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- Airline Finance News - Europe
- Sep 1, 2008 Aegean Airlines Aegean Airlines traffic rose 19% year-over-year to 1.8 billion RPKs on a 19% increase in capacity to 2.7 billion ASKs. Load factor was up 0.5 point to 67%. Unit revenue and yield each rose 6% to 9.7 euro cents and 14.4 euro cents...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Company Watch - Virgin Group
- Aug 31, 2008 Virgin Group is SNA's largest shareholder at 29.9% as a result of the merger of Brussels-based LCC Virgin Express with full-service competitor SN Brussels Airlines in 2006. Lufthansa's interest in Brussels Airlines coincides with its confirmed interest in bidding for the Austrian government's stake in Austrian...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Heathrow welcomes new flights
- Come Sunday, there's going to be a surge of new competition at London's Heathrow Airport. After decades of fruitless talks, public posturing, backroom maneuvering and half measures that fell short of completely deregulating air service between the USA and Europe, the era of Open Skies dawns....
- Research articles 2008-03-27
- Airlines to pay compensation; In association with Chadwick Lawrence
- Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter BRITISH Airways and Virgin Atlantic are set to pay out more than pounds 100min compensation to passengers for price-fixing, it was said today. Newspaper reports said the settlement, which is believed to have been reached provisionally last night, will see BA pay...
- Research articles 2008-02-15
- Airline Finance News - Europe
- Jan 7, 2008 Airlines throughout the world are contending with antitrust charges made at the end of 2007 by the European Commission, which has accused at least 11 and as many as 25 carriers of "cartel" activity relating to airfreight transport. In addition to British Airways, Japan Airlines, Air...
- Research articles 2008-01-07
- U.S. airlines spruce up their luxury offerings
- Business traveler Jim Anderson of San Francisco flies only foreign airlines when leaving the USA. The IBM consultant lost respect for American, United and other domestic airlines after 9/11, when four of the six U.S.-based big international carriers filed for bankruptcy protection and slashed costs. He...
- Research articles 2007-12-26
- Airport Check-in
- LONDON Welcome to the faux Terminal 6 Flanked by the Spice Girls, Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson recently touted the opening of his carrier's Terminal 6 at London Heathrow. The only problem is that the building in question...
- Research articles 2007-12-24
- Branson flies under the radar as Virgin America takes off
- Backers of Virgin America, the USA's newest airline, spent several years trying to convince federal regulators that the carrier isn't simply an extension of British billionaire Richard Branson's worldwide aviation empire. That would be illegal under the strict limits on foreign ownership of U.S. airlines. But,...
- Research articles 2007-08-08
- Fliers more likely to get reimbursement
- Admissions of collusion this week by British Airways and Virgin Atlantic in setting fuel surcharges improves prospects for reimbursement of travelers who paid them, lawyers said Thursday. But how much and when money may flow back to consumers remains unclear. In settlements...
- Research articles 2007-08-03
- Fine of GBP121.5m imposed on BA for price fixing
- AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A fine of GBP121.5m is to be paid by UK-based carrier British Airways after the airline admitted that it had attempted to fix the prices of fuel surcharges. The fine, which has been imposed by the Office of Fair Trading, is reportedly...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Airlines working on synergy.
- Byline: Vishakha Talreja Jul. 26--New Delhi: Even as newer airlines take wings and consolidation to carve out bigger airline companies becomes the norm, there's lots more happening on the ground. Besides code share or seat share on international routes agreements among...
- Research articles 2007-07-26
- Branson wants full ownership of Virgin Atlantic: report
- LONDON AFP — Virgin Atlantic chairman Sir Richard Branson wants to buy back Singapore Airlines' 49-percent share of the carrier he founded in 1984, according to a newspaper interview published Tuesday. Branson, who holds 51 percent of the carrier, told London's City A.M. financial daily that he would consider...
- Research articles 2007-07-10
- The battle of the North Atlantic.(The battle of the North Atlantic)(Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd.)
- Branson class Europe is allowing more competition, but dogfights continue DRESSED in a pilot's uniform, Richard Branson waves from the steps of the leased Boeing 747 he has named "Maiden Voyager". The date is June 22nd 1984 and celebrities, journalists...
- Research articles 2007-06-16
- Virgin plans new business-only carrier
- AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Virgin Atlantic Airways is reportedly planning to launch a new business class-only transatlantic carrier. The new airline, which is expected to start operating within 18 months, would offer flights to the US from London, Paris, Milan, Zurich, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, according to...
- Research articles 2007-06-04
- Editorial.(news)(Editorial)
- Aviation representatives from governing bodies in Europe and the United States have finally agreed an Open Skies policy between the two continents. Basically, any airline can now fly across the Atlantic from any destination in Europe to any destination in the USA--provided slots are available at...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Virgin Atlantic to order 15 Boeing Dreamliner jets
- CHICAGO AFP — The Boeing Company announced Tuesday that Virgin Atlantic has ordered 15 of its future 787 Dreamliners, the biggest order for the plane so far from a European carrier. The order, worth some 2.8 billion dollars at list price, had been listed on Boeing's records as coming...
- Research articles 2007-04-24
- Safety News In Brief
- Porpoising a Pilot Induced Oscillation with a difference: see video at tinyurl.com/2pqfx8 From the comments on avsim.ru where the video was originally posted: "Russian military multi-engine flight school; 2 students on their 2nd solo. No injuries but A/C was written off (nose-gear went through the floor, plus...
- Research articles 2007-04-23
- Chocks away; Transatlantic aviation.(open skies agreements)
- The prospect of more open skies across the Atlantic is shaking up Europe's airlines "CHICKEN or beef?" If you think the menu on transatlantic flights is limited, try choosing a European airline to fly across the ocean. European airlines are heavily outnumbered by American...
- Research articles 2007-04-07
- Cheap Frills
- How many high-profile CIOs can say they got their job through a free ad on Craigslist? Probably not that many. But that’s exactly how Bill Maguire became vice president and CIO of Virgin America. Which makes sense. Like any startup, Virgin America must do a lot with a little, including...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Virgin Atlantic Warns Rivals About Heathrow
- Nobody will ever accuse Virgin Atlantic of rolling out the welcome mat to airlines looking to expand their presence at London/Heathrow. Though the Open Skies deal between the US and EU means that any US or European carrier can fly between Heathrow and the US, Virgin has decided to...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
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