Airline Business articles from June 2004

Airline Business archives from June 2004

FAA studies Peru's performance.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The US Federal Aviation Administration has decided not to downgrade Peru to Category 2 status under its International Air Safety Assessment (IASA) programme, but asked Peru officials to block AeroContinente from flying to the USA. As a result,...

RAA briefs.
June 1, 2004... Airport coalition proposal BACK Aviation Solutions' Tulinda Larsen has proposed a coalition for disadvan-taged airports to represent the interests of 340 of the 420 major US airports that account for only 4% of the nation's passengers. The...

Regionals act to raise the public image of their jets.
June 1, 2004... Executives at the recent Regional Airline Association (RAA) annual assembly spent much of their time refuting claims that regional jets are causing problems within the air traffic system. Wall Street may love the US regional airline...

Worldspan loses Expedia.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Worldspan has suffered a blow to its strategy of backroom domination. Expedia, part of internet mogul Barry Diller's online travel empire, is shifting some of its business away from Worldspan to the Sabre Travel Network. Worldspan has...

Fuel safety measures.
June 1, 2004... The prospects of further steep rises in the price of oil have already seen several carriers add fuel surcharges to ease the pain, writes Chris Tarry of CTAIRA The airline industry's tentative recovery over the past year has taken place...

Singapore's low-fare battle begins.
June 1, 2004... The first of several new Singapore-based airlines planning to launch services this year has begun commercial operations - and major incumbent carriers have already declared war on it. Valuair launched commercial services on 5 May with an...

Failures raise prospect of consolidation.
June 1, 2004... The grounding of two independent carriers in May has raised the spectre of consolidation within Europe's increasingly overcrowded air market. UK-based Duo Airways suspended operations in May, with administrators Deloitte & Touche swiftly...

In brief.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Fuel surcharges imposed The early lead set by Continental Airlines, British Airways and Qantas in imposing a passenger fuel surcharge has so far been followed by Air New Zealand, KLM, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic. BAannounced in...

Smith calls for separate cargo talks.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Federal Express founder Fred Smith has an idea for loosening clogged-up aviation negotiations: break air cargo out of the larger talks. Air cargo has different enough issues that it can achieve agreement when dealt with separately, he...

Service proposition.
June 1, 2004... The airline campaign to cut airport and air traffic service charges has been a bruising experience, but there are encouraging signs that it has opened up a more fundamental debate over the relationship between airlines and their infrastructure...

Legacy load.
June 1, 2004... The message coming out of this year's Phoenix symposium was clear - cost reduction is paramount if the major UScarriers are to survive the low-cost onslaught. And life is likely to get worse before it gets better "Run, man, run" was the comment...

Deutsche Bank backs Air Canada creditors deal.
June 1, 2004... Potential investor Victor Li is gone and Deutsche Bank has agreed to back an expanded rights offering to Air Canada creditors that will put them firmly in control. Under this new deal, Deutsche Bank will guarantee a rights offering that is...

US Airways reinvented.
June 1, 2004... USAirways is moving towards more non-stop service and must reduce its costs still further to remodel itself as a low-fares airline. New US Airways chief executive Bruce Lakefield declared that he had not taken office to preside over the...

US-EUdeal still elusive.
June 1, 2004... European Commission (EC) officials came to Washington in May for a fifth round of aviation talks on transatlantic open skies filled with fire and brimstone, but went home with a new offer that clearly fell short of their expectations. ...

Special report.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... AirportsWith the world economy poised to slow in 1999 Optimism is rising as airport traffic finally looks set to regain the losses of the past three years. Recovery in Asia and the low-cost boom are both helping the trend. Optimism also...

Independence.
June 1, 2004... day Kerry Skeen is leading an ambitious plan to free his airline from its role as a United Airlines feeder and reinvent it as a low-cost carrier flying regional jets. Can this unconventional vision succeed? When Kerry Skeen chose a...

Turning.
June 1, 2004... Turning the cornerOptimism is flooding back into the sector as the world's airports saw passenger numbers grow to within touching distance of 2000 levelsAfter three years of gloom, optimism is once more on the rise among the world's airports as...

Groundings hit small Pacific carriers.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Australia's call for a single South Pacific airline may fall on deaf ears in larger island nations such as Fiji and French Polynesia, but recent events suggest that the smaller and poorer nations in the region need a new approach to...