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Asia's liberal minority
Aeropolitics The US is making headway with its open skies philosophy in Europe but the Asia-Pacific market is proving a tougher nut to crack. Tom Ballantyne looks at the differing regional attitudes to liberalisation with the outside world and then assesses progress on open skies locally. To Asia-Pacific's growth-hungry ...
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Starting over
The second wave of US new entrant airlines is proving more resilient than the first and some venture capitalists are now looking at Europe. Russell Winter offers a formula to make sure aspiring low-cost startups, especially in Europe, find financial backers with deep pockets.Many industry specialists continue to believe that ...
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Off to a head start
After a long wait, deregulation in Europe has spawned a growing number of startup carriers which are now providing a serious challenge to the majors. Lois Jones reports Until now, startup carriers have tended to provoke no more than a bemused glance from Europe's old timers. But the ...
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Financial data
Air Canada's operating profit fell from US$33m to US$27m as domestic yields fell, but the sale of Continental Airlines shares netted C$129 million. America West's record quarterly earnings came as traffic grew 13.8%, load factors rose 3.3 points, yields jumped 4.1%, and unit costs fell 7.5%. ...
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ANA allies by mix 'n' match
The codeshare service started by All Nippon Airways and Air Canada in August on Osaka-Vancouver marks the growing emphasis the Japanese carrier is putting on expanding its network through alliances. The days when Japan's Ministry of Transport discouraged its carriers from forming such pacts are clearly over, and ...
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Air Afrique states case
We have been deeply upset by the article 'Eleven oust Afrique boss' (Airline Business, June) commenting on Yves Roland-Billecart's departure from Air Afrique. Roland-Billecart's decision to resign was a consequence of the resolution from the Ministers of Transport of Air Afrique's owner states to separate the functions of chairman ...
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Russia gets Euro boost
The European Commission is inviting consultants to tender for three studies to assess the commercialisation and upgrading of Russia's airports, which could lead to privatisation of the sector. The Commission will select the winner for each of the year-long studies in September. The studies are part of a ...
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All together in the Middle East
The collapse in yields to the Indian subcontinent and the Philippines has pushed carriers in the Middle East into a fares pact aimed at stemming the decline. Gulf Air, Emirates and Kuwait Airways agreed at a meeting in Kuwait in June to raise market fares on sectors to ...
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Aria on verge of merger?
Speculation is mounting in Moscow that state-controlled Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (Aria) and private operator Transaero are close to a merger. Rumours were fuelled in early July when the rival carriers signed a cooperation deal, which envisages codesharing and joint fleet planning. One aviation source in ...
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Iberia's boss
The new Spanish government has appointed US-born Xabier de Irala Estevez, a former vice president of General Electric in France, as chairman of Iberia. Source: Airline Business
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Where angels fear to tread
An unprecedented restructuring plan has put Avensa back in the black amid economic chaos, but has also attracted fierce criticism. Flag carrier Viasa has lost out to its rival in both the domestic and US markets and as it struggles to fight back, new entrants are appearing on the scene. ...
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ValuJet's long shadow
US The crash of ValuJet Flight 592 in May has had more impact on the US airline industry than any other commercial aviation tragedy. Mead Jennings explores the longer-term repercussions of the ValuJet affair. The repercussions of the crash of a 27-year-old ValuJet Airlines DC-9 in Florida's Everglades, which killed ...
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Washington now Virgin territory?
As Virgin Atlantic makes its presence felt in the US-UK open skies negotiations, Washington's commonly held wisdom that British Airways holds nearly complete sway over the UK's international aviation policy is being put to the test. BA, which wants an open skies pact so it can seek antitrust ...
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China's links are at stake
The clearing of the aeropolitical clouds over Hong Kong may be having a downwind effect in Taiwan, where direct air links with China (PRC) are moving from political rhetoric to actual preparation. Wang Guixiang, chairman of China National Aviation Corporation and new chairman of Dragonair, was the first ...
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Qantas faces union threat
Qantas's management is facing confrontation with unions over a new wage agreement as it launches a drive to try to control costs and improve on disappointing productivity gains. Flight attendants and ground workers have already hinted at industrial action if they fail to win agreement on across the ...
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HAL hopes
Hawaiian Air could raise over $36 million through a rights offering to its shareholders. As part of an agreement early this year allowing Airline Investor Partnership to take control of the airline for $20 million in cash, AIP agreed to give other shareholders a chance to buy 12 million additional ...
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Threesome Inter Africa
Three African regional carriers are forming a joint venture dubbed Air Inter Afrique, in the latest example of cooperation on the continent. Benin Air Express, Air Niger and Peace Air Togo plan to join forces in late 1996 in a scheme devised by multinational carrier Air Afrique. The ...
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UPS
Package-deliver carrier UPS, of Louisville, Kentucky, has appointed Kerry Fielden business-development director for the UK, the Nordic countries and Ireland. Fielden, who is based at the UK headquarters in Feltham, Middlesex, replaces John Haack who will return to the UPS US operation. Neil Taylor replaces Fielden as sales manager in ...
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The curtain rises
Coming soon - the next installment in an exciting tale of aircraft engines and orders. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES This year's Farnborough air show provides the stage for an extraordinary drama, the cut and thrust of which would defy even the most imaginative playwrights of the West End ...
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X-tended players
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are all poised to move forward with their X projects. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDONGuy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE LATEST AIRCRAFT models of the big three airliner manufacturers are all now carrying revenue passengers, and the industry is standing by for the next ...