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Flowers of Asia
Asia-Pacific is awash with new startups and domestic carriers expanding off shore. Tom Ballantyne looks at how big a threat they are to the region's majors.They are like bees attracted to the honey pot, says one executive from a major Asian airline of the rash of new startups swarming to ...
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Going to market
Airport marketing is coming of age, as airports work harder to attract new airlines, new routes and new hub operations. Richard Whitaker reports from the recent route development conference in Cannes. Airports represent the last industry to discover marketing. So says Mike Howarth of Airport Strategy and Marketing which, along ...
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California hotshots
Southwest is again taking the initiative in the US's most densely travelled market, while the performance of Shuttle by United remains unclear. Jane Levere reports. The fireworks that many expected to ignite in October 1994, when Shuttle by United first invaded Southwest's territory on the US west coast, have been ...
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Brave new shoots
The emergence of a new generation of start up carriers in Europe has finally begun. Sara Guild talks to some of the new players and examines their strategies for survival.It's a bit like attending the Academy Awards and not knowing when the envelopes will be opened. European aviation has been ...
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Financial results
Alaska Airline's cost per ASM dropped 5.5% from 1994 to 7.5 cents. But load factors were down 1.3 points on 1994 and yield decreased 1.7%. ANA's cost cutting showed benefits as expenses rose only 5%. International traffic rose 28.1% due to the strong yen. America West's ...
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Asian Express
After a bitter defeat in Europe three years ago, Federal Express is now taking on Asia to compensate for declining yields at home and develop high yield premium international business. By Mead Jennings.Fred Smith, founder and CEO of Federal Express Corporation, has never had trouble thinking about the big picture. ...
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LAB expands Vasp empire
Vasp's $47.5 million purchase of 49 per cent of LAB effectively gives it control over the Bolivian flag carrier, which will use the proceeds for internal development as well as to form an alliance with Vasp and its other recent acquisition, Ecuatoriana. Part of the Bolivian government's 51 ...
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Chan chops
The entire National Airline Commission in charge of Air Niugini has been sacked by Papua New Guinea's prime minister Sir Julius Chan. His action came after NAC acting chairman Mike Bromley warned the carrier was approaching financial collapse due to government actions. Sir Julius, whose own airline Islands Transair competes ...
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New deals aid Taiwan
Compromises on symbolic points have produced new air agreements between Taiwan and both Hong Kong and Macau. Following expected ratification in December, Taiwan will have five-year agreements that straddle the return of both territories to Chinese control. The deals provide new opportunities for Taiwan's airlines and an end to the ...
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'Economic' spying bugs Japanese
Not many people were surprised to learn, in October, that the CIA undertook 'economic' spying on US trade rival Japan. The high-profile impetus for the intelligence gathering was the US-Japan automobile trade talks that were resolved in July after the two sides negotiated an eleventh-hour settlement under the spectre of ...
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Alitalia hit by One startup
Startup carrier Air One will end Alitalia's monopoly on Milan-Rome, the Italian flag carrier's most profitable domestic route, following increased slot availability at congested Milan/Linate. Air One, formerly Air Adriatica, will serve Europe's fifth largest route five times a day from end November, with plans to increase to ...
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Solo launch in Malaysia
Plans for a single multinational airline to operate within the Asean region appear to be falling by the wayside with the planned 1 January launch of a new Malaysian operator, Saeaga Airlines. The newcomer is a joint venture between Malaysia's Ekran Air Services (20 per cent) and the ...
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China set to move on HK
Cathay Pacific is facing its worst nightmare, the startup of a Chinese-controlled, Hong Kong-based rival backed by powerful friends in Beijing's corridors of power. Despite complaints that the action breaks the Sino-British joint declaration on the hand-over of Hong Kong to China, the territory's civil aviation director Peter ...
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From bust to boom in a year
The good times are here again - but nobody can predict for just how longIt's at times like this that largesse takes over. As 1995 draws to a close, it is clear that at long last we have a vintage year for airline profitability - Iata says its members will ...
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French open house offer
One of Europe's last bastions of regulation is starting to crumble as the French market embraces liberalisation. Under the third package, which came into force in 1993, all member states had to open up their home markets (excluding ninth freedoms) by January 1996, at the latest. France, like ...
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Pena to face Asia action
'All eyes are on Asia-Pacific,' said US transportation secretary Federico Peña before leaving on a 17-day tour of the region in November. Declaring he had done all he could for now in Europe, Peña is faced with at least three potentially explosive situations in Asia. The latest drive ...
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Airline news
SAS has launched a thrice weekly service from Copen-hagen to Poznan, the carrier's third Polish destination. Ansett Australia is to begin codesharing on seven existing Malaysia Airlines services and on a new Saturday service between Sydney and Kuala Lumpur via Melbourne. Meanwhile, Ansett has also entered ...
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EU law hits Ryanair routes
Gunter Endres/LONDON IRISH NO-FRILLS AIRLINE Ryanair is being forced to offer only 50% of seats available on its flights between London Stansted and Prestwick in Scotland, until it obtains its own Aircraft Operating Certificate, or finds a UK airline which will operate the service on its behalf (Flight ...
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SAS profits soar
THE SAS group came close to doubling its pre-tax profits for the third quarter, despite the cost of the pilots' dispute in June, which resulted in a three-day lockout. SAS turned in profits of SKr1.1 billion ($167 million) for the quarter, overcoming an estimated SKr300 million loss from ...
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Cargo in control
Lufthansa Cargo achieved its long-sought independence at the start of 1995. The business has not looked back since. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON WILHELM ALTHEN, chairman of Lufthansa Cargo, is clearly a happy man. For the past two decades, he has campaigned for air cargo to be treated ...