Strategy – Page 1048
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Fair's fare is the business
In sharp contrast to the wave of low-cost startups sweeping through Europe, a Paris-based carrier is set to start Europe's first dedicated business class service. Fairlines is to start scheduled business services this November from Paris/Charles de Gaulle to Nice and Rome/Fiumicino using 70-seater MD-81s. The aircraft will ...
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Gulf Air aims salvo at Delhi
Gulf Air has fired a broadside at the Indian government's insistence that the Arab carrier sell its 20 per cent stake in Jet Airways, just as New Delhi looks set to bring an end to the ownership debacle by reversing the ban on foreign airlines holding stakes in Indian carriers. ...
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Gently down stream
As with the engine manufacturers, consolidation among major airframe producers is likely to be followed closely by bold moves to secure dominance in the after sales market. Report by T Wakelee Smith and Jonathan Culley.It may be hard to believe. But with the recent absorption of McDonnell Douglas into ...
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Lateral thinkers
In a bid to instill fresh ideas, more airlines are now recruiting managers from other countries. Lois Jones looks at the challenges faced by today's mobile managers, and talks to six top people who have switched countries. There are several ways to skin a cat, and several ways to save ...
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No more tears
With a burgeoning economy, and a new USpartner, Aerolineas Argentinas is riding high as it reaps the benefits of its restructuring plan. Karen Walker reports. Business is back to normal at Aerolineas Argentinas following a frenetic few months during which Buenos Aires became a popular destination for management at both ...
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Italians go to the markets
Italian charter carrier Air Europe is preparing for an initial public offering, while flag carrier Alitalia is still on the lookout for private investors. Air Europe is to float 35 per cent of its shares on the Milan stock exchange and in 'several markets abroad' by December this ...
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News prices Qantas out
Ansett New Zealand's owner News Corporation is considering a float of its entire holding in the carrier after scaring off Qantas with the asking price. Efforts by Qantas to secure a permanent toehold in New Zealand's domestic market by buying Ansett NZ appear to have foundered on a ...
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SIA prepares for stardom
As the clock runs down on one of the oldest alliances in Asia, US and Taiwanese carriers are forging closer ties following the recent open skies deal between the two countries. The first sign that Singapore Airlines' Global Excellence alliance with Delta Air Lines and Swissair is starting ...
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United Airlines
Andrew Studdert has been appointed senior vice-president for fleet operations and administration at United Airlines of Elk Grove, Illinois. Studdert, formerly senior vice-president of the information-services division and chief information officer, succeeds Joseph O'Gorman, who is to retire. Source: Flight International
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Deal opens French door for Swissair
French independent airline AOM has agreed a "commercial and industrial" alliance with Swissair. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union (EU), and the alliance with AOM will provide Swissair with access to the lucrative French internal market for the first time. The deal, which is expected ...
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easyJet expands fleet and starts Liverpool operation
easyJet has ordered 12 Boeing 737-300s, for the first time directly from Boeing. The London Luton-based low-cost carrier has previously acquired secondhand aircraft, primarily from leasing companies. The airline had also considered acquiring new-generation 737s and had looked at Airbus narrowbodies. The new aircraft will be added to ...
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Fijian start-up plans scheduled services
A Fijian start-up carrier is planning to launch scheduled passenger and freight services from Nadi to selected Asian, European, Indian and South Pacific destinations from early 1998. According to Fiji International Airway's Singapore-based chief executive, Alan Lindrea, the company hopes to be granted an air operator's certificate by ...
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Iberia starts work on American alliance
Iberia has cemented the first element of its recent commercial agreement with American Airlines. The Spanish Government has also reconfirmed that the flag carrier will be "fully privatised" by 1999. Iberia now has frequent-flier and codesharing programmes in place with the US carrier, and expects to tie up ...
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USA urges Asian partners to liberalise regional services
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The US Government is urging its new "open-skies" partner nations in Asia and the Pacific Rim to adopt similar liberal air-service agreements with one another, to open up regional traffic and allow airlines to exercise effectively new beyond-rights to third countries. In the past ...
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Transaero outlines ambitions to increase Western fleet
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Leading Russian airline Transaero plans to acquire a further 16 Boeing aircraft by the turn of the century. The first batch, two Boeing 737-700s, will join the fleet under a lease deal with Bavaria Flug in December. Two more Boeing 767-300s will be delivered ...
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AmWest pilots clear Airbus deal
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES America West has confirmed a deal valued at $1.4 billion for up to 46 Airbus Industrie A319-100s and A320-200s after securing a last-minute agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). The order was initially outlined a year ago, but prolonged negotiations over ...
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Lufthansa agrees to set up travel venture with Karstadt group
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH The supervisory boards of German ßag carrier Lufthansa and Karstadt, the Essen-based retail and travel group, have agreed to set up a new travel conglomerate, to be called C & N Condor Neckermann Touristik. The company will be formed on 1 November, provided that it ...
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France's Regional records growth
France's Regional Airlines, based in Nantes, has recorded a 43% increase in passenger traffic for the first half of this year, along with a 46% growth in turnover. Passengers numbers for the period stood at 293,000, against 408,000 for the whole of 1996, while turnover, standing at Fr412.4 ...
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Delivery delays hit Boeing again
Boeing has been forced to delay delivery of 12 aircraft from this month to the fourth quarter, as it struggles to keep pace with ambitious plans to increase production to 43 aircraft a month by early 1998. The delays are blamed on a combination of inexperienced new workers, ...
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Spinetta proposed to succeed Blanc
The French Government has proposed ex-Air Inter boss Jean-Cyril Spinetta to be president of Air France, after the resignation of Christian Blanc. He is expected to be confirmed in the position on 24 September. Others, including Marc Rochet, head of British Airways' French subsidiary, TAT, had declined the offer. ...