on the news the other day it mentioned the different airlines cutting routes and jobs some of thes were national airlines like BA, KLM, QUANTAS & AIR FRANCE it also said that it could take 7or8 years to get back to normal the war has done extra damage to the airlines this is bad news indeed:mad: 🙁
By: mongu - 24th March 2003 at 23:26
Oh, I didn’t know Finnair owned them.
Surely Flying Finn will create jobs though?
By: A330Crazy - 24th March 2003 at 23:22
Doesn’t that Flyin Finn airline that has just started up belong to finnair though? Thats low cost.
By: mongu - 24th March 2003 at 23:19
Scared of Loco competition do you think?
By: A330Crazy - 24th March 2003 at 23:16
Another Airline announced bad news today… Finnair is to cut up to 1000+ jobs by the end of the year. 🙁
By: mongu - 24th March 2003 at 00:29
Airlines already offer speedy clearance for 1st class passengers.
Also, what actually happens at Customs? You stand in a queue for an hour, hand over a bunch of forms with your passport, answer a few questions and wander off to get your bags. Then you have to wait for ages again, then sometimes it’s another queue to get into the arrivals area.
For an example of how NOT to do it, fly to the US or Australia!
Those guys are not immigration officials, they’re beaurocrats with shares in timber mills!!
By: Bhoy - 23rd March 2003 at 22:31
don’t quite see that… unless you’re suggesting a startup should be called refugeeair or illegalimmigrantair to target the correct passenger groups… 😉
Nahm, but, in all seriousness… I don’t see that the airlines can do anything about it short of paying for more Customs officals to be on duty… and considering the amount of layoffs in the industry, anyway, I can’t quite see that happening…
By: mongu - 23rd March 2003 at 11:19
Wel I think that the “fear of flying” problem can only be solved by airlines sorting out (and being seen to be sorting out) the present security problems. The scenes at present, with trigger happy security staff getting het up over shoes and nail clippers, is not helping.
I also think airlines need to look at value added services, for free – eg. sorting out immigration queues. I know they’ll say (“but it isn’t our fault, it’s the authorities….”) but believe it or not the airlines do have clout and they can “sort out” immigration by streamlining it. It could shave a good amount of time off journey times!
By: T5 - 22nd March 2003 at 20:07
It’s dreadful stuff. Airlines are only really just sorting their problems following September 11th and have now been hit again. I know of people who fear flying because they think there will be another violent hi-jacking and crashing of an aircraft.
By: A330Crazy - 22nd March 2003 at 11:59
NorthWest has now announced that it will:
Reduce its flight schedule by up to 12% and remove 20 aircraft from its fleet, including A320’s, 757-200’s, DC-10’s and 747’s
By: A330Crazy - 22nd March 2003 at 11:48
What with War still hanging over the world, its bound to happen. NorthWest, just the other day annouced it would cut 4,900 jobs by the time this year is out!
By: KabirT - 22nd March 2003 at 09:00
It had to happen…..and now airlines have a good excuse because of war.
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