Strategy – Page 701
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NewsMexican Uprising
Mexico is the latest big market to welcome low-cost start-ups, as the regulatory regime is slowly relaxed. But life has been tougher for its established carriers. Read Flight International's special report.
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Garuda crisis deepens after defaults
Garuda Indonesia is in more financial trouble after defaulting on scheduled loan payments that were due at the end of 2005.
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Jagson schedules arrival at India party
India’s booming airline market looks set to continue its phenomenal growth in 2006, with yet more carriers planning to launch operations and even more aircraft orders being placed.
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Carriers renew fleets
More than a decade after studies began, state-owned Air India and Indian Airlines have finally ordered a wealth of new Airbus and Boeing types to help them renew and expand their ageing fleets.
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BA sets deadline for regional revival
Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways, will close the airline’s loss-making regional division if it has not returned to profitability by the end of the 2007-8 financial year.
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Pacific islands struggle on
Three Pacific island nations are finding it tough to maintain links with the outside world following cutbacks in air service.
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Airlines lose passenger rights case
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has thrown out a challenge brought by IATA and Europe’s low-cost airlines against new rules covering passenger rights in cases of denied boarding, cancellations and delays.
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Lufthansa extends empire
German flag carrier Lufthansa is to take over control of Eurowings and its low-cost subsidiary germanwings after winning approval for the deal from the European competition authorities.
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Northwest cranks up labour tensions
A proposal by Northwest Airlines to set up an internal small-jet subsidiary as it reorganises in bankruptcy has provoked strike threats by its pilots union, a warning observers are taking seriously.
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US blow for SkyTeam
The SkyTeam alliance was dealt a significant regulatory setback with a US denial of antitrust immunity sought by its European core members and two of its three US flag carriers partners.
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More of the same
The latest research from Airline Business shows that carriers have been tackling their cost bases vigorously over the past few brutal years with measurable success. However, as traffic and revenues rise, the challenge will be to sustain this progress and change the industry’s fundamentals for ever
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Focus Iceland: Northern raiders
A small island in the North Atlantic does not immediately spring to mind as a hotbed of aggressive investment policies and strategic forays into foreign lands, yet Iceland has an abundance of both