News from FlightGlobal – Page 2562
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Transavia 737 Order
Dutch independent carrier Transavia Airlines is about to place an order for Boeing's new 737-700/800 family. The airline now operates four 737-200s and eight 737-300s, alongside three Boeing 757s. Source: Flight International
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In and Out Club
Greek flag carrier Olympic Airways has appointed Prof. Rigas Doganis as its chairman and chief executive. Doganis is head of the department of air transport in the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield University in the UK. Embraer has appointed Juarez de Siqueira Britto Wanderley as president, following Ozires Silva's resignation. ...
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GB Airways
GB Airways, now a British Airways franchise carrier is adding four per week services to the Spanish destinations of Valencia and Murcia in the northern summer. Source: Flight International
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Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines is beginning services from Vienna to Beijing and Almaty, while Austrian rival Lauda Air is starting a daily Salzburg-London Gatwick service. Source: Flight International
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Air Canada
Air Canada is increasing its transatlantic and transpacific capacity for the northern summer by 18%. Toronto-Tel Aviv and Toronto-Montreal-Brussels are new services. There are capacity and frequency increases on routes to Madrid, Osaka, London, Glasgow, Zurich, Berlin and Vienna. Source: Flight International
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Unisys
Unisys has appointed Martin Tyler-Bennett, a specialist consultant in customer relationship and loyalty marketing management for airlines and other transportation sectors. Before joining Unisys, Tyler-Bennett acted as consultant for Thai Airways and several other airline projects. Source: Flight International
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Cathay Pacific
Andrew Hoad has been appointed general manager supplies at Cathay Pacific. He replaces Albert Harrison, who will be director of Belfast Airport in the UK. Source: Flight International
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Programming change
Many aviation companies, including airports and service providers as well as airlines, need to find ways of cutting costs further. Ray Eitel Porter and his colleagues at The LEK Partnership discuss effective responses. For the first time in its history, a medium-sized airline faced the threat of real competition. ...
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Northward bound
Ansett Australia is grappling with international expansion, toughening domestic competition, questions over its ownership, and a heavy debt burden. Tom Ballantyne assesses the future of Australia's second major airline. Fledgling international carrier Ansett Australia, striving to establish a permanent presence amongst Asia-Pacific's airlines, is wondering what cards fate will deal ...
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Picking up the pieces
The impact of a major accident on an airline's traffic and revenues is often short lived but limiting the damage to the carrier's public image is a delicate exercise. Sara Guild examines the lessons learned by a selection of carriers. There is a true tale in aviation's not so ...
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Coming clean
It is time the United States stopped equivocating and led the way towards multilateral liberalisation by clearly stating its international open skies policy. Jacqueline Gallacher reports. The attempt to launch a worthwhile debate on multilateralism at last November's Icao worldwide air transport conference, resulted in little more than a ...
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Financial results
Y = Year. H = Half year. Q = Quarter. M = Months. Currencies converted into US dollars a average exchange rates during reporting period. Per cent changes in local currencies. Net profit at the UK airports operator rose 13 per cent. Passenger numbers rose 7.4 per cent ...
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The unions' man
United Airlines' chairman and CEO Gerald Greenwald has some novel ideas on how to make employees work together, run an airline more efficiently and establish strong ties with worker groups. Could he be the new blood airlines have needed at the top for years? Mead Jennings reports.In Gerald Greenwald's office ...
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Airline news
Air Canada will commence its first Middle Eastern service with a twice weekly flight from Toronto to Tel Aviv from 20 June. Northwest is to launch a Detroit-London/Gatwick service at the beginning of March. The carrier has purchased the route from Delta, in a deal awaiting US government ...
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Strong yen aids surge in JLL deals
The Japanese leveraged lease looks certain to stabilise into a more mature product, helped by cautious equity investors. Report by Tom Ballantyne. When aircraft deliveries finally begin to pick up speed over the coming years the Japanese leveraged lease should have evolved into a stable, more mature product. ...
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Changing fortunes
Early figures suggest that 1994 was the long-awaited turnround year for most airlines. Richard Whitaker reports. 'Mixed' seems the most appropriate word to use in describing the fortunes of the world's major airlines in 1994, to judge by the information available so far. The full-year financial results for the ...
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US launches the anti-trust debate
With the formal offer of open skies by the US to nine smaller European countries, the cross-border code-sharing alliance has changed from an airline marketing tool into a bilateral right that symbolises complete air service liberalisation. This is what US transportation officials have wanted. But as representatives of the ...