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...Another pleasant surprise, according to Liberum analyst Gerald Khoo, was a £19.6mn adjusted operating profit from FirstGroup’s fully commercial “open-access” rail business....
...Current shareholders may not fare so well, though. In addition to a debt pile that stands at about £16bn, Thames Water is dealing with a financial mismatch....
...Republican President Gerald Ford began the push towards deregulating the industry, a mission later championed by Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, who argued it would lower fares and allow more people to fly...
...Air travel rebounded this year, allowing US carriers to raise fares and generate profits....
...[ADVERTISEMENTS FOR AIRLINES PLAYING] Claire BusheyBut in the 1970s, President Gerald Ford wanted to take a crack at deregulating the industry....
...“It should be overseen by a new guiding mind for the whole industry and underpinned by a simpler to use fares system.”...
...At least one of the accused, Mohamed-Amine Fares, will plead not guilty and will deny supplying weapons to Coulibaly or knowing anything about the terror plot, Safya Akorri, his lawyer, said....
...Predictably, Trump does not fare well. He gets a “good” rating on the use of force (“proportion, discrimination, necessity”) overseas....
...“Nearly all the franchises let in the past decade are in some form of difficulty,” said Gerald Khoo, transport analyst at Liberum....
...Gerald Khoo, analyst at Liberum, said in a note that with neither Lufthansa nor Ryanair showing any sign of backing down from the ongoing fare war in the German short haul market, short-term earnings headwinds...
...Gerald Khoo, an analyst at Liberum, said that if the train companies did not increase fares by RPI, “that’s a multiple of their margin gone . . ....
...Train operators can decline to increase their fares by RPI, but Gerald Khoo, an analyst at Liberum, said that if train companies did refuse, “that’s a multiple of their margin gone . . ....
...Ministerial approval would be required to change control of rail franchises, said Gerald Khoo, analyst at Liberum....
...European carriers are starting to see fares improve following a period which saw low fuel prices encourage airlines to flood the market with capacity, leading to lower fares....
...In Europe, alongside its budget rival easyJet, it has upended the airline industry over the past 30 years with a single-minded focus on cheap fares, which has seen legacy airlines such as British Airways...
...El Glaoui took the same approach with the fair’s first Marrakesh edition as she has in its other cities: namely, better to be small and select than to fill space with lower-quality fare....
...increasingly familiar pattern from European airlines of a strong performance well ahead of consensus on Easter, combined with continued caution on the unit revenue outlook for the remainder of the year,” said Gerald...
...Gerald Khoo, analyst at Liberum, said while guidance for this year is a “touch light” of current consensus, it was not enough to cause concern given Ryanair’s record of conservative forecasts....
...Gerald Khoo, analyst at Liberum, said there was a sense that expectations had “run away somewhat — and the share price moves you are seeing now is that expectation starting to unwind”....
...Gerald Khoo, analyst at Liberum, noted that easyJet’s first half was always going to be tough, given Easter’s timing and foreign exchange headwinds....
...But consumer groups are likely to watch closely to make sure a combined entity does not result in higher fares for airline passengers....
...Gerald Khoo, an analyst at Liberum, said Flybe had faced “industry wide challenges” from weak fares and adverse exchange rate swings....
...Gerald Khoo, analyst at Liberum, notes that airlines taking strategic minority stakes in other airlines is “a strategy with an alarmingly high failure rate.”...
...The industry has been struggling with economic uncertainty unleashed by Brexit, the effect of the terror attacks in the EU and a glut of new capacity that pushed down fares....
...The Lady and the Fool makes for different fare, an extravagant ballet working of the rich girl-poor boy love story so beloved in the 1950s....
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