Networks – Page 316

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    AB25: African Aviation chief executive Nick Fadugba

    2010-11-22T12:00:00Z

    The landscape of the African airline industry has changed significantly in the past 25 years. Numerous former stalwart national carriers, such as Air Afrique, Ghana Airways, Nigeria Airways and Zambia Airways, have gone bankrupt; several privately owned airlines, such as Arik Air in Nigeria, Precisionair in Tanzania and Fly540 in ...

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    AB25: AirAsia Group chief executive Tony Fernandes

    2010-11-22T10:31:00Z

    GROUP chief executiveairasia On 13 October, less than nine years after a dream called Air-Asia became reality, the 100 millionth "guest" was flown...

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    RAK Airways to open Bangladeshi routes

    2010-11-22T10:22:00Z

    Resurrected Middle Eastern carrier RAK Airways is extending its fledgling route network to Bangladesh. It is to operate three times per week to the...

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    AB25:Use of standards in maintenance data: blessing or nuisance?

    2010-11-22T10:15:00Z

    Is the use of standards in maintenance data a blessing or a nuisance ask Christian Eickhoff, quality management, and Dierk Kruetzmann, engineering, Lufthansa Technik

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    AB25: Copa chief executive Pedro Heilbron

    2010-11-22T10:00:00Z

    Twenty-five years ago, few would have imagined that today Latin America would be among the leading regions in the world in terms of economic growth and development. Even fewer would have dreamed of Latin America's airlines being in the top echelon of this competitive aviation industry writes Pedro Heilbron

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    AB25: LAN, chief executive, Enrique Cueto

    2010-11-22T09:18:00Z

    The Latin American airline industry has undergone dramatic change over the past 25 years. Two decades ago, the region was dominated by state-owned, unprofitable airlines. Carriers operated old fleets, provided mediocre service, and had low levels of reliability writes LAN Airlines CEO Enrque Cueto

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    AB25: Emirates president Tim Clark

    2010-11-22T09:00:00Z

    Emirates shares a 25th birthday with Airline Business, having also launched in 1985. Over the past quarter of a century, our industry has taken great strides forward. It is essential that we maintain this momentum in the next 25 years to ensure the continued success of the airline sector and ...

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    AB25: TAM chief executive, Marco Antonio Bologna

    2010-11-22T07:00:00Z

    First of all, I would like to congratulate Airline Business for its 25 years of existence - a remarkable achievement. During this quarter-century, we have seen a huge transformation of the airline industry writes Marco Antonio Bologna, executive president of TAM

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    AB25: Ethiopian Airlines chief executive Girma Wake

    2010-11-22T06:43:00Z

    Despite the fact that a great number of African States succeeded to become independent and to create their own national airlines in the early 1960s, African airlines have faced numerous challenges in formulating and maintaining a safe, efficient air traffic system, mainly due to the inability of African governments to ...

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    AB25: Gulf Air chief executive Samer Majali

    2010-11-22T06:00:00Z

    Imagine a world in which airlines operate in a free market, able to realise their full potential through economies of scale, not hampered by barriers that increase costs and curb development, not constrained by archaic bilateral agreements, not overcharged by monopoly suppliers. That is the dream of Gulf Air chief ...

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    AB25: Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways

    2010-11-22T05:00:00Z

    Airlines worldwide continue to compete on the three fundamentals of cost, network, and product. However, in all of these areas, both the way airlines compete and the marketplace in which they compete has changed dramatically writes Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker.

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    AB25: Cathay Pacific chief executive Tony Tyler

    2010-11-22T05:00:00Z

    When the first issue of Airline Business came off the presses, I was in the eighth year of my aviation career and had just moved to Rome as Cathay Pacific's manager for Italy and France - though at that time we didn't actually fly to either country writes Cathay Pacific ...

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    Thai confirms ThaiTiger ownership structure

    2010-11-22T02:57:00Z

    Thai Airways has tweaked the ownership structure of its low-cost joint venture with Tiger Airways by confirming its stake, and giving employees a share in...

  • Interview

    Interview: Oman Air chief executive, Peter Hill

    2010-11-21T12:00:00Z

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/airline-business/2010/10/videos-world-air-forum-2010.html

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    Air France to create 'provincial bases' in network overhaul

    2010-11-19T14:50:00Z

    Air France is to restructure its European operations by creating several provincial bases to reinforce its position in the market.

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    Rolls-Royce could tap Airbus to secure spare Trents

    2010-11-19T09:45:00Z

    Airbus says it is prepared to supply Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines from A380s on its production line to operators that require replacements following mandated...

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    Garuda to ink SkyTeam agreement next week

    2010-11-19T09:37:00Z

    Garuda Indonesia will hold a ceremony on Tuesday to formally begin the process of becoming a member of the SkyTeam alliance. The process is likely...

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    ALTA 2010: JetBlue aims to grow San Juan as a focus city

    2010-11-18T23:05:33Z

    JetBlue Airways plans to grow San Juan, Puerto Rico into a focus city as early as next summer.

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    ALTA 2010: Insel Air plans new flights to Colombia and Charlotte

    2010-11-18T22:52:24Z

    Curacao's Insel Air plans to add a fifth MD-80 during the first quarter of next year followed by the introduction of new service to Medellin and Bogota in...

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    Three disk fragments damaged Qantas A380 systems

    2010-11-18T17:50:00Z

    Assessment of the Qantas Airbus A380 involved in an in-flight engine failure has revealed the extent of peripheral damage to the jet from ejected fragments.