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Garuda puts on brave face
Indonesian flag carrier Garuda is seeking more codeshare partners after trimming dozens of flights and dropping several destinations from its global network amid speculation of mounting financial problems. The carrier has cut four European cities - Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Madrid - from its winter schedule and cut ...
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US boost as Ozberg nears
Cathay Pacific has launched an immediate review of its North American expansion strategy after the signing of a landmark air service agreement with the US. The breakthrough comes as welcome relief to Hong Kong negotiators embroiled in a bitter bilateral dispute with Australia. The US deal was forged ...
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Asiana close to the grade
Asiana Airlines has moved a step closer to parity with its bigger rival, Korean Airlines, after receiving its first routes to Europe and Australia, two key parts of the globe that were previously off limits to South Korea's second carrier. Asiana plans to launch service to Brussels via ...
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PAL struggle: end in sight?
The seven-month standoff over control of Philippine Airlines between chairman Lucio Tan and the government is still delicately poised, but a compromise may yet settle the dispute. The future of the struggling Philippine flag carrier has been in limbo since March, when the government shareholders invoked a 1992 ...
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Manila puts US on hold
Yielding to persistent pleas from Manila, the US has agreed to delay open skies provisions set to take effect next year under the bilateral. But in return Washington has extracted expanded cargo rights and a phased expansion of passenger services. Under provisions drafted in 1982 and already postponed ...
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Slow ahead in Europe
So far liberalisation has produced only a small increase in the level of competition on European air routes, and fares have generally risen, says a new report by the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Two and a half years after Brussels deregulated the European Union's aviation market only 7 ...
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Open skies for Asean?
Aviation authorities from the Association of South East Asian Nations members are expected to start their first round of talks on implementing an intra-regional open skies policy after the Asean summit in Bangkok in mid-December. In a report following a September meeting in Brunei, Asean economics ministers suggested ...
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BA boosts Gatwick hub
Employee groups have given a guarded welcome to British Airways' decision to move more longhaul services from London/Heathrow to Gatwick, but negotiations over staff costs continue. 'We're reluctant to subsidise further growth at Heathrow through lower salaries at Gatwick,' says George Ryde, national secretary of the Transport and ...
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The quest is on for market power
In coping with more airline consolidation, regulators could well be out of their depth.In a recent television interview, a reporter asked a simple question: 'Why would anybody want to buy an airline which has lost over $3 billion in the last five years?' Put like that, the interest being ...
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Swiss show true colours
No sooner had Brussels given Swissair access to the single European market through its investment in Sabena than the Swiss government played the protectionist card, opening itself and the Commission up to criticism. The Swiss government was acting within the UK-Swiss air services agreement when it refused to ...
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Hawaiian set to post profit
American Airlines has reprieved Hawaiian Airlines for the fourth time over $6.9 million in payments due on its leased DC10s, as the carrier continues its restructuring efforts after emerging from bankruptcy 14 months ago. The payments Hawaiian owes American represent lease and maintenance charges that accumulated late last ...
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Two birds, one stone
In a major strategy shift, Indian Airlines will transfer its unprofitable routes into a stand-alone subsidiary, operating a mix of turboprops and jets. But the main aim is to counter its parent's shortage of senior pilots. Airlines Allied Services will operate Indian Airlines' short haul flights, and take ...
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Past keeps AmWest shy
With the resolve of a carrier that has returned to health but the hesitancy of one that only emerged from bankruptcy protection last year, America West Airlines has instituted its first growth programme in four years. Its 29 per cent growth plan over two years is conservative compared to the ...
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Express trial grinds to halt
After a year's trial of its innovative Lufthansa Express product, the German carrier has cherry-picked parts of the pilot scheme for a revamp of its domestic operation. A poor performance halted the extension of the pilot to the whole system as originally planned. The German flag carrier was ...
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Airline news
Singapore Airlines has started twice-weekly services to both Cairns and Macau using A310 aircraft. SilkAir has launched a twice-weekly service between Singapore and Vientiane in Laos with Fokker 70s. ANA is seeking regulatory approval to start services between Osaka/Kansai and Rome. The carrier has also completed ...
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International tactics
Taiwan's international carriers are engaged in a bitter battle for market share. Paul Lewis/TAIPEI COMPETITION IS heating up between Taiwan's two established international players, flag carrier China Airlines (CAL) and four-year-old Eva Airways. Ambitious fleet-expansion plans, the opening up of profitable trunk routes to Hong Kong and ...
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Virgin may expand Manchester services
VIRGIN ATLANTIC IS considering expansion of its Manchester operations following the successful launch of its 1996 service to Orlando, Florida. With 40% of available seats for the summer period pre-sold in the package-holiday market and scheduled bookings looking "healthy", the carrier is interested in other transatlantic opportunities. ...
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Enough is enough for falling economy- class standards
Sir - I congratulate Mr Bamberg on his letter about British Airways' expenditure on first-class improvements (Flight International, 11-17 October, P49). I frequently fly London-Sydney (in economy and business class). BA and Qantas offer poor long-haul economy class and the seats are no better than a London Hyde Park deck ...
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BA looks to desert 146s for quieter life
Gunter Endres/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS IS considering bringing up to 18 British Aerospace 146s into its fleet as noise regulations start to bite on European routes flown to by its UK regional service. The airline will have to stop its Boeing 737-200s flying between Birmingham and ...
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Israeli/Jordanian airport under study
A TEAM LED BY Lockheed Martin Management and Data Systems is to conduct a feasibility study for the proposed joint Israeli-Jordanian international airport serving Aqaba in Jordan and Eilat in Israel. The Jordan civil-aviation authority has awarded the six-month US-funded study partly in a bid to resolve the ...