Strategy – Page 1066

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    Crossair tries back door

    1997-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Swiss regional carrier Crossair has taken a 35 per cent stake in a proposed French startup carrier, in an attempt to improve its access to the European Union market. Initially, Euro Continental Airways would operate two Crossair Saab 2000s from major French cities to the French sector of ...

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    Delta deal fires debate

    1997-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Delta Air Lines' decision to sign up with Boeing for 20 years prompted analysts to coo their approvals. But one former Capitol Hill veteran worries that this deal will only stoke the antitrust debate over the proposed Boeing- McDonnell Douglas merger. Mike Korens, managing director at consultants GKMG ...

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    Digest

    1997-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Delta Air Lines has extended its SkyMiles FFP to Air France and Korean Air, while British Airways and American Airlines have extended their FFP links. British Airways introduced two daily flights from Manchester to Warsaw and two weekly flights from London/Gatwick to Krakow. In return LOT Polish Airlines ...

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    'Prudent' Canadian Airlines defers ten A320 deliveries

    1997-04-30T17:01:00Z

    CANADIAN AIRLINES International is delaying the delivery of ten new aircraft which it had planned to acquire from Airbus Industrie by 1999. The Calgary-based airline is negotiating with Airbus to reschedule delivery of the A320s, which would have required $394 million in cash or new financing over the ...

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    TAM seeks widebodies for new Miami route

    1997-04-30T17:00:00Z

    BRAZIL'S TAM Group is negotiating to acquire between two and four widebodied aircraft for a Sao Paulo-Miami, Florida, route which it hopes to begin operating by early 1998. Talks are under way with Airbus and Boeing. TAM says that 1997 will be a "year of consolidation". In 1996, ...

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    Low cost boom

    1997-04-30T16:56:00Z

    Passenger numbers on low-cost airlines Debonair and easyJet soared at their London Luton Airport base in the year to 31 March, pushing the airport's scheduled service figures up by 129%. Luton's overall passenger-growth was 40%, says airport chief executive Frank Pullman. "We have been successful in attracting airlines like easyJet ...

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    Dragonair starts to assert its independence

    1997-04-30T16:26:00Z

    Dragonair of Hong Kong has begun to signal its growing independence from former sister carrier Cathay Pacific Airways, by assuming control of more of its own operations and opening new routes into China. Mainland Chinese interests, led by China National Aviation (CNAC), assumed full majority control of Dragonair ...

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    BMW R-R studies BR700-powered 727

    1997-04-30T15:30:00Z

    BMW Rolls-Royce (BMW R-R) is studying the possibility of launching a re-engineing programme for the Boeing 727-200, with BR700-series powerplants. According to BMW R-R, it has begun a study, together with US maintenance and modification centre Dee Howard, which has already re-engined 727-100 freighters with R-R Tay 650s ...

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    Boeing irks Lufthansa with maintenence plans

    1997-04-30T15:24:00Z

    Lufthansa is threatening to cut back its future orders for Boeing airliners if the US manufacturer goes ahead with plans to enter the third-party airliner maintenance market, in competition with the German flag carrier's Lufthansa Technik subsidiary. Juergen Weber, Lufthansa's chairman, says that any such plans by Boeing ...

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    BMW R-R studies BR700-powered 727

    1997-04-30T12:14:00Z

    BMW Rolls-Royce (BMW R-R) is studying the possibility of launching a re-engineing programme for the Boeing 727-200, with BR700-series powerplants. According to BMW R-R, it has begun a study, together with US maintenance and modification centre Dee Howard, which has already re-engined 727-100 freighters with R-R Tay 650s ...

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    Boeing irks Lufthansa with maintenance plans

    1997-04-30T12:11:00Z

    Lufthansa is threatening to cut back its future orders for Boeing airliners if the US manufacturer goes ahead with plans to enter the third-party airliner maintenance market, in competition with the German flag carrier's Lufthansa Technik subsidiary. Juergen Weber, Lufthansa's chairman, says that any such plans by Boeing ...

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    Europe's JAA is just a club

    1997-04-30T11:46:00Z

    Sir - I refer to your Comment "Fools' language" (Flight International, 2-8 April). The European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) is only a "club" of civil-aviation authorities, without legal basis, and its activity is linked to technical matters only. Moreover, it refuses to examine the social aspects of Joint ...

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    GE move for Greenwich puts plans for China site in doubt

    1997-04-30T10:24:00Z

    Proposals under consideration by Greenwich Air Services to establish an engine-overhaul-and-repair capability in China have been thrown into doubt by General Electric's planned takeover of the company. Greenwich Air confirms that it has been looking at the possibility of investing in a joint venture in Asia. It adds, ...

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    European lead

    1997-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Europe's flag carriers may be leading the charge into the brave new world of liberalisation, but there are signs that the region's airports, too, are beginning to wake up to some of the new commercial realities of running as efficient businesses rather than as government arms. Airports have ...

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    Swissair strategy advances

    1997-04-30T00:00:00Z

    A year ago, when Swissair first presented Philippe Bruggisser as the incoming chief executive, he promised to take a firm hand with the group's costs and inject a touch more pragmatism to its alliance strategy. Twelve months later, Bruggisser appears to be making headway on both fronts. His ...

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    Airports in growth again

    1997-04-30T00:00:00Z

    A burst of growth towards the end of 1996 kept traffic increasing for the year at the world's airports, and the signs are that the good news could continue. Preliminary returns from the Airport Council International (ACI)which represents close to 500 airports around the world, suggest that growth ...

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    Moroccan Beech

    1997-04-23T11:25:00Z

    Casablanca-based Regional Air Lines, the first Moroccan commuter operator, is scheduled to take delivery of the last of four Raytheon Aircraft Beech 1900Ds by the end of this month. The first aircraft was delivered in March, with the balance expected to be handed over from Raytheon's Kansas production line soon. ...

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    Training together

    1997-04-23T00:00:00Z

    OPINION DIFFERS on how good, or bad, a year 1996 was for the commercial ßight-simulator industry, but manufacturers agree that sales will increase over the next two years before the boom cycle ends in 1999 and business returns to what passes for normal in this dynamic industry sector. ...

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    AirAsia calls in assistance on strategy plans

    1997-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Malaysian start-up carrier AirAsia has called in a US consultancy to help draw up a strategic plan to develop it further as the country's second scheduled international airline. The five-month-old carrier has hired Gellman Research Associates (GRA) to prepare the report, due to be submitted by the end ...

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    American Eagle returns to AI(R) with order for 12 ATR 72-210s

    1997-04-23T00:00:00Z

    European regional airline consortium Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) has signed with AMR subsidiary American Eagle for the purchase of 12 ATR 72-210A turboprops. The deal is seen as being of significance since it represents the return to favour of the type in North America following a slump in ...