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Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am
by Robert Gandt
Published 1 Mar 1995

The reason for the decline was obvious, but not easily explained. The phenomenal growth of passenger traffic during the first two-thirds of the decade was reversing itself. Pan Am’s fleet of jets was flying around half empty. Worse, American overseas travelers were flying in larger numbers—over half of them—aboard foreign flag carriers. Among the bored Pan Am stockholders there were no cries of alarm. No questions were raised. The numbers and their ominous trend caused them no concern. What the hell, Pan Am was still making money, wasn’t it? They had come to vote on the directors, not to be bored with accounting data. The chairman droned toward the end of his report.

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TWA owned the prestigious Hilton International Hotel chain. Pan Am owned the Intercontinental chain. The joining of the two would result in the world’s most superb hotel conglomerate. Even Juan Trippe, watching from the wings, was ecstatic. For years the old Skygod had preached the need for a “community” airline—an amalgamated flag carrier composed principally of Pan Am and its most significant competitor, TWA. He had bargained with Howard Hughes, and later Tillinghast. Each time it had come to nothing. Now the old man was seeing his favorite dream about to come true. But they hadn’t reckoned on the Nixon White House. A merged Pan Am and TWA would be a big airline—big enough to again raise the old bugaboo about monopoly and unfair competition.

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While he was the FAA chief, Halaby had overseen the development of Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. It now struck him that the modern new Dulles complex was an eminently logical headquarters for Pan American. For one thing, it was in the Virginia countryside, close enough to the capital city, but free of the urban messiness. The idea had a stars-and-stripes aura—America’s premier flag carrier based in America’s capital—that could translate to political profit. Besides, there was plenty of hangar and office space. It would be easy to feed connecting flights. He should have known better. If Jeeb Halaby had been around long enough he would have realized the question would ignite a firestorm among the corporate elders.

Why Airplanes Crash: Aviation Safety in a Changing World
by Clinton V. Oster , John S. Strong and C. Kurt Zorn
Published 28 May 1992

The next chapter expands the international aviation safety comparison by examining the comparative safety performance of domestic and international operations for flag carriers and domestic airlines worldwide. This page intentionally left blank Chapter 5 The International Safety Record As international travel has grown, the extent to which citizens of one country fly on airlines of other nations is at an all time high. Any assessment of aviation safety worldwide must go beyond merely comparing safety records of international flag carriers that fly relatively long flights between major airports to examine flights within countries as well. Furthermore, the globalization of the airline industry has led to a growing number of marketing agreements, operational ties, and cross-ownership relations.

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Those problems notwithstanding, even the incomplete data help assess the relative safety performance of Aeroflot in the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, no traffic data is available for CAAC, the airline of the People's Republic of China. 2 For a review of the prior safety records of international flag carriers, see A. Barnett, M. Abraham, and V. Schimmel/'Airline Safety: Some Empirical Findings," Management Science 25 (1979): 1045-56. A more recent update is provided by A. Barnett and M. Higgins, "Airline Safety: The Last Decade," Management Science 35 (January 1989): 1-21. The International Safety Record 77 THE SAFETY RECORD OF SCHEDULED AIRLINES How safe have the world's airlines been?

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There are many ways to get a bomb on a plane: baggage; mail; cargo; by passengers willing to sacrifice themselves; by passengers unwittingly duped to bringing a bomb on board; by airport and airline employees; and by people masquerading as those employees. Moreover, even if the planes themselves could be made secure, airports and terminals could prove inviting targets. As the international deregulation of airline activity continues around the world and as governments continue to divest their flag carriers through privatization, the role of safety regulation will become even more important. While "safety first" remains the credo of the overwhelming majority of industry participants, economic deregulation increases the need for vigilant, effective public oversight of safety. At the same time, governments must face up to their responsibilities in providing for airports, air traffic control, and related public infrastructure that meet the world's growing travel demands while upholding the safety of flying.

Moon Portugal
by Carrie-Marie Bratley
Published 15 Mar 2021

The average one-way fare will be around €1,800-3,000. At the time of writing, there were also no direct flights to Portugal from South Africa; trips from South Africa usually require a stop in Luanda or a major European destination such as Paris, London, Munich, Amsterdam, or Madrid. However, Portugal’s national flag-carrier TAP (www.flytap.com) recently announced a direct flight from Lisbon to Cape Town for 2021. From Elsewhere in Europe Traveling to Portugal from anywhere within Europe is quick and easy—and even better, cheap, thanks to the growing number of low-cost airlines. There are numerous flights from myriad cities in Europe to Lisbon and Porto; flights to Portugal within Europe can be found for less than €100 round-trip.

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It also has direct international flights, primarily from Europe. • Horta Airport (Aeroporto da Horta; HOR; tel. 292 943 511; www.aeroportohorta.pt), on Faial, receives direct international flights mainly from Europe. From mainland Portugal, the Azores are a short and cheap (usually around €100 round-trip) 2-hour flight. The main airlines are national flag-carrier TAP Air Portugal (tel. 707 205 700; www.flytap.com), regional carrier SATA Azores Airlines (tel. 707 227 282; www.sata.pt), and Irish low-cost airline Ryanair (tel. +44 871 246 0002; www.ryanair.com). The majority of flights leave from Lisbon Portela Airport (Aeroporto de Lisboa; LIS; tel. 121 841 3500; www.aeroportolisboa.pt) and Porto’s Francisco Sá Carniero Airport (Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro; OPO; 122 943 2400; www.aeroportolisboa.pt).

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Most of the bigger textile and footwear factories are in the north, while Oeiras, in Lisbon, is home to the country’s major multinational companies. Many larger Portuguese companies have also made significant investment in internationalizing, among them retailer Jerónimo Martins, which owns the largest no-frills supermarket chain in Poland and is also investing in Colombia, and national flag-carrier airline TAP Portugal, which is held in high regard for its safety record. For much of the 1990s the economy grew by more than the EU average, and, despite the crippling economic downturn, it has recently started to regain ground. In 2017, driven by exports and investment, the economy grew at twice the pace of the Eurozone average.

The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
by Richard Branson
Published 8 Sep 2014

LUCK DOWN UNDER Over the years, we have had quite a few events around the Virgin companies that have been described as lucky but perhaps none bigger than in 2000 when we set up shop in Australia with the fledgling Virgin Blue. We started in anticipation of having at least two major competitors in Qantas Airlines and Ansett Australia. Qantas was the flag carrier and Ansett had been around since 1935. We knew that Ansett had been experiencing financial difficulties but they had just been acquired by Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines so we thought they were probably going to work things out. That was not to be the case, however, and over the Christmas period of 2000 we got a major traffic boost for our then tiny operation when the Australian aviation authorities partially grounded Ansett’s fleet for maintenance infractions.

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In February 1982 Laker Airways was driven out of business when BA led a pack of ailing major airlines that threatened retaliatory action against several institutions that had agreed to prop up Laker’s sagging finances. Absurdly, rather than supporting the free enterprise they were supposed to champion, Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan jointly turned a blind eye in their blinkered quest to do whatever was necessary to help save their failing flag carriers. As it turned out it would be a case of ‘too-little too-late’ as British Caledonian, Pan Am, TWA and others would eventually also fail, albeit of no real consolation for Freddie who had been robbed of his life’s work. So, in late 1983 when I searched out Freddie and confided in him that I wanted to pick up where he had involuntarily left off, I found an ally who was uniquely qualified – and highly motivated – to mentor me with a treasure trove of invaluable advice.

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
by Tom Burgis
Published 24 Mar 2015

The junta’s deputy leader, an imposing senior officer, took over and promised to give power back to the people. If the giant cake reminded any of the luminaries present of Marie Antoinette, they didn’t let on. Decked out in the national colours of red, green and gold, the confection had been baked to celebrate the launch of Guinea’s flag carrier, a new airline to replace the one that had gone bust a decade earlier. Ministers and businessmen who had gathered in a function room of the Novotel in Conakry chatted and applauded. It was a moment for patriotic self-congratulation. Guinea was still a case study in deprivation, but the ruling class had restored a little pride by resurrecting the national airline.

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‘They are nimble-footed,’ he told me, ‘and they make decisions quickly.’28 That nimble-footedness allowed the Queensway Group to retain its interests in Guinea’s resources even after the new government scrapped its $7 billion megadeal. ‘Since I came to power Sam has not been to Guinea,’ Alpha Condé told me when I interviewed him in Paris after his election victory. Air Guinée International, the new Guinean flag carrier backed by China International Fund whose launch I had attended in Conakry, was wound up before it ever flew. But Pa was still present in Guinea – not in person but via the London stock market. CIF reclaimed most of the $100 million it had wired to Guinea to prop up the junta – the same amount China Sonangol, the group’s partnership with Angola’s state oil company, would spend buying shares in Bellzone.29 A month before the election Bellzone announced an agreement with China International Fund under which the CIF would combine an iron-ore permit the junta had granted it with Bellzone’s adjacent prospect.

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by Marc Levinson
Published 1 Jan 2006

For all of their earthy bluster, their businesses had survived thanks almost entirely to government coddling. On domestic routes, government policy discouraged competition among ship lines. On international routes, rates for every commodity were fixed by conferences, a polite term for cartels, and the most important cargo, military freight, was handed out among U.S.-flag carriers without the nuisance of competitive bidding. Decisions about buying, building, or selling ships, about leasing terminals, and about sailing new routes all depended upon government directives. For men who had prospered in this environment, who loved the smells of the ocean and fondly referred to their ships as “she,” Malcom McLean’s wholly unromantic interest in moving freight in boxes had little appeal.

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Sea-Land won the business with a tank container, made of stainless steel, designed to let exporters ship their whiskey in bulk for bottling in the United States. Two tank containers would fit neatly into a standard container cell on a Sea-Land ship, putting an end to the pilferage that had plagued the whiskey trade from time immemorial. The military role was even more crucial. As a U.S.-flag carrier, Sea-Land was entitled to carry a portion of the freight for the quarter million U.S. soldiers in West Germany, and the military, determined to push containerization, channeled cargo Sea-Land’s way. According to industry rumor, more than 90 percent of the cargo on Sea-Land’s first transatlantic voyage was military freight.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
by Alain de Botton
Published 1 Apr 2009

Food-trolley doors, seat belts and upended toilet seats clacked in the wind, making the place sound like a marina in a storm. Many of the planes wore liveries testifying to corporate hubris: Midway, Braniff, Novair, African Air Express, TWA, Swissair. Most had started out in the fleets of well-funded flag carriers and then over time had slipped down the rungs of the aviation ladder until, in their final employment, they were reduced to doing midnight cargo runs from Miami to San Juan and back or shuttling between Addis Ababa and Harare, their once-immaculate first-class seats patched up with silver duct tape.

Fodor's Rome: With the Best City Walks and Scenic Day Trips
by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.
Published 24 Sep 2012

. | www.airportconnection.it. Airport Shuttle. 06/42013469, 06/4740451 | airportshuttle@airportshuttle.it | www.airportshuttle.it. FLIGHTS When flying internationally, you must usually choose between a domestic carrier, the national flag carrier of the country you’re visiting, and a foreign carrier from a third country. You may, for example, choose to fly Alitalia to Rome. National flag carriers have the greatest number of nonstops. Domestic carriers may have better connections to your hometown and serve a greater number of gateway cities. Third-party carriers may have a price advantage. For travel within Italy and around Europe, a number of low-cost airlines can get you where you need to go, often at cheaper rates than by train.

The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society
by Binyamin Appelbaum
Published 4 Sep 2019

In 1995, the party’s new leader, Tony Blair, won removal of the public ownership clause in the same Westminster hall where the party had adopted it in 1918. In the early 1980s, American and Canadian airlines flying to Ireland were required to land in tiny Shannon, on the west coast, before flying on to Dublin. The inconvenient stopover was intended to protect Aer Lingus, the Irish flag carrier. Nor was that all of it: KLM, the Netherlands’ flag carrier, was paid by the Irish government not to fly to Ireland. Aer Lingus fares on a per-mile basis were four times higher than average fares in the United States. An Aer Lingus executive, dismissing the idea of deregulation, explained that Americans had an unhealthy obsession with low prices.

Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay
Published 2 Jan 2009

The Persian traders emigrated en masse, comprising the city’s first expatriates. Open Skies had a similar effect—for twenty-five years, the emirate’s population rose exponentially in lockstep with the airport’s as the latter became one of the busiest in the Gulf. The policy eventually drew Dubai into conflict with Gulf Air, formed in 1973 as the flag carrier of Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE. It demanded the same protections it enjoyed at its other hubs, which is standard practice in the industry. When Dubai demurred, the airline retaliated by drastically cutting service. Rather than knuckle under to its demands, Sheikh Rashid and Sheikh Mo countered by launching their own airline instead.

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But it wasn’t until SAM was introduced to Africa in 2006 that Swift discovered its niche as FedEx for the bottom billion. Many of Africa’s capitals—Kinshasa, Lusaka, Kigali, Harare, and Khartoum among them—are impoverished and landlocked, rendering conventional sea or air shipments either too costly or unworkable. Flights south of the Sahara—typically via their former colonizers’ flag carriers—are strato-spherically expensive and often run just once a week. “Africa-bound traffic can afford to be beaten up and tossed around, because the choices are limited,” Baluch said. His solution was a deal with Ethiopian Airlines, which possesses a fleet of modern Boeings (including, improbably, the 787 starting later this year) and a network crisscrossing the continent.

The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters
by Christine Negroni
Published 26 Sep 2016

Seven years earlier, he had graduated from junior science college, a boarding school three hours north of his family home in Kuala Lumpur. He was accepted into Malaysia Airline’s pilot cadet program, at the Langkawi Aerospace Training Centre, on the northwest coast of the Malay Peninsula. He would get more than flying lessons at the training center. He had a guaranteed job flying for his nation’s flag carrier, which served sixty destinations around the globe and operated the Airbus A380, the world’s largest airliner. His professional future was full of promise and so was his personal life. During cadet training he met and fell in love with a fellow student, Nadira Ramli, who became a first officer with AirAsia, a Kuala Lumpur–based low-cost carrier.

Toast
by Stross, Charles
Published 1 Jan 2002

He wonders what he's going to patent next. Manfred has a suite at the Hotel Jan Luyken paid for by a grateful multinational consumer protection group, and an unlimited public transport pass paid for by a Scottish sambapunk band in return for services rendered. He has airline employee's travel rights with six flag carriers despite never having worked for an airline. His bush jacket has sixty four compact supercomputing clusters sewn into it, four per pocket, courtesy of an invisible college that wants to grow up to be the next Media Lab. His dumb clothing comes made to measure from an e-tailor in the Philippines who he's never met.

Upscale: What It Takes to Scale a Startup. By the People Who've Done It.
by James Silver
Published 15 Nov 2018

To get a foot in the door with major brands, first you need to establish a sense of gravitas and credibility Credibility comes from many things - who’s on your board, who your investors are, who your other suppliers are, your employees, the amount of capital you raise, who’s on your advisory board - any and all of these are signs of gravitas which can distinguish you from the also-rans. We went all out to attract heavyweight board members at lastminute.com and MyDeco.com (now MONOQI). At lastminute.com, when we were just about 10 people, we got Pieter Bouw, the former chairman of [Dutch flag carrier] KLM to be our chairman at the very beginning. We went to a top headhunter early on to find him. So then it was a question of relevance. We were bringing him relevance and understanding of what the next generation of the industry was going to look like. That was, for him, what made it work. In a similar way, when we got Sir Terence Conran and Philippe Starck to be co-chairs of our design advisory board at MyDeco, we approached them offering the opportunity to be part of a new type of company, where design meets digital, encompassing community, open source design, innovation and 3D.

Executive Orders
by Tom Clancy
Published 2 Jan 1996

Moreover, each bird had its own security Detail, all of whom had to be coordinated with the Americans in an atmosphere of institutional distrust, since the security people were all trained to regard everyone in sight with suspicion. There were two Concordes, one British and one French, for sex appeal. The rest were mainly wide-bodies of one sort or another, and most of them liveried in the colors of the nation-flag carrier of their country of origin. Sabena, KLM, and Lufthansa led off the NATO row. SAS handled each of the three Scandinavian countries, each with its own 747. Chiefs of state traveled in style, and not one of the aircraft, large or small, had flown as much as a third full. Greeting them was a task to tax the skills and patience of the combined White House and State Department offices of protocol, and word was sent through the embassies that President Ryan simply didn't have the time to give everyone the attention he or she deserved.

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.” “When does their Prime Minister arrive?” the Prince asked. The substantive reply was a shrug, followed by verbiage. “We offered the chance to fly over together so that we might discuss the situation, but he regrettably declined. Tomorrow, I think. If his aircraft doesn't malfunction,” she added. That national-flag carrier had all manner of technical problems, not to mention a long-lived security threat. “If you wish, the ambassador can probably arrange a quiet meeting.” “Perhaps that would not be entirely useless,” the Prime Minister allowed. “I also wish the Americans would get the proper spin on things. They've always been so hopeless on our part of the world.” Which was the point of the exercise, the Prince understood.

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.; Aeroflot 516 left at three A.M. for Moscow, arrived thereat 7:10. Only one nonstop to Rome, no direct flights to Athens, not even a nonstop to Beirut! He could have his people connect through Dubai-remarkably, Emirates Airlines did fly out of Tehran into its own international hub, as did Kuwait's flag carrier, but they, he thought, were not a very good idea. Just a handful of flights to use, all of them easily observed by foreign intelligence services-if they were competent, as he had to assume they were, either they'd have their own people aboard the flights or the cabin staff would be briefed on what to look for and how to report it while the aircraft was still in the air.

The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
by Sasha Issenberg
Published 1 Jan 2007

The distinctive coffins glide off All Nippon Airways passenger jets and Air France freighters coming from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport; Singapore Airlines flights from Adelaide, Australia; China Airlines planes originating in Vietnam. But no airline has been as deeply committed to the art of high-quality fish transport over the years as Japan Airlines, which, after inventing the modern tuna economy, has come to serve as its de facto flag carrier, as well. In fact, if one squints through the heat haze rising from the Narita macadam, the slice of the Rising Sun flag that fills the tails of incoming JAL planes starts to look like a piece of perfectly cut maguro. In the weeks after the day of the flying fish in August 1972, 173 tuna were shipped from Canada to Tokyo, but Akira Okazaki still had work to do on Prince Edward Island.

Lonely Planet Eastern Europe
by Lonely Planet , Mark Baker , Tamara Sheward , Anita Isalska , Hugh McNaughtan , Lorna Parkes , Greg Bloom , Marc Di Duca , Peter Dragicevich , Tom Masters , Leonid Ragozin , Tim Richards and Simon Richmond
Published 30 Sep 2017

In the arrivals hall there's a Slovenia Tourist Information Centre desk (STIC; www.visitljubljana.si; Jože Pučnik Airport; h8am-7pm Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm Sat & Sun Oct-May, 8am-9pm Jun-Sep), travel agencies and an ATM. Adria Airways (%04-259 45 82, 01-369 10 10; www.adria-airways.com), the Slovenian flag-carrier, serves more than 20 European destinations on regularly scheduled flights. Budget carriers include EasyJet (%04-206 16 77; www.easyjet.com) and Wizz Air (%in UK 44-330 977 0444; www.wizzair.com). Land Bus International bus destinations from Ljubljana include Serbia, Germany, Croatia, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Macedonia, Italy and Scandinavia.

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Air Only a couple of low-cost airlines fly to Ukraine. Most international flights use Kyiv's main airport, Boryspil International Airport (%044 393 4371; www.kbp.aero). Lviv International Airport (LWO; %032-229 8112; www.lwo.aero) also has a few international connections. Ukraine International Airlines (www.flyuia.com) is Ukraine's flag carrier. Land Ukraine is well linked to its neighbours. Kyiv is connected by bus or train to Minsk, Warsaw and Budapest, as well as other Eastern European capitals. Lviv is the biggest city servicing the Polish border – it's possible to take a budget flight to Poland then cross the border to Lviv by bus or train.

Fodor's Dordogne & the Best of Southwest France With Paris
by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.
Published 18 Apr 2011

Previous Chapter | Beginning of Chapter | Next Chapter | Contents Main Table of Contents Getting Here and Around Essentials Previous Chapter | Next Chapter | Contents Air Travel | Barge and Yacht Travel | Boat Travel | Bus Travel | Car Travel | Train Travel AIR TRAVEL Flying time to Paris is 7½ hours from New York, 9 hours from Chicago, 11 hours from Los Angeles, and 1 hour from London. Flying time between Paris and Nice is 1 hour. As one of the world’s most popular destinations, Paris is serviced by many international carriers. Air France, the French flag carrier, offers numerous flights between Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport and New York City’s JFK Airport; Newark, New Jersey; and Washington’s Dulles Airport; as well as Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Most other North American cities are served through Air France partnerships with Delta.

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
by Peter Robison
Published 29 Nov 2021

So in April 1952, Boeing’s board agreed to invest $15 million—an amount four times greater than its total profits over the previous seven years—in a dual-purpose prototype. The marketing department already had the Boeing 707 in mind as a name; it sounded lucky. For the time being the model was known by a comparatively unmemorable moniker, the 367-80, Dash 80 for short. Ten days after the board’s approval, a Comet operated by the British flag carrier BOAC completed its first revenue flight from London to Johannesburg, with stops in Rome, Beirut, Khartoum, Entebbe, and Livingstone, in just under twenty-four hours—almost 50 percent faster than the typical forty-hour journey. This exciting new way of travel got a powerful endorsement from Britain’s Queen Mother and her glamorous daughter, Princess Margaret, who flew in a “Royal Comet” to Rhodesia the following year.

The Dealmaker: Lessons From a Life in Private Equity
by Guy Hands
Published 4 Nov 2021

It wasn’t the result we had hoped for but bearing in mind just how tough the credit crash in 2008 had made things, and in comparison with the record of other aircraft-leasing companies, it was an extraordinary achievement. We had created a diverse customer base of eighty-seven airlines in more than forty-five countries and gone from being a company that leased 15 per cent of its fleet to the tiny Hawaiian Airlines to one whose largest customer was the Russian flag carrier Aeroflot. AWAS’s operating profit before tax went from $35 million to $273 million at its peak. Our success went further than AWAS and Tank & Rast. In twelve great years, Terra Firma – and the Principal Finance Group before it – had acquired and sold fourteen companies and delivered a world-beating 41 per cent compound-annualised rate of return for our investors.

The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets
by Thomas Philippon
Published 29 Oct 2019

Nevertheless, the overall picture of Europe’s commercial aviation sector is disappointingly unchanged, due to a continued combination of slot allocations inherited from the less liberalized era, anticompetitive behavior on the part of the Continent’s incumbent carriers, and lingering national sentiment resulting in preferential treatment being accorded the flag carriers” (Pinkham 1999). o  The process started in 1988 and culminated in 1998 with full liberalization. The current Telecoms Regulatory Framework for electronic communications was adopted in 2002 and updated in 2009; it has subsequently been supplemented by a number of additional legislative instruments.

King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist
by Mark Stevens
Published 31 May 1993

That way he can say to you later ‘I didn’t lie to you. I told you black is really pink.’” --Brian Freeman Judged by any of the recognized financial yardsticks, TWA had never been a successful airline. Its most significant coup had come soon after World War II when it was granted the rights to compete with Pan Am as a U.S. flag carrier overseas. But Howard Hughes, who owned TWA in the postwar period, was more of an aviation buff than an airline manager. His biggest blunder was in moving slowly to embrace the Jet Age, leaving his propeller-driven fleet to compete against the sleek new 707’s Pan Am was buying as fast as Boeing could make them.

World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever
Published 19 Apr 2021

That episode was perhaps most notable for his bemused on-camera reaction to the strong smell of the sulfurous hot springs (“like a wet fart”), in which a local cook hard-boiled an egg for him. Lisbon * * * ARRIVAL AND GETTING AROUND Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is considered the gateway to the country. Its airport, Humberto Delgado or Lisbon Portela, is known simply as Lisbon Airport (LIS); it’s served by all major US carriers, TAP Air Portugal, the nation’s flag carrier airline, and all the major European carriers. There’s an airport shuttle bus (Aerobus, which costs 4 euros/US$4.50 and takes about forty-five minutes), the city metro (1.45 euro/US$1.60 for a thirty-five-minute ride, which includes a necessary transfer), and taxis, which will cost about 20 euros/US$22 for the approximately six-mile, twenty-minute ride to the city center from the airport.

Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
by Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin
Published 7 Nov 2023

Harnessing the power of international support was a key tactic of the movement. By late July, hundreds were staging sit-ins inside Hong Kong’s International Airport to broadcast their demands, raising awareness of the city’s plight with every arriving passenger. These demonstrations were organized by aircrew including from Cathay Pacific, the prestigious flag carrier of Hong Kong that symbolized its status as a global city. One Cathay Pacific pilot, landing home from Japan, used his pre-landing announcement as a form of advocacy: “Don’t be scared by all these people wearing black shirts sitting at the arrival hall.… Feel free to talk to them, and try to know more about Hong Kong if you want to.”

Cyclopedia
by William Fotheringham
Published 22 Sep 2011

COOKE, Nicole Born: Swansea, Wales, April 13, 1983 Major wins: Olympic road race champion 2008; world road race champion 2008; Commonwealth Games road race champion 2002; women’s World Cup 2003, 2006; Giro d’Italia 2004; 10 times GB national champion between 1999 and 2009; MBE 2009 Further reading: Cycle for Life, Nicole Cooke, Abbeville Press, 2009 The Welsh woman was the flag carrier for British women’s cycling throughout the early 2000s, from her unique triple junior world titles (road, time trial, mountain bike) in 2001 to her unprecedented double of world and Olympic road race titles in 2008, when she was elected Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year. Even while attending Brynteg Comprehensive in south Wales—where rugby star Gavin Henson was a fellow pupil—Cooke was a precocious talent, the youngest rider ever to win the senior women’s national title, which she achieved at 16.

An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
by Marc Levinson
Published 31 Jul 2016

Coastal ship lines had to charge less for every type of freight than the railroads they paralleled, but not so much less that their competition might undermine the rail industry. Most other governments had similar regulations, or else they owned transportation companies directly. And almost every country had a “flag carrier,” a national airline whose interests the government protected by limiting international competition. Brazil, to take one of many examples, had signed a treaty with the United States specifying how many airlines could fly between the two countries, which airports they could serve, how many flights they could offer, what size planes they could use, and what fares they could charge—all to make sure that Pan American World Airways, the US carrier, and Varig, its Brazilian counterpart, divided the passenger traffic evenly.

Lonely Planet Best of Spain
by Lonely Planet
Published 1 Nov 2016

There are also branches at the airport (%944 71 03 01; h9am-9pm Mon-Sat, 9am-3pm Sun) and the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (Alameda Mazarredo 66; h10am-7pm daily, to 3pm Sun Sep-Jun). The Bilbao tourism authority has a very useful reservations service (%902 87 72 98; www.bilbaoreservas.com). 8 GETTING THERE & AWAY AIR Bilbao’s airport (%902 404 704; www.aena.es) is near Sondika, to the northeast of the city. A number of European flag carriers serve the city. Of the budget airlines, EasyJet (www.easyjet.com) and Vueling (www.vueling.com) cover the widest range of destinations. VERONICA GARBUTT / GETTY IMAGES © BUS Bilbao’s main bus station, Termibus (%944 39 50 77; Gurtubay 1, San Mamés), is west of the centre. There are regular services to the following destinations: Barcelona (€50, seven to eight hours), Biarritz (France; €19.50, three hours), Logroño €14, 2¾ hours), Madrid (€34, 4¾ hours), Oñati (€6.50, 1¼ hours), Pamplona (€18, 2¾ hours, San Sebastián (€9, one hour), Santander (€9, 1¼ hours) and Vitoria (€9, 1½ hours).

Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North With Paris
by Fodor's
Published 18 Apr 2011

Previous Chapter | Beginning of Chapter | Next Chapter | Contents Main Table of Contents Getting Here and Around Essentials Previous Chapter | Next Chapter | Contents Air Travel | Barge and Yacht Travel | Boat Travel | Bus Travel | Car Travel | Train Travel Air Travel Flying time to Paris is 7½ hours from New York, 9 hours from Chicago, 11 hours from Los Angeles, and 1 hour from London. Flying time between Paris and Nice is 1 hour. As one of the world’s most popular destinations, Paris is serviced by many international carriers. Air France, the French flag carrier, offers numerous flights between Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport and New York City’s JFK Airport; Newark, New Jersey; and Washington’s Dulles Airport; as well as Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Most other North American cities are served through Air France partnerships with Delta.

Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: 60 Narratives
by Christopher Bartlett
Published 11 Apr 2010

In the author’s opinion, the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes, and is tipped against the pilots. The airline’s mistake in not informing the pilots of the ‘revision’ they had made is blatant, and it is understandable that the Royal Commission was revolted at the way the Chief Executive had attempted to cover it up. They were also dismayed that the flag carrier, albeit of a tiny country, was run close to the CEO’s chest like a private fiefdom. These sentiments rather than technical matters were bound to influence ‘professionals used to working in the judicial domain.’ The actual key to the accident was a phenomenon called ‘whiteout,’ well known to pilots operating in areas with snow and mountains, whereby the snowy slopes merge with the clouds giving the impression there is just thin cloud in the distance.

The Teeth of the Tiger
by Tom Clancy
Published 2 Jan 1998

"Unless some other spook craps out on the street somewhere," Rounds observed. "Then we'll know if there really is a ghost out there." The Avianca flight from Mexico touched down at Cartagena five minutes early. He'd flown Austrian Air to London Heathrow, and then a British Airways flight to Mexico City before taking Colombia's flag carrier to the South American country. It was an old American Boeing, but he was not one to worry about the safety of air travel. The world had far greater dangers. At the hotel, he opened his bag to retrieve his day planner, took a walk outside, and spotted a public phone to make his call. "Please tell Pablo that Miguel is here Gracias."

Accelerando
by Stross, Charles
Published 22 Jan 2005

He wonders what he's going to patent next. Manfred has a suite at the Hotel Jan Luyken paid for by a grateful multinational consumer protection group, and an unlimited public transport pass paid for by a Scottish sambapunk band in return for services rendered. He has airline employee's travel rights with six flag carriers despite never having worked for an airline. His bush jacket has sixty-four compact supercomputing clusters sewn into it, four per pocket, courtesy of an invisible college that wants to grow up to be the next Media Lab. His dumb clothing comes made to measure from an e-tailor in the Philippines he's never met.

Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
Published 30 Sep 2007

He wonders what he’s going to patent next. Manfred has a suite at the Hotel Jan Luyken paid for by a grateful multinational consumer protection group, and an unlimited public transport pass paid for by a Scottish sambapunk band in return for services rendered. He has airline employee’s travel rights with six flag carriers despite never having worked for an airline. His bush jacket has sixty four compact supercomputing clusters sewn into it, four per pocket, courtesy of an invisible college that wants to grow up to be the next Media Lab. His dumb clothing comes made to measure from an e-tailor in the Philippines who he’s never met.

Imagining India
by Nandan Nilekani
Published 25 Nov 2008

Their angst is intensified by the quality of our public debate, the dismal record of some of our elected representatives and the corruption that seems to be ubiquitous. It is true that India is a young democracy, saddled with the problems of inexperience, and that it has endured ineffective, populist governments. But the flag-carriers for authoritarian rule should remember that such power is always more dangerous than it is worth. An authoritarian system is always susceptible to tyranny and abuse—it is as likely to produce a Robert Mugabe as a Deng Xiaoping. It also creates errors that cannot be easily corrected, as we have seen in China’s response to environmental issues and population growth.

The Rough Guide to Korea
by Rough Guides
Published 24 Sep 2018

From here you can either take a flight or an overnight train; which one you use will depend on your tour operator (for a few of these), and the cost will be factored into your tour price. Most tour groups fly into Pyongyang and take the train out, the latter leg giving a warts-and-all view of the North Korean countryside. Flights into Pyongyang’s Sunan International Airport have improved dramatically since Air Koryo – the DPRK’s flag-carrier, and currently the only airline flying into the country – replaced their 1970s Soviet relics with a newer fleet of Russian Tupolevs and Ukrainian Antonovs in 2011. The EU lifted its travel ban for the most modern Koryo planes in 2010, though flights to Europe have yet to resume; at the time of writing, there were scheduled international flights to Pyongyang from Beijing (5 weekly; 2hr), Shanghai (2 weekly from spring to autumn; 2hr 20min) and Shenyang (2 weekly; 1hr 20min) in China, and to the Russian city of Vladivostok (2 weekly; 2hr).

Israel & the Palestinian Territories Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Should Ben-Gurion airport have to close, Ovda serves as a back-up (so does Larnaca, Cyprus). Israeli airport security is very tight so international travellers should check in at least three hours prior to their flight – when flying both to and from Israel. Airlines Israel’s privatised flag carrier, El Al (LY; %03-977 1111; www.elal.co.il), has direct flights to several dozen cities in Western and Eastern Europe, as well as long-haul services to New York (Kennedy), Newark, Toronto, Los Angeles, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Beijing; some flights to Asian destinations are codeshares.

The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka
by Rough Guides
Published 21 Sep 2018

Opened in 2013 at a cost of $210m, MRIA was meant both to provide Sri Lanka with a second international airport and to serve as the major engine driving economic development of Rajapakse’s impoverished home town and surrounding region. In the event it has proved an unmitigated disaster. The few airlines that decided to fly into MRIA rapidly withdrew their services due to lack of demand, and even the national flag carrier SriLankan Airlines cancelled its last remaining flights to the airport the day after Rajapakse’s election defeat in January 2015. The airport’s only scheduled flight at present is a solitary service from Dubai (with FlyDubai, flydubai.com, via Colombo), and according to latest rumours the hangars are now being used to store not planes, but paddy.

Security Analysis
by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
Published 1 Jan 1962

The Irish company sports by far the lowest fares of anyone in the short-haul business in the European markets it serves. In 10 years, it has grown its passengers tenfold and yet it has only a 7% share of the market. Last year its average fare was 44 euros, which compares with 66 euros for easyJet, 91 for Aer Lingus, and well over 100 euros for all the flag carriers. Even so, Ryanair has averaged 20% net margins over the past decade, versus low single digits for its rivals. We paid 16 times the current year’s earnings estimates and felt this price was justified by Ryanair’s huge cost advantages and growth prospects. Then the price of oil doubled again. The shares have declined 30% since our initial investment, and the profit outlook has dimmed.

Rainbow Six
by Tom Clancy
Published 2 Jan 1998

Coffee was served, and the other passengers kept away from that part of the aircraft. "I rather admire the Ethiopians' approach to situations like this," Stanley observed. He was sipping tea. "What's that?" Chavez asked tiredly. "Some years ago they had a hijacking attempt on their national flag carrier. There happened to be security chap aboard, and they got control of the situation. Then they strapped their charges in first-class seats, wrapped towels around their necks to protect the upholstery, and cut their throats, right there on the aircraft. And you know-" "Gotten," Ding observed. Nobody had messed with that airline since.

The Sum of All Fears
by Tom Clancy
Published 2 Jan 1989

One drawback of his physical condition was that there wasn't much slack in his waistline to take up. But he couldn't risk losing his money - without it, where the hell would he be? Keeping track of money was a pain in the ass, wasn't it? Marks in Germany. Drachmas or douche-bags or something else here. Fortunately, you got your airline tickets with bucks. He traveled American-flag carriers mainly for that reason, certainly not because he liked the sight of the Stars and Stripes on the tail fins of the aircraft. The phone rang. Russell lifted it. "Yes?" "Tomorrow, nine-thirty, be in front of the hotel, ready to travel. Understood?" "Nine-thirty. Yes." The phone clicked off before he could say more.

Central Europe Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Getting There & Away Air Slovenia’s only international airport receiving regular scheduled flights at present – Aerodrom Maribor does limited charters only – is Ljubljana’s Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU; 04-206 1981; www.lju-airport.si) at Brnik, 27km north of Ljubljana. From there, the Slovenian flag-carrier, Adria Airways (JP; 080 13 00, 01-369 10 10; www.adria-airways.com) , serves some 30 European destinations on regularly scheduled flights, with just as many holiday spots served by charter flights in summer. Adria can be remarkably good value and includes useful connections to places like İstanbul, Pristina (Kosovo) and Tirana (Albania).

The Best of Best New SF
by Gardner R. Dozois
Published 1 Jan 2005

He wonders what he’s going to patent next. Manfred has a suite at the Hotel Jan Luyken paid for by a grateful multinational consumer protection group, and an unlimited public transport pass paid for by a Scottish sambapunk band in return for services rendered. He has airline employee’s travel rights with six flag carriers despite never having worked for an airline. His bush jacket has sixty-four compact supercomputing clusters sewn into it, four per pocket, courtesy of an invisible college that wants to grow up to be the next Media Lab. His dumb clothing comes made to measure from an e-tailor in the Philippines who he’s never met.

Greece
by Korina Miller
Published 1 Mar 2010

Olympic Air has flights from Toronto to Athens via Montreal. There are no direct flights from Vancouver, but there are connecting flights via Toronto, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and London on Air Canada, KLM, Lufthansa and British Airways. Continental Europe Athens is linked to every major city in Europe by either Olympic Air or the flag carrier of each country. Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin and Paris are all major centres for cheap airfares. France has a network of travel agencies that can supply discount tickets to travellers of all ages. They include OTU Voyages ( 01 40 29 12 22), which has branches across the country. Other recommendations include Voyageurs du Monde ( 01 40 15 11 15; www.vdm.com) and Nouvelles Frontières ( 0825 000 747; www.nouvelles- frontieres.fr).

Stigum's Money Market, 4E
by Marcia Stigum and Anthony Crescenzi
Published 9 Feb 2007

The possibilities are endless and exist thanks to all sorts of market anomalies: differences in the terms at which corporates may borrow in different markets (e.g., Spain lacks a corporate bond market), differences in the way credits are perceived in different markets (e.g., to a German lender, Lufthansa is the national flag carrier, not just another credit), national differences in accounting practices or in tax policies, and so on. When an entity borrows X and then does several swaps to get to Y, which is what he wants, he is said to cocktail swaps. As the swap market has grown, swap terms have become standardized. Today, swaps are quoted at Treasuries plus, with the understanding that the Treasuries plus rate is the fixed rate for a swap against LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate for Eurodollar deposits (there are many LIBORs—3-month LIBOR, 6-month LIBOR, and so on, but for most swaps 3- or 6-month LIBOR is used).

Southeast Asia on a Shoestring Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
Published 30 May 2012

Hanoi (HAN; 04-3827 1513; www.hanoiairportonline.com) Noi Bai airport serves the capital. Danang airport (DAD; 051-1383 0339) Only has a few international flights, but a new terminal should result in additional connections. Airlines Vietnam Airlines (www.vietnamairlines.com.vn) Hanoi ( 04-3832 0320); HCMC ( 08-3832 0320) is the state-owned flag carrier and has flights to 28 international destinations, mainly in east Asia. The airline has a modern fleet of Airbuses and Boeings, and has a good recent safety record. Tickets From Europe or North America, it’s usually more expensive to fly to Vietnam than other Southeast Asian countries. Consider buying a discounted ticket to Bangkok, Singapore or Hong Kong and picking up a flight from there.

France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition)
by Nicola Williams
Published 14 Oct 2010

As a result, unprecedented trans-Atlantic flight options are likely to start appearing. Major airlines serving France include: Aer Lingus ( 08 21 23 02 67; www.aerlingus.com; airline code EI; hub Dublin) Air Canada ( 08 25 88 29 00; www.aircanada.ca; airline code AC; hub Toronto) Air France ( 36 54; www.airfrance.com; airline code AF; hub Paris) France’s flag carrier, now joined with KLM. Subsidiaries include Brit Air (www.britair.fr) and Régional (www.regional.com). Alitalia ( 08 20 31 53 15; www.alitalia.com; airline code AZ; hub Rome) American Airlines ( 01 55 17 43 41; www.americanairlines.com; airline code AA; hub Dallas) Austrian Airlines ( 08 20 81 68 16; www.austrianairlines.com; airline code OS; hub Vienna) BMI British Midland ( in UK 0870-6070 555 or 01332-64 8181; www.flybmi.com; airline code BD; hub London) British Airways ( 08 25 82 54 00; www.britishairways.com; airline code BA; hub London) Cathay Pacific ( 01 41 43 75 75; www.cathaypacific.com; airline code CX; hub Hong Kong) Continental Airlines ( 01 71 23 03 35; www.continental.com; airline code CO; hub Houston) Iberia ( 08 25 80 09 65; www.iberia.com; airline code IB; hub Madrid) KLM ( 32 72; www.klm.com; airline code KL; hub Amsterdam) Now joined with Air France.