Overcoming government regulations regarding ownership is one of the challenges facing the multi-partner
airline strategy.
If the lowest price isn't just for the last seats that aren't sold, but for the whole plane, the
airline industry will be ruined."
Every objective assessment of the statistics on
airline accidents before and after deregulation shows significant reductions in accident and death rates in the years since deregulation became the law of the land.
The major
airlines poked gaping holes in the two theories on which
airline deregulation was based.
Delta's management has insisted the
airline prefers to emerge from bankruptcy as an independent carrier.
Carlos Morales, AeroContinente's president, is fighting fiercely against hard-ball tactics and, rightly or wrongly, his
airline's own reputation.
Secret number two is that the battle over
airline deregulation is not, unfortunately, a battle about facts.
For them, air travel means the piston- or turbine-engine airplane, not the
airline jet, from which the usual it's-safer-than-driving statistics are culled.
Court papers show technology failures at Delta increased in 2005 after key technical staff left the
airline for jobs at other Atlanta companies.
Asked whether the bank was looking at forming a consortium for the ailing
airline's privatization, the source said: "Yes".
Besides the mainline Japan
Airlines, five other members of the JAL Group will also join oneworld as affiliates - JALways, Japan Asia Airways, JAL Express, J-Air and Japan Transocean Air.