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Airlines continue Y2K compliance fight
The US airline industry has notified the Clinton Administration that all year 2000 (Y2K) compliance work should be completed by 31 August. The move comes as other organisations prepare to file their findings on the worldwide status of the industry. US aviation officials say the situation in the rest ...
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surfing for value
Nancy Schwartz and Michael Zea at Mercer Management Consulting in Washington DC Many airlines have begun using the Internet to market and distribute their products, but few have yet made a success of the medium. Internet-related market value has exploded over the past few years, especially in the USA, so ...
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A touch of Swiss prudence
Jackie Gallacher/BRUSSELS Sabena is back in profit and experiencing one of the fastest growth rates in the industry. But under Swiss chief executive, Paul Reutlinger, there has been little fanfare surrounding the transformation. For a man who has just steered a foundering european flag carrier back to profits, Sabena's Paul ...
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USA and UK revisit open skies talks
Talks on a new US-UK liberalised aviation bilateral agreement are due to resume at the start of July, but the hosts in Washington DC remain cautious about the likely outcome of this latest round. Talks were set to restart in mid-June but were cancelled by the UK Government, which said ...
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French gamble on growth
Are Air France's fortunes looking up? Strong fourth quarter performance partially compensated for the pilots strike of mid-1998, limiting the damage to a 11% drop in profits. Higher load factors, meanwhile, have been aided by transatlantic codeshares and the its expanding Charles de Gaulle hub. The carrier has ...
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Flying out of control
After years of restraint, carriers in Europe appear once more to be raising capacity faster than underlying demand. Yields have already come under pressure and the leading industry indicators being monitored by Airline Business and Commerzbank suggest that there could be worse to come. Last year it seemed that the ...
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Circling the globe
Jackie Gallacher Antitrust immunity has allowed many of the global alliances to pursue schedule co-ordination and joint pricing initiatives. But as the "customer-driven" oneworld hopes to prove, there is still plenty alliances can do without it. There are no prizes for identifying the main landmark in airline strategy over ...
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The tie that binds
The game is far from over for the global airline grouping, as Delta's deal with Air France demonstrates. But if there is more realignment to come, the SAirGroup is putting its trust in old-fashioned equity. The course of love never did run smooth. Neither, it seems, do the course ...
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Cathay narrowly averts pilots strike
Nicholas Ionides ATI/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways narrowly avoided an all-out pilots' strike early in June by reaching an eleventh-hour agreement with cockpit crew on forced wage cuts. Cathay Pacific is widely seen as having won its longstanding dispute with cockpit crew over new contract terms, after narrowly averting an all-out ...
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Australia eases foreign entry
Canberra has rejected a proposal to give cabotage rights to foreign carriers, but has approved recommendations designed to ease the entry of foreign airlines into Australia. Australia's federal cabinet gave its verdict on proposals to liberalise Australian aviation policy put forward by a government-appointed productivity commission. Qantas and ...
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Fragmented ATC blamed for delays
Peter Bennet/VIENNA Europe's fragmented air traffic control (ATC) system is to blame for record breaking delays in Europe's airline industry, according to the Association of European Airlines (AEA). March was the worst month on record for punctuality, with more than a third of intra-European departures delayed, according to AEA ...
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Mixed results from Asia-Pacific
Year-end results for Asia-Pacific's airline groups were not universally bad but the struggle is not over yet. Asia-Pacific airline executives many well remember 1998 as the year of red ink. And for the region as a whole, it was certainly the toughest in recent memory. But as the year-end financial ...
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SAir reacts to Air France/Delta
The official confirmation of Air France's alliance with Delta Air Lines has provoked a sudden burst of activity from the US carrier's existing European partner Swissair. That included the announcement of plans to accelerate moves towards a "merger" with Sabena. Delta and Air France say that their deal, which ...
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UK cargo's agenda
As US-UK passenger talks begin, UK cargo carriers are pressurising the USA to include their demands on wetleasing rules in any new bilateral. The British Cargo Alliance (BCAA) points out that US cargo carriers "have a large and profitable business" leasing freighters to airlines such as British Airways - ...
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Delta defers 777s as pilots pay protest proves costly
Delta Air Lines has deferred delivery of its remaining Boeing 777s on order and has decided to sell or lease two already in operation. The airline blames an ongoing dispute with its pilots and cites their failure to accept new pay rates and work rules for the aircraft type. ...
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VulcanAir 'moves forward' with Partenavia line
VulcanAir has begun revamping the former Partenavia aircraft line, which it acquired last year, in an effort to drive up sales and stamp its identity on the twin-engined models. "This is a natural evolution of the product. Partenavia had done nothing with the aircraft for some time and then ...
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FAA scrutinises repair stations
Rules governing maintenance of US-registered transport aircraft at foreign repair shops are to be tightened, the US Federal Aviation Administration says. The move will affect 525 foreign repair stations. The action follows criticism of the FAA's oversight of repair shops following the May 1996 crash of a ValuJet McDonnell ...
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Lockheed Martin seeks commercial GPS role
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin has taken the first step towards fielding a commercially owned and operated satellite network for worldwide augmentation of the global positioning system (GPS), enabling it "to serve as the backbone for future air navigation". The company, which signalled its intent last year to ...
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The big numbers
Airbus and Boeing continue to dispute the sales prospects for large airliners Max Kingsley-Jones/PARIS Airbus Industrie and Boeing renewed their long-term debate over the size and timing of demand for very large capacity aircraft at the Paris air show by releasing their market forecasts for the next 20 years. ...