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New Zealand agreement - New Zealand and Switzerland have signed an air services agreement allowing for scheduled services between the two countries. Air New Zealand has applied to operate to Switzerland and initial services are considered likely via a route-specific codeshare agreement with Swissair. The air services agreement allows any ...
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The Airport Awards
The aviation industry is hardly short of awards events, but the Airport Awards can perhaps claim to be different. Uniquely, these awards aim to recognise the success of airports in developing and implementing marketing strategies - not just for the benefit of passengers and profits, but in partnership with the ...
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Delta pilots talk tough
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Line pilots have thrown down the gauntlet to airline management and demanded formal negotiations in one of the most important US contract negotiations of the year. But a swift response by management has already led to a tentative agreement In addition to ...
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Aloha grows beyond the Hawaiian islands
In the boldest move of its 53-year history, Aloha Airlines has decided to launch scheduled flights beyond the Hawaiian islands. In September, the carrier started weekly flights to the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific, and also plans its first flights to the US mainland in February. ...
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Boeing keeps control of outsourcing
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Boeing has emerged the winner in its recent negotiations with the International Association of Machinists over the issue of outsourcing. The union had demanded that Boeing give up its right to outsource or subcontract work, a growing concern among Boeing workers worried about job security. Their ...
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Canadians spar over single airline
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE October will be a decisive month in Canada as its airline industry struggles to define its future. Only one major carrier is likely to survive, but fundamental questions must be settled before a 10 November deadline about who will own and control the airline. ...
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Cintra's chief faces challenge
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Jaime Corredor Esnaola, the new head of Cintra, takes over the holding company for Aeromexico and Mexicana Airlines at a challenging time. After replacing Ernesto Martens, who retired at the end of August, one of his first moves was to announce that Mexico's federal ...
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JetBlue wins Kennedy slots in low-fares battle
CAROLE SHIFRIN WASHINGTON DC JetBlue Airways has cleared a major hurdle in its attempt to start new low-fare services from New York after being granted key take-off and landing rights at J F Kennedy International Airport by the US Department of Transportation. The agency gave JetBlue a total of 75 ...
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Low-costs in fierce battle at Stansted
LOIS JONES LONDONc Cut-throat competition between low-cost players at London Stansted airport looks set to cause casualties with the launch of KLM uk's Buzz KLMuk is to set up a low-cost fares airline next year called Buzz at Stansted to compete with Go and Ryanair. The carrier, ...
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Austrian Airlines joins Star Alliance
PETER BENNETT VIENNA Austrian Airlines' joint chief executives Herbert Bammer and Mario Rehulka, finally forwent a deal Air France and Delta Air Lines to join the Star Alliance. However, there is a lingering doubt whether Austrian's application to gain new anti-trust immunity with United Airlines will be approved and, ...
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SAA/Sun Air deal seems doomed to fail
ROGER MAKINGS JOHANNESBURG A bid by South African Airways to acquire a controlling stake in domestic rival Sun Air looks set to end in failure. The government is expected to refer the proposed deal back to the shareholders. In August, SAA announced that it had secured a ...
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New dispute looms after Sydney gets go-ahead
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE The decision on whether to build an additional Sydney airport edged another step closer early in September when Australia's environment minister gave the Badgerys Creek proposal a qualified go-ahead. A dispute is escalating, however, over how to fund the A$5 billion ($3.2 billion) project, ...
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JAS offers to trade slots for codeshares
As losses on its international services mount, Japan Air System (JAS) is proposing to hand some of its slots at Tokyo's Narita airport to Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA). In return JAS would seek codeshares on replacement flights operated by the two majors. This would be first ...
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Vanuatu faces barriers to privatisation
The decision by Vanuatu to prepare its flag carrier for privatisation is likely to hit some of the same snags experienced elsewhere in the Pacific Islands. Vanuatu, located 2,000km east of Australia, decided to sell 49% of Air Vanuatu to an international airline, following a recommendation from New Zealand ...
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Recovery route
NICHOLAS IONIDES MELBOURNE Ansett's chief executive has made a running start at turning the airline's finances around and inserting it into a global alliance. But there is still plenty of work to do. "When I arrived at Ansett we had what I have described as a Noah's ...
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A question of scale
KEVIN O'TOOLE Conventional wisdom has held back outsourcing of heavy maintenance, but as it starts to be challenged, only as few as a dozen airlines may emerge able to justify keeping work captive, argues IPG Consulting. On paper the equation looks perfect. On one side, airline boardrooms are keen ...
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Probing the costs
JACK SELLSBY LONDON IATA's upgraded maintenance accounting system offers cost transparency and gives participating airlines the best chance yet to benchmark globally Establishing the true cost of maintenance has never been a straightforward affair, even within the most sophisticated of airlines. Attempts to make meaningful comparisons between different ...
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Uneasy alliances
The global alliances have often looked more like mutually-beneficial truces between competitors than genuine joint . The Austrian Airlines move to Star seems to confirm that partners still value their independence. News that Austrian Airlines had chosen to forego its long-term partners for the bright lights of Star has ...
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Is Asia close to a turning point?
Asia's economic woes authored much of the over-capacity appearing on the North Atlantic. Chris Tarry of Commerzbank looks for sings of recovery Over the last few months much attention has been focussed on the current blood bath taking place on the North Atlantic. The conclusion very early on from ...
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EC shifts competition scrutiny to European alliances
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS After a lengthy period spent focusing on European-US aviation alliances, the European Commission's competition authorities plan to devote more effort to intra-European alliances. The intra-EU focus follows the EC's setting of conditions on the recent Alitalia/KLM alliance. The Commission ruled that the airlines should reduce frequencies ...