Saturday, October 31, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: (Air)Born to be wild: Southwest, breaking its own rules

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Talk about your contrarians. Southwest, the airline that wrote the book on low-cost orthodoxy, is again breaking its own rules again. The Gospel according to Herb holds that if you want to keep costs down and fares low, you fly...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Is silence golden after all?

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As the media reflect on the difficulties of consolidation, a few observers see a work in progress.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: O'Leary on air passenger duty and the end of checked-in bags

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Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary was in London to talk to the media today, ostensibly to lay into the UK Government for its £10 air passenger duty and the associated impact on tourism - but as ever covering a range of topics.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: When Frankfurt made tracks to France

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A Ryanair advert that places Frankfurt Hahn airport squarely in the middle of France

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Silver, Stones: high-flying premium package pitch

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Silverjet offers a seat at a Rolling Stones concert as well as a sleeper seat across the Atlantic as New York-London superpremium dogfights intensify.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: Clickair innovates with new fare lock function

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Just when it seemed like all obvious ancillary revenue streams were nearing exhaustion, Spanish budget carrier Clickair has come up with a new cash-generating innovation. It has introduced a new Internet booking feature, giving passengers the option of paying a ?2 ($2.70) fee to lock...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Qatar's Al Baker on top form

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There is nothing better the Qatar Airways chief Akbar Al Baker likes to do, it seems, is spar with the press.He was positively beaming as he took his seat at the airline's annual press conference at World Travel Market in...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: No crumbling cookie: Midwest gets crusty fending off AirTran

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Midwest Airlines 'Save the Cookie' campaign enlists on-line characters including Chip its trademark chocolate chip, who promptly draws interest from Sesame Street's Cookie Monster. But AirTran Airways still wants to buy Midwest.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Who pays for extra security?

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The frustration over the past few days at the delays and problems encountered at London Heathrow in particular as a result of the terror scare of 10th August have boiled over. British Airways chief Willie Walsh has expressed his anger...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: L'Avion says au revoir

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British Airways' acquisition of L'Avion means there are no more independent all-premium carriers operating across the Atlantic.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Class act: Japan Airlines takes premium economy plunge

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Japan Airlines has joined the slowly swelling ranks of carriers offering a premium economy class. From the autumn, the new seats will be available on its international services. The seats will be in a 2-4-2 configuration with a 38in pitch,...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Jackie Thompson: Virgin knows how to party

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The most surreal moment of the recent Virgin Atlantic Airways inaugural trip to Dubai was undoubtedly when we arrived by boat at a man-made sandbank and were greeted by Richard Branson, dressed in 60s-style union flag-patterned suit standing beside a...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: BA rubs out Branson from Casino Royale

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BA edits Branson and Virgin Atlantic from in-flight showings of Casino Royale

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Told ya so

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When they struck Northwest on 20 August, the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association said the airline was going to go into bankruptcy anyway and would just blame the union. Amost two weeks into the AMFA strike, the airline said it may...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: More shows, thinner seats are Delta's transcon weapon

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Delta responds to cross-country challenges with more - and less - in coach.


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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: JAL's executive upheavals

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The axe is falling fast at Japan Airlines (JAL) as the carrier confirmed last week's stories (covered by our blog of 20 February) of deep rifts among its senior managers by announcing that chief executive Toshiyuki Shinmachi is resigning. After...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Etihad gets in the mood

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No your eyes are not deceiving you - this is the interior of an aircraft, not a fancy New York, Dubai (sorry Abu Dhabi restaurant) or Paris restaurant. The mood lighting is not created by candlelight - at least I...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Gol leaves Varig's legacy behind

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Gol is buying Varig but hopes it will leave its legacy woes behind

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Thanks goodness her name wasn?t Cassiopeia

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Project Lauren has BA's Willie Walsh excited. So, Who is Lauren?

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Jackie Thompson: Renaissance for Boeing's 747 and 767

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The upbeat prediction of Boeing chief salesman Scott Carson at the Paris Air Show in mid-June of a healthy number of orders for its 747 and 767 lines is coming to pass. The announcement of an order from UPS for...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: Snapshots of the Star ceremony

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Here are a couple of shots from the official ceremony marking Continental's entry into the Star Alliance. Continental President Jeff Smisek likened the carrier's entry into Star to a first class upgrade while United's CEO Glenn Tilton stressed Star is...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Independence declares dim 50-seat future

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If any confirmation of the limited outlook for 50-seat regional jets were needed, long-troubled Independence Air has given it with its long-awaited bankruptcy reorganisation filing on Monday. Its parent FlyI gave in to pressures months after most airline observers gave...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: North by Northwest

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It would have seemed a hollow boast when an airline seemed proud about getting "most" of its flights off the runway, much less on time. But Northwest Airlines is making the boast and people are listening as the airline...

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: AirAsia's impressive training set-up

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AirAsia has established a large training academy at its base at Kuala Lumpur International Airport

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Mergers: A clock is ticking

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Talk of US airline mergers centres on a likely 2009 change in the White House to a less friendly adminisration.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Stupid investment - O'Leary on Aer Lingus stake

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"It was a stupid investment." A typically frank assessment then from Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary on the airline's acquisition of a 29% stake in Irish rival Aer Lingus, reported in the Irish Independent following a press conference in Dublin yesterday.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: SIA talks up A380 and environment

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Singapore Airlines (SIA) has becoming one of the first Asian carriers to join the growing debate over the aviation industry's impact on the environment. At SIA's annual parliamentary reception at the House of Commons in London yesterday, general manager of...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Monarch joint venture targets youth

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Monarch is trying to capture a younger market by teaming up with music brand Hed Kandi

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Monday, October 26, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: What a difference 75 years makes in flying

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The difference in flying between 1934 and now

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: One daily flight and they're proud? Network's the answer

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American Eagle adds ATRs to Savannah and Sarasota - short hops that make enormous sense when you remember the Latain network.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Spirit founder Moreland takes her leave

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Victoria 'Vicki' Moreland, well known among airline network planners, has left Spirit Airlines, the South Florida-based, leisure-oriented carrier she helped found. At Spirit, Moreland had served as sales and service director and more recently as vice-president of planning. The airline...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: India's Jet gets the spinning bug

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Jet Airways use the language of spin to announce some route cut backs

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Aloha, Investors

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Aloha is a Hawaiian word that covers greeting, farewell, good wishes, and general welcoming warmth. It's also the smaller of the two major carriers native to the Islands and Aloha is saying hello to a major new infusion of...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: How Webster wooed Stelios

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When he was interviewing for the job of managing director at his new low-cost venture EasyJet in late 1995, founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou was turned down by a lot of potential applicants. They did not fancy the challenge of running a...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Is it a boat or a plane - no it's an airport

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Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh airport has got a smart new look

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Paris Air Show Blog 7: Jet makes a PR splash

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Jet Airways has scored a PR coup with its latest Boeing 777 on public display at the Paris Air Show

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Friday, October 23, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: W steps in to avoid the 'Turkey Day from Hades'

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President George W. Bush acts on US holiday flight delays, but the carriers don't want everything he wants.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Web 2.0 goes north, and midwest

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Alaska Airlines, one of the first carriers to offer e-tickets and to rely on the web for in-house communications, has advanced into the collaborative community outreach of the next-generation of the web with a site that lets passengers share memorable...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Paris Air Show blog 1: Carson's commanding performance

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Boeing chief Scott Carson gives his first big air show press conference at the Paris Air Show

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: Tiger on the loose

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Has Tiger Airways lost its mind? Clearly that is what some industry insiders are thinking following Tiger's announcement that it plans to launch a domestic carrier in Australia around mid-year. At first glance it seems there are already enough low-cost...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Air New Zealand on weed: the biofuel sort

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Air New Zealand is setting an ambitious target for its use of biofuels

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Another one bites the dust: MAXjet shuts down

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MAXjet shuts down but other luxury carriers say they're doing just fine, thank you

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Virgin America nears its first time aloft

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Virgin America, Richard Branson's US stepchild (sort of), may yet get to fly, winning tentative Transportation Department clearance - as long as chief exective Fred Reid steps down

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Airline groups fume at latest emissions proposals

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Airline groups angry at emissions trading proposals

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Video: Qatar Airways biofuels experiment goes live

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Qatar Airways has taken to the air with an Airbus A340 powered with a mixture of aviation fuel and a special biofuel

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Jackie Thompson: Flight crew fails to answer the call

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You know how you are reminded to turn your mobile phone off before take-off? Well it appears that the one person on a recent Thomsonfly service from the UK's Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport who failed to follow those instructions...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Qatar branches into Sweden

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Qatar Airways has launched flights to Stockholm Arlanda International airport

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Africa's crash course on safety

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It was inevitable that safety became a topic of heated discussions during November's Annual General Assembly of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) in Cairo. While it is true that cold statistics clearly show the safety record among airlines on the...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Aimee Turner: Star finally commits to IT platform

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It's been a long time coming, but the Star Alliance has finally given the nod to the common IT platform, which will be built by travel IT provider Amadeus. The go ahead for this project is a significant milestone in...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: UK press goes Willie bashing

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UK press writes negative stories about British Airways

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: AirAsia will not sponsor Man U's shirts: at least not yet!

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AirAsia CEO rules out sponsoring Manchester United's shirts for now

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Fill in this blank

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Fill the blank: you?ve seen the phrase, ?it?s so simple, a ______ can do it.? Well, apologies to any primates out there who may be offended by this, but the Kansas City airport has enlisted a monkey to make the...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Anger amongst the people, and the president knows it

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It's been a bad week for the airlines as Congress and the White House, reacting to angry flyers, hand the industry a defeat or two.


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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Pay attention. These ads are funny. Seriously.

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Southwest Airlines' new marketing pitch to business flyers takes some strange turns trying to be funny.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: AirTran's Fornaro throws down the gauntlet -- in Milwaukee

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  Who knew Milwaukee could breed such intense passion?  Well it has certainly stirred AirTran CEO Bob Fornaro, who today during the carrier's earnings call spoke very passionately about the carrier's prospects in the market. Since US regional operator Republic Airways Holdings...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: FAA, controllers in timing to-do

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  The Federal Aviation Administration is pushing hard for a rapid resolution to its air-traffic controller labour union showdown, a significant step for a federal government agency that isn't always known for moving quickly. After four months of negotiations toward...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: All change at Czech Airlines: Lasak and board quit

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All change at CSA Czech Airlines as seven of its eight board members, including CEO Radomir Lasak, have resigned,

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Monday, October 19, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: The unacceptable face of Capitol-isms

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Hades, they say, hath no fury like that of...Try lawmakers, if a House aviation panel hearing, or grilling, of administration liberalisers is a gauge. All the objections were there: loosening the interpretation of limits on foreign control of US-flag carriers...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Air France-KLM: displaying togetherness

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Air France and KLM celebrated the opening of their new joint office in London on 6 July at a champagne ceremony that has been repeated around the world since the two carriers merged in 2005. The SkyTeam members now share...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Rank, but no file

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    The union that struck Northwest Airlines last August, the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, has changed its tune again. A week ago, it said that it would let its members vote on Northwest's last offer, a step that was...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: John Leahy: The Airbus quote machine

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Looking none the worse for recent heart surgery, Airbus chief salesman John Leahy was in London today (22 November) launching the European manufacturer's Global Market Forecast, it's first for two years.Just as our recent blog with Qatar Airways chief executive...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Endangered in Denver

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Animal-themed Frontier is further threatened by Southwest's major Denver expansion.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Podcast travel guides a first for Virgin Atlantic

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It's almost a year since Virgin Atlantic introduced podcast destination guides that travellers can download onto their computers and MP3 players. And now they're adding Sydney to their list of city guides, which includes Cape Town, Cuba, Dubai, Johannesburg,...

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: AirAsia's says: Phuket, it's time to travel

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AirAsia says its time to take a cheap trip to Phuket

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Final frontier, Part Two

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Giving a new meaning to the concept of 'terminal', a Belgian mortuary firm's latest undertaking, as it were, has brought a new niche to airport customer service. The firm, Sophia, has opened an upscale facility at the Brussels airport for...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: The pursuit of Delta: US Airways falters

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Going? Gone? The US Airways hostile pursuit of Delta Air Lines seems to be losing altitude. Chief executive Doug Parker said on a conference call that US Airways would drop its $10 billion bid for Atlanta-based Delta on 1 February...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: Revolutionising economy class

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Cathay Pacific Airways will be introducing next year a new economy class seat with a unique fixed back design which will allow passengers to recline without intruding on the space of passengers sitting behind. The seat could revolutionise economy class travel...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: EVA Air: camp, crazy and quintessentially Asian

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Remember last year when we had a giggle at the expense of EVA Air's Hello Kitty jet? I mean, just look at this picture! Well, now it seems EVA Air is having the last laugh. Not only is the Hello...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: All's fair in fares, profits

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US air fare hike may be working as profit-reporting week opens - with Delta back in the black.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: "Just a numbers guy:" Delta's Whitehurst takes on the Hill

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Delta's Jim Whitehurst says he is an accidental airline presence on Capitol Hill. A true policy guy, he's too modest.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: JAL raises its hands over cargo price-fixing

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Japan Airlines is the latest carrier to make a plea bargain with US authorities over price-fixing

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[Airline Business] New Entry from TargettM: Hub strategy will pay off says Cathay Pacific chief

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The drawing power of its Hong Kong hub is crucial for the success of Cathay Pacific Airways

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Saturday, October 17, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Texas (Pacific) fever: David Bonderman changes his tune

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The Airline Business leader in our December issue was entitled "Merger mania" on the back of the move by US Airways to acquire Delta Air Lines. Just days after the magazine came out two other potential deals have been aired:...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Flyglobespan back in profit

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Some satisfaction being felt in Scotland this morning no doubt, after Flyglobespan announced a small group profit for the year ending October 2008. Preliminary figures show the carrier turned round a loss in 2007 to post a £1.2 million profit for the last 12...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: BMI-Lufthansa takeover wrangle hots up

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BMI chairman and majority shareholder Sir Michael Bishop has gone public over the emerging tensions between him and Lufthansa, which is acquiring his shareholding. Over recent days UK media reports pointed to a brewing spat between Bishop and Lufthansa over...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Foreign affairs

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Boston dignitaries are taking a second look at two airports in New England that aren't in Boston but want to use the name. First off was the airport in Manchester, New Hampshire, about 55 miles northwest of Boston's Logan International...

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Friday, October 16, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Virgin Atlantic's Narita clubhouse

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Virgin Atlantic has unveiled its new clubhouse at Tokyo Narita airport

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Oasis plots low-cost long-haul launch

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Led by none other than Reverend Raymond C Lee and Priscilla C Lee, Oasis Hong Kong Airlines is creeping forward to its goal of launching low-cost long-haul services between Hong Kong and London.     The two Lees - chairman...

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: ERA gives you plain fares

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In an odd move, the European Regions Airlines Association (ERA) is leading an initiative to improve the transparency of prices on airline websites. The ERA board approved at its annual general meeting in Barcelona on 28 September a resolution urging...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Aer Arann: Ireland's other airline

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Refreshingly honest is the only way to describe Aer Arann chairman Padraig O'Ceidigh. "What you see is what you get with us," he says, addressing the Airline Business/UATP Airline Distribution conference here in Dublin yesterday (29 March). What you do...

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Get married, take off

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Looking for a wedding with a difference? Aviation enthusiasts can now tie the knot at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and escape for their honeymoon straight after. From this month, Schiphol is offering four different ceremony options to choose from: Ready for...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Jackie Thompson: Transatlantic cargo challenge

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The yawning gap between high-cost air and low-cost sea freight is set to be bridged if the FastShip transportation system is all it claims. Advertising to sell capacity on its proposed service in the January issue of Airline Business, the...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Aimee Turner: DING! The sound of retail at Southwest

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The other week at our Airline Business Awards we were talking with Richard Sweet, marketing director at Southwest Airlines, about DING!, the suitably cool new web download launched earlier this year that lets customers see latest fare offers on their desktop....

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: What happens when an airline designs an airport?

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JetBlue's new terminal at JFK airport is a haven

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Middle Eastern white knight rides in for Silverjet

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Silverjet says it has found a new investor from the Middle East

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: Air Canada and El Salvador

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What's the connection you ask? Well, the threat of machinists jobs at the carrier heading South is playing a role in decision by IAMAW today to endorse contract extensions and pension funding freezes necessary for Air Canada to regain financial...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Jackie Thompson: Easyjet adds more frills

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EasyJet is moving further away from the pure no-frills model with an initiative to enable passengers to pay an extra fee for early boarding.Dubbed the "Speedy boarding" initiative, the first 20 passengers making an online booking are given the option...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Walsh turns down £700,000

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BA boss turns down bonus

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: VIDEO: BBC puts O'Leary Panorama interview uncut, online

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Last night's show did include some clips from when Panorama reporter Vivien White approached O'Leary after the carrier's AGM in Dublin last month and the BBC have put the full interview (unedited) on their website

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Monday, October 12, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Jackie Thompson: Bmi and Transaero link on London-Moscow

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The co-operation agreement signed back in July by the UK's bmi and Russia's Transaero to operate a daily codeshare service between London Heathrow and Moscow Domodedovo took off on 29 October.It has been nine years since bmi first attempted to...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: The day I met the president of Panama

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Panamian president Ricardo Martinelli unveils a major expansion plan for the country's Tocument International Airport

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Can Avianca-TACA unseat Panama's Copa?

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Can a merged Avianca-TACA give Copa a run for its money in Latin America

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: President Bush incurs the wrath of Willie Walsh

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Willie Walsh angered by Bush Heathrow visit

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Return to profitability - from an unexpected quarter

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'Right sizing'. 'Path to rebound'. 'Return to profitability'. That's the kind of phrase heard when another big airline starts the twists and turns that all too often end up in the steps of bankruptcy court as it parks planes, slashes...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Grid news: aa.com girds itself to capture more window-shoppers

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American Airlines will revamp its aa.com site this summer to allow more comparison shopping among its fare types, trying to convert browsers into buyers by giving more visibility to the choices and tradeoffs of each fare category. The choices display grid brings to mind Air Canada's 'unbundled' approach of displaying fare attributes.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: No crumbling cookie: Delta opens China bid early

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You can never be too early. That's the belief at Delta, which has applied for an international route right that won't come up for competition until late in the year. It's a route to China, and Delta, still steamed that...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Ryanair and DAA embroiled in fisticuffs

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Ryanair and Dublin Airport Authority in public spat

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Hola Cancun! Welcome to the world of airport queues

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Being popular is great. But popularity brings its own problems - chief amongst them for airports is queues. And Cancun this weekend showed why it is a victim of its own success. A flood of humanity was departing the soft...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Airport Radar - with two eyes

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Radar the runway dog is on patrol, preventing airport birdstrikes

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: 727 abandoned in Vietnam puzzles airport authorities

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A Boeing 727 lies unclaimed at Vietnam's Hanoi International Airport

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: London mayoral candidates unite in opposition to Heathrow expansion

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London mayors oppose Heathrow expansion

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Ryanair asks for some slack: You've gotta be joking!

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As Ryanair'e revamped website opens for business the airline asks for customer patience

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Southwest's high fares: that's easy for you to say, Professor.

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An econmics professor says that sometimes you can find lower fares than those listed on Southwest's website, which raises the question: do some people really pay less than others?

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: Martin Gauss takes control at Malev

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Former Cirrus Airlines chief executive Martin Gauss has become the latest in a long line of executives to take the top spot at Hungarian carrier Malev.  He has nearly 20 years' airline industry experience and has worked as a consultant...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Too pretty to fly Southwest

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We just have to direct you to the Airspace forum, where we're getting fast-breaking news of Southwest allegedly victimising two 18-year-old women because they're young and pretty. Southwest responded with a clip on youtube (it's a modern world), which appears...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Walking in a winter wonderland

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This month Airline Business has been to Oslo to meet Norwegian chief executive Bjorn Kjos. These are busy times for Norwegian. The fast-growing budget carrier has no sooner finished restructuring its Swedish operations, than it is embarking on an expansion...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Take my pension, please

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Never exactly straightforward, union-management relations sometimes produce curious alliances, and an odd pairing has emerged as the pilots union at Delta joins with the airline's management to fend off a longtime labour ally. Unions after all would seem a natural...

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Friday, October 9, 2009

[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Industry waits for ICAO to take a lead on aviation emssions

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IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani is keeping the pressure on states meeting at ICAO to ensure it adopts a "credible" common position to take into December's key UN environmental summit in Copenhagen

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Ryanair in hot water over "sexist" calendar

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Ryanair in trouble over "sexist" calendar

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: BA's $40 round-trip fare from US to India too good to be true

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Read what happens when one simple glitch turns a $40 increase in British Airways fares from the US to India, to a $40 bargain fare.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: IATA AGM in Kuala Lumpur: Top local cuisine tips

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Photo credit: IaRuth Hats off to our friends at Malaysia Airlines - they've got their fingers on the social media pulse. The IATA AGM in Kuala Lumpur is fast approaching, so I approached the MAS press team for some local food and drink...

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