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Growing up
The flag carriers of the scattered Pacific islands are maturing and learning how to cooperate both with one another and major airlines. However, geography and colonial legacies remain the biggest obstacles to their future development. David Knibb reports. Isolation makes the scattered Pacific islands different from all other developing countries. ...
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Hawaiian set to post profit
American Airlines has reprieved Hawaiian Airlines for the fourth time over $6.9 million in payments due on its leased DC10s, as the carrier continues its restructuring efforts after emerging from bankruptcy 14 months ago. The payments Hawaiian owes American represent lease and maintenance charges that accumulated late last ...
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Hong Kong runway
The Orient Airlines Association (OAA) has joined with the International Air Transport Association to press Hong Kong to begin work on a second runway at Chek Lap Kok Airport. The OAA warns that Hong Kong's new airport could be saturated when it opens in 1998. Source: Flight International
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The quest is on for market power
In coping with more airline consolidation, regulators could well be out of their depth.In a recent television interview, a reporter asked a simple question: 'Why would anybody want to buy an airline which has lost over $3 billion in the last five years?' Put like that, the interest being ...
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Moving targets
Singapore Airlines' chairman J Y Pillay calls it 'The genius of the organisation at work.' Productivity has become a mantra in an airline industry which is desperate to find ways of improving its long term financial performance. All airline managers are putting in a great deal of effort to improve ...
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747-X plans gather speed
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES MAJOR BOEING 747 operators have been called to Boeing's Seattle headquarters in mid-November for meetings on the proposed -500X and -600X stretched derivatives, as plans for the possible 1996 launch of the next-generation 747 gather pace. Those attending include British Airways, Cathay ...
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MD-95 launched with ValuJet order
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has launched its MD-95 on the back of a single 50-aircraft order from fast-growing low-cost operator ValuJet Airlines. The value of the order from the successful low-fare US carrier based in Atlanta, Georgia exceeds $1 ...
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Air Liberte makes a move for rival AOM
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE PRESIDENT of French airline Air Liberte, Lotfi Belhassine, has formed a consortium with the aim of acquiring rival private carrier AOM, "...if the price is right". Belhassine has for some time made no secret of his desire to purchase AOM, creating what he ...
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Air Jamaica
National carrier Air Jamaica has appointed Tony Cowles general manager for the UK and Europe. He was most recently general manager for the UK and Europe with Caribbean carrier BWIA International. Source: Flight International
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Embraer plans ambitious growth
Julian Moxon/BAVENO THE NEW PRESIDENT of Embraer, Maurice Botelho, says that the newly privatised Brazilian manufacturer should return to sales of $700 million within five years, helped by an expansion in the European market. "That's what we earned in the past, and there's no reason ...
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US carriers report robust third quarter
STRONG RESULTS from Continental, USAir and others have led what promises to be a record third-quarter performance from the US airline industry. Wall Street analysts, are projecting that industry operating profits, could climb to $2.3 billion for the quarter, once results are in from the other major carriers. ...
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Chinese start recruiting for Hong Kong start-up
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA NATIONAL Aviation (CNAC) is pressing ahead with plans to establish a Hong Kong-based international airline, at the same time as negotiating to purchase a 10% stake in Dragonair The new CNAC carrier, provisionally named China Hong Kong, has already begun to recruit ...
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Enough is enough for falling economy- class standards
Sir - I congratulate Mr Bamberg on his letter about British Airways' expenditure on first-class improvements (Flight International, 11-17 October, P49). I frequently fly London-Sydney (in economy and business class). BA and Qantas offer poor long-haul economy class and the seats are no better than a London Hyde Park deck ...
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International tactics
Taiwan's international carriers are engaged in a bitter battle for market share. Paul Lewis/TAIPEI COMPETITION IS heating up between Taiwan's two established international players, flag carrier China Airlines (CAL) and four-year-old Eva Airways. Ambitious fleet-expansion plans, the opening up of profitable trunk routes to Hong Kong and ...
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Mesaba
Carl Pohlad becomes chairman of Mesaba Holdings, parent of Northwest Airlink carrier Mesaba Airlines; Bryan Bedford is named president and chief executive; John Fredericksen is appointed vice-president for finance and general counsel; and William Dolan becomes secretary. Newly elected to the Mesaba Holdings board are Northwest Airlines managers Richard Hirst, ...
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Clarification on Eva structure
Sir - In response to the item on the management restructure at Eva Air (Flight International, 20-26 September, P75), I would like to point out that, following the departure of chairman Y F Chang, Shen-Chih Cheng, not Frank Hsu as you reported, has succeeded him. Mr Hsu, previously president, becomes ...
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EVA Air
Y F Chang, founder of Eva Air of Taiwan, has resigned as its chairman to concentrate on his role as chairman of the carrier's parent company, the Evergreen Group. He is succeeded by Shen-Chih Cheng, previously Eva vice-chairman. Frank Hsu moves from president to vice-chairman, and Richard Huang is promoted ...
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Air France
A major sales reorganisation has been announced by Air France in the UK. Gill Craig, formerly manager for leisure sales and distribution, will concentrate solely on automated distribution and pricing. Tristan Nielson joins her as distribution systems co-ordinator. Christiane Dryland will head the leisure sales team, with Claire Leroux and ...
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KLM cargo
KLM Cargo, based at Schiphol Airport, in The Netherlands, has promoted Sjaak Hofstra, previously regional director sales for Benelux, the UK and Ireland, to operations and marketing director, Cargo Service Centre Holdings. Monique Gerrits succeeds Hofstra in his former job. She was previously regional director sales covering Sweden, Norway, Finland, ...
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Deutsche BA negotiates to acquire more Saab 2000s
DEUTSCHE BA is negotiating to convert two of its five options for Saab 2000 turboprops into firm orders. The company expects to convert the other three options in 1996. The current talks on the exchange of two smaller Saab 340s for the Saab 2000s are expected to be ...