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Haneda slot handout fails
Japan's transportation ministry distribution of the 40 long-awaited roundtrip slots at Tokyo/Haneda has disappointed the country's prospective startups and cast doubts over the government's desire to further competition. The handful of ambitious new startups, which had hoped to win enough slots to make their discount operations viable, are ...
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Too few sales but lots of potential
Despite much recent fanfare about airline participation in the online revolution, ticket-selling on the Internet is still a relatively rare phenomenon and has yet to have much positive impact on carriers' bottom lines. But its potential is undisputed and airlines uniformly consider their experience to be an invaluable education about ...
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Forget Paris
While other French carriers are dragged in to the vortex of troubles affecting the French airline industry, Régional Airlines has found a successful niche on the sidelines and is expanding it. Lois Jones reports. At the sight of a fight some people bare their fists; others walk away. While TAT, ...
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. . . as Swiss go stateside
Swiss caution and American zeal seem as unlikely a combination as yodelling and rock music, but Swissair is certain that an American chief executive at its helm will fashion a more international outlook. Swiss national pride undoubtedly took a knock following Swissair's decision to hand over operating control ...
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Hawaii high-low
One year after its latest rescue, Hawaiian Airlines appears to have broken its pattern of successive, but unsuccessful fixes and seems to be stronger than ever. Yet the carrier is still vulnerable. Report by David Knibb. First it was a Japan Airlines subsidiary taking a stake to help Hawaiian buy ...
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US head for Lufthansa
Lufthansa is searching for a second Asian partner but the airline's new president and chief operating officer, Frederick Reid, says he remains committed to the relationship with struggling Thai Airways International. Further development of 'a highly developed alliance system' is one of the three issues Reid identified as ...
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SAS tightens its UK links
British Midland's holding company has finally acknowledged a conflict of interests with its British Airways franchised regional operation and is demerging the latter as it tightens its links with SAS. 'The regional operators have all taken on a BA franchise and so it was a good moment to ...
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Star will rise in Myanmar
Myanmar's government is using aviation as a key policy tool in its drive to develop regional ties. The country should witness the birth of its fifth airline next year under a joint venture with Indonesia but the deal has sparked speculation that the days of the current flag carrier, Myanmar ...
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New threat to tired Thai
Beleaguered Thai Airways is facing the prospect of direct competition from a major new Thai competitor as early as next year. The new coalition government is pressing ahead with deregulation and has promised the newcomer access to all of Thai's routes. This comes as a massive blow to ...
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Virgin takes new partner
Virgin Atlantic's decision to switch US partners this August reflects the growing business links between Virgin's chairman Richard Branson and Continental's chairman and main investor, David Bonderman. Bonderman has invested in Virgin's cinema and rail activities and, a source close to Branson says, the two may look at other joint ...
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Time running out for SAA
The effects of foreign and domestic competition have cast doubts over this year's planned partial privatisation of South African Airways. SAA is suffering from a shortage of long-haul aircraft and is losing market share to British Airways and Virgin Atlantic as a result. And its domestic competitors believe ...
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Supporting roles
The maintenance market is evolving rapidly to meet airlines' needs for lower costs and higher efficiency. By George H Ebbs After decades out of the limelight, MRO - the business of maintaining, repairing, and overhauling commercial aircraft - is finally receiving attention, and with good reason. Annual MRO expenditures ...
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British Airways
British Airways has named Sue Moore general manager for brands management, effective from April. She is now head of European strategy. Moore, who joined BA in 1987, is now head of European strategy. She takes over in April from Hamish Taylor, who is to leave the airline. Source: Flight ...
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Loganair
Trevor Bush has rejoined Scottish domestic carrier Loganair as managing director, following a management buy-out from the Airlines of Britain Group. He succeeds Scott Grier, who becomes chairman of the new company, a British Airways franchise partner. Bush was formerly Loganair's chief executive technical and general manager for quality assurance ...
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Swissair
Swissair chief executive Philippe Bruggisser has brought in three executives from American Airlines and British Airways. Jeffrey Katz, who headed American's passenger sales on the USwest coast and was a president at computer-reservation systems company Sabre, is to take over as chief operating officer. He will become chief executive at ...
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Carnival joins PanAm
The merger between new Pan American World Airways and Carnival Air Lines has gone ahead, reviving the plans which were abandoned in August 1996, when the two airlines failed to agree terms for a deal. Pan Am was reborn in September 1996, when it began offering low-cost long-haul scheduled services, ...
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'Heavy-weight' MD-90 delivered to Great China
Great China Airlines has taken delivery of its first McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-90-30, which is also the first longer-range version certificated at the new optional higher maximum take-off weight (MTOW). The aircraft has strengthened wing structure, landing gear and flap mechanisms, enabling the MTOW to be increased by ...
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Eurocontrol solves B-RNAV problem for ageing aircraft
Ageing aircraft not equipped with modern navigation equipment are likely to be allowed to use satellite navigation for basic area navigation (B-RNAV) after the January 1998 deadline for the introduction of B-RNAV in Europe. A programme of work being carried out by Eurocontrol, and now almost complete, appears ...
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Qantas disposes of Air New Zealand stake
Qantas has severed its last links with Air New Zealand, selling its 19.4% stake in the carrier. Under the terms of the long-delayed trans-Tasman single- aviation market, the move now clears the way for unrestricted Qantas entry into New Zealand domestic operations and for increased competition on international routes. ...