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AB25: AirAsia Group chief executive Tony Fernandes
GROUP chief executiveairasia On 13 October, less than nine years after a dream called Air-Asia became reality, the 100 millionth "guest" was flown...
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RAK Airways to open Bangladeshi routes
Resurrected Middle Eastern carrier RAK Airways is extending its fledgling route network to Bangladesh. It is to operate three times per week to the...
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AB25:Use of standards in maintenance data: blessing or nuisance?
Is the use of standards in maintenance data a blessing or a nuisance ask Christian Eickhoff, quality management, and Dierk Kruetzmann, engineering, Lufthansa Technik
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AB25: Copa chief executive Pedro Heilbron
Twenty-five years ago, few would have imagined that today Latin America would be among the leading regions in the world in terms of economic growth and development. Even fewer would have dreamed of Latin America's airlines being in the top echelon of this competitive aviation industry writes Pedro Heilbron
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AB25: LAN, chief executive, Enrique Cueto
The Latin American airline industry has undergone dramatic change over the past 25 years. Two decades ago, the region was dominated by state-owned, unprofitable airlines. Carriers operated old fleets, provided mediocre service, and had low levels of reliability writes LAN Airlines CEO Enrque Cueto
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AB25: Emirates president Tim Clark
Emirates shares a 25th birthday with Airline Business, having also launched in 1985. Over the past quarter of a century, our industry has taken great strides forward. It is essential that we maintain this momentum in the next 25 years to ensure the continued success of the airline sector and ...
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AB25: TAM chief executive, Marco Antonio Bologna
First of all, I would like to congratulate Airline Business for its 25 years of existence - a remarkable achievement. During this quarter-century, we have seen a huge transformation of the airline industry writes Marco Antonio Bologna, executive president of TAM
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AB25: Ethiopian Airlines chief executive Girma Wake
Despite the fact that a great number of African States succeeded to become independent and to create their own national airlines in the early 1960s, African airlines have faced numerous challenges in formulating and maintaining a safe, efficient air traffic system, mainly due to the inability of African governments to ...
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AB25: Singapore Airlines chief executive, CS Chew
The silver anniversary of Airline Business is an appropriate occasion for some thoughts on how the airline industry has evolved in the past 25 years writes Singapore Airlines chief executive Chew Choon Seng
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AB25: Gulf Air chief executive Samer Majali
Imagine a world in which airlines operate in a free market, able to realise their full potential through economies of scale, not hampered by barriers that increase costs and curb development, not constrained by archaic bilateral agreements, not overcharged by monopoly suppliers. That is the dream of Gulf Air chief ...
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AB25: Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways
Airlines worldwide continue to compete on the three fundamentals of cost, network, and product. However, in all of these areas, both the way airlines compete and the marketplace in which they compete has changed dramatically writes Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker.
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AB25: Cathay Pacific chief executive Tony Tyler
When the first issue of Airline Business came off the presses, I was in the eighth year of my aviation career and had just moved to Rome as Cathay Pacific's manager for Italy and France - though at that time we didn't actually fly to either country writes Cathay Pacific ...
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AB25: Geoff Dixon, former Qantas chief executive
Most governments still take aviation for granted writes former Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon
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NewsThai confirms ThaiTiger ownership structure
Thai Airways has tweaked the ownership structure of its low-cost joint venture with Tiger Airways by confirming its stake, and giving employees a share in...
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NewsAir France to create 'provincial bases' in network overhaul
Air France is to restructure its European operations by creating several provincial bases to reinforce its position in the market.
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ALTA 2010: Brazil responds to infrastructure challenge
Brazil plans to address its growing airport infrastructure challenge as the country's domestic market continues to expand rapidly.
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NewsRolls-Royce could tap Airbus to secure spare Trents
Airbus says it is prepared to supply Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines from A380s on its production line to operators that require replacements following mandated...
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Garuda to ink SkyTeam agreement next week
Garuda Indonesia will hold a ceremony on Tuesday to formally begin the process of becoming a member of the SkyTeam alliance. The process is likely...
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ALTA 2010: LAN expects to close TAM meger in 2Q 2011
LAN expects to close its acquisition of Colombia's Aires within the next month and close its merger with Brazil's TAM by mid 2011.
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ALTA 2010: Latin American demand for A380s will grow, says Airbus
Latin America has a potential demand for up to 20 aircraft the size of the A380, according to Rafael Alonso, senior vice president for Airbus Latin America...