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Coveting the other's home
British Airways and Lufthansa are increasing penetration of each other's home markets through airlines they have minority stakes in - the UK major with Deutsche BA and its German rival through Business Air. But the strategies are markedly different. At Deutsche BA, BA managing director Robert Ayling is ...
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GAO allies to profit motive
It may come as no surprise that the long-awaited study by the US General Accounting Office has concluded that codesharing alliances can be lucrative. But what is surprising is the degree to which these partnerships profit, and the speed with which the agreements produce results. The GAO study, ...
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Oz in battle on HK
Australian air service negotiators are under mounting pressure as they grapple with a potential crisis in bilateral relations with Hong Kong and the prospect of a major equity link between Ansett and Air New Zealand, which could put the status of a range of bilateral agreements in doubt. ...
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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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Zamex zeal to grip Africa
The launch of the Zambian carrier Zamex could prove the first step to wider implementation of the Yamoussoukro Declaration, backed by South African expertise. The carrier, which started domestic and regional operations on 3 April, is a joint venture between South African domestic airline SA Express, with 49 ...
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Viva left to charter life
Labour demands appear to have pushed Iberia to strip its low-cost subsidiary, Viva, of its scheduled routes, leaving it to battle for a share of a charter market dominated by foreign carriers. The Spanish flag carrier has already taken back the Africa and Middle East routes from Viva ...
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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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Japan's case is on the rise
It has taken years, but Japanese transport officials appear to have their first chance of forcing the US into a renegotiation of the 43-year-old bilateral over beyond rights from Kansai/Osaka. Japan has long complained that US airlines have unfair competitive advantages over Japanese carriers as a result of ...
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Europe under threat
Despite advances aimed at addressing the airport-capacity problems of the late 1980s, Europe is again facing scenes of delayed flights, packed airport terminals and angry passengers. Although measures have been largely successful in easing the region's overcrowded skies, hold-ups in the approval of airport-infrastructure projects and delays in enhancing air-traffic-control ...
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Rocky passage
A second wave of airport privatisation is now well under way in Canada, involving Toronto's Pearson International Airport, Ottawa's Macdonald-Cartier International and Winnipeg International. Negotiations between the Canadian Department of Transport and the airports began earlier this year and, assuming that they go well, the Federal Government is ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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Southern gateway
The first 11-gate phase of Miami Airport's new concourse A is due to open in June as part of the southern gateway's $2.7 billion expansion and redevelopment programme which is due to last until 2010. Gateway is the operative word at Miami, Florida, which boasts more carriers - ...
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TAT finalises Orly plans
BRITISH AIRWAYS' French subsidiary TAT is at last ready to reveal plans on how it will exploit its hard-won access to the domestic hub at Paris Orly. Several other airlines have already begun competing with incumbent French domestic airline Air Inter between Orly and Marseilles, Toulouse and Nice, ...
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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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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 ...