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Not so long ago, the idea of airport marketing may well have sounded like a contradiction in terms to the jaded airline route planner. Airport operators looked more like immovable institutions, to be worked around rather than with. But if airports were late to the art of marketing, then ...
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Gaining an edge
Managers may dream of introducing the ground-breaking innovation that reshapes the industry. Or of the revolution that launches their airline to new heights of sustained performance. But in today's real world of increasingly competitive marketplace, victories tend to be smaller, more fleeting and harder to win. Welcome to the age ...
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Virgin stirs US cabotage debate
Virgin Atlantic Airways chairman Richard Branson has touched a nerve in the USA by calling for seventh freedom rights so that he can start a low-fares, low-cost, airline. His calls for cabotage came in the same month that a senior US Department of Transportation (DoT) official questioned whether current aviation ...
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Brussels has slots issue on hold
While Europe's major airlines continue to do battle with the competition authorities in Brussels over transatlantic alliances, it appears that the tussle has quietly claimed another victim - the long-promised European Commission (EC)rules on slot distribution. The EC's transport directorate (DGVII), under Neil Kinnock, started working on a new ...
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What's in a name?
British Airways and American have finally launched their response to the Star Alliance. But does oneworld go far enough? It has been a long time coming, but two years after British Airways signed its pact with American Airlines, the carriers have finally given their global alliance a name. As ...
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A Renaissance hub
With the opening of the new Malpensa airport, northern Italy may at last achieve its ambition of challenging northern Europe's major hubs. On the face of it, the transfer of international flights to Milan's shiny new airport at Malpensa should hardly have caused much of a fuss. Yet fuss ...
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Advanced avionics for all
Graham Warwick/LAS VEGAS When New Piper Aircraft rolled out the Malibu Meridian in August, it caused a stir in the general aviation (GA) community. Not because of the aircraft's single turboprop engine, which is unusual enough, but because of its cockpit. Not only was the flightdeck equipped with the latest ...
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Against all odds
Kate Sarsfield/LAS VEGAS If one was asked to name a single individual who has changed the face of business aviation in recent years, Richard Santulli, pioneer of fractional ownership, would be at the top of the list. Santulli's concept of fractional ownership has revolutionised the market ...
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Naval success
ILS International Launch Services launched the US Navy Ultra High Frequency Follow-On F9 satellite aboard an Atlas IIA booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 20 October. Source: Flight International
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Spanish funding
Spain is to take a less than 10% stake in the $2 billion French Helios 2 reconnaissance satellite. Source: Flight International
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Takeover confirmed
Atlantic Research has bought the liquid engine business of British Aerospace's Royal Ordnance (RO) subsidiary. RO has supplied apogee and thruster engines for almost 50% of the world's communications satellites. Source: Flight International
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Morocco radar
The Royal Moroccan Air Force has upgraded its Northrop Grumman TPS-63 radars with new solid-state components, and is the first operator to do so. The seven upgrade kits were delivered in November 1997, and the last will be completed by the end of 1998. Source: Flight International
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Kuwaiti Mirage sale
Kuwait is planning to sell 15 Dassault Mirage F-1 fighter planes, say army sources quoted in the local media. France, Belgium and Brazil are mentioned as possible buyers. Kuwait has already sold its fleet of McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawks as part of a modernisation programme based around a purchase of ...
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SIA profit slump
Singapore Airlines (SIA) suffered a 26.5% slide in net profit for the first six months of the year because of declining passenger yields, falling load factors and rising costs, but it managed to limit the damage with better than expected subsidiary results and the sale and leaseback of aircraft. The ...
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Borgman for Sikorsky
Ex-McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems boss Dean Borgman has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Sikorsky Aircraft. Borgman will report to Eugene Buckley, Sikorsky's chairman and chief executive, who is to retire next year. Borgman retired in June from Boeing, where he was senior vice-president responsible for the company's ...
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Airports
-Vienna International Airport has recorded an 8.4% rise in passenger traffic in the first six months to June 1998. Passenger numbers for the period totalled 4.9 million. Cargo saw an 8.8% increase to 73,688t. -BAA is seeking approval for a £200 million ($120 million) two-phase expansion of London Stansted Airport ...
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African safety improves in 1998, despite growth
Lois Jones/DAKAR Air accidents in Africa are reducing, says ASECNA, the air navigation agency for Francophone Africa. The number of reported accidents stand at 14 in 1998, compared with last year's tally of 30. Reported near misses stand at 17 this year, compared to 26 in 1997, says ...
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Big Sky moves in on Aspen Mountain Air routes from Dallas
US regional Big Sky Airlines is to take over bankrupt Aspen Mountain Air's (AMA) Essential Air Service (EAS) routes from Dallas/Fort Worth, beginning in the middle of November. In an emergency action, the US Department of Transportation selected the Billings, Montana-based regional in preference to three other applicants. The ...
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IATA warns of longer European air traffic control delays
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says that it is concerned at the rise in air traffic control (ATC) delays in Europe. Statistics just released reveal that, over the 1998 summer period, 22% of all flights were delayed by an average of 24min, with total ATC delays 39%higher than ...
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Swissair introduces its first A330-200
Swissair has introduced the first of 15 Airbus A330-200s on its medium and long-haul network. The 224-seat Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered A330s will initially replace smaller A310-300s. The fifteenth, and last, aircraft is due to be delivered in July 2000. SAir group partners Sabena and Austrian Airlines have also ordered ...