All Strategy articles – Page 1102
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Tough on TAM
Just kick them where it hurts most - this is standard parental advice given to daughters the world over to arrest ardent advances. Translate the formula into airline terms and the equivalent way to stall an airline's overzealous advances is to damage its safety record. Well, TAM (Transportes Aereos Regionais) ...
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easyJet's complaint
The European Commission has opened an enquiry into allegations by UK low-cost airline easyJet of anti-competitive practices by KLM. The action follows a complaint made by easyJet in October 1996 that KLM was lowering its fares artificially on the Amsterdam-London route in order to compete with easyJet's tariffs. ...
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Dash 8-400 favourite at SAS
Kevin O'Toole/Stockholm An official announcement on the selection of a new 70-seat turboprop for the SAS Commuter fleet is imminent, says the Scandinavian airline, with an order expected for as many as 20 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400s, to be used alongside the existing Saab 2000 50-seaters. ...
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Qantas steps up battle to cut costs and raise yields
Kevin O'Toole/LONDONPaul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas chairman Gary Pemberton, unveiling a modest increase in profits for 1996/7, has warned that the carrier will have to step up its drive to cut costs and improve yields if it is to have a chance of further improvements over the coming financial year. ...
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Reasons why outsider Mullin heads Delta
The decision of Delta Air Lines to pick a new chief executive from outside the USA's third-largest carrier was prompted by the need "-to take a fresh look at the way things are done", says Delta board member Gerald Grinstein (Flight International, 20-26 August). Leo Mullin was hired ...
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KLM pursues European plans
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM says that it will continue to press ahead with plans to increase its presence across Europe, having signed its latest partnership deal with Norway's Braathens SAFE- backed with a 30%equity stake. KLM, which took full control of Air UK earlier this year and ...
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Marketplace
++ Virgin has confirmed that it will add two new Airbus A340-300s in 1998 (Flight International, 13-19 August ) but that one of the aircraft will be acquired on a four-year operating lease from International Lease Finance (ILFC). The aircraft will be delivered in March 1998, and will be joined ...
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Air Malta
Eric Gerada has been appointed by Air Malta as group head, northern European development, taking over from Philip Pullicino, who has returned to Malta to become Air Malta's group head, commercial. Gerada will focus on developing Ireland and Scandinavia as well as the UKmarket. Source: Flight ...
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Ireland leases ATPs
Ireland Airways has re-activated plans to expand its domestic network, and expects to take delivery of the first of two British Aerospace ATPs on lease from Aero International (Regional) in late October. The airline plans to introduce them on a new Dublin-Sligo service in January 1998, with additional domestic routes ...
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Sirocco lines up buyers for R-R-powered Tu-204
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Sirocco Aerospace International, the subsidiary of Egypt's Kato Aromatic set up to market the Rolls-Royce RB.211-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120, has signed deals with two launch customers involving 15 aircraft. The agreements will be formally announced at the MAKS '97 air show being held in Moscow during 19-24 ...
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Taiwan's carriers close on widebody orders
Paul Lewis/TAIPEI Taiwan's two rival national carriers China Airlines (CAL) and EVA Airways are showing renewed interest in new ultra-long-haul aircraft, in response to the recent provisional launch of the Airbus Industrie A340-500/600 and a proposed open-skies agreement with the USA. Competition between Boeing and Airbus ...
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Star offers leading role to Cathay/SIA
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The recently established Star Alliance is set to further expand in Asia, with both Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines (SIA) now holding separate discussions to join the global partnership. According to industry sources, talks between Star and the two Asian airlines have been ...
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New chief for Delta
Delta Air Lines has gone outside of the airline industry in its search for a new leader, hiring Leo Mullin, currently vice chairman of Unicom and Commonwealth Edison, the Chicago-area power company, to replace Ronald Allen as president and chief executive of the USA's third-largest airline. Delta has ...
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Flying Colours
New UK leisure carrier Flying Colours Airlines has appointed Northern Airline Services (NAS) as its cargo general-sales agent (GSA), which is also GSA for Air New Zealand, Air Transat and Delta Air Lines. Traffic manager for the new Manchester-based airline, Mark McDougall, (second from right) shakes hands with NASUK general ...
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MVA
Brian Sheriff has joined UK-based transport planning consultant MVA as group director of finance and administration. A former consultant with British Aerospace, his previous projects include Cathay Pacific and Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok. He will boost MVA's plans to increase its international portfolio. Source: Flight International
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Delta
Delta Air Lines, of Atlanta, Georgia, has appointed Robert Keysselitz regional manager for sales development and performance - Europe, based at its Atlantic Region headquarters in London, UK. With Delta since 1991, he is now sales manager for southern Germany. Source: Flight International
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Station 12 eyes aero market
Ian Sheppard/GRONINGEN NETHERLANDS Land-Earth Station (LES) operator Station 12, which holds 15% of the Inmarsat mobile-telecommunications market, has indicated that it may be interested in providing a satellite-communications service for airborne receivers. Paul Frank, Station 12 head of business development, says that the company is considering ...
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Rolls-Royce hastens Trent 8104 for 777-200X
Rolls-Royce has signed a new agreement with Boeing to advance the development of its planned Trent 8104 growth engine by a further four months, to meet a September 2000 delivery date for the first 777-200X. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) covers the development of a Trent 800 derivative ...
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Help me, buddy
If anybody had any illusions that the airline industry could relax about its safety record, events of the last few days should have dispelled them. In the space of ten days, at least three large airliners and one small one were destroyed in the course of regular services ...