All Strategy articles – Page 1171
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FLS sets up office in Texas
FLS AEROSPACE HAs taken the first step towards possible acquisition of a US maintenance operation, with the setting up of an office in Fort Worth,Texas. Chairman Steffen Harpoth says that one of the objectives of the new office is to "...see if we can establish the foundation ...
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Shannon rescue faces EC query
UK aircraft-maintenance interests are to complain to the European Commission about the Irish Government's plan to bail out troubled Shannon Aerospace (SAL). SAL airline shareholders Swissair and Lufthansa concede that the overhaul concern faces collapse without the proposed injection of Ir£12 million (£11.9 million). They blame ruinous pricing ...
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Big business
Of all the Western companies to tackle the risk-laden challenge of doing business in the CIS, two can look back on the experience with more satisfaction than most. Their ventures were among the first East-West links forged after the opening up of the USSR, and have proved among the most ...
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Thailand approves second flag carrier
THAILAND'S CIVIL Aviation Committee has approved the setting up of a second national carrier, as part of a plan to liberalise the country's air-transport industry. The proposal, which still needs to be endorsed by the cabinet, requires the new airline to have a registered capital of 2.5 billion ...
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Ansett NZ is crucial to Tasman future
The future of loss-making New Zealand domestic carrier Ansett New Zealand may be one of the last issues for resolution as Air New Zealand positions itself to take up News Corporation's 50% stake in Ansett Australia for an estimated A$50 million ($36 million). Air New Zealand has reportedly ...
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PW150 for Dash 8-400
Bombardier has selected the Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PW150 to power the planned de Havilland Dash 8-400 high-speed regional turboprop. The company received board approval on 24 April to offer the 70-seat aircraft to airlines and is aiming for a June launch. First flight of the Dash 8-400 is ...
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Appointments
Organisational restructuring at United has seen president John Edwardson assume the role of chief operating officer. David Coltman, formerly vice president Atlantic division, becomes SVP marketing. James E Goodwin has become SVP North America and is replaced by Christopher Bowers as SVP international. Andrew P Studdert joins as ...
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Psyched up
Austrian Airlines is bouncing back after three years without profit. Carrier president Herbert Bammer says alliances and open skies with the US could lead to a turnaround. Mead Jennings reports. A small airline from a small country: Austrian Airlines has two of the essential ingredients for an inferiority complex, ...
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Open skies, open scraps
As Canadian carriers prepare for flights to the US under the open skies agreement, US airlines are competing for temporary awards of rights to Toronto that could become permanent. Since the US Department of Transportation gave out 17, ostensibly temporary, US-Canada route awards in February, there has been ...
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Indian scene starts to slip
The long-awaited clear out in the overcrowded Indian domestic market appears close at hand, with the owners of at least one private operator considering pulling out of the business. As the private domestic operators report declining load factors and plunging profits, the owner of Damania Airways is seriously ...
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Opt-out halts Swiss talks
The only significant hurdle that appears to stand between Swissair taking a 49 per cent stake in Sabena is the European Commission. Ironically, it has not been Swissair's bid to gain access to the internal European market through the backdoor that has cast the Commission in the role ...
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Transfers hold key to growth
North American regionals and majors will become even more tightly linked as future commuter operations grow.The increasing trend whereby major airlines transfer short-haul jet routes to regional carriers is expected to encourage the growth of regional airlines in the US and Canada. Already, 95 per cent of regional airline passengers ...
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Networkers of the future
As deregulation bites, Europe's airlines will have to chose between being network managers or capacity or service providers, says an analysis by consultants McKinsey & Company. Europe's airline industry has traditionally been characterised by monolithic national carriers with strong links to their national governments, a lack of competition on routes, ...
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French malaise
Air France is moving in the right direction to achieve profitability but some serious contradictions risk undermining its credibility. Jacqueline Gallacher reports from Paris.Air France Group is on the defensive these days, but after receiving a highly controversial FFr20 billion ($4 billion) in state aid, who wouldn't be? With appeals ...
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Tough finding the right niches
There are encouraging signs of start-ups and expansion in Europe though financial returns and yields are low. Europe's regional airlines are emerging from the recessionary gloom comparatively unscathed. The last three and a half years have seen their share of closures, but on balance the sector is growing. ...
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Facing up to new frontiers
As described in Pricing it Right in the February issue of Airline Business, O&D yield management is the current frontier in airline marketing planning. In addition to the direct revenue benefits to be gained by controlling the mix of passenger itineraries flowing over an airline's route network, the ...
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Meeting market needs is essential
Airlines are turning their organisations upside down - creating new problemsIn examining the airline business, many company strategists are working overtime these days. Following the disastrous start to the 1990s, most airlines are going through the most intensive period of soul-searching ever. They are asking questions like: What is our ...
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Coveting the other's home
British Airways and Lufthansa are increasing penetration of each other's home markets through airlines they have minority stakes in - the UK major with Deutsche BA and its German rival through Business Air. But the strategies are markedly different. At Deutsche BA, BA managing director Robert Ayling is ...
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Heated competition
Privatisation seems to have finally taken hold among airlines in the Caribbean. The resulting US-style management and new competition could spell permanent change for the region. By Mead Jennings.During last February's inaugural celebration for Barbados-based Carib Express, a 90 per cent privately owned regional airline, those in attendance heard the ...
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FedEx faces China crisis
FedEx may have thought it was simply buying Evergreen International's all-cargo route authority to China. In fact, it bought a ringside seat to an aviation row between Beijing and Washington, which had, at presstime, left the carrier unable to operate any China services. Evergreen was the only US ...