hands of two government bodies, the Government Service Insurance System and Land Bank of ...
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Breaking the monopoly
Several startup carriers are attacking Philippine Airlines' former domestic monopoly and have international ambitions. Tom Ballantyne reports.Considering the skies over the Philippines were a stage monopolised by Philippine Airlines as recently as 18 months ago, the nation has since witnessed one of the Asia-Pacific region's most remarkable commercial aviation explosions. ...
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JAT is back
Since UN sanctions were first partially dropped in late 1994, JAT has relaunched its former European routes and aims to revive its North American and Australian services. Gordana Stevanovic reports from Belgrade.After teetering on the brink of extinction for more than two years, Yugoslav Airlines (JAT) has returned to international ...
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All change
Many US carriers are revising their hub strategies. The current trends include continuous hubbing, omni-directional hubbing and de-hubbing. David Treitel and Edward Smick report.In today's airline environment, network design is the key to profitability. But network design, or optimisation, must focus on profit maximisation - which is not ...
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Thawing out?
Two new carriers, WestJet and Greyhound, are trying to home in on any market opportunities in Canada's icy war between majors Air Canada and Canadian Airlines International. Jane Levere reportsLong an inhospitable graveyard for new entrants, the Canadian marketplace is being invaded once again by two fledgling airlines, one of ...
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Baltic bandwagon
The three Baltic states have had independence for only five years but the countries' airlines are already jumping on the privatisation bandwagon. Mark Blacklock reports from Latvia and Estonia.Latvia's two main carriers may have shut down less than a year ago, but a passenger studying the departure board at Riga ...
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Northwest's eastern edge
The launch of Northwest Airlines' non-stop Detroit-Beijing service in May is a competitive response to United Airlines' dominance in the US-China market that has been a long time in coming. The carrier says the new route gives it an edge in the eastern US, which generates two-thirds of China-bound traffic ...
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ANA juggles with slots
When Japan's All Nippon Airways launched daily flights from Osaka's newly opened Kansai airport to Seoul, South Korea in September 1994, the move was far more strategic than commercial. ANA already flew to the Korean capital from Tokyo/Narita and decided to switch its services to Osaka due to ...
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Ansett's daily gripe
Daily frequency is the key issue facing Australia's Ansett International on the hotly competitive route between Sydney and Hong Kong, says the airline's general manager international, Craig Wallace. With five B747-300 flights a week, the carrier needs the flexibility of daily schedules to compete against the tough opposition - Qantas ...
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Delta does it in triplicate
Anyone who knows, from experience, that reaching an agreement with just one partner can be a difficult process should be at least a little impressed with the record of Delta Air Lines, which put its second trilateral codeshare into operation on 1 May. Having gained from its experience ...
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Aces high
In-flight gambling is about to make its long-awaited debut, as three of the world's leading carriers plan to test the software over the coming months. Mead Jennings reports on the potential of what proponents claim is the airline industry's next major revenue stream and looks at some of the possible ...
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Goodbye Uruguay, hello Singapore
It might seem like only yesterday when the eight-year marathon Uruguay trade round was completed, yet the manoeuvrings and preparations for a follow-up are already underway. The effort by the heads of government of the seven largest industrialised countries (G7) to rebuild the global economic architecture, so there is ...
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Poisoned pals?
Alliances are firmly established as components of the airline industry, but the seven-year relationship between KLM and Northwest Airlines - long considered the world's most successful airline partnership - appears to be coming apart at the seams. Mead Jennings looks at the history of the conflict and its implications ...