All articles by Mark Pilling – Page 9
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Opinion
Comment: Business travel continues sharp decline
Business travel demand began its sharp decline in September and this has fast become a global phenomenon. Airlines are responding with steeper price cuts than those seen in economy, but will this leave business travellers with new expectations?
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News
AirAsia X reaches out to Europe
The AirAsia Group has expanded its long-haul airline concept with a new route connecting Malaysia with the UK
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News
Frontier boosts revenues through new fares scheme
The US low-cost carrier is driving new revenue streams with a new fares structure as it strives to exit Chapter 11
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News
join the conversation
While everyone is convinced of the marketing potential and power of the web, few airlines are experimenting with social marketing to interact with customers. It may be a frightening step, but now is the time to take a leap of faith and open up
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News
Putting Surinam on the map
Surinam is one of those places you think you know where it is, but can’t quite remember. It’s a quiet country on the north-eastern part of South America, with more affinity with the Caribbean than with its cousins with whom it shares a continent.
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News
Comment - The mating game
Airline mergers and acquisitions have gathered pace over the past year, a trend that looks set to continue and intensify in 2009 as the economic environment worsens. But the prospect of intercontinental mergers is still mired in regulatory restrictions
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News
Cross-continental mergers too complex for now: Conte
While he believes that global consolidation will arrive eventually, Iberia chief executive Fernando Conte believes mergers within continents are a more realistic...
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Opinion
Comment: Mind the gap
Airlines will have to face the fact that the gap between the amount of money needed to fund their 2009 aircraft deliveries and the dwindling amount of money available is becoming wider, and weaker players could find themselves falling through it
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News
Hazy hopes to close ILFC buy-back by March 2009
International Lease Finance (ILFC) founder and chairman Steven Udvar-Hazy says discussions are underway with various potential investors to buy back the...
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News
Royal Air Maroc seeks turboprops for new regional subsidiary
Royal Air Maroc is to launch a regional turboprop subsidiary in March 2009. Driss Benhima, president of the Moroccan flag carrier, explained the airline's...
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News
Caribbean Airlines goes back into maintenance
Caribbean Airlines is hoping for major cost savings froma bold return to maintaining its own fleet of 737s
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News
Amadeus and Sabre at the IT front line
Two of the industry's largest IT suppliers have reached milestones in developing next generation technology solutions
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News
Governments seek to cash in on aviation
In their war against airport charge hikes, fuel tariff rises and taxes, airline bodies have found it tough going this year
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News
Cheap aircraft key to O'Leary's long-haul launch
While the launch of a long-haul low-fare transatlantic carrier is on Michael O'Leary's radar, whether it gets off the ground is very much dependent on finding...
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European carriers feel the pain of high fuel costs
European carriers of all shapes and sizes felt the acute pain of the huge rise in fuel costs in the second quarter
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News
The World Air Transport Forum is being held in Paris this year
After 16 years in the south of France, the World Air Transport Forum is coming to Paris to mark the 17th time this major industry event has taken place
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News
Malta's resurgent travel market
In the past two years the Maltese market has boomed, fuelled by a resurgent Air Malta and the arrival of low-cost carriers Often overshadowed by faster...