Strategy – Page 568
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David Cush: Evolving Virgin America from embattled start-up to niche carrier
Virgin America CEO David Cush arrived at the carrier roughly a year ago ahead of a period of wildly spiking fuel prices and at the beginning of an equally astounding economic recession
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NewsAlitalia offers 46 mainline and regional aircraft for sale
Italian flag-carrier Alitalia's administrator has formally put 46 of the airline's aircraft up for sale, and is requesting expressions of interest by the...
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China Eastern set to get bigger aid package
China Eastern Airlines looks set to get more financial aid from the Chinese Government.
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NewsPutting Surinam on the map
Surinam is one of those places you think you know where it is, but can’t quite remember. It’s a quiet country on the north-eastern part of South America, with more affinity with the Caribbean than with its cousins with whom it shares a continent.
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NTSB: Air Wisconsin Philadelphia gear-up landing followed maintenance
A preliminary report by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reveals that an Air Wisconsin CRJ200 that landed with its left main gear retracted...
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Comment - The mating game
Airline mergers and acquisitions have gathered pace over the past year, a trend that looks set to continue and intensify in 2009 as the economic environment worsens. But the prospect of intercontinental mergers is still mired in regulatory restrictions
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Forecast: Consolidation - Obstacle Course
Financial strains and collapses fuelled a flurry of consolidation activity in the airline sector in 2008, but are the regulatory hurdles still one jump too far for real consolidation to take place in the near term?
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Carriers, airports clamour for federal stimulus
Airlines and airports are lobbying for the sector to get a share from the new president's economic stimulus package
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Shanghai pact boosts Dallas Fort Worth service hopes
Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, host of the Airline Business Network USA event in 2009, has been working with Shanghai Airport Authority to try and forge nonstop...
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Airline bag fees: Irksome, but eternal
Controversial baggage fees introduced when oil prices were at their highest have proved to be a good source of revenue for airlines and are here to stay, despite their unpopularity with passengers
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Airlines face bumpy ride in 2009
There's no point dressing it up, the coming year is going to be extremely tough for airlines in all regions. As the global recession takes hold, airlines will face falling demand and the toughest revenue environment in half a century
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Airlines push for liberalisation
Airlines have long been campaigning for the right to freely invest cross-border and leave the shackles of ownership and control restrictions behind. Will 2009 be the year in which real progress starts to be made on liberalisation?
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Network carriers jump on the ancillary revenue bandwagon
Taking a cue from their no-frills counterparts, US network carriers have been beefing up their ancillary revenue strategies. Will this approach be copied by other airlines?
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Relaunched Alitalia flies into battle
The Italian solution for the rebirth of Alitalia finally launches in January, but is it too late to claw back its lost market share?
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VLM, Cityjet take first co-operation steps
Moves to consolidate the operations of KLM Cityhopper and VLM on the London City-Amsterdam route mark the first integration under the acquisition of VLM through Air France-KLM Irish subsidiary CityJet.
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India's Kingfisher returns 10 A320s to four leasing firms
Indian carrier Kingfisher Airlines has reached agreements with leasing companies for the early return of 10 Airbus A320s, mostly ex-Deccan aircraft. Kingfisher...
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NewsBA, Qantas end merger talks
Merger talks between British Airways (BA) and its Oneworld alliance partner Qantas Airways have ended without a deal being reached. Qantas says in...
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NewsAir France-KLM cleared to take over Martinair
Air France-KLM will wholly-own Dutch carrier Martinair by the end of this year after securing long-awaited clearance for the takeover from the European Commission...
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Former Qantas engineer jailed for faking credentials
A former Qantas Airways maintenance employee has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for carrying out work on aircraft without being properly...