September 2009

How to reduce transfer baggage mishandling

by Mr. Plane on September 30, 2009

in Aviation

About half of all baggage mishandling occurs during transfers. BIP (the Baggage Improvement Programme) has solutions that reduce missed connections. Transfer bags come in three flavours – dead, hot and cold. Dead bags are those that have missed their flight entirely – perhaps due to air traffic control or some other delay. These bags need [...]

South African Airways Adds CyberSource to Its Anti-fraud Arsenal

by Mr. Plane on September 29, 2009

in Airlines

JOHANNESBURG and READING, England and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CyberSource Ltd., the U.K.-based subsidiary of CyberSource Corporation, today announced an agreement in which South African Airlines will use CyberSource solutions in its anti-fraud efforts. The airline has selected Decision Manager, CyberSource’s global fraud management portal, as well as Performance Monitoring, a CyberSource [...]

Traffic Volumes Improve, But Costs Rising

September 29, 2009 Aviation

Image via Wikipedia The International Air Transport Association (IATA) today announced international scheduled traffic results for August. Compared to August 2008, passenger demand was down 1.1%, (an improvement compared to the 2.9% decline in July), and freight demand fell by 9.6% (also an improvement compared to the 11.3% drop in July). Compared to August 2008, [...]

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Delta Closes $2.1 Billion of Financing Transactions

September 29, 2009 Airlines

“The competitive terms and strong demand for this financing reflect the market’s confidence in Delta and our financial strength,” said Ed Bastian, Delta’s president. “With these transactions, we’ve addressed more than 40 percent of our 2010 maturities and generated an incremental $600 million to bolster our best-in-class liquidity position.”

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Global Airline Capacity Shows Positive Growth For The Second Consecutive Month

September 25, 2009 Airlines

Global airline capacity for September 2009 is showing positive growth for the second consecutive month, reports OAG, (www.oagaviation.com), the world’s leading aviation data business, as it releases its monthly report on trends in the supply of airline flights and seats. The world’s airlines have scheduled 296.9 million seats, a rise of 1.4% (4,130,744 more seats) over September 2008 levels.

David Beckerman, vice president OAG Market Intelligence, said, “As the summer season winds down, the steady upward trend we have seen since May is continuing. After 11 straight months of capacity cutbacks, these figures indicate a growing confidence within the industry that demand for air travel is starting to pick up.”

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Finnair daily to New Delhi

September 24, 2009 Airlines

Finnair flies daily to New Delhi as of 25 September. Thanks to Helsinki’s excellent geographical location on the great circle route, the flight time to Delhi is only 6 hours 30 minutes. “Our route is the shortest between the EU and India, so it has found wide interest amongst travellers,” says Petteri Kostermaa, Vice President, [...]

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Finnair opens local language PR sites to serve media

September 24, 2009 Airlines

Image via Wikipedia The number of passengers in Asian traffic has doubled for Finnair in five years. This has created a need to serve media even better than before and in a wider range of languages in different market places. Therefore Finnair is now in the process of opening localised PR sites to serve local [...]

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Airlines present climate change proposals to heads of governments

September 22, 2009 Aviation

Image via Wikipedia The International Air Transport Association (IATA) presented its proposals for December’s climate change talks to the UN Secretary General’s Summit on Climate Change in New York. The forum takes place in the run-up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Copenhagen this December. The aviation sector is [...]

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