News from FlightGlobal – Page 2332
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Swiss offer Geneva hope
Swissair may still come to regret its decision to drop intercontinental flights from Geneva after the Swiss parliament mandated limited special treatment for regional airports in new bilateral agreements. But critics say the measures don't go far enough. The parliament bowed to pressure from the western cantons by ...
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Moscow hopeful
Transaero has opted to curb its wider ambitions in order to focus on stimulating a rebound in the moribund Russian domestic market. Douglas Cameron reports from Moscow on the airline's chances. Transaero has not quite shaken off the past. A strategy which has flirted with the purchase of TWA and ...
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Wolf secures pilots' seal
Stephen Wolf cut it close but his tough approach towards US Airways' pilots has paid off. The carrier's chairman and chief executive officer brokered a deal after 18 months of frustrating stalemate just in time to secure production slots for the first of 400 Airbus A320s on order. ...
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A breath of fresh air
US-Canada open skies, tentatively begun just over two and a half years ago, has been a resounding success for all concerned. Report by Karen Walker. The doom and gloom experts had better find another target. Despite concerns by some that the US-Canada open skies agreement, forged over three years ago, ...
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Rockies duo dump merger
Money problems end many marriages and the break-up of Colorado's low-cost couple is no different. Just days after Western Pacific and Frontier Airlines called off their merger Western Pacific announced it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the latest set-back for low-cost contenders in the US. ...
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Oz duo still needs repair
As Australia's two major carriers struggle to improve their finances, a potential threat to the stability of the domestic market has taken a step closer to reality in the form of proposed startup Aussie Airlines. After less than a year at the helm, Ansett Australia's executive chairman Rod ...
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Boeing gives MD-95 boost
Douglas Aircraft's MD-95 and MD-11 freighter programmes are expected to survive the merger with Boeing when the new company announces production details in November. AirTran Airlines, formerly known as ValuJet, remains the sole customer for the MD-95 but says it expects to take all 50 aircraft on order, ...
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Cathay lives a nightmare
Cathay Pacific is fast running out of superlatives to describe what has developed into a post-handover nightmare. Hong Kong's transfer of sovereignty has kept tourists away and the slump in load factors has been exacerbated by the currency and environmental crises in the region. While the carrier isn't ...
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Chile spices up Latin row
The addition of LanChile to American Airlines' growing list of Latin American alliance partners has merely poured oil on the fiery debate over US aviation policy in the region. LanChile joins Aerolineas Argentinas, Colombia's Avianca, and Central America's Taca Group awaiting government approval for links with American that ...
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German FFP spoils shared
Lufthansa's links with the public sector appear alive and well despite the sale of the German government's remaining 37.5 per cent stake in the carrier in October. Two rivals claim the German flag carrier had prior knowledge of decisions by federal authorities affecting their businesses and cite a ...
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Reid all about it
Interview Lufthansa may have entered a new era as a fully private enterprise, but the challenges remain the same. Frederick Reid, president and chief operating officer of the passenger airline, talks to Mark Odell about cost cutting, the domestic market and the prospects for the Star Alliance. Unlike the other ...
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AAir Liberte
Air Liberté/TAT and American Airlines have signed a codeshare deal which will put the US carrier's code on French domestic services, pending regulatory approval. Source: Airline Business
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Second to none ?
Following its relaunch this year, Qatar Airways is ahead of its forecasts and plans to assume a major role in the region over the next few years. Richard Whitaker reports from Doha. When it comes to service standards, Akbar Al Baker is not easily satisfied. The chief executive of ...
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Airtran does the business
ValuJet is giving up more than its name in the planned merger with fellow Atlanta startup AirTran Airways. The no-frills, single-class, open-seating service is going as well in a quest to attract the business traveller. From November the new ValuJet, renamed AirTran Airlines, will no longer focus purely ...
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French spin
Jean-Cyril Spinetta has taken over as chairman of Air France following Christian Blanc's resignation. Spinetta was president and CEO of Air Inter until 1994. Source: Airline Business
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Schiphol on top
Amsterdam/Schiphol won the overall Airport Marketing Award at the Airline Business/ASM Routes conference in Oslo. Specialist award winners were Manchester, for best trade advertisement; Dubai, for best print material for the trade; Birmingham, for best consumer advertisement/poster; and Stansted, for best consumer print material. Source: Airline ...
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UK electric
United Airlines has introduced electronic ticketing on longhaul services, with the launch of its E-Ticket system on US-UK routes. Source: Airline Business
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Basle buster
Europe Continental Airways, the Basle-Mulhouse-based start-up in which Crossair has a 35 per cent stake, will launch flights in spring 1998. The carrier is controlled by French investors and no decision has been taken on the carrier's final trading name. Initial services will start with two Saab 340s but up ...
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Push start on the Web
Taking Internet technology to the next level, Lufthansa recently became the first airline to use 'push' technology to send its customers fare data regularly. Individuals who surf the Web, seeking out information on their own, are said to be 'pulling' this data from the Internet. Whenever a Web ...
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The tigers advance
Asian carriers have taken the biggest share of the rapid growth in the US-Pacific market. April Pearson reports. Over the past five years, transpacific traffic to and from the US has risen by 33 per cent - nearly 10 percentage points more than the transatlantic market - according to ...