All Strategy news – Page 494
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NewsLufthansa appoints Morgan Stanley for potential BMI sale
Lufthansa has engaged Morgan Stanley to look into a potential sale of its loss-making subsidiary British Midland International.
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NewsEmirates helps Boeing devise new 777
Emirates president says the carrier is working closely with the Seattle airframer on development of twinjet's successor
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INTERIORS: Thales launches new tools for IFEC customers
Thales has launched two new ways for customers to connect with its IFEC products. The Thales App Portal will open to customers later this year to...
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NewsINTERIORS: SkyCast reveals tray table IFEC system
Lower your tray table for the next chapter in in-flight entertainment, urges SkyCast Solutions, which lays claim to having developed the only tray-integrated,...
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NewsEmirates helps Boeing devise new 777
Emirates president says the carrier is working closely with the Seattle airframer on development of twinjet's successor
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NewsGovt audit blames ministry, management for Air India troubles
An Indian government report has blamed both Air India's management and the Ministry of Civil Aviation for letting the beleaguered carrier become both unprofitable...
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TRIP to acquire 18 ATR 72-600s
Brazilian regional carrier TRIP has agreed to acquire 18 ATR 72-600s, with options for 22 additional aircraft, in a move that will make the airline the largest...
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NewsMedvedev demands 'radical' aviation reform after Yak crash
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev underlined a need to cut the number of carriers operating in the country in the wake of another fatal accident, after a chartered Yakovlev Yak-42 crashed on departure from Yaroslavl.
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Aer Lingus stake sale unlikely before 2012: Irish govt
Ireland's government does not expect to sell its 25% stake in Aer Lingus until at least next year. No formal decision has been made about the disposal...
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LOT reports improved results on turnaround strategy
Polish flag carrier LOT has credited its turnaround strategy with posting a Pzl140.3 million ($46.6 million) net profit for the first seven months of 2011,...
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Red Wings chief calls for Kremlin intervention on Tu-204SM programme
Aleksander Lebedev, the owner of Russian carrier Red Wings, has written to Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin urging him to take personal control over...
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NewsUK's Monarch Airlines cancels entire 787 order
UK holiday carrier Monarch Airlines has emerged as the latest customer to cancel its Boeing 787 order, confirming it was the carrier behind last week's axing of six aircraft from the twinjet's backlog.
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Southwest to add two new destinations from Atlanta
Southwest Airlines plans to begin non-stop flights to Las Vegas and Phoenix from Atlanta from 10 March 2012. The carrier, which has an all Boeing 737...
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EasyGroup calls for removal of Doganis from EasyJet board
UK budget carrier EasyJet has received another letter from shareholder EasyGroup, this time requesting a meeting to vote on the removal of aviation consultant Rigas Doganis from its board.
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Aircraft finance costs set to rise
When Washington's summer debt-ceiling brinkmanship spurred ratings agency Standard & Poor's to take the once-unimaginable step of stripping the USA of its top-tier AAA credit rating, financiers started asking whether the theoretical risk of default would hit the cost of borrowing.
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Antinori reported to be joining Emirates
Lufthansa's former chief marketing officer, Thierry Antinori, is to become Emirates' new sales chief in October, according to a report in Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
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South Sudanese start-up Southern Star launches operations
South Sudan has a new national carrier, following the launch of services by Southern Star Airlines. The airline is operating a single 37-seat De Havilland...
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Bangladeshi carrier GMG names Sanjiv Kapoor as CEO
Bangladeshi private airline GMG has appointed airline strategy and turnaround expert Sanjiv Kapoor as its new CEO.
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US Airways expands “Choice Seats” programme
US Airways recently broadened offerings under its programme allowing customers to pay for certain seat selections to cover emergency row seating. The...
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NewsBoeing learns lessons for 737 from 787 overruns
That Boeing has learnt its lesson from the overlong development of the 787 and 747-8 can be seen in the proposed timescale for the re-engined narrowbody, named the 737 Max, which the airframer launched on 30 August.