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Swiss offer Geneva hope
Swissair may still come to regret its decision to drop intercontinental flights from Geneva after the Swiss parliament mandated limited special treatment for regional airports in new bilateral agreements. But critics say the measures don't go far enough. The parliament bowed to pressure from the western cantons by ...
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A breath of fresh air
US-Canada open skies, tentatively begun just over two and a half years ago, has been a resounding success for all concerned. Report by Karen Walker. The doom and gloom experts had better find another target. Despite concerns by some that the US-Canada open skies agreement, forged over three years ago, ...
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German FFP spoils shared
Lufthansa's links with the public sector appear alive and well despite the sale of the German government's remaining 37.5 per cent stake in the carrier in October. Two rivals claim the German flag carrier had prior knowledge of decisions by federal authorities affecting their businesses and cite a ...
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Reid all about it
Interview Lufthansa may have entered a new era as a fully private enterprise, but the challenges remain the same. Frederick Reid, president and chief operating officer of the passenger airline, talks to Mark Odell about cost cutting, the domestic market and the prospects for the Star Alliance. Unlike the other ...
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Second to none ?
Following its relaunch this year, Qatar Airways is ahead of its forecasts and plans to assume a major role in the region over the next few years. Richard Whitaker reports from Doha. When it comes to service standards, Akbar Al Baker is not easily satisfied. The chief executive of ...
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Airtran does the business
ValuJet is giving up more than its name in the planned merger with fellow Atlanta startup AirTran Airways. The no-frills, single-class, open-seating service is going as well in a quest to attract the business traveller. From November the new ValuJet, renamed AirTran Airlines, will no longer focus purely ...
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Global travel
Sabre has extended its Travelocity Internet travel booking system to cover 70 countries. Customers can now obtain fare and tax quotes in their local currency and have tickets issued through a local travel agency. Travelocity has 1.5 million members and took $95 million in bookings last year. ...
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AVIC reacts
In response to complaints that the government is doing too little for China's interior, Aviation Industries of China has agreed to shift the planned assembly site of the AE31X from Shanghai to Xian. But there are doubts over the continued participation of Singapore Technologies, with reports suggesting it is concerned ...
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Push start on the Web
Taking Internet technology to the next level, Lufthansa recently became the first airline to use 'push' technology to send its customers fare data regularly. Individuals who surf the Web, seeking out information on their own, are said to be 'pulling' this data from the Internet. Whenever a Web ...
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Don't just look, book !
Microsoft's Expedia travel Web site is cracking down on people who look but do not book, though instances of this seem to be rare. Josh Herst, group product manager of Expedia, says the site now has over 700,000 members and is posting sales of over $2 million weekly, ...
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Flyers in the ointment
High average load factors are leading US airlines to clamp down on multiple bookings which play havoc with their yield mix. But some more advantageous solutions should be considered. By Bill McKnight, Geoff Murray and Patrick Meynial. Plan ahead. Leave yourself plenty of time. Always check in at the ...
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AZZURRA/Debonair want pan-European alliances
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Start-up carriers AZZURRA Air and Debonair have formed a regional alliance on services between the UK and Italy, which they hope to expand into a pan-European link-up. AZZURRA will begin a new service under a codeshare arrangement between its base in Bergamo, near Milan, ...
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EC promises review after attack on EGNOS
Julian Moxon/PARIS The European Commission (EC)has promised a complete review of the region's plans for global-navigation-satellite systems (GNSS)by the end of the year, following complaints from airlines that the existing programme should be halted. The Association of European Airlines (AEA) raised the issue early in October ...
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Varig entry boosts number of Star Alliance destinations
Brazil's Varig Airlines has joined the growing list of Star Alliance members, with Lufthansa's president Jürgen Weber promising further signatures from "at least one" Asian carrier before the end of the year. The entry of Varig, which flies to every major South American destination, is initially restricted to ...
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Airbus supplement: A3XX
When it enters service in 2003, the A3XX will be the world's biggest civil aircraft. Perhaps more significantly, at least from the commercial point of view, the European giant will complete the Airbus range and remove at a stroke Boeing's long-held monopoly in extra-large people carriers. For three ...
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Airbus supplement: Pioneer to pace-setter
Airbus Industrie's ultimate greatest impact will be on the shape of the European industry, but for much of its history so far the biggest headlines have been about its technology. The driver of much of that headline-grabbing technology has been Bernard Ziegler, who recently retired as senior vice president engineering. ...
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Airbus supplement: Restructuring
Wherever aerospace executives gather to discuss consolidation of Europe's aerospace industry, it will not be long before the talk turns to Airbus Industrie and its anxiously awaited restructuring. Whatever other pitfalls may yet befall Europe on the way towards the holy grail of consolidation, it has become an ...
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Airbus supplement: A300 A310
When Airbus Industrie rolled out its first A300 at Toulouse in September 1972, the aircraft received perhaps less attention from the assembled crowd than it deserved. Parked opposite was one of the prototype Concordes, which was still grabbing headlines around the world. Yet, while the sleek supersonic airliner may have ...
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France requires diesel testing
Julian Moxon/PARIS The first flight of the four-cylinder MR250 diesel engine, under development by Socata and Renault Sport, has been delayed until the beginning of December to allow time for an endurance test demanded by the French certification authorities. Trials of the engine in various configurations ...
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777 suffers new engine troubles
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney and General Electric are inspecting their respective PW4090 and GE90 engines for the Boeing 777, after a new series of problems with powerplants on British Airways and United Airlines aircraft. The GE90 suffered a crack in a rotating seal on ...