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Airport Marketing Awards
CATEGORY: Regional GOLD AWARD: Southampton International ,UK ACHIEVEMENT: Building and sustaining business traffic through developing links with key customers, media and staff. Southampton Airport, in common with many of Europe's regional airports, is focused on building business traffic and has already established itself in that role ...
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Uneasy alliances
The global alliances have often looked more like mutually-beneficial truces between competitors than genuine joint . The Austrian Airlines move to Star seems to confirm that partners still value their independence. News that Austrian Airlines had chosen to forego its long-term partners for the bright lights of Star has ...
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EC shifts competition scrutiny to European alliances
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS After a lengthy period spent focusing on European-US aviation alliances, the European Commission's competition authorities plan to devote more effort to intra-European alliances. The intra-EU focus follows the EC's setting of conditions on the recent Alitalia/KLM alliance. The Commission ruled that the airlines should reduce frequencies ...
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Ansett reverses fortunes
NICK IONIDES ATI SINGAPORE Australia's once-troubled second carrier Ansett has reported strong year end earnings, but observers say that its turnaround has raised the stakes in a battle surrounding its ownership. Early in September Ansett reported a fourfold increase in both net and operating profit for its 1998/9 ...
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Privatisation the second time around?
PETER BENNETT VIENNA After decades in state ownership, privatisation could finally be on the cards for eastern Europe's airlines. Eastern European airlines, dogged by government procrastination, bureaucracy and stalled privatisation plans, may be about to see a change in their fortunes. Privatising the region's carriers has been ...
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Is Asia close to a turning point?
Asia's economic woes authored much of the over-capacity appearing on the North Atlantic. Chris Tarry of Commerzbank looks for sings of recovery Over the last few months much attention has been focussed on the current blood bath taking place on the North Atlantic. The conclusion very early on from ...
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Vanuatu faces barriers to privatisation
The decision by Vanuatu to prepare its flag carrier for privatisation is likely to hit some of the same snags experienced elsewhere in the Pacific Islands. Vanuatu, located 2,000km east of Australia, decided to sell 49% of Air Vanuatu to an international airline, following a recommendation from New Zealand ...
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Olympic work just begun
LOIS JONES LONDON Olympic Airwarys appears to be making financial gains by attacking costs, but a major restructuring effort still faces the Greek carrier's new management team. The Greek Government tendered the management of Olympic to British Airways consulting subsidiary Speedwing, with a view to making it more ...
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UK cargo carriers pin hopes on Europe
PETER CONWAY LONDON UK cargo airlines angry at a controversial government decision that grants new rights to US operators, hope to generate the consensus needed by the European Commission to negotiate broader cargo rights with the USA. In August, the UK Government granted fifth freedom rights out of ...
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New challenge to charter
European low-cost scheduled operators have begun to make small inroads into traditional charter markets. But, despite some aggressive noises, they have some way to go before posing a serious threat. Europe's low-cost carriers may continue to grab the headlines, but one sector remains resolutely unimpressed. The traditional charter airlines ...
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Cintra's chief faces challenge
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Jaime Corredor Esnaola, the new head of Cintra, takes over the holding company for Aeromexico and Mexicana Airlines at a challenging time. After replacing Ernesto Martens, who retired at the end of August, one of his first moves was to announce that Mexico's federal ...
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Probing the costs
JACK SELLSBY LONDON IATA's upgraded maintenance accounting system offers cost transparency and gives participating airlines the best chance yet to benchmark globally Establishing the true cost of maintenance has never been a straightforward affair, even within the most sophisticated of airlines. Attempts to make meaningful comparisons between different ...
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Delta pilots talk tough
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Line pilots have thrown down the gauntlet to airline management and demanded formal negotiations in one of the most important US contract negotiations of the year. But a swift response by management has already led to a tentative agreement In addition to ...
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Labouring in Europe
TOM GILL LONDON Industrial relations appear to have improved and European workers are becoming more efficient. But will the changes be far-reaching enough to enable airlines to cope with cyclical downturn? The British Airline Pilots Association(BALPA) describes itself as "serene". The UK white-collar union MSF says it is ...
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Iberia prepares to float
The delayed flotation of a 54% stake in Iberia will start in the last week of November, according to the Spanish flag-carrier's chief executive, Angel Mullor. The initial public offering (IPO) should raise Ptas300 billion ($2 billion) for Iberia's parent, the state-owned holding group Sepi. The sale marks the ...
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Low-cost survivors
CAROLE SHIFRIN WASHINGTON DC After years of uncertain and even disastrous performances by new entrant carriers in the USA, some seem to be thriving and even beginning to report profits. Why did these start-ups survive where so many failed? Accepted wisdom in the USA is that the fate ...
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A question of scale
KEVIN O'TOOLE Conventional wisdom has held back outsourcing of heavy maintenance, but as it starts to be challenged, only as few as a dozen airlines may emerge able to justify keeping work captive, argues IPG Consulting. On paper the equation looks perfect. On one side, airline boardrooms are keen ...
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Recovery route
NICHOLAS IONIDES MELBOURNE Ansett's chief executive has made a running start at turning the airline's finances around and inserting it into a global alliance. But there is still plenty of work to do. "When I arrived at Ansett we had what I have described as a Noah's ...
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Key 717 deals close as Hawaiian takes 20
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH Boeing is closing on potential major 717 deals with British Airways and US low fare airline Vanguard, following the conclusion of a key deal from Hawaiian Airlines for up to 20 aircraft. "Three or four" orders for up to 50 aircraft are being finalised, says ...
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Air China close to placing A340s on lease with Cathay Pacific
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Air China is on the verge of closing an agreement to lease its three Airbus A340-300s to Cathay Pacific as part of a fleet restructuring move that will also see its Boeing 777-200s removed. Sources in China told Flight International's sister on-line service, Air Transport Intelligence, that ...