All Strategy articles – Page 368
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Oman Air signs for 20 737 Max jets
Middle Eastern carrier Oman Air has signed for 20 additional Boeing 737s, according to the airframer’s latest backlog data.
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Qatar Airways accuses European rivals of meddling in US dispute
Qatar Airways believes that rival European network carriers have been encouraging their US partners to complain about the Gulf carriers in the current spat over open skies.
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Norwegian orders up to 29 more 787-9s
Scandinavian budget carrier Norwegian is ordering another 19 Boeing 787-9s, with options on a further 10 of the type.
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NewsTransaero to be grounded on 26 October
Russian carrier Transaero is to be grounded next week following an assessment of the airline’s operational situation by the federal aviation regulator Rosaviatsia.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Flydubai chief executive Ghaith Al Ghaith
The contrast between Flydubai's unpreposessing home next to Dubai International's Terminal 2 and Emirates' palatial headquarters on the "business" side of the airport – all plate-glass windows, vast atrium and upmarket retail mall – says all you need to know about the sibling airlines' relationship. Both buildings make a statement: ...
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German probe looks into Eurowings A330 cowl loss
German investigators are looking into the loss of an engine cowl from a Eurowings Airbus A330-200 which had departed Cologne for Palma de Mallorca.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: European legacy carriers' hard labour continues
While labour issues are never far away from legacy carriers, the sight of Air France executives being manhandled and having the shirts ripped from their backs shows the intensity around the subject at European airlines right now.
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EASA lays out plan to prevent Germanwings crash recurrence
European safety regulators are to host an aircrew medical fitness workshop by the end of this year, as part of an action plan aimed to prevent a repetition of the Germanwings Airbus crash last March.
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Virgin 747 gear jammed after actuator fitted upside-down
Maintenance personnel installed a Boeing 747-400 main landing-gear actuator upside-down before the aircraft suffered an undercarriage jam while returning to London Gatwick.
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NewsUnited appoints acting chief as Munoz takes medical leave
United Airlines general counsel Brett Hart will take over the duties of chief executive Oscar Munoz as he recovers from a heart attack last week.
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American reservations integration proceeds smoothly
The migration of US Airways reservations to American Airlines systems was by and far smooth on 17 October, though the carrier continues to monitor its operations for any issues.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Has American-US Airways lived up to its promises?
American Airlines and US Airways announced their merger with much fanfare at Dallas/Fort Worth International airport on Valentines Day 2013.
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Sky A319 becomes latest to suffer cowl loss
Chilean investigators are looking into an incident involving a Sky Airline Airbus A319 which returned to Santiago after losing an engine cowl.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Etihad and Alitalia undaunted by rebuilding task
Few would have underestimated the task Etihad boss James Hogan took on by adding Alitalia to the Gulf carrier's expanding fold of equity partners.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: A network US Airways built through mergers
US Airways was an airline with ambition, growing through five separate mergers to become the fourth largest US carrier when its flight lands this Saturday.
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NewsPICTURES: American name replacing US Airways as final day nears
US Airways all-but will slip into airline history when American Airlines combines the two carriers’ reservations systems on 17 October.
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Buk manufacturer blasts Il-86 to support MH17 claims
Defence firm Almaz-Antey has destroyed an Ilyushin Il-86 cockpit in an attempt to prove that a Soviet-era weapon, rather than a modern Russian one, brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
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PICTURE: First Singapore A350 breaks cover
Singapore Airlines’ first Airbus A350-900 has broken cover, showing the twinjet in the Asian carrier’s livery.
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NewsMH17: Oxygen mask mystery remains unsolved
Investigators have been unable to explain conclusively why a passenger on the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was found wearing an oxygen mask following the Boeing 777’s destruction over Ukraine.