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FedEx buys big
FedEx is to buy twelve American Airlines' MD-11s over three years from January 1996 after conversion to freighter configuration. The company also holds options with American on a further seven MD-11s with a purchasing decision due between 2000 and 2002. Source: Airline Business
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Schiphol's ace
Amsterdam/Schiphol has introduced magnetic cards for passengers transferring between Schengen destinations, so they avoid passport control. The Schengen countries cover Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Source: Airline Business
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Athens approval
The European Commission has cleared the way for the construction of the controversial Spata airport - Athens new airport - after deciding not to investigate the original tendering process. Source: Airline Business
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Electric business
United Airlines has expanded electronic ticketing to its Business One flights out of Chicago/O'Hare to eight US cities. United will expand the concept to its domestic network throughout the summer. Source: Airline Business
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Gulf drops 777s
In the first blow to Boeing's 777 programme, Gulf Air has cancelled its order for six of the aircraft. The carrier is understood to have been concerned over the cost of integrating the new type in a fleet that already includes the A340s. ...
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BA's Latin world
At presstime, British Airways looked set to join the Latin American and Caribbean frequent flyer grouping, LatinPass, as the European partner. With USAir already LatinPass' US carrier, BA is a logical choice. Source: Airline Business
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Bread blocked
Air France must place FFr1.5 billion in a blocked account until the European court rules on an appeal seeking to overrule the European Commission's decision that the 1993 Caisse des Depots bond issue was state aid. The Commission ordered the carrier to do so following the French government's complaint that ...
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Networkers of the future
As deregulation bites, Europe's airlines will have to chose between being network managers or capacity or service providers, says an analysis by consultants McKinsey & Company. Europe's airline industry has traditionally been characterised by monolithic national carriers with strong links to their national governments, a lack of competition on routes, ...
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Tough finding the right niches
There are encouraging signs of start-ups and expansion in Europe though financial returns and yields are low. Europe's regional airlines are emerging from the recessionary gloom comparatively unscathed. The last three and a half years have seen their share of closures, but on balance the sector is growing. ...
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Fast growth, structural change
The increasingly high cost of expansion in Asia-Pacific is encouraging new solutions such as regional groupings.Like their big-jet brothers, Asia-Pacific's regional airlines are undergoing their most significant period of expansion ever. Buoyed by increasing deregulation, higher incomes swelling passenger numbers, and growing intra-regional trade, new carriers are emerging at a ...
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French malaise
Air France is moving in the right direction to achieve profitability but some serious contradictions risk undermining its credibility. Jacqueline Gallacher reports from Paris.Air France Group is on the defensive these days, but after receiving a highly controversial FFr20 billion ($4 billion) in state aid, who wouldn't be? With appeals ...
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Orly's army
France's independent sector is continuing its crusade against slot restrictions designed to protect Air France at Paris/Orly, while incumbent Air Inter struggles to limit the damage. Jacqueline Gallacher reports from Paris.Imagine. After years of battles and restrictions on private sector scheduled operations and a ruling by the European Commission, the ...
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Unwelcome package
Overcapacity is continuing to reduce aviation insurance rates at a time when they are already badly out of kilter with operating costs and claims. So far the reinsurance markets have borne the brunt. Gordon Mackenzie reports.Aviation underwriters with a superstitious bent saw it as an ill omen when, at the ...
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Age old decision
New aircraft or old? Airline executives are weighing up the options to make the right fleet decisions to last the next decade. Sara Guild contrasts the narrowbody decisions made by Air Canada, Finnair and Northwest.For an aircraft, getting old and creaky used to mean that your owner was about ...
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Transfers hold key to growth
North American regionals and majors will become even more tightly linked as future commuter operations grow.The increasing trend whereby major airlines transfer short-haul jet routes to regional carriers is expected to encourage the growth of regional airlines in the US and Canada. Already, 95 per cent of regional airline passengers ...
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Man with a mandate
Interview: The European Union's new transport commissioner Neil Kinnock has stepped into controversy over US-Europe open skies. In Brussels Mark Odell reports.Events undoubtedly influenced his agenda, but even so it didn't take the aviation community long to discover that Neil Kinnock was in town. In sharp contrast to his two ...
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Heated competition
Privatisation seems to have finally taken hold among airlines in the Caribbean. The resulting US-style management and new competition could spell permanent change for the region. By Mead Jennings.During last February's inaugural celebration for Barbados-based Carib Express, a 90 per cent privately owned regional airline, those in attendance heard the ...
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Singular battle over EU currency
At the core of the heated debate in Europe about the future of the European Union lies the concept of the single currency. While the politicians battle it out as to whether a common currency across the EU would be a political act with a loss of sovereignty, the technical ...
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Coming of age
This worldwide survey of regional airlines, the first of its type, paints a picture of an industry segment that has come of age. The tables reveal a business which carried over 100 million passengers last year, generated nearly $8 billion in revenue, and turned in a net profit of nearly ...
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Psyched up
Austrian Airlines is bouncing back after three years without profit. Carrier president Herbert Bammer says alliances and open skies with the US could lead to a turnaround. Mead Jennings reports. A small airline from a small country: Austrian Airlines has two of the essential ingredients for an inferiority complex, ...