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Borrowing: don't bank on it

Mixed feelings. That’s the only way to describe how airlines would have viewed the dramatic events in the world’s capital markets in the past month.
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ASPIRE inspires

When Air New Zealand (AirNZ) flight NZ8 flew from Auckland to San Francisco on September 12 the B777-200ER was completing far more than a normal daily commercial service across the Pacific.
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Haneda Airport prepares for 'Big Bang'

Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) has approved an increase in daytime landings and departures at Haneda Airport, outside Tokyo, following the opening of its fourth runway in 2010. Being called the ‘Big Bang’, government is aiming for 407,000 aircraft movements a year at the near city facility by 2013.
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First PAX decline in six years

Report compiled by Kris Lim of the Research and Statistics Department of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines Secretariat.
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Doing it tough, but Japan's 'low-price' pioneers still flying

Adecade has passed since Japan’s low-cost pioneers took to the skies in 1998.
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The people factor

Against an apocalyptic backdrop of potential global economic tailspin, with dire ramifications for commercial aviation, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) convened its 3rd Emergency Response Conference in October, reviewing a topic that has to be of constant concern to airlines in fair financial weather or foul.
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Shenzhen profits continue to climb

Shenzhen Airlines, based in southern Guangdong province, near the border with Hong Kong, has announced a forecast profit of 450 million yuan (US$58.12 million) for the 2008 calendar year, saying effective cost control had compensated for the carrier’s high fuel bill and demand fall-off.
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