Airline alliance downed in court
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Aviation industry analysts expect Qantas to head in a different direction now the Air NZ alliance is off. Picture:Reuters. Qantas&#39; plans to take a 22.
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Northwest Airlines filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Sabre Travel Network, intensifying a dispute between the airline and the nationâs largest provider of airline booking information to travel agents.
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Ryanair Holdings Plc, Europe&#39;s biggest low-cost airline, and BAA Plc&#39;s Stansted Airport unlawfully discriminated against disabled passengers, the Court of Appeal ruled.
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Shares of Air New Zealand Ltd., the country&#39;s largest airline, were halted pending a High Court ruling on plans for an alliance with Australia&#39;s Qantas Airways Ltd.
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âFly the friendly skiesâ may be United Airlinesâ slogan. But employees of Americaâs largest carrier wonât be so convinced this weekend, on the heels of it filing court documents saying it is âlikelyâ to scrap its pension plans.
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WELLINGTON: National carrier Air New Zealand said yesterday the Australian Competition Tribunal has approved a proposed alliance with Qantas Airways Ltd, despite its rejection in New Zealand.
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A three-judge court acquitted 19 executives and consultants accused of fraud in the collapse of Switzerlandâs former national carrier, Swissair, and ordered the government to pay them compensation totaling more than $2.5 million. The defendants denied charges that included damaging creditors, mismanagement, making false statements and forging documents. Some have blamed the big Swiss banks and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for the airlineâs downfall. Swissair was grounded Oct. 2, 2001, after months of financial problems. Prosecutors sought prison for Mario Corti, the last chief executive of the parent SAirGroup, which is now defunct, and a range of suspended sentences for 18 other airline executives, board members and consultants.
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Qantas Airways Ltd.&#39;s proposed alliance with Air New Zealand Ltd. was rejected by New Zealand&#39;s High Court, the latest blow in the carriers&#39; two-year attempt to team up to cut costs and ward off airlines such as Emirates.
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The New Zealand High Court has declined an appeal by Air New Zealand and Qantas against the Commerce Commission&#39;s original decision to disallow the two airlines&#39; application to form a strategic alliance.
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A planned tie-up between Australia&#39;s Qantas and Air New Zealand has been thrown out by New Zealand&#39;s High Court. The decision ends a two-year effort by the airlines to fight off low-cost carriers by combining forces.
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New Zealand&#39;s High Court ruled on Monday against allowing national flag carrier Air New Zealand to form an alliance with Australia&#39;s Qantas, but the rivals said they would still look for ways to co-operate.
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Nearly two decades after Air India Flight 182 exploded over the Atlantic Ocean killing 329 people, the fate of the two Sikh extremists charged with the bombing is finally in hands of a judge.
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A French legal inquiry into the July 2000 Concorde crash near Paris has placed much of the blame on the American carrier, Continental Airlines.
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US Airways Group Inc. attorneys and executives acknowledged in bankruptcy court Thursday that bookings had fallen more steeply than they had anticipated in reaction to their Chapter 11 filing last month.
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AIR New Zealand today claimed it faced an uncertain future after the countryâs High Court threw out plans for a tie-up with Qantas, its Australian-based rival.
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With a bankruptcy court scheduled to hear arguments Thursday by US Airways Group Inc. to throw out contracts covering union workers who haven&#39;t approved new deals, union leaders for the carrier&#39;s customer-service
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Comair sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday, saying the agency was negligent in having only one air traffic controller on duty last year when a plane took off from the wrong runway and crashed, killing 49 people.