All Ops & safety articles – Page 423
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AB25: African Aviation chief executive Nick Fadugba
The landscape of the African airline industry has changed significantly in the past 25 years. Numerous former stalwart national carriers, such as Air Afrique, Ghana Airways, Nigeria Airways and Zambia Airways, have gone bankrupt; several privately owned airlines, such as Arik Air in Nigeria, Precisionair in Tanzania and Fly540 in ...
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AB25: ACE Aviation chairman, Robert Milton
Look back 25 years? I'm not old enough oh wait, I am. Let's see, I'll go back to when I knew this was the industry for me, my first sighting of a 747. I was nine. Whoops, that was 1969, way too long ago. Twenty-five years? Write ACE avaition holdings ...
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AB25: AirAsia Group chief executive Tony Fernandes
GROUP chief executiveairasia On 13 October, less than nine years after a dream called Air-Asia became reality, the 100 millionth "guest" was flown...
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AB25: LAN, chief executive, Enrique Cueto
The Latin American airline industry has undergone dramatic change over the past 25 years. Two decades ago, the region was dominated by state-owned, unprofitable airlines. Carriers operated old fleets, provided mediocre service, and had low levels of reliability writes LAN Airlines CEO Enrque Cueto
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AB25: Emirates president Tim Clark
Emirates shares a 25th birthday with Airline Business, having also launched in 1985. Over the past quarter of a century, our industry has taken great strides forward. It is essential that we maintain this momentum in the next 25 years to ensure the continued success of the airline sector and ...
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AB25: Ethiopian Airlines chief executive Girma Wake
Despite the fact that a great number of African States succeeded to become independent and to create their own national airlines in the early 1960s, African airlines have faced numerous challenges in formulating and maintaining a safe, efficient air traffic system, mainly due to the inability of African governments to ...
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AB25: Singapore Airlines chief executive, CS Chew
The silver anniversary of Airline Business is an appropriate occasion for some thoughts on how the airline industry has evolved in the past 25 years writes Singapore Airlines chief executive Chew Choon Seng
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AB25: Gulf Air chief executive Samer Majali
Imagine a world in which airlines operate in a free market, able to realise their full potential through economies of scale, not hampered by barriers that increase costs and curb development, not constrained by archaic bilateral agreements, not overcharged by monopoly suppliers. That is the dream of Gulf Air chief ...
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AB25: Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways
Airlines worldwide continue to compete on the three fundamentals of cost, network, and product. However, in all of these areas, both the way airlines compete and the marketplace in which they compete has changed dramatically writes Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker.
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AB25: Cathay Pacific chief executive Tony Tyler
When the first issue of Airline Business came off the presses, I was in the eighth year of my aviation career and had just moved to Rome as Cathay Pacific's manager for Italy and France - though at that time we didn't actually fly to either country writes Cathay Pacific ...
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AB25: Geoff Dixon, former Qantas chief executive
Most governments still take aviation for granted writes former Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon
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Interview: Oman Air chief executive, Peter Hill
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/airline-business/2010/10/videos-world-air-forum-2010.html
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NewsAir France to create 'provincial bases' in network overhaul
Air France is to restructure its European operations by creating several provincial bases to reinforce its position in the market.
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ALTA 2010: Latin leaders highlight airport failings
Latin American airline leaders are continuing to stress shortcomings on many fronts at the region's airports, their owners and regulators.
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USA bulldozes European WTO appeal – and sets out its own
European Union protests against the World Trade Organisation's findings on Airbus support "do not achieve the EU goal of making the subsidies disappear", the USA insists.
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NewsRolls-Royce could tap Airbus to secure spare Trents
Airbus says it is prepared to supply Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines from A380s on its production line to operators that require replacements following mandated...
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ALTA 2010: LAN expects to close TAM meger in 2Q 2011
LAN expects to close its acquisition of Colombia's Aires within the next month and close its merger with Brazil's TAM by mid 2011.
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ALTA 2010: JetBlue aims to grow San Juan as a focus city
JetBlue Airways plans to grow San Juan, Puerto Rico into a focus city as early as next summer.
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ALTA 2010: Insel Air plans new flights to Colombia and Charlotte
Curacao's Insel Air plans to add a fifth MD-80 during the first quarter of next year followed by the introduction of new service to Medellin and Bogota in...
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ALTA 2010: Kriete tackles safety
ALTA president Roberto Kriete says his top priority is safety, but ALTA needs help from outside the association to improve the region's recent problematic...