News from FlightGlobal – Page 2568
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Gill Air
The team which has just taken over UK regional airline Gill Air (Flight International, 1-7 February, P16) have a wealth of experience in the UK air-transport business. Managing director Trefor Jones (left), like finance director Mike Robinson (right), came from Jersey European Airways. Before that, however, Jones had been director ...
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Qantas
Peter Roennfeldt has been appointed regional general manager UK and Ireland for Australian national airline Qantas. Roennfeldt, who replaces Wayne Pearce, was previously country manager in South Africa. Pearce has returned to Qantas head office in Sydney as general manager for revenue development. ...
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Appointments
James Wey has been appointed junior vice president Europe for Taiwan's Eva Air. Rono Dutta has been appointed United Airline's senior vice president planning following the departure of Rakesh Gangwal to Air France; James Hartigan Jr becomes vice president cargo. Daniele De Giovanni has been named ...
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Orders/Leases
SA Airlink has ordered nine Jetstream 41 aircraft, worth $63 million, for delivery between February and September 1995. Swissair has ordered an MD-11, scheduled for delivery in March 1997. Jetstream International Airlines has ordered 20 Dornier 328s, with an option for an additional 20. Elsewhere, Lone ...
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Christmas bonus
Airbus received a late Christmas present when lessor ILFC placed an order for up to 40 of its aircraft in late December. Firm orders comprise eight A319s, 13 A320s and nine A321s. ILFC also took an option on 10 aircraft. Source: Airline Business
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Thai's new chief
Thai Airways has appointed Amaret Sila-on as chairman. He is a non-military appointee with wide ranging commercial and governmental experience. Source: Airline Business
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Orly response
Air France is taking on Lufthansa, the largest of its new competitors at Paris/Orly airport, with 12 weekly flights from Orly to Frankfurt. Sabena, KLM and Lauda Air all began operations from Orly in January. Source: Airline Business
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US FFP defeat
The US Supreme Court has ruled that passengers can sue airlines over changes made to frequent flier programmes. This allows a group in Illinois to proceed with a case against American Airlines. The carrier decided in 1988 to impose some retroactive restrictions on free travel awards. ...
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Handling trouble
The ground handling debate is underlining the challenges facing the European Commission in policing Europe's single market. The trouble with the European Commission is that it has too many difficulties putting its laudable objectives into action. Ground handling offers the latest example of this. A year after ...
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DOT scales back the Clinton way
In targeting the Department of Transportation for halving from its 1993 level, the Clinton administration is not only seeking to get ahead of the Republican-controlled Congress in its frenzy to downsize federal government, it is also courting opposition from airlines and airports. Transportation secretary Federico Peña has announced the administration's ...
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ANZ weighs Oz options
Air New Zealand is believed to be close to deciding on a bold strategic move towards domestic operations in Australia, despite Canberra's shock decision late last year to abandon the proposed Australia-New Zealand single aviation market. Sources say ANZ majority shareholder Brierley Investments Ltd is considering two options, ...
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Sense stems Pacific pride
South Pacific island governments are finally taking steps to stem the flow of red ink that has bedevilled most of their tiny national airlines for the past decade. At presstime, aviation officials from the dozen isolated nations were studying a comprehensive new report designed to set them back ...
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Africa set for key changes
With Zambia's government admitting defeat in maintaining its national carrier, new contenders have lost little time in proposing a replacement. And Kenya Airways is readying itself for the transfer of up to 80 per cent of the state holding into the private sector. A joint venture carrier between ...
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Crisis over - don't let up
Airline industry fortunes may be on the upturn, but much work remains. Here are our 10 commandments. At long last, there's something to be optimistic about. For many airlines, traffic has returned, costs have been cut, and the bottom line is looking, well, better than it has for a ...
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Still not free to handle
The European Commission may have finally produced a directive aimed at dismantling the European ground handling monopolies, but its application is at least three if not six years away. Instead, Brussels will continue to pursue complaints with traditional methods, as it has with its most recent action against the Greek ...
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Deciphering key codes
Results of the US Department of Transportation's analysis of codesharing are being portrayed as a reaffirmation of US international aviation policy, which promotes crossborder airline alliance-building. However, many aviation officials are questioning the methodology of the study and its findings. The econometric analysis, performed by Gellman Research Associates, ...
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TWA hits more snags
Highly publicised problems at TWA and numerous successes at Northwest Airlines do not tell the full story at either carrier. TWA, though in the midst of a difficult financial restructuring in an attempt to stave off bankruptcy, may not be compromised in its negotiating position. Northwest is still carrying a ...
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Air Namibia Bonn threat
Air Namibia may have to suspend its only intercontinental service amid charges of arm-twisting by Bonn officials which leaves German carriers in a dominant position. The airline, which entered the long-haul market only four years ago, says it may have to cease operating its three times weekly Windhoek-Frankfurt-London ...
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French cut to make point
Two years after the third package came into effect, so-called competition came to the French domestic market with a bang - although some would argue it was a publicity-motivated whimper. Air Inter and Air Liberté entered into a widely reported price war on the Paris/Orly-Toulouse route. But TAT ...
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US shapes and wavers
Canada's intent to liberalise its bilateral with the US will give transportation secretary Federico Peña his first major foreign policy success. And moves in Brussels over the US open skies proposal to nine European nations may add impetus to resolve the dispute over how to address codesharing in the offer. ...