Strategy – Page 1139

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    Bells ring in the changes

    1995-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Time will tell whether the three recently announced major alliances are merely marriages of convenience or opportunities for long-term harmony and success. The wedding bells are ringing again. If successful, this month's three major new airline alliances will all change the balance of power in their respective markets. But ...

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    Lessors bid to save FSCs

    1995-06-01T00:00:00Z

    US cross-border tax leases involving foreign sales corporations (FSCs) appear to have been dealt a fatal blow by a recent US Internal Revenue Service ruling that eliminates accelerated depreciation mechanisms. But sources indicate US lessors are still looking at ways around the ruling, despite some estimates of a ...

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    Weber wins Nordic prize

    1995-06-01T00:00:00Z

    For SAS the search is over. But KLM now finds itself without any major European partner and is fast running out of available options. The Scandinavian flag carrier solved its European partner problem by forging close ties - but no equity swap - with Lufthansa. The alliance is ...

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    Swissair set to buy way in

    1995-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Swissair is not often accused of acting in haste. But the manner in which it is has approached buying a 49.5 per cent stake in Sabena smacks of desperation, brought on by its exclusion from the single European aviation market. European Commission approval for the deal appears little ...

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    Aloha

    1995-05-31T16:54:00Z

    Mickey Cohen has been named senior vice-president of operations for Aloha Airlines of Hawaii. He was formerly vice-president of line maintenance for USAir and has also held positions with Pacific Southwest, Dalfort Aviation and Northrop. Randal Okita becomes director for internal audit. Okita, previously with Ikeda & Wong CPA, has ...

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    Thai/SAS tie up

    1995-05-31T16:02:00Z

    Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and Thai Airways International are to expand co-operation to include code-sharing and timetable co-ordination. This latest agreement follows SAS forming a strategic alliance with Lufthansa, which already has a similar tie-up deal with Thai.   Source: Flight International

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    Avro introduces maintenance and refurbishment services

    1995-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Avro International, the British Aerospace regional-jets subsidiary, has begun offering maintenance and refurbishment services through its flight-test department at Woodford, UK. Under the Avrotec name, the company will initially offer support for the BAe146/Avro RJ series, but in the future it intends to extend its work to cover ...

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    BA profits soar but its alliances falter

    1995-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS HAS once more cruised to a record set of results, helped by a mix of premium-passenger growth and cost-cutting. The performance was marred only by continuing problems at alliance partners TAT and USAir. Group pre-tax profits were at a new high of ...

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    Lufthansa and SAA in tie-up

    1995-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Lufthansa and South African Airways (SAA) have agreed on an alliance to co-ordinate flight schedules and examine extending the co-operation to ground handling and, possibly, aircraft overhaul and acquisition. The deal, expected to come into effect early in 1996, ends speculation that SAA and British Airways were about ...

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    Maintenance-subsidies inquiry starts at EC

    1995-05-31T00:00:00Z

    THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has launched an investigation into illegal state subsidies to Germany's Lemwerder airliner-maintenance operation. It has also promised a second inquiry to look at the Irish Government cash due to be injected into the troubled Shannon Aerospace venture. The Lemwerder aid dates back to 1993, ...

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    Change of mood

    1995-05-24T00:00:00Z

    SAS president Jan Stenberg has brought a new realism to the airline Kirean Daly/LONDON Even in the difficult days of the early 1990s, few airlines saw their fortunes tumble quite so rapidly as did Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). Under the leadership of Jan Carlzon, the tri-national carrier ...

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    Challenging Germany's Goliath

    1995-05-24T00:00:00Z

    In three years, Deutsche BA has become the second-biggest German scheduled carrier. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Not quite three years since its launch, Deutsche BA is firmly established as Germany's second-biggest scheduled carrier, behind the formidable Lufthansa. It has achieved this by maintaining a steady ...

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    Northwest seeks deals to ease Asian worries

    1995-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Paul Lewis/Tokyo NORTHWEST AIRLINES is working to strengthen its Japanese-based hub operation through new co-operation agreements with Asian carriers, as local criticism intensifies of US airline industry fifth-freedom rights in the region. The airline is looking to develop a strategic relationship with at least one ...

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    US airlines hold profit course

    1995-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Kevin O'Toole/LONDON US AIRLINES continued their long haul back into profit during the first quarter, although news that Trans World Airlines is heading back into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection sounds a warning note that the restructuring is not yet over. TWA says that it has ...

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    Australian judge rules out compulsory retirement at 60

    1995-05-24T00:00:00Z

    AN AUSTRALIAN industrial-relations court, has overturned the compulsory retirements of two, 60-year-old Qantas captains. The judgement says that compulsory retirement should be replaced by a process of "individual screening of individual pilots, regardless of age." In supporting one (short-haul) captain's application, Chief Justice Wilcox found ...

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    US start-up leases three BAe 146s

    1995-05-24T00:00:00Z

    TRISTAR AIRLINES, a new US start-up carrier, has leased three British Aerospace 146-200s for five years from BAe's Asset Management Organisation (AMO). The agreement, signed at the convention, allows TriStar to begin scheduled operations from mid-July. The airline plans an initial, nine daily scheduled flights from its ...

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    Business Express expands at Logan

    1995-05-24T00:00:00Z

    BUSINESS EXPRESS Airlines has announced a major expansion which includes a 100% increase in gate and ramp space at primary hub Logan Airport, Boston. The airline has leased space at six gates from Massport, the airport's governing agency, allowing it to operate more than 80% of its 158 ...

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    Continental contracts for 25 Beech 1900Ds

    1995-05-24T00:00:00Z

    CONTINENTAL EXPRESS has signed a $105 million contract with Raytheon Aircraft for 25 Beech 1900Ds. Initially, the 1900Ds will be operated by GP Express, flying as Continental Connection, until Continental Express concludes negotiations with its pilots, expected "within the next few weeks", according to the airline's president, Jonathan Ornstein. ...

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    Air Inter strike continues

    1995-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH PILOT unions are continuing to obstruct attempts to negotiate an end to the crippling series of strikes at Air Inter, which led, on 12 May, to the resignation of the president, Michel Bernard (Flight International, 15-23 May). Air France president Christian Blanc ...

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    R-R makes last-gasp bid for KAL contract

    1995-05-24T00:00:00Z

    ROLLS-ROYCE HAS made a last-minute bid to secure a contract from Korean Air (KAL) to supply Trent 800 engines for eight Boeing 777s the airline has on order. KAL had swung toward the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 as the already extended decision deadline of 15 May approached. ...