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...Many carriers worldwide have in effect grounded their fleets, while global airline trade body Iata warned last week that any recovery in travel demand was likely to take longer than in the aftermath of previous...
...Oldendorff Carriers, an operator of dry bulk carriers based in Hamburg, has also said it is keeping existing crews on board....
...The carrier, which has cut 95 per cent of its flights, also has an unencumbered fleet worth €10bn against which it could borrow money....
...“We see electric aviation as a matter of when it will happen, not if,” says Chris Essex, head of fleet and procurement at EasyJet, Europe’s second-biggest low-cost carrier by passenger numbers....
...While Europe’s largest carriers struggle to justify the massive investment on 5G networks, US and Chinese companies are racing ahead....
...BA boasted of being “the world’s favourite airline” of the late 1980s; Emirates has long since usurped its role as the carrier to emulate....
...Carriers are also enlarging vehicle fleets and recruiting drivers to cope with the UK’s growing consignment volumes....
...Robust preparations enabled parcel carriers to cope better with the discount bonanza of Black Friday in November....
...Rob Byde, analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, says: “All the major carriers have a lot of new capacity to fill....
...As well as its German airline, Lufthansa, Europe’s largest carrier group by revenue, owns Austrian Airlines and Swiss....
...In addition to the fine, the CCI ordered the carriers to “cease and desist” from their “anti-competitive behaviour”....
...Yet two and a half years ago, he decided to have another go and returned to driving, this time employed by DPD, a carrier owned by French state-backed La Poste....
...Implicit within the proposal is a threat: carriers could block the advertising of intermediaries that refused to pay....
...Such irritation was inflamed last month when Google launched Project Fi, its own wireless carrier in the US....
...“No low-cost carrier wishes to have a low-safety and low-compensation tag,” said Mr Healy-Pratt. An insurance industry executive agreed....
...In 2011, the European Commission complained about weaknesses in German oversight of air carriers, which it attributed to “insufficient numbers of qualified personnel within the LBA”....
...But carriers and regulators will be under pressure to tighten up the rules on assessing a pilot’s mental fitness....
...Germany’s flag carrier has been shaken in recent months by a succession of pilots’ strikes that have hurt morale....
...Having underestimated the challenge from budget carriers Ryanair and easyJet, it finds itself being undercut on long-haul routes to Asia by the Gulf carriers....
...The German airline is battling intense competition from low-cost and Middle Eastern carriers but has so far managed to retain a loyal customer base in part because of its excellent safety record....
...Some carriers’ use of zero-hour contracts, akin to freelance arrangements, and wages linked to the number of hours flown mean that pilots who have to take time off earn significantly less....
...In an unusual move, Germanwings said on Wednesday morning it had been forced to cancel one flight and bring in 11 aircraft and crews from parent Lufthansa and rival carriers to operate 40 other services,...
...The CAA has written to all UK carriers to ask what procedures they have in place for when one of the pilots leaves the flight deck....
...However, Germanwings is now facing intensifying competition from low-cost carriers....
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