Sunday, January 31, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: AerolĂ­neas Argentinas right back where it started

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Argentina re-nationalises flag carrier

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Mayrhuber: 2007 will not be a one-hit wonder for Lufthansa

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Lufthansa insists that its record performance in 2007 can last into 2008

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Suspense! Midwest-AirTran cliff-hanger nears its end

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A possible White Knight emerges for Midwest Airlines as it twists and turns to avoid AirTran's hostile pursuit.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: JetBlue's key cutover

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 This weekend JetBlue reaches a major milestone and potential customer service disruptions as it makes a key shift to the Sabre customer service system. Almost a year after unveiling its plans to switch from its current Navitaire platform that doesn't have...

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Friday, January 29, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: Best kept secrets - WIN

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When you're visiting a new city, surely the best person to show you around is someone who visits regularly. And who'd be better travelled than airline crew? That's the thinking behind two new travel guides put together by the travel...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Price-fixing gets personal - part 2

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BA executives will appear in court in September on charges of airline price-fixing

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Emirates boasts of green credentials

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Emirates launches environmental programme

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Help "Wee Willie" shift baggage

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Company designs Willie Walsh computer game

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: It's all happening in Europe

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Merger and acquisition activity heats up in Europe

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Resigned to her fate: the FAA's Blakey and the angry senator

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Angered at flight delays and prompted by passenger outrage, a key senator demands that the FAA head resign.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: BAA's novel approach: talk to airlines

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BAA chief executive Stephen Nelson is taking a new approach to its airline customers

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: A Symbol of spirits past

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It's not hard to read a lot into a symbol - especially when it's a self-declared symbol like "The Spirit of Delta", a Boeing 767 that was paid for through a voluntary fund drive begun by employees. Back in 1982,...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Kaminski-Morrow: Dial 'E' for 'Eccentric'

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As much as I'd like to publish the telephone number for South African budget carrier Kulula's wacky automated answerphone - which wishes you an "awesome day" and asks if you want the president's job - I suspect it would simply...

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: The Rx from Smisek and Tilton

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A nascent recovery in business traffic and fewer junk fares are fuelling mild-mannered optimism among US carriers. But what is it going to take to sustain profitability for the long-term, or even for near term? Analysts are firing that question...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: New year, new optimism for business travel?

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A survey of businsses-focussed travel agents put together by US travel agency network Travel Leaders found that 28.6% expect busines travel booking to increase in 2010, while 38.3% think bookings will remain on a par with 2009

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Cathay Pacific boss Tony Tyler: on the record

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Cathay Pacific chief executive Tony Tyler talks to Airline Business

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Never late, never on time

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Much like a penguin, this plane flies nowhere, but people still pay to board it

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: World routes: three for Texas, but the mouse is not out

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Open skies benefit Texans, but the old regime is good for Mickey and his pals in Orlando

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: 2009: the biggest post-war airline traffic slump confirmed

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Was 2009 the worst year for airlines ever? Yes according to IATA traffic figures for the full year,

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Midwest's back to TPG basics: AirTran to go it alone

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Midwest goes with Texas Pacific cash, and AirTran goes back to its own growth plan, adding routes such as its new Las Vegas network.

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Friday, January 22, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: Will JAL pick an alliance by February?

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It's Friday and perhaps I'm grasping at straws. But yesterday during Continental's earning's discussion carrier CEO Jeff Smisek was asked about the timeline for approval of a transpacific joint venture for Continental, United and ANA, and gave a somewhat interesting...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: THY takes no chances - signs for both Champions League finalists

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No shortage of ambition at Turkish Airlines. Not resting on its laurels after striking a three-year sponsorship deal with European Champions League winners Barcelona, its emerging that Turkish Airlines is also signed up as a new official sponsor for last year's beaten finalist Manchester United

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: Only in China

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How can a low-fare carrier operate in a country that prohibits low fares? That is the question China's new stable of private carriers must grapple with as they try to compete against more established government-owned airlines. The parent of Spring...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Finnair goes retro

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Finnair launches retro aircraft

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: American moves to firm up deal with HP

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American hopes sometime in the near future to firm a key MOU it signed with Hewlett- Packard in August 2009 for the development of a new passenger service system.  The carrier's CEO Gerard Arpey gave that brief update during the...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Another model makes its way west

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The Dornier twinjet loses a major operator

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: A guest blog on Stanford

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If you didn't know the name Sir Allen Stanford a week ago, you certainly do now...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Air France and the corpulent passenger

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Air France hits the headlines over its larger passenger policy

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: Togolese start-up ASKY is born

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Congratulations to the folks over at Ethiopian Airlines and at new Togolese carrier ASKY, which launched operations on 15 January with a maiden flight from Lome to Abidjan and Banjul. ASKY is part-owned by Ethiopian Airlines (which we recently...

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: Port au Prince faces problems as aid rushes in

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The tragic situation in Haiti is galvanizing carriers across the globe. Airlines ranging from El Al to Republic Airways Holdings have offered relief either through special flights, the donation of frequent flyer miles, bonus frequent flyer miles for Red Cross donations...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: The toughest job in airline HR right now?

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British Airways is recruiting a high-flying human resouces director

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: A380 touches down in Munich

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The A380 has landed at Munich Airport for the first time.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Tony Fernandes is not blowing bubbles today

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Tony Fernandes loses out on bid to buy West Ham

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Monday, January 18, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: Mind-reading: the next level of security?

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After the Christmas Day attack on a Delta Air Lines Airbus A330, it's hardly surprising that aviation security is again under the spotlight. We've already witnessed the furore over body scanners, which show a little too much detail, but that's as far as...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Another good O'Leary interview here

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Just a quick point to another in the recent mini-flurry of interviews with Michael O'Leary, this one in the Irish Independent focusing less on Ryanair and more on the man himself

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Capitol losses: Ken Mead Quits

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He was no monument, but Ken Mead cast a long shadow around the nation's Capitol, first as the head of transportation investigations for the major congressional watchdog and then, after 1997, as the watchdog for the US Transportation Department...

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Saturday, January 16, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Skybus bids bye-bye to some West Coast routes

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'Ultra low cost' Skybus abandons two routes in its fifth month - but plans 'off-hub' Florida flying.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: Maxjet still fighting

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Maxjet Airways has had a rocky few months, with a change of chief executives and a route cancellation, but the all-business class start-up is confident it can fight off a new wave of competitors. Last week Maxjet's newly revamped management...

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Graham Dunn: Emirates' Clark stands up for Dubai

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The latest issue of Emirates public affairs journal, Open Sky, features a strong defence of the long-term health of Dubai from airline CEO Tim Clark

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: Republic loses its marketing expert

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Merely months after it drastically broadened its business to include branded operations, Republic has lost a key expert in execution of that strategy. Republic today said Sean Menke has resigned as its chief marketing officer. It's not a huge shock since in...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: BAA could soon kiss goodbye to monopoly

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BAA monopoly could be broken up

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Monday, January 11, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Which airline is going bust next? Place your bets

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Irish gambling website PaddyPower is taking bets on the next airline to go bust

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: AirAsia is just a show off: pictures and more pictures

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AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes gets to fly with the Red Arrows

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Victoria Moores: Santa's gift for 2010: industry recovery?

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Given the season, it's somewhat fitting that early indications of recovery are emerging from Lapland - or Finland to be more precise. Photo credit: dryfish Finnair has just released its traffic figures which might just show early signs of the...

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: Yes, Virgin America is indeed American

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Arguments over Virgin America's ownership have been silenced, at least for now. Its ownership structure plagued the carrier prior to its launch in  2007, and last year the issue surfaced again after Virgin America advised US regulators of a substantial...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Flying but unknown: United's eerie aerial experience

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They were not drinking. Or smoking that funny stuff, they swear, but a serious number (several dozen) of serious United Airlines workers at Chicago O'Hare swear that they saw an aerial phenomenon they can't explain, or, in other words an...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Brendan Sobie: Start-ups don't scare Virgin Atlantic

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Virgin Atlantic Airways is not concerned about new competition from long-haul low cost carriers or all-premium carriers.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Blah blah blogs: Delta and the blandosphere

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Delta's new blog fails to excite, entertain, or even offend.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Washington ways: Mr. Chairman and 'the other body'

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Jim Oberstar, Mr. Chairman, wants action from 'the other body' on the FAA bill.

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: O'Leary gets his talons out again

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Ryanair boss slags off Aer Lingus-United deal

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Kissing at 30,000ft

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SkyEurope is launching an in-flight speed-dating experience

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Kerry Ezard: Beat air rage: smoke a joint, says pressure group

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Pro-marijuana group says smoking joints can beat air rage

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: This story is about Chihuahuas - no joke!

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Chihuahua airlift takes off with Virgin America

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Italian teacher makes to buy Alitalia

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As the bidders lined up for Alitalia on Monday - there were 11 in total - an intrepid journalist at Reuters digging into their backgrounds found to his surprise that a humble Italian school teacher had sneaked his way onto...

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Airbus counts the cost of A380 delays

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Qantas Airways today became the first Airbus A380 customer to disclose how much compensation it will receive from Airbus for mounting delivery delays, writes Airline Business deputy editor Brendan Sobie. If A$104 million ($79 million) in payments to Qantas for...

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Monday, January 4, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from Lori Ranson: Smisek's grand entrance

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New Continental CEO Jeff Smisek has wasted no time is differentiating himself from his fellow chiefs at other US carriers. After formally taking the reins from Larry Kellner on 1 January Smisek sent a note to employees today telling them he has...

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Andrea Crisp: ANA's Fly! Panda celebrates 20 years of flying to China

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All Nippon Airways uses panda theme to decorate aircraft

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[Airline Business] New Entry from Mark Pilling: Big surprise: low-cost airline credit card fees are a rip-off

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There is lots of noise around today about comments made by the head of the UK's Office of Fair Trading about Ryanair's charges for using credit cards and virtually every other method of payment to buy tickets. I've just done...

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Sunday, January 3, 2010

[Airline Business] New Entry from David Field: Fighting over China

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The US is about to choose carriers for new US-China routes, stirring aggressive bidding, but this Transportation Department  competition is different than most: it has drawn airlines into innovative marketing campaigns to win public support for their proposals in a...

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Friday, January 1, 2010