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National and Avant unite
This is the first time LanChile and Ladeco have had any real competition,' says Jesus Diez, president of the Turbus company that owns and manages both National and Avant Airlines. Turbus, which moves a million bus passengers a month, bought National in January when it was floundering from losses on ...
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When the going gets tough
Lois Jones/BRUSSELS European Union competition commissioner Karel Van Miert is a man of many contradictions. One leaps out at you from the moment you meet him: his loud, lurid ties offset his traditional sober suit, which blends in with the many others lining the corridors of the European Commission in ...
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Swiss qualify new partners
Swissair has expanded its European alliance to include TAP Air Portugal, THY Turkish Airlines and AOM of France and agreed to buy up to a 20 per cent stake in TAP. TAP, Turkish Airlines and AOM will join Swissair's existing partners Austrian Airlines and Sabena in an alliance to ...
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Reform is vital to Japan's recovery
An overriding objective for the Western industrial nations during the East Asian financial crisis has been to limit the contagion in the region - specifically, to keep it away from Japan. There has been a clear awareness that Japan, the world's second most productive economy, has acute problems in both ...
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French open gates to US
Both Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines were swift to respond to the new US-French bilateral by declaring their intentions to formalise codeshare agreements with Air France. The bilateral, initialled in Paris on 8 April, will allow full open skies to be phased in over five years, and immediately ...
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Suffering from exposure
As the Asian crisis bites deeper, the potential impact on the values of widebody aircraft in particular is only just beginning to become apparent to investors. Report by Angus Williamson. The financial and economic crisis affecting several of the East Asian 'tiger' economies has so far produced muted repercussions ...
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Delta's quick fix?
Delta Air Lines' new chief executive Leo Mullin is getting to grips with the idiosyncrasies of the airline industry and rapidly addressing issues like service and low staff morale. But his options on the alliances front look limited. Karen Walker reports. 'This is a very strange industry,' remarked Delta ...
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Crossing into the EU
The launch of its French subsidiary will give Crossair greater access to southern European markets and boost its Basle hub. Tom Gill reports. 'Some guys talk about the Star Alliance; well, we have our own new born star.' The star Crossair's president and CEO Moritz Suter is hailing is a ...
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Competition rules in US
A new US Department of Transportation policy document defining anticompetitive behaviour, is prompting cries of 'reregulation' from most US majors. The document has appeared in the wake of a Senate hearing on the competitive impact of the US hub-and-spoke system, adding heat to an uncomfortable spotlight that seems set ...
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World woos coy Cathay
Every major airline group in the world is wooing Cathay Pacific to join its alliance. And Cathay admits that the time has come to end its long-standing aloofness and join ranks with other carriers. Cathay has been talking to all the major groups. It will not say in which ...
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Continental leads CRS bypass move
The continuing battle between airlines and computerised reservations systems over rising costs took an unexpected twist in late March when Continental Airlines forced Galileo International to rescind a new fee it planned to impose on electronic tickets. Continental also announced that it planned to cut its distribution costs further by ...
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Rule Britannia?
Backed by their tour operators, UK charter carriers Airtours and Britannia Airways are expanding into European markets like Germany and Scandinavia, pushing prices down and disturbing the cosy status quo. Report by Tom Gill When Britannia began providing intercontinental services out of Germany late last year, alarm bells began ringing ...
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Two Bobs stir the immunity debate
Could the two Bobs - Ayling and Crandall - have had an inkling of the amount of controversy they would raise when they first aired their plan to forge an alliance between their airlines? That controversy took yet another turn in March when Robert Ayling, chief executive of British ...
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DOT puts the clock back
A US Department of Transportation inspector has called for a standard definition of 'arrival' as on-time arrival becomes the latest hotly-contested issue among US majors. The call for a clearer policy came as some majors accused other airlines - most notably Southwest Airlines - of fudging the manually collected ...
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Poles apart from capital?
A proposed change in Polish state ownership law could further delay a vital capital injection for cash-starved LOT Polish Airlines, just as the Polish government lines up potential investors. The Polish government was due to shortlist consortium bidders for LOT in April and declare a winner by the end ...
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Tri-jet transformation
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES On the surface it sounds relatively straightforward. Boeing is converting ex-airline DC-10s to freighters for FedEx, and for any other operator that wants it. The real story is quite different in terms of scale, timetable and technical challenges. "It's been an enormous undertaking," says Boeing MD-10 deputy ...
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Mitsubishi tackles vibration problem
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is working to reduce vibration levels in its new MH2000 helicopter, as part of several design refinements targeted at securing full Type A airworthiness certification for the civil machine. Company efforts are focused on improving the twin-turboshaft helicopter, including better dynamic system damping and demonstration ...
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Single Mandate
British Airways and American Airlines appear on the verge of securing the long-awaited competition approval for their alliance from the European Commission (EC) with Brussels insiders set to give a mid-May date and a painful but probably realistic demand for slot surrender at London Heathrow. With some irony, however, ...
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Laser link lined up
Tim Furniss/LONDON The European Space Agency's (ESA) Artemis project is now well on its way after cost and technical problems combined to delay the satellite, which had been originally due to be in orbit now. The flight model has been completed by Alenia Spazio in Rome and will soon ...
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RTCA wins debate on GPS risk evaluation
The US Federal Aviation Administration is to fund an assessment of the risk which is associated with using the global positioning system (GPS) as the sole means of navigation. A special committee, including representatives of the air transport and general aviation sectors, will report back to the FAA by ...