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Bombardier
Gaston Herbert has been named president of the Bombardier Aerospace Group's de Havilland Company. Herbert has been executive vice-president of the company since last November and succeeds Ken Laver, who has left to pursue other interests. Source: Flight International
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Picking up the pieces
The impact of a major accident on an airline's traffic and revenues is often short lived but limiting the damage to the carrier's public image is a delicate exercise. Sara Guild examines the lessons learned by a selection of carriers. There is a true tale in aviation's not so ...
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Financial results
Y = Year. H = Half year. Q = Quarter. M = Months. Currencies converted into US dollars a average exchange rates during reporting period. Per cent changes in local currencies. Net profit at the UK airports operator rose 13 per cent. Passenger numbers rose 7.4 per cent ...
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The unions' man
United Airlines' chairman and CEO Gerald Greenwald has some novel ideas on how to make employees work together, run an airline more efficiently and establish strong ties with worker groups. Could he be the new blood airlines have needed at the top for years? Mead Jennings reports.In Gerald Greenwald's office ...
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Japan's economy set for expansion
The initial reaction of the financial markets and analysts to major natural disasters, particularly when they occur in developed societies, is nearly always wrong. This was true of the Los Angeles earthquake in January 1994, and even more so of the recent disaster in Kobe. The immediate impact on the ...
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Airline news
Air Canada will commence its first Middle Eastern service with a twice weekly flight from Toronto to Tel Aviv from 20 June. Northwest is to launch a Detroit-London/Gatwick service at the beginning of March. The carrier has purchased the route from Delta, in a deal awaiting US government ...
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Strong yen aids surge in JLL deals
The Japanese leveraged lease looks certain to stabilise into a more mature product, helped by cautious equity investors. Report by Tom Ballantyne. When aircraft deliveries finally begin to pick up speed over the coming years the Japanese leveraged lease should have evolved into a stable, more mature product. ...
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Rough and tough on top
Two of Asia's more prominent airline chiefs have discovered just how tough it is at the top. Garuda Indonesia's president Wage Mulyono and outspoken Philippine Airlines chairman Carlos Dominguez have both been ousted in the wake of boardroom infighting, disagreement over future directions and poor financial performances by their airlines. ...
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HK's woe of two Chinas
The transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese control continues to overshadow the UK colony's role in regional aviation. Despite November's Sino-British accord over funding for Chek Lap Kok, talks are dragging on over the language of debt guarantee agreements, while Hong Kong's future as a Taiwan-China hub appears tenuous as ...
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Now for the real Macau?
Nine months ahead of startup, fledgling international carrier Air Macau has run headlong into management problems, compensation claims and allegations of shady dealings which at presstime were being investigated by the Portuguese enclave's anti-corruption agency. The proposed carrier faces a barrage of legal action from expatriate managers whose ...
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Japan-China link
China and Japan have signed a new bilateral which allows for a 20 per cent increase in passenger services over current levels and a tripling of cargo capacity. The agreement gives three new carriers access to the market: China Southern, Japan Air System, and Nippon Cargo Airlines. Source: ...
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African risk leased in DC
USAfrica's demise eight months after it started serving Johannesburg from Washington DC exemplifies the extreme risks in starting an international airline in the US. One lesson: American Airlines drives a hard aircraft leasing deal. USAfrica began service in June with two MD-11 aircraft on sublease from American, hoping ...
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USAir hit by cabin fever
USAir has started a campaign that will result in a downsized fleet and employee roster. This is even with a $2.5 billion concessionary package that has been tentatively worked out with three of its four contract employee groups, an agreement that, sources say, if finalised could still leave the airline ...
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Blanc plays waiting game
Christian Blanc is playing cat and mouse with more than just aircraft manufacturers. Following the French presidential elections in May some outsiders expect forced redundancies to take place. While Air France sticks to the line that it must follow the plan agreed with the unions last year, financiers ...
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Swiss moves on twin entry
Swissair appears to want to have its cake and eat it, all at once: US open skies followed by access to the European aviation market, either directly or through a stake in Belgium flag carrier Sabena. But the contrast could not be greater. While the Swiss carrier is ...
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Indonesia prepares to sell off IPTN stake
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE INDONESIAN Government hopes to sell up to 20% of state-owned aircraft manufacturer Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) to foreign aerospace-investors after the year 2000. According to Dr Bacharuddin Habibie, company president and Indonesia's technology and research minister, 10-20% of IPTN will offered ...
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Shadin plans to certificate and produce 1940s German trainer
A TWO-SEAT light aircraft designed in Germany in 1942 and produced in Egypt since 1950 is to be certificated and produced in the USA for the training and recreation markets. Shadin Aircraft plans to build the Bucker Bestman Bu.181D (produced by Heliopolis Aircraft Factory as the M.1 Gomhouria) ...
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Peregrine to press on with BD-10 despite accident
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA PEREGRINE FLIGHT International (PFI) is proceeding with plans to certificate the Bede BD-10 jet-powered light aircraft after determining the cause of the crash on 30 December 1994, in which the company's founder was killed. Investigators have concluded that the in-flight break-up of the aircraft ...
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All Nippon continues with cost-cutting measures
ALL NIPPON AIRLINES (ANA) has announced further cuts in expenditure and staffing, alongside a drive to boost revenues by 10% through increased aircraft utilisation. The latest cost-cutting drive, which will run over the next three years, comes as part of the second phase of the airline's extensive ...
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Old-age problem
Russia faces a cash crisis as it attempts to replace aging fleets and infrastructure. Alexander Velovich and Paul Duffy/MOSCOW ...