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Japan's start-ups lose ground
David Knibb BRISBANE Skymark Airlines and Hokkaido International Airlines (Air Do), Japan's domestic start-ups, are taking a beating as a result of fare cuts by Japan's major airlines. In a full-blown fare war leading into Japan's summer season, falling ticket prices are bringing down the newcomers' load factors. Skymark ...
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Indian fare war erupts
India's airlines have slashed their fares by 20-25%, taking them to their lowest level in four years and setting the scene for a long and bitter war. Besides discounts, a wide range of gifts are on offer, from free holidays to complimentary stays in hotels and free travel for spouses. ...
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Qualiflying seamless service
With its new joint sales initiatives, the Qualiflyer grouping could be stealing a march in the alliance stakes. The promise of seamless customer service from the global alliances may seem a little distant, but progress appears to be under way. At the forefront has been a series of announcements from ...
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Playing your cards right
Jackie Gallacher LONDON Frequent flier co-operation is reaching new levels of sophistication within the global alliances, threatening to leave others out in the cold. Not so long ago, an alliance based only on links between frequent-flier programmes (FFP) would have seemed hopelessly optimistic. Yet the real force of the global ...
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Capacity crisis hits European skies
Peter Bennett VIENNA Air traffic control is the chief culprit of record delays in Europe, and the mostly piecemeal improvements offer little hope of a rapid solution to the region's capacity crunch. Ask a European airline executive about air traffic control (ATC) and the response is almost universal. A ...
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Playing it safe at KAL
Nicholas Ionides SEOUL A big management shake-up at Korean Air has produced a new president and chief executive, Shim Yi-taek. His main task is to improve KAL's safety. Each day at noon, thousands of Korean Air (KAL) employees working at the carrier's Kimpo Airport headquarters building in Seoul make ...
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KAL grapples with training
Korean Air's efforts to improve its operation still leave some unanswered questions about just why the airline has had such a poor record. "Korean pilots are as good as any other pilots in the world," says deputy head of flight operations and Boeing 747-400 captain, Bill Hardy. The problem ...
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IT Trends Survey
Kevin O'Toole GENEVA Joint industry research conducted by Airline Business and SITA attempts to establish how far the airline industry is keeping pace with the new wave of information technology and the dawn of the Internet age. Is the airline industry keeping step with information technology? Less than a decade ...
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Hubbing on time
Wendy Knorren Nichols FRANKFURT Martin Kunz VIENNA Punctuality, as all network planners know to their cost, can make or break the best laid hubbing strategy. Like an artist weaving a tapestry, it only takes one individual to pull a single loose thread for the whole work to unravel. Yet while ...
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Netting a bargain
Now in their third year, sales of discount fares via the Internet appear to be a rousing success for US carriers. Is this a glimpse of the future? American Airlines started it all three years ago. Other US majors were quick to follow. Now, Internet discount fares are beginning ...
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Special Report: Joint Airline Business - SITA Information Technology Survey
Special Report: Joint Airline Business - SITA Information Technology SurveySource: Airline Business
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Surveillance success
Operators and regulators came together earlier in July to evaluate a key technology for 'free flight' Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Watching the brown and purple tails descend on Wilmington, Ohio, on 10 July, an observer joked that "package wars" had broken out at Airborne Express' hub. In fact, aircraft from rival ...
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Finding a role
Russia's new launcher family is searching for a niche in the market Tim Furniss/LONDON A family of new Russian launchers called Angara could be competing in the commercial market by 2001. The Angaras, designed by Russia's Khrunichev State Space Research and Production Centre, will fly from a modified launch ...
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50 years ago...
As Airbus fine tunes its A3XX design, the world celebrates a half century of jet travel On Wednesday 27 July, 1949, the world's first jet airliner, the de Havilland (DH) 106 Comet, made its first flight from Hatfield airfield, just north of London. That historic half an hour trip marked ...
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Back to the future
Capacity is driving Airbus' future large airliner plans but cost will decide how and where it will be built Julian Moxon/TOULOUSEAirbus will know only after a six-month commercial marketing campaign that begins in January whether it has predicted correctly the demand for its A3XX. If enough airlines, with enough geographical ...
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Light and powerful
It may be slower than its competitors, but the power of Bell's 427 light twin turbine, simplicity of operation and overall comfort impressed Flight International's test pilot Peter Gray/MIRABEL Beginning with a clean sheet of paper, a list of desired design criteria and a rigid purchase price goal, Bell Helicopter ...
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Northrop wins missile interceptor deal
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Northrop Grumman's newly acquired Ryan Aeronautical Center in San Diego, California, is developing a prototype miniature air-launched cruise missile interceptor (MALI) under a $14.1 million contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The MALI is a derivative of the MALD - a ...
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Philippines ponders F-5 buy
The Philippines air force is considering purchasing secondhand Northrop F-5s from Taiwan to boost its fighter strength. The country's president Joseph Estrada says any such purchase could not be done directly, to avoid damaging relations with mainland China. Instead, the procurement would have to go through an intermediary. "It ...
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Israelis settle for F-16I, despite new F-15I offer
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DCIsrael's air force has settled its long-running fighter competition by ordering 50 Lockheed Martin F-16Is for $2.5 billion, and taking options on up to a further 60. The announcement follows a last-ditch attempt by Boeing to clinch the contest, offering an F-15L version of its ...
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USA/UK join forces on Sender unmanned vehicle
The US Army is set to formalise its participation in the UK's Sender "unit level" tactical unmanned air vehicle (UAV). The Sender is one of two emerging British Army requirements for UAVs (Flight International, 14-20 July). With a 30km (16nm) range, it will be equipped with a surveillance and ...