All Safety News – Page 1483
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Canadian heads for a seventh year of losses
Despite reaching a "tentative" agreement with its pilots' union over cost savings, Canadian Airlines has admitted that it is on course for its seventh successive year of losses. The Canadian carrier had started the year forecasting a net profit of around C$52 million ($38 million) for 1995, but ...
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US airlines report record quarters
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Apart from fears over the threatened fuel tax, US airlines had little to complain about from their financial performance in the second quarter, turning in a clutch of record profits. The major carriers ended the quarter showing a combined net profit of more ...
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Financial results
Air Canada cut its operating loss from C$12m to C$7m. Passengers and yields both rose 6%. There were C$40m of non-operating gains in 1994. Operating income trebled to US$162.2m, moving ANA into the black. Boosted by the Kobe earthquake and the strong yen, traffic rose 6.1%. ...
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Same old story
Bilaterals The reasons underlying the long-running bilateral dispute between the US and Japan are little changed. But David Knibb explains that economic and political imperatives could well signal the end to what has become an uncomfortable impasse.The scene is a familiar one: a US airline proposes a route beyond Japan, ...
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The sum of future parts
Global Airways flight 632 is midway between Manchester and Orlando. A line maintenance technician in Orlando, monitoring the aircraft's systems via satellite, is alerted to a malfunctioning aft fuel pump. The technician, who has never handled this problem before, consults a virtual workplace to review the system design and get ...
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Superjumbo or white elephant?
Mrs Akido is flying from Sapporo to Fukuoka to visit her mother. While the aircraft is taxiing to the runway, she goes through the safety procedure on her virtual reality screen. In the noise-proofed cabin she cannot hear the roar of the engines, nestling under the 80 metre wingspan, as ...
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Tomorrow's flight plan
They call it the autonomous aeroplane. An aircraft which can be navigated around the world independently of any ground navigation aid and which, rather less easily, can return to earth anywhere in any weather. Technically the concept is a practicable one. Whether it will be coming to an airport near ...
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A changing game plan
In coach class passengers are contentedly gazing at seatback video screens, absorbed in a broad range of quality in-flight entertainment. Live television and radio vie for passengers' attention with the latest movie releases of 2005. Adults while away the hours making purchases of questionable wisdom or slowly gambling away their ...
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2005: An airline odyssey
In ten years time, what will have become of the conventional wisdom of the airline industry? In looking ahead 10 years, this survey concentrates on how the electronic revolution will reshape the airline business. But first, Mead Jennings balances the projected technological advances against less quantifiable developments in labour ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 ...