All Strategy articles – Page 1140
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Aiming high
Asiana's president has ambitious plans for the young carrier, which is now among the world's 50 most profitable. Richard Whitaker reports. Sam Koo Park, president of Asiana Airlines, does not pull his punches. 'Will you take an old airplane?' asked a recent round of advertisements. 'Do you want to receive ...
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Heads are rolling again
In the airline business, occupancy of the corner office remains a somewhat precarious business. Just recently, the chief executives of Alitalia and Sabena have been forced to walk the corporate plank because of lack of success in restructuring their companies. At Olympic Airways, the chairman and chief executive has achieved ...
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Lining up
BOEING ANNOUNCES a production rate increase and the world is convinced, that the airline recession is over. Why is that so? Because Boeing, is both a bastion and a bellwether of the industry. Boeing has been particularly successful recently with customers seeking a family of aircraft, whether ...
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Crossair
Josef Felder has been appointed to head Swiss airline Crossair's new product-management division and will serve as executive vice-president in the carrier's new corporate organisation. He was formerly vice-president of marketing. Bettina Schaub becomes vice-president for cabin crew and a member of Crossair's corporate management. Schaub, who is a former ...
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USAfrica comeback turned down by DoT
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) has rejected the bid by USAfrica Airways' to regain route authority to South Africa. The DoT decision to re-allocate seven weekly frequencies to World Airways and Southern Air Transport dooms USAfrica's attempt to resume operations. Service in the market, begun ...
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Varig outlines blueprint for expansion
VARIG BRAZILIAN Airlines president Fernando Pinto has outlined a new expansion programme following two years of substantial cuts in staff, unprofitable routes and aircraft. The airline plans to invest $40 million developing new routes and is negotiating with leasing companies GECAS and GPA to acquire two McDonnell Douglas ...
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USA told: 'offer more' to beat bilateral block
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC LACK OF LEVERAGE ON the part of US negotiators has led to the current impasse in bilateral aviation talks with the UK, according to the US General Accounting Office (GAO). As the GAO issued its report, British Airways chairman Sir Colin Marshall, visiting Washington, was ...
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Air Canada
Hollis Harris, chairman, president and chief executive of Air Canada, has announced changes to the carrier's executive management in anticipation of Lamar Durrett becoming president and chief executive on 14 May. Jean Jacques Bourgeault, formerly executive vice-president and chief operating officer, becomes senior executive vice-president, with responsibility for key corporate ...
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Air France Europe fights to regain business
FRENCH DOMESTIC and regional carrier Air France Europe (incorporating the former Air Inter) is fighting to regain traffic, which it has lost since French air services were opened to competition from domestic rivals. In what he says will be an "aggressive" campaign to prepare the airline for total ...
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CITIC officials resign from Cathay board
TWO KEY CITIC Pacific officials have resigned from the Cathay Pacific board, in a move designed to distance the Chinese firm and its interest in Dragonair from UK-controlled Swire. Citic chairman Larry Yung Chi-kin and managing director Henry Fan Hung-ling quit on 11 March. Citic's 10% interest in ...
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Fokker bankrupt
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON ON 15 MARCH Fokker finally admitted defeat in its attempts to stave off bankruptcy, ending 77 years of aircraft manufacturing in the Netherlands when bids from AVIC of China and Samsung of South Korea failed to materialise. The collapse leaves question marks hanging ...
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Ansett prepares for ANZ with executive shake-up
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS ANSETT HAS CLEARED the decks for the imminent Air New Zealand (ANZ) buy-in, with managing director Graeme McMahon and two of his senior managers departing in favour of a new ten-member executive structure at the Australian airline. News Limited chief and executive chairman of Ansett Holdings, Ken Cowley, ...
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Germany proposes air-safety 'blacklist'
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN TRANSPORT minister Matthias Wissman is pushing for the introduction of a European "black list" of airlines which have questionable safety standards. Airlines on the list would be banned from operating in the European market. If the proposal does not get backing from other ...
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Former managers return after Alitalia's boardroom coup
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON IN A COMPLEX SAGA, worthy of the politics of ancient Rome, yet another management team has been swept from power at Alitalia. This time, former managers have returned to take control of the airline. The final act came, as chairman Roberto Riverso, handed ...
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Cali 757 crash speeds American EGPWS trials
Bernie Fitzsimmons/LONDON AMERICAN AIRLINES plans to join British Airways and United Airlines in trials of AlliedSignal's enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS), which the manufacturer plans to start delivering by the third quarter of this year (Flight International, 21-27 February). American has already decided to test ...
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Pakistan interest focuses on CN-235MPA
PAKISTAN IS INTERESTED in acquiring up to four IPTN-produced CN-235MPA maritime-patrol aircraft, and also in up-grading its Eurocopter SA.330J Puma transport helicopters. Indonesian aerospace company IPTN, which builds the NAS.330 and the improved NAS.332 Super Puma under licence, is understood to be discussing re-engineing the Pakistani helicopters ...
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easyJet
Ray Webster, formerly general manager of strategic planning at Air New Zealand, has been appointed to the new position of managing director at start-up UK scheduled airline EasyJet, of London Luton Airport. The appointment releases chairman Stelios Haji-Ioannou, to whom Webster will report, to concentrate on strategy and growth. ...
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Don't judge one by the majority
Sir - You were right to give the US Federal Aviation Administration finalist status in the Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards 1996 Safety Section, but the illustration of a LanChile freighter shows the problem behind the FAA's policy. Firstly, Chile is among the safe countries on the International ...