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Air Canada loath to sell regional
Chris Jasper/LONDON Air Canada is to put Canadian Regional Airlines (CRA) up for sale "in the near future", although it hopes no buyer will come forward as it plans to fold the carrier into its own regional operation. CRA must be offered for purchase as a condition of Air Canada's ...
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KLM and UTC to expand alliance
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Netherlands flag carrier KLM and United Technologies (UTC) are discussing a major expansion of their nascent maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) alliance, likely to lead to the creation of a joint venture between the Netherlands airline and the US company's Pratt &Whitney unit. The move appears to ...
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Ansett's Eddington in line for top BA post
British Airways is expected within the next few weeks to name Ansett Australia executive chairman Rod Eddington as its new chief executive. If final negotiations are completed he will succeed Robert Ayling. Eddington was recruited by Ansett's 50% shareholder News Corporation in 1997, having previously occupied the top job at ...
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Malév to shake up fleet
Julian Moxon/BUDAPEST Malev's new chief executive, Ferencs Kovacs, is planning major fleet rationalisation as the Hungarian airline prepares for privatisation and entry into a global alliance. "I inherited an airline with five different types," he says. If things go according to plan that will be reduced to Boeing ...
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SAA pulls out of Ugandan talks
Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA South African Airways (SAA) has scrapped plans to buy 49% of Uganda Airlines, claiming that delays in the latter's privatisation have affected its value. SAA executive vice-president William Meaney says his airline took the decision after commercial realities in Uganda changed markedly during nearly a year of ...
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Aboard the management express
Regional carriers provide a broad management training ground for senior executive roles in the mainline carrier argues Michael Bell, who leads the global aviation practice at executive search consultancy Spencer Stuart. What's the best way to groom an up-and-coming airline executive for general management? Put him or her into ...
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Scramble for AeroPeru routes starts
Almost a year after AeroPeru stopped flying, Lima has revoked the airline's operating permit and confirmed that its international routes are available for re-allocation. For TACA Peru and LanPeru, the move comes none too soon. The director general for air transport (DGTA) delayed cancelling AeroPeru's permit because a group ...
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Argentina wary of US open skies agreement
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE August is the earliest Buenos Aires will reconsider its decision to suspend Argentina's open skies bilateral with the USA. But if the present mood prevails, the bilateral faces a tough future. At least four US officials have met with their Argentinian counterparts since the new government in ...
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SIA left in the air by Air New Zealand
DAVE KNIBB SEATTLE The long-awaited decision on whether Singapore Airlines (SIA) would plump for Virgin's Australian operation or Air New Zealand (ANZ) as its Australasian partner is still in the balance after talks between SIA and ANZ broke down. SIA chief executive Dr Cheong Choong Keong flew to Auckland ...
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Air Liberté takeover bid
Air France has received board approval to bid for 86% British Airways-owned Participations Aéronautiques, parent company of Air Liberté. If the sale goes through, it will strengthen Air France's grip on its regional network, which has seen heavy investment recently. SAir-owned AOM is also reported to have shown interest in ...
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Air Maldives hit by cash shortage
Air Maldives is in serious financial trouble, having been forced late in February to suspend all international services as a result of a cash shortage. The airline grounded its international operation on 28 February, although as Airline Business closed for press it hoped to have resumed flights before the ...
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Back to Business: Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes
For Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, this is the year the company can finally put its troubles behind it with new launches, a growing services business and, above all, a renewed focus on the customer
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All parcelled up
PETER CONWAY LONDON The long awaited shake-out in the logistics sector could be about tore-write the rules for airline cargo departments and express operators alike When Ocean Group and NFC, two UK companies with global logistics businesses, announced a merger a month ago, it probably did not create much ...
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Tokyo's runway slots awarded
Japan's transport ministry has allocated 48 of the 57 valuable new slots to be made available over the next two years at Tokyo's congested domestic hub Haneda Airport ahead of the opening of a third runway in July. As expected, new carriers Skymark Airlines and Hokkaido International Airlines - ...
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Back from the Brink
NICHOLAS IONIDES JAKARTA President-director Abdulgani, at the helm of Garuda Indones President-director Abdulgani does not mince his words about Garuda Indonesia's troubles over the past few years. "If changes had not happened, Garuda may have collapsed - it really was that serious. Garuda has had deep financial and big ...
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British Midland steps up bid for transatlantic rights
COLIN BAKER LONDON British Midland (BM) has raised the stakes in its quest for transatlantic services from London Heathrow with a $1.2 billion order for four long-haul Airbus A330s. The order is despite the failure of the US and UK governments to reach an open skies "mini-deal" earlier this year, ...
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Biman sell-off
RAVI PARSAD NEW DELHI A Citibank-led consortium is preparing a restructuring plan with the aim of attracting a strategic partner for Biman Bangladesh Airlines. British Airways and Singapore International Airlines are among those reported to be interested. The consortium consists of consultancy SH&E, legal firm Clifford Chance Wirot and ...
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TAESA faces bleak future
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE The rise in Mexico's credit rating to investment grade may have come too late to save Taesa, the country's third largest airline. Grounded since mid-November and under government orders to raise more capital before it resumed flying, the carrier entered bankruptcy in late February. Its future depends ...
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Blue sky thinking
Colin Baker LONDON The aims of Europe's environmental policy have been There is little argument that last November's policy paper on transport and the environment from the European Commission was a comprehensive piece of work. Yet, while the air transport industry may agree on the broad aim of a ...
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A people business
The departure of Bob Ayling from British Airways may have had more than one simple cause, but his apparent lack of ability to motivate staff and sell his vision provide important lessons as the airline looks for a new head. It may be a well-worn maxim, but the airline ...