All Ops & safety articles – Page 863
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Airport action
Leaders at the recent Latin American Airline Forum in Miami showed solidarity with IATA and several Star Alliance carriers as they denounced excessive airport fees
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Africa report: Bilateral barriers
Despite a wide geographical area, large population and limited surface transport, progress towards liberalisation of the skies over southern Africa is still painfully slow
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Garuda crisis deepens after defaults
Garuda Indonesia is in more financial trouble after defaulting on scheduled loan payments that were due at the end of 2005.
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Airlines lose passenger rights case
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has thrown out a challenge brought by IATA and Europe’s low-cost airlines against new rules covering passenger rights in cases of denied boarding, cancellations and delays.
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Behind the order book
Record aircraft orders do not necessarily indicate good times ahead, writes Chris Tarry of CTAIRA, with analyses from Fabrice Tacoun
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Northwest cranks up labour tensions
A proposal by Northwest Airlines to set up an internal small-jet subsidiary as it reorganises in bankruptcy has provoked strike threats by its pilots union, a warning observers are taking seriously.
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Delay fears mount as traffic soars
Europe’s air traffic management organisation Eurocontrol says that air traffic grew to a record 9.2 million flights in 2005, but airline bodies are nervous as delay levels creep up.
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Focus Iceland: Northern raiders
A small island in the North Atlantic does not immediately spring to mind as a hotbed of aggressive investment policies and strategic forays into foreign lands, yet Iceland has an abundance of both
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Full recovery
Leasing companies are enjoying some of the best market conditions they have ever known, and are ordering aircraft heavily once again
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Gary Kelly: on the offensive at Southwest
Gary Kelly has a hard act to follow, but looks like the right man to grow Southwest Airlines – that much-imitated low-cost leader – aggressively and head off the competition
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Liquid returns
The airline sector is once again back in favour with investors, with plenty of financing available and an increasing number of initial public offerings coming to market
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More of the same
The latest research from Airline Business shows that carriers have been tackling their cost bases vigorously over the past few brutal years with measurable success. However, as traffic and revenues rise, the challenge will be to sustain this progress and change the industry’s fundamentals for ever
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