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Overhauling costs
The US carriers are proving slow to react to calls for over-reliance on labour cost cuts to give way to a reengineering of the entire way in which airlines do business. Jane L Levere reports. While cost-cutting is nothing new to the US airline industry, the term 'reengineering' represents a ...
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More to gain in Ukraine?
Two-year-old startup Ukraine International Airlines is building on projected annual growth rates of 25 per cent, while its capital Kiev could ultimately challenge the supre-macy of Moscow as an international hub for the CIS states. At the same time the carrier's senior management is talking with potential partners, ...
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Mexican bailout hits mighty buck
There are potent signs that the long reign of the US dollar as the world's main reserve currency may be drawing to a close. As this change starts to take place, reflecting the deep seated changes in the global economic and financial system, the American currency - like sterling for ...
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Isles marshal united forces
The micro-carriers of the North Pacific have decided that group profits are better than individual losses, and are moving to form a joint airline. Led by Air Marshall Islands, the tiny island carriers have set up a working party whose task is to formulate an aircraft share scheme ...
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Indian stake in question
The high hopes of ModiLuft's management to pull Lufthansa in as an equity partner appear threatened by a claim from a US consultancy on 40 per cent of the carrier's equity. ModiLuft has made no secret of its desire to have the German major as an equity partner, ...
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Oxford Cartographers develops new route-mapping concept
OXFORD Cartographers has developed a new concept in map imagery, which offers airlines a three-dimensional alternative to conventional "flat and featureless" route maps and inflight route-tracking displays. The UK mapmaker has based its "space" view of the Earth, on the photographic reproduction, of a specially modeled globe. ...
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Privatisation path
In February, El Al at last emerged from 12 years of receivership. Now, for the first time since the early 1980s, Israel's national airline is under the control of its own board of directors. Their primary objective is to speed the airline towards privatisation, while at the same ...
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Sabbath flight ban harms El Al
EL AL IS WARNING THAT it is being financially "crippled" by the Israeli Government's ban on its national carrier flying on the Jewish Sabbath and other holy days. There are also fears that the carrier's imminent privatisation could be affected. President Raphael Harlev issued the warning as he ...
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Estonian Air gears up to operate Boeing 737 as it aims to ditch Russian fleet
ESTONIAN AIR IS about to send the first of 25 pilots to Seattle for conversion training to prepare for their new duties flying the Boeing 737-500. The carrier expects to slash the number of its aircrew from 80 to 37, as it does away with the need for ...
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Ansett Australia to retire F28s
Ansett Australia is to begin retiring its Fokker F28 fleet, scrapping five 1000- and 3000-series aircraft by the end of the year. Seven Fokker F28-4000s and five Boeing 727-200s, all due for retirement under Stage 3 noise rules in 2002, will remain in the fleet, but their earlier ...
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Gulf revives air-defence plan plans
THE GULF Co-operation Council (GCC) states have revived a plan to integrate their respective air-defence ground environments. US defence contractor Hughes has again been contracted to study the requirement. Hughes originally carried out the six-nation GCC-funded study into integrating the countries' stand-alone air-defence networks in 1988. This work, ...
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Marshall Islands order drives Saab to tackle ETOPS
SAAB AIRCRAFT is working to achieve extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) certification for its Saab 2000 turboprop to allow extended flight over water. Executive vice-president Johan Oster says that 90min ETOPS qualification is needed for Air Marshall Islands, which has ordered two aircraft for operations over the Pacific. ...
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Bilateral Impasse
As US air-services negotiators, return from an apparently promising meeting with their British counterparts, and the European Commission (EC) suddenly discovers that it doesn't like what the US negotiators have agreed with the rest of Europe, a new question arises. Who really talks for Europe, and who really talks for ...
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Back To Beijing
Qantas Airways was due to resume flying to Beijing on 28 March, after an absence of eight years. The resumption of services to the Chinese capital ends a long-running battle over rights to the route, between Qantas and one-time challenger Australia Air International and, later, Ansett Australia. Source: ...
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Lufthansa transforms financial results
LUFTHANSA PRODUCED its promised return to profits in style, with a set of results ahead of expectations. The now-privatised German carrier underlined its financial transformation by revealing that it has halved debts and almost doubled cash flow over the past year. Full group figures will not be released ...
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Pacific bus stops
Hawaiian operators plan to tap a predicted growth in South Seas tourism. Guy Norris/HONOLULU Hawaiian guitar music wafts across the palm-fringed beach near Waikiki on a balmy afternoon. High overhead, locally based airliners look like partners in paradise as they shuttle to neighbouring islands. ...
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Cathay issues cost warning despite rise profit rise
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has issued further warnings over falling yields and rising costs, despite reporting a 4% increase in net profits for 1994. Profits ended the year broadly in line with analyst expectations at HK$2.4 billion ($310 million), but Cathay chairman Peter Sutch ...
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Keeping in touch
Air-to-ground telephones for airline passengers are becoming more commonplace. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Passengers on certain British Airways flights are the first in the UK to enjoy something US air travelers have come to expect - air-to-ground telephones on aircraft. BA is the first airline to put ...
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Wake analysis shows little hope of growing capacity
LASER-BASED ANALYSIS of aircraft wake-vortices at London Heathrow Airport suggests that there is little hope of increasing runway capacity by reducing separations. Researchers believe that real-time provision of vortex information to controllers could sometimes assist with tactical air-traffic control (ATC), but few, if any, strategic gains are realisable. ...
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Qantas profit clears the way for privatisation
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE QANTAS AIRWAYS reports a profit increase of nearly 80% over the first half of its financial year, clearing the way for the Australian Government to sell its remaining 75% stake. The results, likely to be the last before the long-awaited share flotation, shows ...