All Strategy articles – Page 1178
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AlliedSignal develops GPWS for GA aircraft
Guy Norris/WICHITA A LOW-COST TERRAIN-warning system for single-engine general-aviation (GA) aircraft is being developed by AlliedSignal and will be available from around April 1996. The development of the terrain-warning system (TWS) was prompted by the re-emergence of Cessna's light-single product line. "Cessna's going back into ...
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America West prepares for surge
AMERICA WEST Airlines plans substantial growth at its Phoenix and Las Vegas hubs over the next two years. The airline plans to increase capacity by 29% and departures by 17%, and to add at least eight cities to its route network. America West says that it plans to ...
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Greenwald blames bilaterals for strangling industry
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON UNITED AIRLINES (UAL) chairman Gerald Greenwald has launched one of the most scathing attacks yet on the system of bilateral air agreements, including among his main targets the slow progress being made on UK-US liberalisation. "What we have now is a kind of ...
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FSI/Embry co-operate on training centre
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University are to establish an airline flight-training centre at the university's Daytona Beach, Florida, campus, to be operational by the end on 1996. FSI has agreed to equip the centre, which is to be built by Embry-Riddle, with two Level D full-flight ...
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IACA
The International Air Carrier Association (IACA), of Zaventem, Belgium, has appointed Niki Lauda president. Lauda, founder and chairman of Austrian airline Lauda Air, takes over from Derek Davison, who becomes honorary life president of the Association. Marcel Pisters is confirmed as director-general designate. He will take over as director-general on ...
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New identity for Skyways
A NEW CORPORATE identity has been adopted by Swedish airline Skyways. Based at Linkoping, the airline has grown in the past two years to become the country's third-biggest airline, expecting to carry 420,000 passengers in 1995, giving it a 9% share of a still-declining domestic market. Its expansion ...
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New Turkish Star
A new Turkish airline, Star Hava Yollari, is being formed to provide regular and ad hoc cargo charters to destinations in Europe and the Middle East. Negotiations are under way for the acquisition of a Boeing 727-200F freighter for a start of services in October. The airline's main base will ...
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Team tactics
International joint ventures pave the way for an expansion of the maintenance market in China. Paul Lewis/BEIJING/GUANGZHOU/XIAMEN A WORLDWIDE OVERCAPACITY in aircraft maintenance and overhaul has left many companies struggling under the weight of intense competition and uneconomical work rates. This gloomy global picture, however, has not ...
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AOM French Airlines makes more Paris connections
AOM FRENCH AIRLINES is expanding its network with new domestic services and a long-haul route to Australia. From 28 October, a service to Montpellier from Paris Orly, will be added to be followed before the end of the year, by a route to Strasbourg. AOM already provides high-frequency services from ...
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Profits help Kenya Airways towards privatisation
KENYA AIRWAYS HAS taken another step towards its privatisation after producing better-than-expected profits for the latest financial year. The airline revealed a net profit of $17 million on sales of $173 million for its year to March 1995, easily beating earlier forecasts of $14 million. In 1993/4, the ...
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US anti-trust immunity sought
DELTA AIR LINES, Swissair, Austrian Airlines and Sabena have filed for US anti-trust immunity, allowing for closer co-operation between the carriers, once Belgium signs an "open-skies" air-services agreement with the USA. Northwest Airlines and KLM already have anti-trust immunity. Delta now has code-sharing/blocked-space agreements with the three European ...
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BMA asks for EC help in Swiss row
BRITISH MIDLAND (BMA) has asked the European Commission (EC) to protest to the Swiss Government over its refusal to allow Swiss passengers to purchase BMA's new low-fare tickets in Switzerland. Because Switzerland is not a member of the European Union (EU), the EC is virtually powerless to ...
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Associate membership
THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) is having trouble managing its relations with neighbors near and far. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the case of air services. Partly, this is because the European Commission (EC) does not have the authority to control member states' air-services agreements. Partly, also, the EU ...
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MAS chief barters orders for slots
MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) chairman Tajudin Ramli has threatened to stop any further purchases of Airbus Industrie aircraft unless France grants the carrier additional landing rights in Paris. The Malaysian flag carrier wants to increase its services between Kuala Lumpur and Paris from twice a week to twice daily. ...
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Swissair sacrifices jobs in bid for profit
SWISSAIR IS TO shed 1,600 jobs over the next 18 months in an effort to pull its flight operations back into profit. The Swiss carrier says it also plans to renegotiate pilot contracts. The airline hopes that the majority of the job losses, which represent around 10% ...
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New MEA chairman maps out route to efficiency
THE NEW CHAIRMAN of Middle East Airlines (MEA), Khaled Salaam, has lost no time in outlining the steps necessary to pull the airline out of its financial difficulties and modernise an aging 14-strong fleet. Salaam, as well as signaling his intention of initiating a cost-cutting programme to make ...
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Orient makes expansion plans
RELAUNCHED THAI domestic carrier Orient Express Air (OEA) plans to acquire additional wide body aircraft and extend its services to Asian and European destinations. According to a senior airline source, OEA is negotiating to purchase three ex-British Airways Lockheed L-1011 TriStars. The aircraft are intended for use on ...
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ANZ
Robert Nazarian has been appointed chief financial officer at Air New Zealand (ANZ). Nazarian, now chief financial officer for Lion Nathan Australia, will take up his new position at the beginning of October. Nazarian replaces Robert Elstone, who moves to a similar position with Australia's Pioneer International group of companies. ...
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Cathay moves its simulators Australia
CATHAY PACIFIC Airways is to relocate most of its flight- simulator capability from Hong Kong to an Australian site yet to be decided. The move follows an A$15 million ($11.2 million) concession from the Australian Government against tax which would have been due on the company's five simulators. The first ...
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BMA extends its Euro network as Paris competition intensifies
BRITISH MIDLAND IS TO expand its European network in October, continuing its strategy of joining battle on Europe's busiest routes. The UK's second-largest scheduled carrier will serve Zurich and Prague from London Heathrow from 29 October, and reveals that passenger traffic grew by 13% during the first half of the ...