Strategy – Page 1142
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Indian scene starts to slip
The long-awaited clear out in the overcrowded Indian domestic market appears close at hand, with the owners of at least one private operator considering pulling out of the business. As the private domestic operators report declining load factors and plunging profits, the owner of Damania Airways is seriously ...
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Open skies, open scraps
As Canadian carriers prepare for flights to the US under the open skies agreement, US airlines are competing for temporary awards of rights to Toronto that could become permanent. Since the US Department of Transportation gave out 17, ostensibly temporary, US-Canada route awards in February, there has been ...
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Japan's case is on the rise
It has taken years, but Japanese transport officials appear to have their first chance of forcing the US into a renegotiation of the 43-year-old bilateral over beyond rights from Kansai/Osaka. Japan has long complained that US airlines have unfair competitive advantages over Japanese carriers as a result of ...
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PAL thriller in Manila again
The perennial battle for control of Philippine Airlines is on again with renewed ferocity, and this time the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission rather than PAL's investors is set to decide the outcome. This latest row started in February after major shareholder Lucio Tan ousted Carlos Dominguez, PAL's ...
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Opt-out halts Swiss talks
The only significant hurdle that appears to stand between Swissair taking a 49 per cent stake in Sabena is the European Commission. Ironically, it has not been Swissair's bid to gain access to the internal European market through the backdoor that has cast the Commission in the role ...
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US-UK bilateral talks stall again
U S AND UK negotiations over a new bilateral air-services agreement have again stalled, although the UK Department of Transport says that it expects a fresh round of talks to be tabled soon. Despite what is described as a more optimistic atmosphere, the last two rounds of talks have produced ...
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MarkAir returns to bankruptcy
MARKAIR, THE Alaska-based carrier which emerged from Chapter 11 in 1994, has again sought federal bankruptcy-court protection following a demand for overdue lease payments from General Electric's GE Capital Aviation Service (GECAS). MarkAir filed for Chapter 11 after GECAS warned the carrier that it would repossess four ...
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Open for business
Heralded as "the airport for the 21st century", sceptics began to believe that Denver International (DIA) might not see its first passenger until then. Technical problems involving the airports automated baggage-handling system, delayed DIA's grand opening four times, for a total of 16 months. Each month cost the ...
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Southern gateway
The first 11-gate phase of Miami Airport's new concourse A is due to open in June as part of the southern gateway's $2.7 billion expansion and redevelopment programme which is due to last until 2010. Gateway is the operative word at Miami, Florida, which boasts more carriers - ...
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TAT finalises Orly plans
BRITISH AIRWAYS' French subsidiary TAT is at last ready to reveal plans on how it will exploit its hard-won access to the domestic hub at Paris Orly. Several other airlines have already begun competing with incumbent French domestic airline Air Inter between Orly and Marseilles, Toulouse and Nice, ...
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Bombardier poised to make Dash 8-400 engine choice imminent
BOMBARDIER WILL select an engine for the de Havilland Dash 8-400 "by the end of April", says Regional Aircraft division president Pierre Lortie. Board-level approval to offer the 70-seat high-speed regional turboprop to airlines is expected at the same time, he says. Lortie was speaking at the 19 ...
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USAir deficit is improving
USAIR HAS TRIMMED its losses by $100 million in the first quarter, producing optimism that it may at last be back on course after a run of disastrous results. The airline still turned in a net loss of nearly $97 million for the quarter, but claims that this ...
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Australia heads for Hong Kong dispute
HONG KONG AND Australia are heading for confrontation over Qantas fifth-freedom rights from Hong Kong to Singapore and Bangkok. The Australian carrier has built a substantial market network, using the three Asian destinations as hubs for services to Europe, and for tourism products within Asia. On 20 April, ...
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Swissair: lining up to complete a grand global alliance
SWISSAIR IS to offer Delta Air Lines a role in its planned link-up with Belgian flag carrier Sabena, in a move which could see the Swiss airline complete its goal of pulling together its partnerships into a grand global alliance. Singapore Airlines, Swissair's other partner within the Global ...
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EVA takes stake in second Taiwan domestic
EVA AIR HAS acquired a stake in a second Taiwanese domestic airline in a move designed to strengthen its presence in Taiwan's highly competitive home market. The international carrier reportedly paid NT$330 million ($13 million) for a 20% share in Great China Airlines. This latest deal follows EVA's ...
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JAL
Akiro Kondo, Japan Airlines' (JAL) senior managing director responsible for corporate planning, will be JAL's next president, subject to shareholder approval at the annual general meeting to be held on 29 June. He will succeed Matsuo Toshimitsu, who will remain on the board as an advisor. Akio Kohno, managing director ...
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AMR Eagle
Ralph Richardi has been named president of AMR Eagle carrier Simmons Airlines, in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas and David Kennedy becomes president of Flagship Airlines, of Nashville, Tennessee. Richardi, most recently vice-president at Dallas/Fort Worth for American Airlines, succeeds Peter Piper. Kennedy, previously vice-president of field services at American, succeeds John ...
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BA World Cargo switches freight plans
BRITISH AIRWAYS has ditched earlier plans for the phased development of a new London Heathrow cargo hub, instead unveiling plans to spend £150 million on developing a new highly automated hub. The centre is due to open in 1998 with a capacity to handle around 800,000t of cargo ...
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SIA and Tata to defy critics inside India
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) and Tata Industries are confident that their proposed joint venture to set up an Indian domestic carrier will go ahead, despite local political and airline opposition. The planned SIA-Tata partnership has been attacked by Pramod Mahajan, general secretary of India's main ...
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Crossair seeks cash for RJ100s
SWISS REGIONAL Crossair is to help finance its purchase of 12 Avro RJ100 regional jets with a new offering of shares. Swissair has signalled its intention to take part in the issue, raising its stake in the carrier to a two-thirds holding. Crossair commercial vice-president Thomas Hoffman says ...