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Contract with the future
David Learmount/LONDON Shortages of skilled personnel are rife in the air transport industry in most parts of the world. Licensed engineers and high quality flightcrew - people with skills that cannot be created overnight - are back in demand and employers' reluctance to operate strategic training policies has led to ...
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Across the spectrum
Dave Higdon/LAKELAND, FLORIDA Sport aviation's annual spring fling, the US Experimental Aircraft Association's Sun 'n' Fun Fly-In, attracted more than half a million aficionados who witnessed, among other things, the relaunch of the Wing Derringer and unveiling of a "flying motor home", the Private Explorer. Rain and humidity did little ...
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Alliance fever
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Ever since US Airways announced that it was in talks with American and United Airlines just over two years ago, the world has been awaiting another round of consolidation in the US airline industry. Albeit a little delayed, it now appears to have taken off in earnest ...
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Maintenance Directory
Ian Sheppard/London Despite its current economic troubles, Asia looks set to continue to attract the attention of airframe and engine maintenance providers anxious to cash in on a region that will continue to be a pace setter in the dash for global air transport growth over the next few ...
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Supplier News May 1998
Gulf Air has signed a $165 million 10-year deal for Sabre to take over its IT functions. Sita has won a US$160 million seven-year contract with Air France to support all its voice and data communications. Boeing's 737-800 now has US Federal Aviation Administration type certification, and the ...
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Sales and cuts in India
Air-India is drawing up sale and leaseback deals and preparing to slash staff numbers, among a series of desperate measures which aim to alleviate the airline's burden of heavy losses and debt. Air-India has proposed to its owner, the Civil Aviation Ministry, that it sell some of its Boeing ...
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BMA grabs BA capacity
British Midland has scored victory over British Airways in the first capacity hearing for a new route entrant, after complaining of an effective duopoly by BA and LOT on London-Warsaw. At a scarce capacity hearing in April, the UK CAA forced BA to concede that its plans to replace ...
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Brazil battles over fares
Brazilian airlines are seeing their comfortable cartel crumble in the wake of a full-scale fares war which is raging through the country. Several airlines began offering generous discounts on selected flights at the end of last year. But the battle took on a new dimension in March when TAM ...
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Rule Britannia?
Backed by their tour operators, UK charter carriers Airtours and Britannia Airways are expanding into European markets like Germany and Scandinavia, pushing prices down and disturbing the cosy status quo. Report by Tom Gill When Britannia began providing intercontinental services out of Germany late last year, alarm bells began ringing ...
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Chile's high flier
The Chilean economy and its national flag carrier now feel strong enough to insist on US antitrust immunity for the proposed alliance with American Airlines as a precondition for open skies. David Knibb reports from Santiago. Like the Andean condor, Chileans are a rare breed. Among Latin Americans the ...
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Crossing into the EU
The launch of its French subsidiary will give Crossair greater access to southern European markets and boost its Basle hub. Tom Gill reports. 'Some guys talk about the Star Alliance; well, we have our own new born star.' The star Crossair's president and CEO Moritz Suter is hailing is a ...
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Delta's quick fix?
Delta Air Lines' new chief executive Leo Mullin is getting to grips with the idiosyncrasies of the airline industry and rapidly addressing issues like service and low staff morale. But his options on the alliances front look limited. Karen Walker reports. 'This is a very strange industry,' remarked Delta ...
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Asian storm hits Garuda
The Asian economic slump is reinforcing industry opinion that the outlook for Indonesian carrier Garuda is bleak. Aviation analyst Nora Chang of HSBC James Capel echoes the general industry view when she rates Garuda's survival chances as 'poor'. But the Indonesian carrier is desperately cutting costs in a bid ...
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Emirates buys Lanka
Armed with a restructuring plan, Emirates Airlines has stepped in as a strategic investor for Air Lanka. The Sri Lankan government has sold a 40 per cent stake in Air Lanka to Emirates for US$70 million in cash. Sri Lankan aviation minister Dharmasiri Senanayake says Emirates has already paid ...
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Peru turns protective
Peru's President Alberto Fujimori has completed a changeover in aviation administrators and his new team is already taking a closer look at the implications of liberalisation for Peruvian airlines. Fujimori's latest personnel change was to replace the current head of the Director General Transportes Aereos (DGTA)with a new appointee, ...
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Thai stews over stake
The timing of the planned privatisation of Thai Airways remains unclear amid speculation that British Airways could be interested in taking a stake. Overseas interest in a stake in Thai has been sparked by the proposed raising of the current 10 per cent foreign ownership limit to 30 per ...
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Suffering from exposure
As the Asian crisis bites deeper, the potential impact on the values of widebody aircraft in particular is only just beginning to become apparent to investors. Report by Angus Williamson. The financial and economic crisis affecting several of the East Asian 'tiger' economies has so far produced muted repercussions ...
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Samsung wing parts
Samsung Aerospace has signed a $30 million contract with Boeing to supply wing structures for the 767-400ER until 2006. The company will supply parts worth $13 million from October until 2001, possibly to be followed by a further $3 million each year to 2006 in spares. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier growth
Bombardier Aerospace saw sales increase by around 15%for the 1997/8 year to January, to reach C$4.6 billion ($3.2 billion). Aerospace accounted for more than half the Canadian's group's C$8.5 billion sales and a large slice of its C$420 million profit. Source: Flight International
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ANA Star gazes after signing deals with Lufthansa and United
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has signed its codesharing agreements with Lufthansa and United Airlines, suggesting that it may now join their Star Alliance. At the same time, the airline's pilots are to suspend their strike action. Under the new alliances, ANA will codeshare on 11 routes to the USA ...