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Shanghai shangrila
Lois Jones Any visitor to Shanghai is easily charmed by its bewildering mix of old and new. Neon lights bejewel 1920s façades, and rickshaws vie for space with resplendent new Volkswagens in the city's ever-widening roads. It's fitting that as the main carrier serving China's eastern gateway, China ...
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A pan-European hubbing pioneer
As its chairman and chief executive officer, Franco Mancassola makes no apology for his personification of Debonair's brand image. And with a penchant for designer clothes, expensive cars and the more upmarket passenger, nor does he make any attempt to disguise his disdain for some more downmarket, no-frills rivals. ...
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Garvey/Slater: great team work
In her first major public speech as the US Federal Aviation Administrator, Jane Garvey may not have set the industry on fire, but the underlying message - coupled with recent announcements made by the Department of Transportation - was unmistakeable. Garvey is putting the FAA back on the straight and ...
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Hub fever
In many industries, concentration forces have led to a few large mass producers with a global reach, each striving to achieve the lowest unit costs through increased efficiencies and higher production volumes. In the airline industry, global alliances are being created to achieve similar goals. However, the individual airline operators ...
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Easy does it
Easy come, easy go. Hopefully EasyJet's use of this slogan to depict its ticketless booking and rapid check-in and boarding procedures will never apply to its presence in the European airline industry. Few think it will. The airline's charismatic chairman, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has made sure his startup uses technology ...
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Hangover cure
Karen Walker 'Swire prince' are words often whispered in the wake of David Turnbull, an acknowledgement of his rapid rise through the management strata of the Swire Group. His 21 years of experience at Swire have been tested severely over the last 12 months, however, since he inherited one ...
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Nine cry foul over Milan
The complaint by nine major operators at Milan/Linate airport to the European Commission about next year's transfer to the new Malpensa airport reflects their concern over the threat that Malpensa poses to their own hubs. While Alitalia could not develop Malpensa into a hub alone, the Italian flag carrier ...
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Mexican spat over codes
Mexico and Washington are coming to blows over codesharing, prompting calls for changes in their bilateral. Discussions were set to resume in December but, according to one Washington source, 'they're talking, but they don't seem to be getting anywhere'. The current US-Mexico bilateral makes no provision for codesharing ...
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Chinese revolution?
What gets bigger must get smaller. An unlikely paradox? Not for the Civil Aviation Administration of China. In its eyes, domestic traffic growth makes only one conclusion possible - the number of airlines must fall. Most airline CEOs would be positively drooling. A population of 1.224 billion is set ...
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Sabena lures City Bird
Sabena has stepped up the defence of its Brussels base by taking an option to buy up to 25 per cent of City Bird, the low-cost Belgian long-haul start-up. However, the deal threatens to send out confusing signals to Sabena's alliance partners and passengers who are already struggling with ...
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Southern belle
Lois Jones Chairman Mao would not have approved. If, as Mao alleged, western-style commercialism and capitalism are corrupt, then China Southern Airlines is rotten to the core. As China closes the book on socialist economic dogma and emancipates its state-owned enterprises, China Southern is one of the first ...
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Hitch for BA and Qantas
Alliance partners planning extended codesharing between Europe and Australia have had their strategies thrown into disarray by the Australian government's route rights authority. In a draft ruling the Canberra-based International Air Services Commission (IASC) shocked Qantas and British Airways by saying it will refuse them permission for a wide-ranging ...
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BA in pursuit of leisure
British Airways' much-hyped plans to launch a low-cost point-to-point carrier may herald a larger push into the European leisure market, including a standalone charter operation. BA has already come under fire for considering its own no-frills carrier to limit the advance in the UK market of low-cost players like ...
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Autumn break is big turning point
The severe turbulence seen in global equity markets this autumn will have a lasting impact on the climate in which publicly-quoted corporations operate. In purely economic terms it almost certainly signals an end to the exceptional growth seen around the world over the last few years. But its financial impact ...
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Alliances: decision time approaches
There can be few more important commercial issues for airlines than the future shape of their alliances. A series of regulatory decisions about major alliances is about to be made. The outcome will determine the shape of the airline business, for the next several years at least. At the ...
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Air China to go for IPO
Air China is pressing ahead with plans for its own initial public offering despite the postponement of the listing by the CAAC's commercial arm, China National Aviation Corporation. Air China aims to shrug off its state control and partially privatise within two years. 'We'll float by 1999 at the ...
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No frills
No sooner had British Airways announced plans to set up its own low-cost operation at London Stansted, than the howls of protest began from the existing no-frills carriers. Their complaint (writ large in whole page newspaper advertisements) is that the BA intends to put them out of business by fair ...
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Westland will take a look at resurrecting Egyptian Sea Kings
GKN Westland will send an evaluation team to Egypt in the first quarter of 1998 to examine grounded Sea King helicopters with the aim of bringing them back to a flyable state. Egypt has some 30 Sea Kings, a mix of Mk47s, Mk1 and Mk2 Commandos, VIP and electronic-warfare ...
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Unions approve United Express jet operations
United Airlines' pilot unions have cleared the way for Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA) to launch United Express services with its Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJ). The regional airline began a United Express regional-jet service between Washington's Dulles International to two Florida points, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham, in late November. ...
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Russia's Zvesda Strela stretches the range of its Kayak anti-ship missile
Douglas Barrie/London Russian tactical missile house Zvezda Strela is developing an extended-range variant of its 3M-24 anti-ship missile (SS-N-25/AS-20 Kayak) with twice the engagement range of the original. The improved variant also uses satellite-based course-correction and has a coastal attack capability. The 3M-24 can be ship-, fixed, or ...