Airline Business articles from October 2008

Airline Business archives from October 2008

Gol forced to redefine Varig's role.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: david knibb seattle Gol has been unable to achieve its international ambitions for Varig since acquiring the carrier last year VRG Linhas Aereas, using the Varig brand, has a new and more modest role in the Gol airline group....

Briefing.
October 27, 2008... Republic invests in Mokulele Republic Airways will provide an $8 million line of credit to Mokulele Airlines and place four of its Embraer 170s with the Hawaiian carrier in November. The intra-island Mokulele will operate the 70-seat...

Business travel softens.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: david field washington US carriers face falling premium demand as corporates slash travel budgets As the US airlines go into the normally bleak winter the big unknown is demand, but business travel executives, corporate...

...but hedges push it into the red.(Briefing)(Financial report)
October 27, 2008... Byline: david field washington Declining fuel hedge values pushed Southwest into posting its first quarterly loss in almost two decades Stung by its fuel hedging strategy, Southwest Airlines has broken its unprecedented sequence of...

Southwest changes its model...(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: megan kuhn dallas Southwest Airlines is increasingly moving away from its original low-cost model to introduce a raft of paid-for add-ons Southwest Airlines continues to take the sort of steps that the classic low-cost carrier...

Downturn spares nobody.(Analysis)
October 27, 2008... Byline: Chris Tarry CTAIRA No region is immune from the global slowdown, writes Chris Tarry. Analysis from Antonio Panariello of Flight Insight There should be little doubt that the industry has now moved into the second phase of a...

Asia's skies are opening up.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: Nicholas Ionides Singapore By the end of this year a range of markets in Southeast Asia will be opened to competition from all sides A longstanding pledge by 10 Southeast Asian nations to liberalise air services is set to be...

Jet and Kingfisher in unlikely tie-up.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: Nicholas Ionides Singapore Arch-rivals Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines have put aside their differences to form a surprise partnership A new round of consolidation has hit the Indian market and this time it's between the...

Briefing.(briefs)(Brief article)
October 27, 2008... Han sung no longer South Korea's Han Sung Airlines has suspended operations as a result of financial difficulty. The carrier, which operated ATR 72s, suspended operations in mid-October. It blamed high oil prices, a drop in the value of...

Briefing.(Brief article)
October 27, 2008... Japan begins to relax bilaterals More signs have emerged that Japan is easing its traditionally protectionist air services regime with a more liberal bilateral agreement with Singapore. The two countries met recently and agreed to...

Briefing.
October 27, 2008... Nicholas Ionides Singapore Australian carriers held up Virgin Blue has delayed V Australia's launch and Qantas has put off its loyalty plan spin-off The strike at Boeing that brought production to a halt may have forced some...

Forum.
October 27, 2008... Steve Sharf, the former chief operating officer of IndiGo, has left the Indian low-cost carrier to join US carrier USA3000 as its president and chief operating officer. Sharf is the second overseas senior officer to leave IndiGo, following the...

Forum.(briefs)
October 27, 2008... tschuess tempelhof - you will be missed Posted October 24, 2008 at 12:32 PM By Gunter Endres Berliners in the heart of the city will wake up on the first November morning to an eerie silence. The last aircraft will have landed...

Air cargo faces security nail-biter.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: peter conway london Half of US cargo must be security screened by February, and all of it by 2010. Will the industry hit the deadlines? When the US Congress passed the Homeland Security Regulation 1: Implementing the...

fortune teller needed.(Comment)
October 27, 2008... The airline industry faces an uncertain time as it battles with the frustration of not knowing how long the current downturn will be, or how hard it will bite. This makes it incredibly difficult to set budgets and decide on strategies for the...

Forum.(Calendar)
October 27, 2008... november 2008 2-4 CAO European Airline Finance Conference Venice, Italy See Highlights 10-13 World Travel Market London, UK Tel +44 870 733 3986 Website wtmlondon.com 11-13 AVSEC World 2008 Seoul, South...

Forum.(Calendar)
October 27, 2008... november 2008 15-16 AAPA 51st Assembly of Presidents Bangkok, Thailand Contact Association of Asia Pacific Airlines Email odg@aapa.org.my Website aapa.org.my 19-21 ALTA Airline Leaders Forum Cancun, Mexico ...

Malev aims for breakeven in 2009.(Briefing)(Malev Hungarian Airlines's financial news)(Financial report)
October 27, 2008... Byline: tom zaitsev budapest The Hungarian carrier had hoped its restructuring plan would enable it to return to profitability this year Hungarian flag-carrier Malev expects to post an operating profit of [euro]8-12 million ($10.3-15.5...

Regionals braced for the storm.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: Victoria moores Manchester After several years of strong growth Europe's regional carriers are feeling the pain of the industry downturn Airlines look to cut maintenance costs Page 66 European Regions Airline...

Austrian privatisation faces possible delay.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... The near-term privatisation of Austrian Airlines appears in jeopardy following a re-assessment of its forecast for the current financial year, which now projects increased losses. As a result, none of the airline's potential suitors had...

Europe's airlines take drastic action.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: kerry ezard london Several European airlines are having to make rapid cost cuts and structural changes as the downturn starts to hit hard As the bite of the downturn becomes more painful, airlines in Europe are being forced...

Russia goes on offensive.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Aeroflot and S7 Airlines are readying their cheque books to buy into European airlines gAnter endres london Russia may have flexed its political muscle in recent months, but on the air transport front it has been surprisingly quiet,...

Bad news for Spain's leisure market.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... LTE International Airways in mid-October became the latest Spanish leisure carrier to succumb to difficult market conditions. LTE suspended charter and scheduled flights, but continues to provide aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI)...

barrierbuster.(Features)
October 27, 2008... Byline: ReportDavid field SantiagoPhotographyrodolfo pAez "Some day we will see real consolidation in Latin America, but many barriers remain" LAN chief executive Enrique Cueto, who has long campaigned for more open markets in Latin...

Tools of the trade.(Features)
October 27, 2008... Byline: Reportmary kirbyphiladelphia Airlines are making new connections with mobile phone-equipped passengers as they begin to realise that mobile connectivity can help improve customer service, cut costs and increase revenues Since...

down with open skies.(Forum)
October 27, 2008... There has never been a worse time for the USA to consider the liberalisation measures required to further progress European Union-US Open Skies, argues Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the USA's AFL-CIO union...

Governments cash in on aviation.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: mark pilling london In their war against airport charge hikes, fuel tariff rises and taxes, airline bodies have found it tough going this year Huge government money raising exercises in the Netherlands and the UK this year have...

Turning the page on legacy systems.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: mark pilling london Two of the industry's largest IT suppliers have reached milestones in developing next generation technology solutions Amadeus and Sabre each claim to have taken major steps in the development of technology...

Alliances stress relevance.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... graham dunn sao paulo Global alliances are keen to highlight their important role for airlines during tough times Amid the bleak market outlook facing airlines, global alliances believe they can be even more relevant to their members...

Briefing.(Brief article)
October 27, 2008... Calls increase for open Arab skies Arab carriers are urging their governments to optimise air routes in order to make more efficient use of airspace and reduce fuel consumption. Arab Air Carriers Organisation secretary general Abdul Wahab...

Reconquering the Gulf.(Briefing)
October 27, 2008... Byline: olivier bonnassies bahrain Gulf Air is almost 12 months into a new strategy that it hopes will see it emerge as a premium global network carrier Gulf Air chairman Talal Al-Zain has a clear ambition: to re-capture the brand that...

Reopening the shop.(Special Report)
October 27, 2008... Byline: ReportMark PillingLondon Captain Ian Brunton, executive vice-president operations at Caribbean Airlines, has got one important figure on his mind: $500,000. That is the princely sum, on average, that his airline will save in labour...

Wringing out the costs.(Special Report)
October 27, 2008... Report kerry ezard london data compiled by lloyd dunning-mitchell of ati Airlines combed through their maintenance costs to eliminate as much unnecessary expense as possible during the last downturn, so you may be...

Special Report.
October 27, 2008... 56 Shifting priorities Maintenance providers change tactics to deal with downturn 62 Reopening the shop Caribbean Airlines returns to 737 maintenance 66 Wringing out the costs Can airlines further reduce their maintenance costs? ...

shifting priorities.(Special Report)
October 27, 2008... Byline: Reportniall o'keeFfe In london As margins become ever tighter, maintenance, repair and overhaul providers are prioritising the most profitable areas of the business Margins are tightening in airframe maintenance. The consequence...