Strategy – Page 1069
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IASC will listen again to Australian World's start up proposal
Australia's International Air Services Commission (IASC) has re-opened the door for proposed start-up carrier Australia World Airways (AW) to launch the international services it was denied by an earlier IASC decision. The Commission sets a six-month deadline, however, by which AW must demonstrate that it is adequately funded. ...
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NTSB may probe pay for training
A US aircrew-training practice in which airlines require pilots to pay for their own training has prompted one of the country's leading pilot associations to call for an investigation into the practice by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) The practice is already under examination by a Federal Aviation ...
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Romaero admits defeat on One-Eleven launch
Romanian aircraft manufacturer Romaero has given up a longstanding ambition to manufacture upgraded, re-engined One-Eleven airliners for the world market. The Bucharest-based company struggled for years to find the necessary $100 million funding to proceed with the revamped aircraft, known as the Airstar 2500. A launch ...
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PIA hunts for strategic investor
Pakistan has kicked off the search for a strategic airline-investor in Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) as the first move towards a re-capitalisation and further privatisation of the state-controlled carrier over the next 12 months. In mid-March, Pakistan's Privatisation Commission issued a tender, asking for bids from financial advisory ...
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Airline News
Delta Air Lines is to start codesharing on Aeromexico flights to six Mexican cities from New York/JFK ,Los Angeles, Miami, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth. Aeromexico will buy seats on Delta flights from Atlanta to Frankfurt, Washington/Dulles, Philadelphia and Detroit and from Dallas-Fort Worth to Boston. Delta was also to add ...
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Airbus and Boeing agree to differ
It's time once again to upgrade airline and aerospace industry filing systems, as extra cupboards and stronger shelving are pressed into service. Yes, the forecast season is with us again. Every day, a new volume arrives, to be scanned before being filed away to gather dust until data is required ...
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Hawaii high-low
One year after its latest rescue, Hawaiian Airlines appears to have broken its pattern of successive, but unsuccessful fixes and seems to be stronger than ever. Yet the carrier is still vulnerable. Report by David Knibb. First it was a Japan Airlines subsidiary taking a stake to help Hawaiian buy ...
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Haneda slot handout fails
Japan's transportation ministry distribution of the 40 long-awaited roundtrip slots at Tokyo/Haneda has disappointed the country's prospective startups and cast doubts over the government's desire to further competition. The handful of ambitious new startups, which had hoped to win enough slots to make their discount operations viable, are ...
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US head for Lufthansa
Lufthansa is searching for a second Asian partner but the airline's new president and chief operating officer, Frederick Reid, says he remains committed to the relationship with struggling Thai Airways International. Further development of 'a highly developed alliance system' is one of the three issues Reid identified as ...
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Supporting roles
The maintenance market is evolving rapidly to meet airlines' needs for lower costs and higher efficiency. By George H Ebbs After decades out of the limelight, MRO - the business of maintaining, repairing, and overhauling commercial aircraft - is finally receiving attention, and with good reason. Annual MRO expenditures ...
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Star will rise in Myanmar
Myanmar's government is using aviation as a key policy tool in its drive to develop regional ties. The country should witness the birth of its fifth airline next year under a joint venture with Indonesia but the deal has sparked speculation that the days of the current flag carrier, Myanmar ...
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Too few sales but lots of potential
Despite much recent fanfare about airline participation in the online revolution, ticket-selling on the Internet is still a relatively rare phenomenon and has yet to have much positive impact on carriers' bottom lines. But its potential is undisputed and airlines uniformly consider their experience to be an invaluable education about ...
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AA pilots to strike deal?
Presidential intervention may have prevented a strike, but as another deadline loomed in the American Airlines pilots dispute, AMR chairman Bob Crandall admitted he was unsure how to resolve the central issue of regional jets. The Allied Pilots Association, which represents American's pilots, is haggling for wage increases. ...
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Forget Paris
While other French carriers are dragged in to the vortex of troubles affecting the French airline industry, Régional Airlines has found a successful niche on the sidelines and is expanding it. Lois Jones reports. At the sight of a fight some people bare their fists; others walk away. While TAT, ...
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Time running out for SAA
The effects of foreign and domestic competition have cast doubts over this year's planned partial privatisation of South African Airways. SAA is suffering from a shortage of long-haul aircraft and is losing market share to British Airways and Virgin Atlantic as a result. And its domestic competitors believe ...
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Blood, sweat and Gore
The aims of the Gore Commission report are laudable but Karen Walker and Dave Knibb ask whether the recommendations are workable. Financially, most US airlines had cause to celebrate by the end of last year, but 1996 had its darker side. A total of 380 people were killed in US ...
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. . . as Swiss go stateside
Swiss caution and American zeal seem as unlikely a combination as yodelling and rock music, but Swissair is certain that an American chief executive at its helm will fashion a more international outlook. Swiss national pride undoubtedly took a knock following Swissair's decision to hand over operating control ...
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New threat to tired Thai
Beleaguered Thai Airways is facing the prospect of direct competition from a major new Thai competitor as early as next year. The new coalition government is pressing ahead with deregulation and has promised the newcomer access to all of Thai's routes. This comes as a massive blow to ...
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Virgin takes new partner
Virgin Atlantic's decision to switch US partners this August reflects the growing business links between Virgin's chairman Richard Branson and Continental's chairman and main investor, David Bonderman. Bonderman has invested in Virgin's cinema and rail activities and, a source close to Branson says, the two may look at other joint ...
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Cleaning up on yields
The benefits of a yield management system depend upon what competing airlines are doing. Peter P Belobaba and John L Wilson from MIT's Flight Transportation Laboratory explain why. Most airlines have embraced the practices of differential pricing and yield management over the past decade. By offering a range of fare ...