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Be innovative to succeed
The article on the Southwests of Europe (Airline Business, June) brought this idea of the carbon copy strategy into my mind again. I find it amazing how companies always want to duplicate something which has been successful elsewhere, with the idea that they also will get a competitive advantage out ...
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GRA presents fairer picture
While I thought that Mead Jennings' article on codesharing (Airline Business, June 1995) was a reasonable portrayal of GRA's study, there are a few statements that I take issue with. Where you note that we qualified our results and therefore discounted our findings before they were presented, it ...
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Airline news
South African Airways has begun a weekly service between Cape Town and Frankfurt, as well as between Johannesburg and Dar es Salaam. The service will use Alliance's B747SP. Emirates has launched twice weekly services from Abu Dhabi to Beirut originating from its base in Dubai. Transaero ...
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A new breed?
The US airline industry has produced several waves of startup carriers at various points in its history. The latest such surge, centred on low-cost entrants, started in 1992 with the recession in full swing and is now slowing in the swell of an economic upturn. Mead Jennings examines the new ...
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Air France sale to bail out Chirac?
There is a paradox at the heart of the economic strategy being pursued by the new Chirac administration in France. The highest priority of President Jacques Chirac's government is the reduction of unemployment. This was the centrepiece of his campaign for the presidency, his main preoccupation at the G7 ...
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Ramli row on airport cuts
Malaysia Airlines chairman Tajudin Ramli is ruffling government feathers in his drive to make the airline fully profitable, by calling for the closure of some of Malaysia's domestic airports. The airline's domestic operations, which account for about a third of its revenue, have been a drain on profits. ...
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Plummy it isn't
The resolution of the 30-year conflict at Tokyo's Narita Airport over a 550 square metre piece of plum tree farming land in the centre of the aircraft parking stands still does not clear the way for a second runway. Eight co-owners gave the plot to the New Tokyo International Airport ...
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China set for airport spree
Foreign investment is being sought by China's eastern provinces to help fund an array of new airports to be built at an estimated cost of more than US$5 billion. The area accounts for nearly one third of the nation's air passenger traffic and the deputy director of the ...
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Squeeze on down under
The strict conditions placed on the linkup between British Airways and Qantas on the Kangaroo route by the Australian Trade Practices Commission may have appeased the Asian carriers, but some of Europe's majors are feeling the squeeze in the highly competitive Europe-Australia market. Lufthansa has opted to abandon ...
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Blanc brings Inter change
With sleight of hand and a change of name, Christian Blanc, now heading up both Air Inter and Air France, has dissipated the social unrest brewing around him. Air Inter's unions were against being merged into Air France Europe, wanting instead independence and the ability to develop freely. ...
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Japan cool on codesharing
Judging from attitudes recently expressed in Tokyo, codesharing is not the key to solving the Japan-US dispute. It may have provided the way out of the US-Germany bilateral impasse, but with Japan trying to instill pan-Asian unity on aeropolitical issues, Tokyo believes extensive codesharing rights for US carriers would upset ...
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FedEx sways on Subic Bay
Amidst all the heat generated from the trade friction between the US and Japan on aviation matters, Federal Express stands out as the clear winner at home and abroad. In Washington, the express freight company's political sway has influenced the highest reaches of government. In Asia, the Japan dispute has ...
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Big boost for liability limits
The Kuala Lumpur protocols are set to upstage the much-maligned Montreal protocols on airline liability for passenger claims. If all goes as expected, a proposal adopted by 67 airlines will be approved at the International Air Transport Association meeting in Malaysia in October. It took persistent badgering by ...
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Austria rivals set for battle
Austrian Airlines has called on partners Swissair and Tyrolean to support it in the battle against rivals Lauda Air and Lufthansa as the German Monopolies Commission investigates whether Lufthansa's influence on Lauda is a dominating one. The German carrier owns 39.7 per cent of Lauda Air, with a ...
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A penchant for polarity
As Washington watches with amazement as the Democratic party essentially disintegrates, it is equally intrigued by the Republicans, who appear impervious to disunity. But if there is one certainty in this town, it is that things are not usually as they appear. Republicans may have stuck together with ...
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Equity links act as lifeline
The chances of an airline alliance surviving are increased threefold if there are equity links between the partners, according to an analysis of all airline alliances undertaken by Boston Consulting Group. The same analysis, presented at a recent IIR/Airline Business conference, shows that the survival rate of intercontinental alliances is ...
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Doubts fail to rip Oz
Despite two outstanding strategic issues clouding the long awaited privatisation of Qantas, initial investor interest appears solid. But a reduced issue price is threatening to cut dramatically the value of British Airways' 25 per cent investment and shrink the expected returns for the federal coffers. As applications for ...
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No goodbye to Tata deal?
Singapore Airlines' plans to invest US$230 million in a 40 per cent share of a new Indian domestic may be stuck in the mire of Delhi politics, but the airline maintains they are far from buried. The new carrier, a joint venture with India's biggest conglomerate, Tata Industries, ...
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No strike but little accord
Roberto Schisano, Alitalia's managing director, continues to be thwarted by his pilots, and has only achieved a guarantee of three strike-free months with no salary concessions in sight. The government intervened in March to begin a consultation document which was finalised and presented to management and unions in ...
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New chapter
After 20 months of operating out of bankruptcy, TWA re-entered Chapter 11 protection in early July. The filing is prepackaged - as it was when it sought protection in January 1992 - and will give creditors a 70 per cent stake in the 'new' TWA in a $500 million debt-for-equity ...