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...Giovanni Bisignani, former chief executive of the International Air Transport Association, has talked of the four horsemen of the apocalypse bearing down on the industry, from war and terrorism to pestilence...
...“The profile of the recovery in air transport sharply decelerated in March,” said Giovanni Bisignani, director-general of Iata....
...After the biggest demand decline in the history of aviation in 2009, people started to travel and do business again in 2010,” said Giovanni Bisignani, Iata’s director-general and chief executive....
...“We are also seeing big shifts in where the money is,” said Giovanni Bisignani, Iata’s chief executive, who pointed out that Air China is now the world’s biggest airline by market capitalisation, at $20bn...
...Fuel accounts for 27 per cent of operating costs and a sustained rise in the oil price could “spoil the party”, said Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s chief executive.....
...“It is a combination of poor infrastructure, lack of resources in governments to implement global standard safety oversight and insufficient investments in training,” says Giovanni Bisignani, head of the...
...“To avoid a national embarrassment, Brazil needs bigger and better facilities for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics,” Giovanni Bisignani, head of the International Air Transport Association, the airline...
...“It is a significant improvement and much stronger than forecast, but it’s no time for a big celebration, just a small party,” said Giovanni Bisignani, Iata’s director-general....
...Giovanni Bisignani, the International Air Transport Association’s director-general, said last week that Vietnam would be the world’s third-fastest growing market for international passengers by 2014, and...
...“The infrastructure is not ready to cope with the kind of growth it is seeing,” says Giovanni Bisignani, head of the International Air Transport Association, an industry lobby group....
...“The global economy is recovering from the depths of the financial crisis much more quickly than could have been anticipated,” Giovanni Bisignani, Iata director-general, told the association’s annual meeting...
...Even Giovanni Bisignani, head of the International Air Transport Association, seemed taken aback by the divergent airline forecasts his trade group released on Monday....
...This was good news, said Giovanni Bisignani, Iata chief executive, “but it is only a 0.5 per cent margin. We are still a long way from sustainable profitability”....
...Painting it green adds insult to injury,” said Giovanni Bisignani, director-general of the International Air Transport Association....
...Despite the more upbeat forecast, Giovanni Bisignani, Iata director-general and chief executive, said that it could take two to three years for the industry to return to strength....
...Thai Airways, one of the worst affected airlines with a bill of $5m, was scheduled to discuss the matter with Iata’s head, Giovanni Bisignani in Berlin on Sunday night....
...Giovanni Bisignani, director-general of the International Air Transport Association, will tell a conference in Singapore there were 647m Asia-Pacific passenger journeys last year, 7m more than in the US,...
...Giovanni Bisignani, head of Iata, said: “It is an embarrassing situation for Europe, which, after decades of discussion, still does not have an effective single European sky....
...Giovanni Bisignani, head of the International Air Travel Association, estimated airline revenue losses were reaching $250m a day, up from an estimate of $200m on Friday....
...“For an industry that lost $9.4bn last year and was forecast to lose a further $2.8bn in 2010, this crisis is devastating,” Giovanni Bisignani, Iata director general and chief executive, said yesterday....
...Plane crashes are 36 per cent down from the level of 2000. ”Even in a decade during which airlines lost an average of $5bn per year, we still managed to improve our safety record,” said Giovanni Bisignani...
...As Iata’s Giovanni Bisignani points out: “When Iata started 60 years ago, we had roughly nine million passengers and 247 fatalities....
...The imminent completion of the two agreements was welcomed as “very good news” by Giovanni Bisignani, director-general of the International Air Transport Association, who called for further liberalisation...
...Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association, the global airline industry body, called for fresh talks between Beijing and Washington to avert a crisis over the $6.4bn...
...Giovanni Bisignani, Iata director general, said: “Tough times continue. The number of travellers will be back to the peak levels of 2007 but with $30bn less in revenues.”...
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