Strategy – Page 1071
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US Airways
Christopher Doan is named senior vice-president for maintenance at US Airways (formerly USAir) of Arlington, Virginia. He was most recently vice-president for technical operations with Northwest Airlines. Source: Flight International
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Thai
Thai Airways International has re-organised its senior management. Bhisit Kuslasayanon becomes executive vice-president commercial; Sqn Ldr Payoon Puakpong is named executive vice-president for customer service; and Flt Lt Sa-ad Sobsatrasorn is appointed executive vice-president for operations. Source: Flight International
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Safety in Colombia
Colombian commercial air transport has a poor safety record by average world standards. This has been spotlighted by the US Federal Aviation Administration's International Air Safety Assessment Programme (IASAP), which gave Colombia's civil-aviation authority (Aeronautica Civil) only a Category 2 "conditional" rating for safety-oversight standards. Keen to earn its IASAP ...
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Avior aims to build fixed-base operator chain across USA
THE AVIOR GROUP, a US company specialising in relief-charter operations in Africa, is expanding into its home market. The Miami-based concern hopes to build up a chain of "a dozen" fixed-base operators (FBOs) and wants to acquire a manufacturing capability to support its growing maintenance business. Avior has ...
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Imperative for India to decide on policy
Sir - I feel that further explanation is required on the article "Mystery in the East", in which I have been quoted (Flight International, 26 February-4 March, P42). I accused the Indian Government not of "moving too fast", but of moving without having any policy. All it has ...
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Rochet initiates TAT/Air Liberte merger
Marc Rochet, the joint president of the two British Airways subsidiaries in France, TAT European Airlines and Air Liberté, has made a start on moves to merge the two carriers to "-take advantage of the synergies" and create the country's second-biggest airline. Under a French legal process, which ...
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Austrian Airlines takes control of rival Lauda Air
Austrian Airlines (AUA) is taking a controlling stake in rival Lauda Air, incorporating it into a national-airline group alongside regional carrier Tyrolean Airways. "The Austrian market is too small for three competing airlines, so it is our strategy to work jointly to be more competitive with other major ...
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Cathay maintains steady course
Cathay Pacific Airways has turned in a steady set of 1996 financial results, despite struggling with a falling Japanese yen and soaring fuel costs, while the airline's net profits also received a hefty boost from the sale of part of its share in sister carrier Dragonair. Overall, the ...
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Sabena is rocked by record losses
Sabena president Paul Reutlinger has revealed the heaviest losses in the Belgian airline's history and admits that its performance remains under review by main shareholder Swissair. The group's total net loss climbed to BFr8.8 billion ($248 million) in 1996, although close to half of the figure came from ...
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The big question
Given the highly public differences between Airbus Industrie and Boeing over the existence, or otherwise, of a multi-billion-dollar market for a new large airliner, you could be forgiven for thinking that a yawning gulf exists between long-term forecasts from the two manufacturers. In fact, this is not so. ...
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Struggle for success
There have been recent airline casualties in the South American commercial air-transport industry's struggle to find its feet - a scrap which continues today. Although traffic is growing fast in this market, there is a clear need for restructuring what has traditionally been a fragmented and unprofitable airline sector. According ...
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Aeroflot change
Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) has lost its general director, Marshal Evgeny Shaposhnikov, following his departure to become an advisor to Russian president Boris Yeltsin. The Aria board has appointed his deputy Valeri Okulov as an acting replacement pending an official decision. Okulov, who is Yeltsin's son-in-law, started his career as ...
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Tarom discusses MD-11 acquisition with MDC
Romanian flag carrier Tarom is talking to McDonnell Douglas (MDC) about a possible MD-11 purchase as it awaits Government clearance to buy next-generation Boeing 737s and AI(R) ATR 42 turboprops. A delegation from McDonnell Douglas visited Romanian capital Bucharest in February to discuss the potential acquisition by Tarom ...
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Asians bid for AI(R) Jet places
South Korea and Taiwan have submitted competing tenders to Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) for each to take up to a 40% stake in the planned AI(R) Jet 70 regional-aircraft programme. Aerospace industry teams from both countries were invited to Toulouse in January to take part in AI(R)'s aerostructures ...
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Kenya Airways pursues plan to expand Nairobi into a hub
A year on from its successful privatisation, Kenya Airways plans to launch the first phase in the development of Nairobi Airport as a hub. Managing director Brian Davies reveals that the airline has ordered a third new Boeing 737-300 and will reconsider its long-haul fleet structure. Davies says ...
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Swisscargo capacity
Swissair cargo subsidiary Swisscargo has signed an agreement with Belgium's new low-cost long-haul scheduled airline City Bird, to take the total freight capacity of City Bird's two McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. The airline will start operations on 27 March. Source: Flight International
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Airbus outlines business case for launching its large airliner
Airbus Industrie is building a business case for launching the A3XX based on prospects of winning around 650 orders for the programme over the next 20 years, says John Leahy senior vice-president Commercial. The comments came as Airbus and Boeing used the release of long-range forecasts to justify ...
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Malaysia is first to opt for 777-200X
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has become the first airline to announce its intent to purchase the ultra-long-range Boeing 777-200X, just nine days after the Boeing board of directors authorised the company to begin offering the big twin and its stretched counterpart, the -300X. MAS signed a memorandum of understanding ...
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Renewed US ticket tax sparks hostility
US PRESIDENT Clinton has renewed the 10%airline ticket tax to the end of the fiscal year, pending a longer-term review of new proposals for funding the Federal Aviation Administration. The ticket tax lapsed again at the end of 1996 without agreement in Congress on a replacement funding method, ...
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TNT looks at large freighters
TNT Express Worldwide is aiming to introduce its first large freighter aircraft in 1998, if a strategic analysis of the market which it is now undertaking concludes that such a move is required. The express-parcel company, acquired by Dutch postal company KPN late in 1995, is timing the ...