All Strategy news – Page 1198
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Licence to change
European pilot-training organisations at all levels will have to cope with a new set of standards. David Learmount/LONDON Most European pilots know that flight crew licence requirements are changing to a European standard, but few could say when or describe the differences. Pilot-training organisations, on the other ...
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Chess master moves in
AAI keeps up with the weather There is little doubt that Russia's occasionally chaotic aviation industry could benefit from the application of a fine strategic mind. It is about to get one. World chess champion Gary Kasparov has now formally launched a consultancy, aimed at helping ...
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SAS makes first profit since 1989
SAS HAS REPORTED ITS first pre-tax profit in five years, following the major reworking of finances and operations, which was stepped up at the start of 1994. In a brief preliminary statement, the Scandinavian airline group revealed that it expects its 1994 profit to come in at SKr1.5 ...
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Plague brought loss to Air India
THE INDIAN Government has admitted that the outbreak of plague in the country in 1994 has pushed its international flag carrier Air India into loss. Air India had made an estimated loss of $6.5 million by the end of December after the first nine months of its financial ...
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Eurowings shifts focus to international routes
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH EUROWINGS, the German regional carrier, has shifted its focus onto developing international routes, because of intensifying domestic competition from Germany's rail and road networks. According to Eurowings marketing and sales chief, Karl-Friedrich Muller, Germany's ICE high-speed trains and improved road links with eastern ...
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Belgium holds key to Swissair deal
The Belgian Government is considering a renewed Swissair offer to buy 49.5% of Sabena. Preliminary agreement could be reached in the next few days. Swissair is understood to have cut its original BFr12 billion ($380 million) to BFr8 billion following the collapse of a Sabena plan to form ...
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Flight duty times: 'harmonisation' not the main aim
Sir - My first impression from R P Holubowicz's letter (Flight International, 11-17 and 25-31 January) was that the general secretary of the International Air Carriers Association expects pilots to act like robots. More interesting is the statement by K Koplin (Flight International, Letters, 1-7 February), the new ...
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Pakistani private sector survivors
Sir - I would like to comment on the article "Bhoja Air leases Yak-42s" (Flight International, 25-31 January, P11). Airlines in the private sector started operations in Pakistan in April 1993. Initially, there were four entrants: Aero Asia, Hajveri, Raji and Bhoja. Six months later, semi-private Shaheen emerged. ...
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AAR
Aircraft-equipment supplier AAR, of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, has named James Bacon vice-president for airline programmes. Bacon, most recently an airline consultant, has also served with Continental Airlines and Air California. Michael Hughes is appointed general manager for AAR Pacific, the company's sales and maintenance base in Singapore. He was ...
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Air Inter battles for French leadership
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR INTER HAS SWUNG back into profit for the first time in four years, but the carrier warns that it is preparing to defend itself against savage competition expected in the French domestic market. Air Inter posted a net profit of Fr21 million ($4 ...
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Glimmers show through the gloom
Russia's aviation industry remains in crisis, but could be getting over the worst. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Given the fragile state of its economy, it comes as little surprise that Russia's aviation industry had another tough year in 1994. Traffic continued a steady downward drift, which has already ...
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Germany plans airborne A3XX simulation
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) is developing an in-flight simulation of an A3XX-type large commercial transport under contract from Airbus Industrie. Airbus wants the establishment to develop a reference model of an aircraft, based on the expected dimensions, weight and inertia of the ...
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El Al emerges from receivership as privatisation nears
ISRAELI FLAG CARRIER El Al was to leave receivership on 14 February in preparation for its forthcoming privatisation. The move comes as the transport ministry considers an offer from the country's largest industrial conglomerate, Koor, to purchase 26% of the airline. The Government would have accepted ...
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MD-95 clash forces Halla out of Korean consortium
HALLA AEROSPACE HAS been dropped from South Korea's regional-aircraft consortium, following a Government stipulation that a manufacturer cannot participate in the programme and be a risk-sharing partner in competing foreign developments. The condition was included in the consortium's charter, recently signed by 11 local aerospace companies, including Samsung, ...
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Valujet thrives as other US start-ups hit trouble
TWO FLEDGLING US carriers - USAfrica Airways and Leisure Air - have suspended operations and a third airline - Kiwi International Air Lines - has drastically revamped its top management. Atlanta-based Valujet, however, reports strong profits for 1994 and is expanding services aggressively, at the expense of USAir. ...
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Air Seychelles
Freddy Karkaria has been appointed executive chairman at Air Seychelles. Karkaria, formerly Seychelles director-general of civil aviation, replaces Conrad Benoiton, who becomes managing director of the newly created Seychelles International Business Authority. Gilbert Faure, director of airport management, replaces Karkaria as director-general of civil aviation. Source: Flight International
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Continental cuts
Continental Airlines cut its average daily departures, from 2,283 to 2,115, on 10 January, in line with previously announced capacity cuts aimed at saving $150 million a year. The cuts included commuter division Continental Express and low-cost operation Continental Lite. Source: Flight International
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Qantas
Peter Roennfeldt has been appointed regional general manager UK and Ireland for Australian national airline Qantas. Roennfeldt, who replaces Wayne Pearce, was previously country manager in South Africa. Pearce has returned to Qantas head office in Sydney as general manager for revenue development. Source: Flight International
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Gill Air
The team which has just taken over UK regional airline Gill Air (Flight International, 1-7 February, P16) have a wealth of experience in the UK air-transport business. Managing director Trefor Jones (left), like finance director Mike Robinson (right), came from Jersey European Airways. Before that, however, Jones had been director ...