Strategy – Page 1055
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USA and Japan aim to clinch bilateral deal in September
Andrew Mollet/TOKYO Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Japan and the USA have agreed to make Tokyo the venue for their first full negotiations on a new passenger transport bilateral accord on 4-6 August, with the aim of producing a deal in September. Until now, the two sides have been ...
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Great Lakes loan
Raytheon has provided Great Lakes Aviation a $4 million short-term loan as the Beech 1900 operator restructures operations. The airline is concentrating resources on its United Express operations at Chicago O'Hare and Denver. Source: Flight International
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Transaero's initial ll-96M due in 2001
Russian airline Transaero will take delivery of the first of up to 12 Ilyushin Il-96Ms in 2001, following the signing of a contract with Ilyushin and the Vordnezh Aircraft Production Organisation for six firm orders, plus six options. The deal for the Pratt & Whitney PW2000-powered aircraft was ...
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American clinches Latin deal
Kevin O'Toole/LONDONRamon Lopez/Washington DC The American Airlines group, AMR, is to take a stake in Aerolineas Argentinas and form an alliance with Iberia, under a deal struck with Spanish state-holding company SEPI, which effectively controls both carriers. British Airways has also started co-operation talks with the Spanish carrier, ...
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Risky business
The gambles associated with Macau Airport are beginning to pay dividends PaulLewis/MACAU To invest over $1 billion on an all-new airport for a small city of 400,000 inhabitants would appear to be a financial gamble, but Macau, having built its economy around the casino industry, is accustomed to ...
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Ethiopian
Ato Bisrat Negatu has been appointed chief executive of Ethiopian Airlines. Negatu has been with the airline for 24 years, and has management experience in human resources planning and development, fleet planning and aircraft evaluation, bilateral and commercial agreement negotiations and market research and development. He has also served as ...
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How far can you go?
There is nothing new about outsourcing (the practice of obtaining components from a third party). No-one expects an airline to make the tyres for its aircraft, and many successful carriers do not undertake their own heavy maintenance. The trend to outsource more work and concentrate on core services has ...
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Schiphol curfew angers airlines
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Dutch charter airlines Martinair and Transavia are threatening legal action if a proposed night curfew goes ahead at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport from 1 August. The airport authority is seeking Government approval for a plan under which all operations between 23.00 and 06.00 would ...
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War in the air
IT IS A TRUTH THAT the people who start wars are very rarely the people who end up winning them. That should be remembered by the European Union (EU) politicians and officials who seem determined to start a trade war with the USA over the proposed merger of Boeing and ...
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Virgin drops Sun Air but may bid for stake in South African Airways
Virgin Atlantic Airways has dropped out of the bidding for Johannesburg-based Sun Air. The UK carrier had hoped to use Sun Air as the basis for a sub-Saharan domestic network. Sun Air did produce worse than expected results, but Virgin says that it merely wants to keep its ...
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Pratt & Whitney acquires Dutch engine-repair group
PRATT&WHITNEY has boosted plans to expand its Eagle Services engine-overhaul business to $1 billion annually by 1998, by agreeing to purchase the Flight Repair group of Netherlands company Interturbine. The group repairs engine aerofoils, stators and cases at centres in Dallas, Texas, and Singapore. P&W says that the ...
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Delta
Delta Air Lines, of Atlanta, Georgia, has appointed Bill Crumbley managing director of the Delta Shuttle. He was most recently director for international reservation sales and services. Crumbley, who will be take responsibility for Delta Shuttle operations in New York, Boston and Washington DC, replaces Hiram Cox, who has been ...
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Iridium
Telecommunications company Iridium LLC has appointed Lauri Fitz-Pegado vice-president for global-gateway relations. She was most recently assistant secretary and director-general of US and foreign commercial service at the US Department of Commerce. Neal Meehan becomes vice-president of aeronautical services. He was formerly executive vice-president of Inflight Phone, and the founding ...
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Passenger lobby issues 'world airline safety rankings' report
A REPORT which claims to rank the world's major airlines, using data about their fatal-accident history, has been issued by the US-based Air Travelers Association, a newly established lobby group for airline passengers. The Airline Safety Report Card covers 260 scheduled passenger airlines around the world - 29 ...
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Sparks fly over TWA 800
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE FIRST anniversary of the crash of Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800 on 17 July, 1996, has been marked by sparring between the two main US aviation-safety agencies over appropriate action on fuel-tank-safety. US Federal Aviation Administration officials and US National Transportation ...
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EC will say yes to Alitalia state aid, with conditions
The European Commission (EC)is on the verge of finally approving Italian Government aid for debt-ridden national carrier Alitalia. The Commission has refused to accept Italian assurances that the L3,000 billion ($1.8 billion) required should be considered as a commercial investment. Instead, Europe's transport commissioner Neil Kinnock ...
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Britannia establishes charter subsidiary in German market
Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich Britannia Airways has formed a new German charter subsidiary, which will compete in a market dominated by LTU and Lufthansa-owned Condor. The new airline, which carries the same name as its London Luton, UK-based parent, will start operating in November, with an initial fleet ...
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KLM takes complete control of feeder airline Air UK
KLM has acquired complete control of Air UK in a deal in which the Dutch airline has bought the 55% shareholding from British Air Transport Holdings. The deal, for which no purchase price has been disclosed, will give KLM 100% control of the largest provider of feed traffic ...
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ValuJet merges into Air Tran
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC VALUJET AIRLINES has agreed a merger with AirTran Airways which will rid the carrier of its stigmatised name, increase its maintenance capability and overcome US Federal Aviation Administration restrictions on its growth. The ValuJet and AirWays holding companies will merge, but the two ...
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KLM
Daan Meyer, most recently director of operational affairs at Transavia Airlines, has been appointed executive vice-president of KLM Engineering and Maintenance, succeeding Peter Hartman, who moves to KLM's board on 5 August. Meyer has previously worked for KLM Engineering and Maintenance as vice-president marketing and sales, director of aircraft maintenance ...