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Meal made of India deal
The joint board of Air-India and Indian Airlines has shelved the the two airlines' planned merger in favour of a holding company which will integrate the airlines' operations. 'An immediate merger of both airlines would be a disaster. Synergy and close cooperation is a must for the two organisations ...
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Delta jilted at Jap dance
Ink was barely dry on the new Japan-US bilateral before the scramble started to form newly authorised codesharing alliances. Each of Japan's three major airlines has now picked US partners, and Delta Air Lines, which thought it had an agreement with All Nippon, ends up the loser. Delta ...
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Latin to lose key player
LanChile's defection from LatinPass is the latest in a series of withdrawals from the regional frequent flyer programme, leaving just 10 Latin airline members. Enrique Cueto, LanChile's chief executive, claims that LanChile's withdrawal from LatinPass does not relate to its plan to start frequent flyer reciprocity with American Airlines ...
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A disinherited breed
Deregulation is well advanced in Latin America, but the predicted wave of international Latin startups has hardly been a ripple. David Knibb explains why. We called them 'The New Breed' - those Latin American airlines which emerged on the heels of deregulation to challenge the newly privatised flag carriers. Led ...
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Germans see Lite ahead
Lufthansa looks set to follow the example of British Airways with Go, and launch a low cost subsidiary this year. The German carrier's executive board is currently discussing a feasibility study for a new airline to operate primarily on domestic routes. The carrier would use between six and 14 ...
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Brave faces
The Asian slowdown is giving suppliers a chance to take stock of their many new ideas. Meanwhile, the regional jet phenomenon continues to grow. Karen Walker reports. For the commercial airliner manufacturers, observes one industry analyst, getting through the recent Asian Aerospace show was all about 'brave faces and nervous ...
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North exposure
North Korea opened its air space in early March for the first time in 45 years. International carriers, led by Cathay Pacific, held a week of trial flights as a prelude to regular overflights starting 23 April. The new North Korea route shaves 20 to 40 minutes off flight times ...
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Is life left in Pan Am?
An eleventh hour bid to rescue Pan American Airways was being shaped at presstime, but the chances of success seemed remote. The airline looked set to become just another US startup destined for the history books. In a flurry of last minute activity in a Miami bankruptcy court, two ...
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Peru stalls on freedoms
Peru's transport minister Antonio Paucar Carbajal has released some of LanChile's new fifth freedoms to the US but the key Lima-Miami route is still a hostage in the scramble for Peru-US market share. Since November, when Peru and Chile revised their bilateral to grant each other more third, fourth, ...
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UK low costs counter Go
While Ryanair signals it will not concede any ground to British Airways' planned low-cost operation, Go, at London/Stansted, EasyJet is firing the first shots in a legal battle to prevent BA from cross-subsidising Go. With Go yet to reveal details of its routes, in late February Ryanair announced plans ...
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Asians sell up to survive
Malaysia Airlines and Asiana have both effectively abandoned any fleet strategy, and are putting their entire fleets up for sale in bids to overcome the Asian economic slump. Meanwhile Malaysia's regional airlines have hit severe problems while, ironically, a new Fiji-based startup still aims to brave the economic storm. ...
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What's on in telecoms
The common standards provided by the Internet are posing considerable challenges for Sita and massive opportunities for the airlines to cut costs and boost efficiency. Jackie Gallacher talks to Sita's director general, John Watson. Just utter the words 'Internet Protocol' or IP and you have the main challenge facing Sita ...
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Second Asia tier tumbles
Doomsday gloom as heavy as last summer's smoke hangs over southeast Asia's second tier airlines. Rising currency costs and plunging traffic are hammering carriers in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. 'We will not be able to make it until April,' warns Benny Rungkat, secretary general of the ...
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Southwest to rule roost
Southwest Airlines denies that expansion plans at Baltimore-Washington are in response to US Airways' new low-cost airline. But Southwest is certainly making it difficult for a competitor to get a toe-in. Southwest currently has six gates at Baltimore airport, and Maryland authorities have granted tentative authority to lease ten ...
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FAA scrambles to defuse timebomb
Tick, tick, tick. The millennium bomb is counting down, potentially to wreak havoc just as champagne corks and fireworks explode to welcome in the new century. Like most bombs, until the fuse is lit no-one is quite sure whether this will be a dud or a disaster, but there ...
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US six get big in Japan
Six US airlines and 13 cities will receive a total of 106 new weekly flights to Japan under a tentative agreement inked by the US and Japanese governments, following the signing of the new civil aviation bilateral in February. US carriers gaining new rights are American Airlines, Continental Airlines, ...
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Venezuela starts to stir
Venezuela's efforts to reclaim more international air traffic are not coming easily as local airlines fight over a plan to revive bankrupt Viasa. In February, Brazil's Vasp and local company Venezolana de Comercializacion unveiled a proposal to revive bankrupt flag carrier Viasa, with Vasp to hold a 49 per ...
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Balkan back for re-sale
Bulgaria has re-opened efforts to privatise its ailing flag carrier Balkan, advertising for international consultants to get the process under way. The airline was first put up for privatisation five years ago amid grand plans for a new Western-built fleet and an overhaul of the route network, but the project ...
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Europe suffers from safety gap
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM A dramatic difference in safety levels between European states which are members of the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) group and those which are not has been revealed in a new Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) report. Studying approach and landing accidents, the most common of all accident categories ...