All Strategy articles – Page 1081
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Traffic leaders
Last year was another relatively strong year for growth. The 100 largest airlines achieved a 5.3 per cent increase in passenger numbers, but as average journey distances increased revenue passenger km jumped by 8.7 per cent. A disappointing freight performance held the growth in total tonne km back to 6.5 ...
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Hun postures as war rages
In a bid to revive Cambodia's standing in the region and the world, new leader Hun Sen played the aeropolitical card while the country was still reeling from a civil war sparked by his bloody coup in early July. As foreign airlines cancelled services and refugees fled into ...
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Hell for leather
American Airlines is pushing alliance logic to the limit, leaving its rivals howling in protest and regulators perplexed at the issues of hub and market dominance that have been brought to the forefront. Karen Walker reports.Mention the word 'alliance' in the same sentence as 'American Airlines' and you might as ...
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Marginal gains
Given the usual distortions caused by special items, from restructuring costs to investment write-downs, all summaries of airline profitability have to be read carefully. The overall impression from this year's Airline Business 100 is that 1996 was a great year for some, but others have a long way to go ...
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Giant leap forward?
Varig may still be the undisputed giant of the Brazilian airline industry, but will restructuring efforts be enough to keep it ahead of burgeoning competition? Lois Jones reports.When you start off at the top, the danger is that there's only one way to go - and that's down. Five years ...
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Great expectations
The European Commission is putting a stronger case than ever before for direct powers to apply EC competition rules to air transport services on third country routes. If it is successful the implications will be enormous. By Trevor Soames.The European Commission never was one to give in easily. With some ...
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Olympic sees the endgame
The European Commission looks set to authorise Olympic Airways' outstanding state aid and once the funds are in place, the flag carrier plans to implement ambitious restructuring measures. Olympic chief executive Jordan Karatzas is confident that the Commission will shortly unfreeze Olympic's outstanding state aid, amounting to GDr35 ...
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Thai sale set for year end
It has been a long and tortuous road but Thai Airways International looks to be edging towards phased privatisation, with a partial disposal expected before year end. Thai's board has asked the government to approve the sale of part of its remaining 93 per cent stake along with ...
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Northern delights?
Routes Oslo '97, the third route development forum organised by Airline Business and Airport Strategy & Marketing, takes place in Oslo on 15-16 September and is sponsored by Gardermoen Airport and the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority. In this preview, Sally Gethin examines the role of Oslo's new airport at Gardermoen, ...
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FAA falters over charges
Under a barrage of protest from overseas governments and pressure at home, the Federal Aviation Administration may back down and modify its position on overflight fees. A senior official at the FAA confirms that most of the comments received on the overflight ruling are negative. Before the current ...
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No ticket to ride catching on fast
Electronic ticketing - or ticketless travel - continues to grow in popularity in the US, where the concept was invented, and should become widespread in the international arena in the near future, carrier officials say. First adopted by ValuJet and Morris Air, electronic ticketing was next embraced by Southwest - ...
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Caracas fails to fill vacuum
While Caracas prevaricates over how to re-allocate Viasa's international routes, foreign airlines are racing to fill the vacuum left by the flag carrier's demise. This leaves any Venezuelan carrier eventually granted the dormant route authorities with the daunting challenge of having to establish itself in a market dominated chiefly by ...
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Turkish blend
The Turkish flag carrier appears to have turned the corner financially and is now profitable. But political uncertainty and government interference are still holding THY Turkish Airlines back. Meanwhile, deregulation is allowing the country's private charter carriers to move into scheduled operations. Mark Odell reports from Istanbul. Much as Turkish ...
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BA strikes up Spanish talks
After a damaging three-day strike forced British Airways back to the negotiating table, management set about leaking plans for a low-cost carrier in a bid to raise the pressure on the cabin crew union. At the same time, BA has started talking with Iberia about a possible alliance, following a ...
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Rainbow aria
Besides the airline industry, Omar Fontana's leading passion in life is the piano. Yet a recent operation on Fontana's hands has made it difficult for this accomplished pianist to play. So he is sublimating his love for playing by composing a symphony, instructing other people to write down 'the ...
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Euro alliance shape shifts
The European alliance merry-go-round is turning at full tilt during the northern hemisphere's summer, with loose ends tidied up and new combinations entering the arena. With the holidays more or less shutting the regulators in Brussels down for the month of August, the frustrated officials at British Airways ...
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easyJet's complaint
The European Commission has opened an enquiry into allegations by UK low-cost airline easyJet of anti-competitive practices by KLM. The action follows a complaint made by easyJet in October 1996 that KLM was lowering its fares artificially on the Amsterdam-London route in order to compete with easyJet's tariffs. ...
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Marketplace
++ Virgin has confirmed that it will add two new Airbus A340-300s in 1998 (Flight International, 13-19 August ) but that one of the aircraft will be acquired on a four-year operating lease from International Lease Finance (ILFC). The aircraft will be delivered in March 1998, and will be joined ...
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KLM pursues European plans
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM says that it will continue to press ahead with plans to increase its presence across Europe, having signed its latest partnership deal with Norway's Braathens SAFE- backed with a 30%equity stake. KLM, which took full control of Air UK earlier this year and ...
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Reasons why outsider Mullin heads Delta
The decision of Delta Air Lines to pick a new chief executive from outside the USA's third-largest carrier was prompted by the need "-to take a fresh look at the way things are done", says Delta board member Gerald Grinstein (Flight International, 20-26 August). Leo Mullin was hired ...