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US majors aim to break the cycle
The US majors have just ended another year of record profits, but can the industry now avoid descending into losses once the market turns? Airline managers are confident they can. It will be different next time. How familiar that message must sound to the Wall Street analysts who track ...
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Just keep on flying
When Russia was entering the last few days of normality in July and early August of last year, its national carrier Aeroflot was worrying about its new Boeing aircraft and grappling with a 25% increase in passenger numbers. A few weeks later and it was talking about schedule cuts, capacity ...
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The rise of the global super brands
Global alliances are attempting to build and enhance new common brands, while protecting the core products of their members. It felt like a delayed reaction. Some 18 months ago Lufthansa, United Airlines, Air Canada, SAS and Thai International, later joined by Varig, jumped feet first into the branding game ...
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Economy challenge
Rising numbers of frequent business travellers fly in economy class and the trend is intensifying. By Doug Cameron. Business class seats may be getting flatter and IFE screens even bigger but the battle for premium passengers is moving inexonerably towards the back of the aircraft. For all the product upgrades ...
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PAL buys time
The owners of Philippine Airlines (PAL) are buying time with a proposal to inject their own capital into the airline while they ask creditors to give them another three more months to find investors willing to put up more. That is the nub of PAL's plan filed with the ...
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A different kind of downturn
With memories still fresh of the last recession, the world is again bracing itself for downturn. But this could be a different type of decline. When the world began to emerge from the wreckage of the last recession, the air transport industry promised that it had learned its lesson - ...
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KLM aims for commitment
KLM and Alitalia are committed to building a long term global alliance As far they are concerned it is a marriage for life. A year's intense prematrimonial discussion between the Dutch carrier KLM and Italy's Alitalia has produced a 10-year deal that promises to be a fully blown merger ...
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TAM seeks foreign fish
Transportes Aereos Meridionais (TAM) of Brazil, which has seen profitability fall at home following a fare war and recession, was to launch its first international flights on 28 December with a daily Sao Paulo-Miami service. "It's much easier to tap a lake with fish than an empty lake," says Rolim ...
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Viasa routes reallocated
Venezuela's new secretary of transport, Julio Marti, has reversed his predecessor's course and redistributed the routes of bankrupt Viasa to three airlines. Aeropostal is the big winner, gaining rights on three continents. Aeropostal has been awarded Canada, Chile, Cuba, France, Germany, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. Aserca has won Brazil ...
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News in brief
Summer ice - Northwest Airline plans to increase its seasonal weekly service between Tokyo and Anchorage, Alaska to twice a week during the summer of 1999. The airline will use McDonnell Douglas DC-10s instead of the Boeing 747 it has been using. Paris,Texas - American Airlines will start daily ...
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Swiss World dream ends
Transatlantic start-up Swiss World has been forced to suspend operations at the start of December, only three months after inaugurating its low-fare Geneva-New York route. The airline blames the collapse on its inability to raise capital in the current economic climate, although sources close to the carrier talk of mistakes ...
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Could you please confirm
No-one can hope to predict when a crisis will strike but you can be ready to limit the damage to brands and reputation It is the moment every airline executive dreads. To be woken in the early hours of the morning by the insistent summons of the telephone and ...
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Money well spent?
Interactive inflight entertainment technology may not have lived up to its promise as a lucrative new revenue stream, but carriers are spending more than ever on the technology to retain a competitive marketing edge. Airlines have already spent a fortune on inflight entertainment (IFE) and the sums are getting ...
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Taking action over passives
In the battle to cut distribution costs, the airlines are fighting hard to reduce computer reservation fees for passive and duplicate bookings. But despite progress on both sides of the Atlantic, the issue remains a cause of tension. Passive or duplicate ticket bookings may be sound harmless enough, but airlines ...
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Vanity fare
Luxury seats, gourmet meals and complimentary amenity kits are all commonplace in business class. As premium products continue to improve is there a future for first class or will its adepts start to want more value for money? The fallout from the global financial crisis in the second half ...
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Lufthansa adds A340
Lufthansa Flight Training has ordered an Airbus A340-300 full flight simulator from CAE Electronics, which will be installed at its Frankfurt training centre in February 2000. Lufthansa has selected Evans & Sutherland's new ESIG-3800 visual system for the simulator, with options to replace the SP-X visuals on all its existing ...
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Marconi begins NG 737 head-up display tests
Marconi Avionics has begun flight testing the HUD 2020 head-up display for the Next Generation (NG) 737 on a leased 737-800 based at Mojave, California. The tests are aimed at achieving US Federal Aviation Administration certification in the first quarter of 1999, followed by immediate deliveries to Boeing for ...
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Air France plans image change
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France president Jean-Cyril Spinetta has launched a three-year programme to improve the airline's competitiveness and image as it prepares for a global alliance before the end of next year. A four-part plan has been unveiled to the workforce portraying Air France as an airline recognised ...
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Airports
-The UK Civil Aviation Authority has blocked a move by London Heathrow operator HAL to limit the number of suppliers of ground-handling services at the airport. HAL manages handling for ramp operations, baggage and cargo. At a recent public hearing the CAA decided there was not a sufficiently strong case ...
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Delta scales back Los Angeles operations
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Lines is scaling back services to Los Angeles by discontinuing its codeshare arrangements with SkyWest Airlines. At the same time it is strengthening its Asian presence with the signature of a co-operation deal with China Southern Airlines. The two companies have announced that ...