It Was The Best Of Times It Was The Worst Of

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It Was The Best Of Times & The Worst Of Times

Judge challenges Air Canada board

"Nothing focuses the mind more than the possibility of being hung in the morning," Judge Farley said.

He said "some of the people involved" should reflect on the fact that the airline went from being a Crown corporation to an insolvent airline in just 15 years.

"This is an airline which took over Canadian Airlines to become an almost quasi-monopoly power. How long ago?"

It was three or four years ago, Mr. Tory offered.

"The same directors?" Judge Farley asked.

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Airlines: SARS Did More Damage Than 9/11

By OLIVER TEVES

The Associated Press

Thursday, May 15, 2003; 1:52 AM

CLARK SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE, Philippines - SARS has caused more damage to the global airline industry than the Sept. 11 attacks and the war in Iraq combined, the world's airline association said Thursday.

"This is a crisis of major proportions," Thomas Andrew Drysdale, regional director for the International Air Transport Association, told a meeting of Asian airport managers in the Philippines. The world's airlines have lost more than $10 billion this year, he said.

He told reporters that the combined effects of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the war in Iraq and the foot and mouth disease in Britain did not cause as much damage to the industry as SARS.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57813-2003May15.html

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Note: The Many Witchitas Of Canada Should Pay Attention To The Following Article:

Experts: Loss of AirTran, Frontier could ground airport's recovery

Jerry Siebenmark

Keeping AirTran Airways and Frontier Airlines in Wichita is not just a matter of low fares.

It's also a matter of keeping the major network airlines at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.

That's according to airline experts, who say rising passenger volumes at Kansas' largest airport has buffered it from cuts in service by the nation's biggest airlines as they wrestle their way through an unprecedented financial crisis in the industry.

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Note: Just how much municipal taxpayer money goes into playing airline and support a route that the domestic airline won't cover?

Delta Connection To Offer Jet Service Between Boston And Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

- PR Newswire

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, May 14, 2003 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Delta Connection will offer customers new nonstop jet service between Fredericton, New Brunswick in Canada and Boston with two daily round-trip flights, effective Aug. 15, 2003. Delta Connection carrier Atlantic Coast Airlines will operate the service with Fairchild 328JET regional jets.

"We are pleased to welcome Delta Air Lines to Greater Fredericton," said City of Fredericton Mayor Les Hull. "I want to thank the Greater Fredericton Airport Authority and the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce for the tremendous amount of work done to make this a reality. The City of Fredericton was pleased to have played a role in attracting Delta to New Brunswick's capital city, and I have no doubt this new air service will be successful."

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Note: How long will it take before the Fredricton Chamber Of Commerce is crying the blues just like the Sault Saint Marie Chamber Airport Development Corp?

WestJet departure ‘major impact’ to Sault airport

By FRANK DOBROVNIK

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 09:00

Local News - The non-profit corporation that operates Sault Ste. Marie’s airport will suffer a “major impact” when one of its airlines pulls out of the city in September, says its president.

Jerry Dolcetti of the Sault Ste. Marie Airport Development Corp. wonders how they’ll fill the void when WestJet Airlines vacates Sept. 9.

http://www.saultstar.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentID=31880&catname=Local+News

Back To School For Airline Execs

KAL sends execs to MBA program

Korean Air said yesterday it has enrolled all of its 30 vice-managing directors in the new executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at Seoul National University.

This is the first time for a conglomerate to support all of its senior-level executives in an educational program in Korea, airline officials said.

The decision, made by Hanjin Group Chairman Cho Yang-ho, is part of the Korean Air Executive Development Program designed to gradually introduce a more independent management system, they said.

The MBA course will begin from tomorrow and continue for four months.

Korean Herald (Requires registration)

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2003/05/06/200305060014.asp