Tag Archives: airline consolidation

Qantas-BA=Why not have another crack at Air New Zealand?

December 19, 2008 – 7:02 am

Now that Qantas+ BA has become Qantas-BA, what might be the next step?
The failure of the merger talks “at this point in time” to quote the Qantas statement is no surprise. There wasn’t a single analyst of adult age who believed it would work.
But given that Qantas is unlikely to stop scoping deals in [...]

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QF+BA piles more pressure onto Singapore Airlines

December 3, 2008 – 7:08 am

The possibility of a QF+BA merger adds immense pressure onto Singapore Airlines, and its majority shareholder, Temasek Holdings, to execute an effective strategy to participate in airline consolidation.
But the most pressure on them comes from recent earlier news that Abu Dhabi wants to control Dubai based airline giant Emirates as part of the price for [...]

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Lufthansa & the Virgins, will they make love or war?

October 30, 2008 – 12:27 pm

An intensely interesting situation has arisen in Europe after Lufthansa assumed outright control of UK carrier bmi after chairman Sir Michael Bishop exercised a £318 million option to sell them his stake, lifting the German carrier’s equity to 80%.
Sir Richard Branson, who shares Virgin Atlantic 51:49 with the less than thrilled owners of Singapore Airlines, [...]

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