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Brussels gears up to tackle aviation
The mass resignation of European Commissioners could hardly have been poorer timing for those in Brussels gearing up to tackle major issues in aviation. Brussels had planned to start the year running with initiatives spanning everything from alliances through to Eastern Europe and the environment. The Competition Directorate ...
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Malev restructures and hunts for partners
Hungarian flag carrier Malev is gearing up to join one of the global alliance groupings while pushing ahead with a restructuring programme. New chief Antal Pongracz is keeping its options open, but re-opening talks with British Airways, which broke off last May, will be high on his agenda. ...
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Three's a crowd
The narrowbody engine market has heated up since International Aero Engines snatched the market lead from CFM International on the A320. And a third competitor, Pratt & Whitney, is set to make the chase even more intense. Report by Karen Walker. A large banner hangs over workers at the CFM56 ...
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News in Brief
BA's pilot deal - BA has sealed a comprehensive agreement with pilots union BALPA, which provides pilots flying for its controversial long-haul charter arm AML and short-haul routes out of Gatwick with the same terms and conditions as BA mainline pilots. In return pilots have agreed to relax some flying ...
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Malaysia's spring clean
A house-cleaning exercise appears to be taking place at Malaysia Airlines (MAS), as the loss-making airline undergoes a major shake-up in its top ranks. In mid-February, MAS, which in the second half of the last calendar year had a debt of 11.8 billion ringgit ($3.1 billion) and was ...
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SAA profits just in time
After a radical restructuring, South African Airways (SAA) has claimed it is again profitable just as the South African Government confirmed the timetable for its privatisation. The corporatisation of SAA as a separate entity will be completed by the end of March. Privatisation is on schedule for mid-June with ...
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CAL and EVA go Canadian
Taiwan is changing the face of its presence in Canada and in the process has added a second player. Now the question is whether Ottawa will do the same in Taipei. Before the latest update in the Taiwan-Canada bilateral, Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines (CAL), was Taiwan's ...
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JAL slows on oneworld
Japan Airlines is in no hurry to join the oneworld alliance, despite its growing array of codeshare and reciprocal frequent flier agreements with its members British Airways, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qantas and Canadian Airlines. For now, JAL says it wants to keep these only as bilateral pacts. "Membership of ...
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Austrian spring
Six years ago, Austrian Airlines was in severe difficulties. Then Mario Rehulka and Herbert Bammer took the helm. Peter Bennett talkes to the two presidents about their carrier's dramatic transformation. It is early spring in Vienna. It has been a cold and snowy winter, but now the first buds ...
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Cheating on aviation
Electronic systems continue to transform the airline industry, bringing savings, efficiency gains and-an increase in fraud. The potential to "earn" big money quickly in a multi-million-dollar business like the airline industry has already bred fraudulent activities in the shape of bogus spare parts, false maintenance records and fictitious frequent flyer ...
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Fictitious aircraft
Some transactions that may fall short of criminal fraud can nevertheless result in heavy losses, court actions and deep unhappiness. When businessman Thor Tjontveit and his Dallas-based company Air Alaska (also trading as World Pacific Air Lease Inc) were ordered by a New York court to pay compensatory and ...
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Spanair in the works
Straddling the charter-schedule boundary, Spanair is making a name for itself in Europe while also trying to gain a foothold in the transatlantic market. This will be a pivotal year for Spanair, Spain's fast-growing, charter-cum-scheduled airline. Eleven years old this spring, Spanair started scheduled flights just five years ago, ...
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The size equation
Airbus forcasts show that demand for the A3XX rests partly on the shifting balance between high and low yield traffic. Few new airliner births can have had such an agonisingly slow and controversial labour as that which has accompanied the launch of a new large aircraft. After almost a ...
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Get your aircraft economics right
Operating ageing aircraft can be an expensive business, as cost figures for the US majors clearly demonstrate. But how great is the cost difference between old and new? There has always been a trade-off between the cheap acquisition cost of older aircraft and the slick operating economics of modern types. ...
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Iberia gets down to business
With the BA equity deal all but sealed, membership of oneworld under its belt and full privatisation slated by year end, Iberia has much to be cheerful about. But while the Spanish flag carrier reinvents itself as a serious international business airline, it will need to keep a close eye ...
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Food for thought
Most airlines are contracting out in-flight catering and are increasingly looking for suppliers with a global presence. When casting around for ways to reduce costs and strip out non-core businesses, airline chief executives did not take long to focus on the opportunities to be had from outsourcing their in-flight ...
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Safety in numbers?
Until now, Air Namibia's future looked limited and its finances precarious. But hopes are pinned on a new managing director, a restructuring programme and an alliance with South African Airways. Jaafar Ahmad freely admits that his first reaction when asked to head up struggling carrier Air Namibia was: "What ...
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Maintenance gets smart
Every business has its dark corners. Secret fiefdoms or forgotten Cinderellas, where planning is a black art and true costs difficult to pin down. By tradition, maintenance has been one such corner of the airline industry. The label may be an exaggeration, but the boardroom drive to get a stronger ...
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Proposed US-EU dialogue may ease tensions
Alan George/BRUSSELS The European Union and the US Government have discussed the establishment of a 'structured dialogue' aimed at defusing aviation tensions between the two sides. The talks, between EC Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock and US Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, took place in Brussels last week. Slater went to ...
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Devaluation forces Varig aircraft and route cuts
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON Brian Homewood/RIO DE JANEIRO Varig Brazil has announced cuts in international services to the USA and Europe and plans to withdraw its fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 passenger aircraft by the end of the year as a massive Brazilian currency devaluation begins to affect airline traffic. ...