Wednesday, September 30, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: World Low Cost Airline Congress 09: Stelios on Ryanair and life

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EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou wished his arch rival Michael O'Leary "the best of luck" as part of a candid keynote speech which compared easyJet with Ryanair. Speaking at the World Low Cost Airlines Congress in Barcelona, Stelios claimed that the...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Jim Young exits Frontier

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Frontier Airlines executive Jim Young departs

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: O'Leary's about turn

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Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says he wants to create a long-haul low-fares airline

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Stand up guys: Akron Airport and AirTran, Allies

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The Midwest/AirTran takeover battle is getting more and more spirited, and that's a polite way of saying its getting dirty. The other day, AirTran promised to build up its Milwaukee operation if it wins its $345 million takeover for Midwest;...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Low-cost connections

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One day, perhaps sometime soon, travellers wishing to transfer seamlessly from one low-cost carrier to another may be able to do so. The key word here is seamlessly. At present, do-it-yourself travellers who want to connect from say Canada's Zoom...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Isle of Man government vents its spleen over Euromanx collapse

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The Isle of Man government has spelled out is hurt over the failure of local carrier Euromanx

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: US shock: carriers make money

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What's happening in the USA? Price rises are finally sticking as travel in America surges this summer. Airline Business Americas editor David Field discusses the situation with popular US radio station National Public Radio's Business News anchor Renee Montagne. UAL...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Stelios still wants EasyJet to slow down aircraft deliveries

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EasyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has served up a reminder of the boardroom split at the UK budget carrier

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Goyal and Mallya put aside their differences to bless an India marriage

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Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines of India are sealing a wide-ranging alliance

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: World Low Cost Airlines Congress 09: Toilet idea goes down the pan

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Ancillary revenues has been one of the hot topics at the congress this year, with much discussion given to the respective opportunities through both unbundling and creating new streams

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: AMR at the top: American Airlines Profit Stunner

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The world's largest airline posted the US industry's biggest financial turnaround yet. American Airlines' corporate parent AMR Corp. said it earned a fourth-quarter profit and an annual net, in sharp and welcome contrast to losses in the 2005 quarter and...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Sergio Garcia supports business aviation at EBACE

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Golfer Sergio Garcia supports business aviation

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Premium demand - the belt tightens

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Here are some interesting figures on the decline of international business travel just released by the UK CAA

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: India's regional future

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India's Civil Aviation Ministry has aggressive plans for expansion

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: At Southwest, no tombstone for the GDS

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Southwest Airlines may have written the book on avoiding the GDSs, but it's leading the low-cost charge back to the systems.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Yotel: small but perfectly formed?

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iPod Nanos, micro miniskirts, the relaunch of the Mini. It would seem everything's going small. And now airport hotels have their very own small but perfectly formed offering in the shape of Yotel - a no-frills but high-design hotel. The...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: A fond farewell to Rod

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It was a testament to the genuine popularity and indeed affection that Rod Eddington has won among the British air transport industry that his final public engagement - an address to the UK's Aviation Club on 22 September - had...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: World Low Cost Airline Congress 09: Spring Airlines - still standing

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Spring were in Barcelona for the Congress, insist the half-standing idea is feasible and are calling for the low-cost carrier industry to come together to look further into its development

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: World Low Cost Airline Congress 09: Stelios puts case for modest growth

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EasyJet founder and shareholder Stelios Haji-Ioannau outlined his belief more modest growth during current conditions offers a better return for shareholders than chasing market share,

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: World Low Cost Airline Congress 09: Connectivity key says AirAsia X CEO

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AirAsia X chief executive Azran Osman Rani was in good form at the World Low Cost Airlines Congress in Barcelona. He not only vigorously defended the long-haul low-cost business model, but suggested short-haul carriers that did not address connectivity with long-haul passenger did so at their peril.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: For Eos, not so terrible twos

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Eos marks its second year as a luxury carrier with two new routes and two new airports.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Jackie Thompson: Life returns to Beirut airport

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Carriers are gradually emerging from the bunkers in the Lebanese capital Beirut after the introduction of a ceasefire that halted hostilities between neighbouring Israel and Lebanese resistance fighters Hezbollah and the lifting of a military blockade.Home carrier Middle East Airlines...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: "I'm on the plane"

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Those who see flying as the last oasis of peace in a world full of people shouting into their mobile phones, look away now. The day is finally dawning that passengers can legally use their mobile phones in flight. From...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: The train finally arrives at London City Airport

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A mere 18 years after it opened, London's fourth airport, and the only one that is actually really close to the city itself, is poised to be served by a rail link. From 15 December, the over ground Docklands Light...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Seat-back squabbles: airlines wage their ATC fight in flight

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The big airlines are using the power of in-flight captivity to push their message about FAA reforms- and their opponents are flighting back.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: SilverJet loves BA

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SilverJet has copied a classic British Airways ad for its latest promotion

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Monday, September 28, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Luxury rush

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November First was to have been a big day for the upwardly mobile outward bound. Two new carriers with all-luxury cabins, Eos and MAXjet, each planned to start their premium New York (JFK) -London Stansted services that day. Both emphasise...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Branson ends up with custard on his face

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Virgin passenger complains to Branson about airline food

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Are O'Leary's long-haul plans a publicity stunt?

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Ryanair deputy chief executive Michael Cawley has questioned whether his airline will ever launch a low-cost transatlantic operation.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: JAL gets an Eco Jet

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Japan Airlines is promoting its new Eco Jet

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: BA unveils new business class

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British Airways chose the centre of one of its main customer bases - London's Docklands close to the financial heartland of the UK - as the venue to launch its new Club World business class.BA is following hard on the...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Jinius or folly? Korean Air's new carrier

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Korean Air has revealed the branding for its new carrier Jin Air

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: An African milestone for China Southern

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China Southern Airlines has become the first Chinese carrier to operate a scheduled service to Africa. China Southern last week launched a thrice-weekly service from its Guangzhou hub to Lagos in Nigeria via Dubai. Lagos should be the first of several...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Airlines and airports slug it out

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Expect fireworks in Brussels on 6 April when the European Commission (EC) holds a public meeting to discuss airport pricing. Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot has called the meeting following a discussion with Giovanni Bisignani in mid-February at which the IATA...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Lessors race back with mega-orders

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Lessors at this week's Dubai Airshow have been digging deep into their pockets once again with millions of dollars of aircraft orders. AerCap, formerly known as Debis AirFinance, has signed a letter of intent for 70 Airbus A320s, ILFC has...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Icelanders make a raid on American Airlines

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Iceland's FL Group has built up a large stake in American AirlinesF

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: Out and about in Barcelona

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As the World Low Cost Airlines Congress kicks off in Barcelona, Flight journalist Chris Hall shares his tips on what to do and see in this vibrant Spanish city...  Barcelona is one of those cities that reveal more and more of themselves on...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: Out and about in Barcelona

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As the World Low Cost Airlines Congress kicks off in Barcelona, Flight journalist Chris Hall shares his tips on what to do and see in this vibrant Spanish city...  Barcelona is one of those cities that reveal more and more of themselves on...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Stuart Clarke: World Low Cost Airlines Congress 09: First to arrive at the party!

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This week, the great and good in low cost airlines are coming to Barcelona for the snappily titled World Low Cost Airlines Congress 2009, which to save my fingers I'll call WLCAC for short. As a team that prides itself...

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Cabin interiors and connectivity world meets in Hamburg

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Probably heading the news during the show was communications specialist T-Mobile and VT Miltope, ViaSat and TriaGnoSys formally teaming to offer a Ku-band satellite broadband and GSM telephony service for air transport.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: San Diego, there they go

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Left Field has the latest from Network2008

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: No Love losses

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Who says George Bush can't change things? Just hours after President Bush signed a bill phasing out Dallas Love Field restrictions under the 1979 Wright Amendment, Southwest set a major expansion there. The discounter plans to fly to 25 previously...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: It's easy being green. Just not cheap. Delta Air Lines joins the carbon offset set

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Delta Air Lines joins the voluntary 'carbon offset' set with a plan to let flyers pay extra to plant a tree where it will do the most environmental good.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: News! News! News? Open Skies Reveal No Details

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Reports scream breakthrough on US-EU Open Skies, but sorely lacking details suggest it's not a done deal

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Kissing world record success - Pictures

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SkyEurope sets the world record for the number of airborne kisses

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: That other luxury airline

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Eos, the all first-class super luxury challenger in the New York/London market, may be winning headlines with its 18 October launch, but its rival, MAXjet Airways, is sticking to its schedule to begin service 1 November on that route. MAXjet,...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Behind closed doors: The bmi and Lufthansa wrangle

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The Sunday Times looks into Lufthansa's efforts to buy bmi for the "right" price

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Farnborough Blog 5: Freighter orders rack up

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Freighter orders were to the fore at this year's Farnborough, with two start-ups and one established carrier booking major orders for Boeing aircraft. Kuwaiti start-up operator LoadAir Cargo signed an order for two Boeing 747-400 Extended Range Freighters at the...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Who's sorrier now?

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United's pilots "apologise' for the airline's continuing delays.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: Photos: Barack Obama zips through Europe with North American Airlines 757

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US Presidential candidate Barack Obama has been making the headlines here in Europe this week, with a speech yesterday in Berlin which drew a crowd of more than 200,000.Obama, which was in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel and Jordan earlier this week, continues his presidential-like whirlwind...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Branson talks up US plans in Time magazine

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Richard Branson interviewed by Time magazine

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: AFRAA chief Folly-Kossi to step down

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Long-standing African Airlines Association (AFRAA) secretary general Christian Folly-Kossi is to step down when his current term comes to an end in November. Folly-Kossi has run AFRAA since 2000 but, after serving two consecutive five-year terms, he is planning...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: BAA and the great airports break-up

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Inside sources suggest a major bank has withdrawn its support to help refinance UK airports group BAA

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Jackie Thompson: Jet2 enters in-flight entertainment fray

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UK-based Jet2's claim that its roll out of Mezzo Movies' hand-held in-flight entertainment system is "a first for the low-cost industry" will be met with some surprise by fellow carriers that have been providing a similar service for some time.Airlines...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: The Star membership challenge: who has left the alliance since this A320 was painted?

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There are four airline logso painted on this bmi A320 that are no longer members of the Star Alliance

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Saturday, September 26, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Stand up and take a bow, or perhaps just sit down

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They call it the Newspaper of Record, or the Grey Lady, but they read it. The New York Times is in fact one of the most trusted papers in the world. So people paid attention when it ran a front-page...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Maxjet shows Rogliano the door

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Gary Rogliano, who led all-business class Maxjet into the high-end transatlantic luxury airline wars, left the year-old Washington Dulles-based carrier after an apparent dust up with his board of directors. The airline said he was "leaving to pursue other opportunities",...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: US pilots: 'Don't blame us. We gave at the office.'

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The head of the largest US pilots union says he's more worried about being blamed for tarmac delays than for trying to make up lost wages.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: O'Leary's press conference masterclass

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Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary gives a masterful press conference performance

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Losing money in Saudi Arabia

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Saudi carrier Sama has been forced by high losses to pull off some domestic routes

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Outrageous Acts of the Deity

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Pilots blame management for blaming weather cancellations on the weather. But recent history suggests they may have a point.


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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Alitalia: is the end nigh?

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In Europe the distraction of Ryanair's hostile bid for Aer Lingus has overshadowed the leaking of an important report into the perils faced by Italian flag carrier Alitalia. The most remarkable thing is that the report is authored by the...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Viagra the answer to jetlag?

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Viagra could be used to treat jetlag

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: CSA tells Air France to heed its own advice

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Yesterday Air France-KLM revealed it is has pulled out of the privatisation of CSA Czech Airlines because the economic climate on has "significantly impacted" the airline business. The SkyTeam giant offers some advice to its Czech partner: "Under such circumstances,...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Greg you owe us $40 not to fly with us

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The Onion shows us the way forward for airline ancillary revenues

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Warning: Nostalgia ahead

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Will they miss the DC9 now that Northwest is getting serious about retiring them?

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Any excuse to pay Norway a visit

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Norwegian grows fast with first of 50 new Boeing 737-800s

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Asian airports battle for low-cost business

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Low-cost terminals are becoming a reality in Asia with the opening of two separate facilities within the space of three days. Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) last week opened its low-cost carrier terminal, just beating rival Singapore Changi's Budget...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Grand Prix action with Gulf Air in Bahrain

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Gulf Air maximises its exposure as the title sponsor of the Bahrain Grand Prix

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Friday, September 25, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: Environment: The need for a unified front

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Earlier this week, I caught up with Finnair vice-president for sustainable development Kati Ihamaki in London (in the midst of a hotel evacuation, but that's another story!). Coincidentally, our meeting happened just as BA made a dramatic pledge on behalf...

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: And now it's three

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Facing wage and work-rule concessions demanded by the bosses at bankrupt Northwest Airlines, the airline's flight attendants face another dilemma. The nation's major union for the trade, the Association of Flight Attendants, has been trying to bump the local and...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Whose hub? Skirmishes show defenses still strong

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Northwest seeks Heartland cover in hub-raiding pullback

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Bread, milk and a flight to Europe

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UK consumers will now be able to buy flights when they do their weekly shop. From September, supermarket Lidl will use its 390 UK supermarkets to sell vouchers for Air Berlin flights. In a UK first, the German low-cost carrier...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Please don't make me use Heathrow Terminal 4 again

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Flying out of London Heathrow Terminal 4 yesterday, my first visit to this outlying home for British Airways and assorted others, brought it home how much the carriers that are left in this terminal and terminals 1,2 and 3 will...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Hogan wins CEO of the year award

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Etihad CEO wins award

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Willie calls in the New Year

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British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh wishes the media a Happy New Year

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Madrid's new Terminal 4: a walking paradise

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Madrid's new Terminal 4 is not an altogether pleasant experience

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Family plan

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Out in Las Vegas, Barry Michaels has an ambitous airline plan- and a chequered past.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: The off button: why Continental's Jeff Smisek doesn't like tape recorders

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Jeff Smisek, Continental's President, speaks candidly to the Airline Distribution conference about the carrier, its plans, and the competition.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Qantas boosts sorry Airbus

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A true salesman always tries to make something positive come out of adversity. The Airbus team that has managed to not only ensure that one of its launch A380 customers - Australia's Qantas Airways - is staying with the programme,...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Business class travel: it's never been so cheap

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Airlines are slashing business class fares to keep their premium cabins full

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Stelios bags a knighthood

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Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the self-styled "serial entreprenuer", better known in this industry as the founder of UK low-cost carrier easyJet, has an even broader smile than ever following the announcement in the Queen's birthday honours list that he is to receive...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Watch this space - on Delta's blog

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Delta's Under the Wing gets lively with some video content on in-flight etiquette.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: A great couple: Branson invests in Fernandes' AirAsia X

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Richard Branson's Virgin Group has acquired a 20% stake in Tony Fernandes' new long-haul low-cost carrier AirAsia X.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: WIN ? copies of Ryanair book

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Win copies of book on Ryanair

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: But do Obama, Hillary and the others care? Really care?

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Travel goups, pilots try to get the ear of the presidential candidates as a key primary vote is tallied.


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[Airline Business] New Entry from Jackie Thompson: Etihad unveils new chief executive

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The worst-kept secret in international aviation was made public today when Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways formally announced that James Hogan, late of Gulf Air, has been appointed chief executive.Hogan spent four years at Gulf Air, with a remit to redefine...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Bad moon rising: the aviation recession looms

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Avitas expert sees the aviation recession looming on the horizon

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Reinvention by necessity

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It may not have been exactly unexpected but the news that Mesaba Airlines, a Northwest Airlink feeder, had gone into Chapter 11 bankruptcy certainly tells a sorry tale. It had been almost entirely dependent on Northwest for its revenue, and...

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Stiff fight at O'Hare

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Opponents of Chicago O'Hare Airport expansion (and they are quite a body) aren't taking their latest defeat lying down. They have vowed a stiff fight against a court ruling that killed their latest bid to block a growth plan for...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Iron Maiden rock on with world's first Boeing 757 combi

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UK charter carrier Astraeus has created a Boeing 757 Combi for the world tour of rock group Iron Maiden

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Booking and cooking

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Delta called in European journalists to talk up its planned transatlantic expansion, but the scribes and scribblers focused more on short-term matters such as the increasingly public pilot rhetoric threatening a strike if the Number Three carrier and the Air...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Are you satisfied with your in-flight companion?

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A new company is offering a way of seating travellers with something in common together on board flights

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: So long, Long Beach

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Out in Southern California, where a historical site is anything older than the latest drive-through, they were getting nostalgic the other day. But this passage is noteworthy: production of commercial airliners in Long Beach, birthplace of the DC-3, has ended...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Step forward the next Emirates CEO

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Could Ghaith Al Ghaith become the next chief executive of Emirates?

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Airlines and their A380 configurations

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Air France has today debuted its first A380, which is to be deployed on the daily Paris Charles de Gaulle-New York JFK route in November, detailing amoung other things the aircraft will be outfitted in a 538-seat configuration

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Cost savings hammer environment in reasons for cutting business travel: Survey

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the bottom line findings from the new Barclaycard Commerical Business Travel Survey suggest the dire economic climate is far outweighing environmental concerns as a factor in cutting down business travel

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Washington Wisdom (A Short Story)

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Who's always right? Well, it used to be the customer but in Washington it's the Congress. Take for instance the case of pensions. Some airlines have sought changes in the government's rules on retirement schemes for years, largely because airlines...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: Virgin Adventures: On final approach for V Australia's launch

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The jet lag is beginning to wear off as Stefan the pilot and I settle down in Sydney as part of Virgin's 'round the world in eight days' tour. The first leg of our adventure took us from London...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: United copies American on baggage charge

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United to charge for checked baggage

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Midway to a 160th anniversary

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Chicago's Midway Airport, scene of an air crash linked to the Watergate Scandal, turns eighty.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Hope, less 'Open Skies Lite Plus'

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  The latest round of EU/US aviation talks may have opened with publicly flouted high hopes but for some insiders the hope is tempered. Just hours before he got on a plane from Washington to Brussels to head up the...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Nigeria's Bellview issues massive aircraft RFP

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Bellview Airlines of Nigeria says it is ready to order millions of dollars of new aircraft

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: BA's unlikely business guru: Darth Vader

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He's not your average role model, but that hasn't deterred British Airways from flagging up Darth Vader's leadership qualities. Darth is the first to be profiled in a new series of "unlikely business gurus" which is being run by British...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Ageing pilots, clever administrators

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You gotta' admire Marion Blakey, the FAA chief in the U.S. of A. She's always been what the call a 'steel magnolia', all Southern charm beneath which lies a mind like a steel trap and a firm personality that takes...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Last-minute exit: Aloha emerges

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The deal was clinched in a mens room corridor in a public building downtown, but he's still proud of it. Dave Banmiller, peripatetic fixer-upper of ailing airlines, tells Airline Business that the delayed emergence of Aloha Airlines from its bankruptcy...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Swiss cheese for brains, or, holes in whose heads?

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The old saying is that you'd have to have at least one hole in the head to invest in airlines, but as smart US institutions are snapping up airline securities, someone has a lot of holes or a whole better...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Another story about dressing up

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Lufthansa is celebrating the Oktoberfest beer festival by dressing up cabin crew in traditional Bavarian costumes

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Colors, colours, liveries and schemes

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New airline liveries and 'logo-jets' speak volumes.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: False alarm on long-haul low-cost, says O'Leary

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Keep waiting for long-haul low-cost carrier says Ryanair's Michael O'Leary

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Is O'Leary poised to unveil long-haul low-cost plan?

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Is Michael O'Leary going to announce his plans for a long-haul low-cost airline?

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: Does Lion really need 178 737-900ERs?

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Lion Air has increased its 737-900ER order to a 178 aircraft. Does it really need that many aircraft?

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Ridgway sees a future between Virgin and bmi: WAF 2008

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Is a Virgin Atlantic and bmi tie-up on the cards following Lufthansa's acquistion of a majority stake in bmi

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Jackie Thompson: Another baggage brainwave

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If the offer by Ryanair and Flybe to charge you for the privilege of putting your baggage in the hold of their aircraft leaves you underwhelmed, maybe First Luggage can get your pulse racing.This company, set up in 2004, enables...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Airline Business and the great test tube caper

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Airline Business is experimenting with fast-reacting news stories and video interviews

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Stefan's world tour takes in Cancun

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Airline Business Daily scoops TACA and Copa Star Alliance story

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