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Sunday, December 12, 2010

United Wants Joint Venture With AirCanada



Speaking Wednesday at the Hudson Securities airline conference, United CEO Jeff Smisek said United is "looking at a trans-border joint venture" with Air Canada. Additionally, he said, "We're keenly interested ... to form a joint venture in Latin America as well; we will pursue that."


Smisek did not name any potential Latin partners, but the Brazilian carrier TAM is a member of the Star Alliance and last month, both Avianca-Taca, which combines Columbian and El Salvadoran airlines, and Copa, based in Panama, agreed to join Star.

"We think there's a tremendous opportunity for us in JVs," Smisek said. "We compete across the world with everybody, and JVs are a powerful competitive tool for us."

United has a transatlantic joint venture with anti-trust immunity with Air Canada, Continental and Lufthansa. This year, regulators approved its request for a transpacific joint venture with ANA.


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WestJet signs interline pact with British Airways



OTTAWA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - WestJet Airlines Ltd (WJA.TO), Canada's second-biggest airline, confirmed on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement that will allow passengers traveling on British Airways (BAY.L) to connect to WestJet's network.

The so-called inbound interline agreement would advance WestJet efforts to expand beyond its low-budget roots, as it seeks new sources of revenue and profit, while trying to attract lucrative business passengers.

The agreement will allow passengers and their luggage to easily connect from a British Airways flight to WestJet planes in Canada on one itinerary.

"Yes we do have a deal with BA, but seats won't go on sale until early new year. Will have more details then," WestJet spokesman Robert Palmer said in an email.

The deal is not deemed to be material, Palmer said.

PI Financial Corp analyst Chris Murray said WestJet told him that it had agreed not to disclose the deal earlier to give British Airways time to organize marketing and issue a press release.

WestJet told Reuters that interline deals are not typically material and the Calgary-based company would not issue a press release unless there was a significant element to the tie-up.

"For example, we announced AA (American Airlines) because it was our first American partner," Palmer wrote.

Murray said the deal is a positive and could boost the Calgary-based company's stock.

"British Airways has always remained the most significant possible partner for WestJet in our opinion, given the travel patterns of Canadians and the relative size the British market represents for travel to Canada," Murray wrote.

"At the company's recent investor day in June 2010 it provided details showing British Airways as the single largest potential partner it could have of any other single carrier."

There was no discussion of any WestJet-BA alliance or partnership plans, Murray wrote.


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Friday, December 10, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Fudging of flying hours: DGCA suspends licences of 3 pilots

Fudging of flying hours: DGCA suspends licences of 3 pilots




NEW DELHI: Taking a strong view of falsification of records to grant pilot licenses in Rajasthan, aviation sector regulator DGCA on Saturday suspended the licenses of three pilots and warned of similar action against some others in the case.

Three persons, including two Chief Flying Instructors in Rajasthan and Haryana, have been arrested so far after they granted commercial pilots licences (CPLs) to 14 pilots by allegedly faking the number of flying hours in return for money running into several lakhs.

There are at least five of the 14 "under-trained" pilots from the Rajasthan Aviation School who were flying hundreds of passengers on commercial airlines.

Following reports from Rajasthan Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) regarding fabrication of logbook records of some pilots in collusion with Chief Flying Instructor, Rajasthan State Flying School (RSFS), Jaipur, the DGCA suspended the licenses of three of those named in the ACB report.

Information about some more pilots trained in RSFS has been sent to ACB, the sources said, adding as and when probe reports about other pilots are received legal action will be taken by DGCA and concern airlines will be informed.

The license of three pilots, including one who was working for Air India (domestic), has been suspended by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) which also asked the state-owned airline to take him off duty, official sources said.

"This is only the tip of the iceberg", an official said, adding there could be 40 such pilots who have logged "fake" flying hours to get their CPLs.

Some of such pilots are currently reported to be working with Indian Airlines, JetLite, SpiceJet and a few other carriers, they said.

DGCA has also initiated several other measures to ensure that flying clubs operating in India and abroad, where Indian students undergo flying training, do not supply fabricated documents pertaining to flying hours for obtaining licences from DGCA.