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2 Duty Free Shops secures Cairo TEgyptair
concession(1)
Travel retailer Egyptair Duty Free Shops, the national carrier’s duty-
free division, is one of three duty-free operators to be awarded
concessions at the revamped Cairo International airport terminal
two due to open next April, following a Cairo Airport Company
commercial tender earlier this year, DFNIonline can confirm. Cairo
Airport Duty Free (Chaloub Group) and Dufry Group are the
winners of the two remaining concessions, DFNIonline
understands.
Egyptair Tourism (Karnak) & Duty Free vice-president of duty-free
Saad Mohamed Ahmed Meabed toldDFNIonline that Egyptair Duty
Free, which already runs around 1,300sq m of retail space in T1
and 3,500sq m in T3 at Cairo airport, will operate a further 1,550sq
m in T2, which closed for a full three-year $400m renovation in
2010. The renovation began in 2012 and on re-opening next year,
T2 will be dedicated to OneWorld and SkyTeam carriers with an
annual capacity of around 7.5 million passengers. According to
Meabed, 700sq m of its T2 space will be in departures with the rest
in arrivals and the contract will be for five years.
Meabed also revealed to DFNIonline that the company, which is
present in most major Egyptian International airports including
Sharm el Sheikh and Hurghada as well as downtown, will be joined
in T2 departures by Cairo Airport Duty Free (Chaloub Group) and
Dufry Group—the latter will also run an arrivals concession
alongside Egyptair Duty Free, according to Meabed. DFNIonline
has contacted Cairo Airport Company and Dufry Group for
confirmation and further information, the former confirming the
concession awards and the latter yet to respond.
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)2(Meabed told DFNIonline: “Competition will be tough because we
have never had a contract where three [duty-free operators] have
worked in the same terminal. We are actually quite confident we will
manage as at the end of the day this is the situation we have to
face.”
The company does, however, have experience of working with two
other operators in Cairo T3, which it hopes will stand it in good
stead. “We were working exclusively in terminal three until Chaloub
joined over there. This actually made us perform even better. Our
turnover increased and net profitability was higher than previously.
Working alongside two operates is much easier and can be
accepted, but to have three over there will be quite tough.”
He added: “When you have this kind of competition it energises
people to do more, which we hope will be the case in Cairo T2.”
DFNIonline will bring you more as this story develops and the
winners of the other concessions (food and beverage, other retail
and pharmacies) are announced. Please see the November edition
of DFNI for more on Egyptair Duty Free Shops’ ambitious
expansion plans in Cairo and elsewhere.
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Plane crashes on takeoff from South Sudan
airport: reports, witnessesJUBA: A plane crashed on Wednesday shortly after taking off from
an airport in South Sudan, killing 10 people on board, a police
officer and local media reported. Two survived, they said.
Reuters witnesses said the tail fin of the plane and other parts were
scattered along the banks of the White Nile River near the airport in
Juba, the capital.
A police officer near the scene, who did not give his name, said
there were two survivors, including a child, but could not say how
many people were on board or give further details.
The aircraft was a cargo plane with five Russian crew and seven
passengers, South Sudan Tribune, a local media outlet, said on
Twitter. It also said two people survived, one of them a child.
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dead: 25 airplane crashes in South Sudan, Cargo
UN radio
Juba: At least 25 people were killed on Wednesday
when a plane crash-landed shortly after taking off
from South Sudan's capital Juba, according to AFP.
Police were pulling the bodies of men, women and
children out of the wreckage of the cargo plane, which
crashed into a small farming community on a small
island in the White Nile river, close to Juba airport, the
reporter said, who counted at least 25 dead..
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Fog hits UK travel: London airports face third day
of disruptionsFor the third day in a row, passengers using airports in the London area will
face disruption on Tuesday because of heavy fog. At Heathrow, the “flow
rate” of landings and take-offs will be reduced tomorrow morning, forcing
airlines to cancel flights.
British Airways is offering short-haul passengers the chance to postpone their
journeys free of charge, and is telling them: “Please do not come to the
airport unless you have a confirmed booking on a flight that is operating.”
is fog and why is the UK so foggy right now?What
On the day when the planet’s travel industry was due to converge on London
for the annual World Travel Market, hundreds of delegates were unable to
reach the capital. Thick fog lingered over London throughout Monday
morning, leading to hundreds of flight cancellations that affected tens of
thousands of travellers.
Among the airlines at Gatwick, easyJet was the worst affected. After dozens
of the budget airline’s flights were delayed or cancelled on Sunday, many
more were hit today.
British Airways cancelled more than 50 flights to and from Heathrow, and
over 60 to and from London City airport. The Docklands airport was closed
all morning, with visibility down to around 50 metres.
Flybe, CityJet and Swiss cancelled multiple operations from London City, and
BA’s business-class only arrival from New York to London City was diverted
to Gatwick.
Most of the other affected flights were short-haul, but intercontinental
services on Air India to Delhi and United to Chicago were respectively
severely delayed and cancelled.
The problems highlighted the lack of resilience in the London airport system;
Heathrow and Gatwick are respectively the busiest dual-runway and single-
runway airports in the world.
Outside the capital, many of the cancellations were flights to and from the
London airports. But morning flights from Bristol to the key hubs of
Amsterdam, Brussels and Frankfurt were cancelled, a pattern repeated at
several other regional airports
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Lufthansa cabin crew reject new management
overturesThe main cabin crew union at Lufthansa dismissed an effort by
management to avert a potential week-long strike by calling the
airline's latest proposals a "PR stunt".
Flight attendants' union UFO had said on Monday it would call for a
strike on Nov. 6-13 if Lufthansa did not put forward a serious offer
by Thursday evening in a long-running row over pension costs and
early retirement benefits.
The airline earlier on Wednesday said the demands of the cabin
crew union would increase costs by 25 percent, but that it would
send the union four new variants of its previous offer as a basis for
new talks.
Nicoley Baublies, head of the UFO union, described that as "old
wine in new bottles" and confirmed plans to strike should a new
offer not be forthcoming.
Lufthansa, which is negotiating with various staff groups to cut
costs and reduce its pension burden by moving to defined-
contribution from defined-benefit schemes, also said the threat of
strike action had resulted in more customers cancelling flights this
week than usual.
Along with the cabin crew row, the airline is still in talks with pilots'
union Vereinigung Cockpit over pay and retirement benefits. Talks
also commence on Thursday with union Verdi concerning
retirement benefits for around 33,000 ground, cargo and other
cabin crew staff.
The cabin crew union had previously threatened strikes over the
summer but backed down after Lufthansa offered a compromise.
But the pilots' union has staged strikes this year, most recently in
September, costing the airline 130 million euros ($142 million) in
the first nine months of the year.
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Cabin crew union says Lufthansa strikes
unavoidable
FRANKFURT, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The head of Lufthansa's main
cabin crew union said strikes at the carrier are now "unavoidable",
after the union reviewed the latest proposals on pensions and early
retirement benefits from management.
Lufthansa had tried to encourage the union, which represents
around 19,000 flight attendants, back to the negotiating table by
sending across on Wednesday some new variants of a deal based
around previous proposals.
The union had on Monday said that it would call for a week-long
strike from Friday if Lufthansa management did not make a better
offer by 1600 GMT on Thursday. (Reporting by Peter Maushagen;
Writing by Victoria Bryan; Editing by Maria Sheahan)
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SeptembeAir Freight Markets Grow Slightly in
Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (IATA)
released data for global air freight markets showing very modest
growth in September. Measured in Freight Tonne Kilometers, air
cargo volumes rose 1.0% compared to the same month a year ago.
This is a slight improvement on the August performance when
volumes were broadly stable. Overall, however, air cargo volumes
remain 1.2% down from their 2014 year-end peak.
The results varied widely by region. Carriers in the Middle East
reported the most significant growth (7.5%) followed by European
(2.8%) and African airlines (2.5%). Asia-Pacific based airlines
recorded negligible growth (0.3%), and markets in North America (-
3.3%) and Latin America (-6.4%) recorded declines. All regions
reported capacity expansions ahead of growth in demand, taking
the freight load factor down to the lowest level since 2009 (43.2%).
“Although slightly improved from August, the global trend is fragile,
and the improvement is narrowly based. The 2.8% growth reported
by European carriers reflects positive trends in trade with Central
and Eastern European economies as well as a general
improvement in manufacturing in the Eurozone. But the largest air
cargo region, Asia-Pacific, was only just in positive territory, held
down by weak regional trade,” said Tony Tyler, IATA’s Director
General and CEO.
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ICAO PANEL DELIVERS IMPORTANT NEW
RECOMMENDATIONS ON LITHIUM BATTERY
SHIPMENTSState and industry experts on the ICAO Dangerous Goods Panel
(DGP) agreed to important new recommendations last week on
the restriction of lithium battery shipments carried on passenger
and freighter aircraft, the Council President of the International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) confirmed today.
“The proposal to require lithium batteries to have a state of
charge of 30% or less, when carried in shipments on commercial
aircraft, was felt to be prudent enough to improve aviation safety
while a packaging performance standard is being developed,”
highlighted Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu. “This recommendation
will still permit the rapid and reliable global transit of what has
become a vital energy source for people and businesses
everywhere in the world.”
President Aliu clarified that the DGP’s recommendations must
still be reviewed under ICAO’s Air Navigation Commission
(ANC), before ultimately being brought before the UN aviation
agency’s 36-State Council for final assessment and decision.
“ICAO greatly values the time and effort of all its panel experts in
bringing forward these types of recommendations,” he noted.
“The Air Navigation Commission has been requested to prioritize
its review of the DGP’s proposed measures and the Council
hopes to see a final proposal by early next year. This
collaborative process does take some time, but in the end it
delivers consensus-based and effective long-term safety
progress for international civil aviation.”
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Sheikh, citing -elSharmUK delays flights from
probeMetrojet
The UK government has taken the “precautionary step” of
delaying flights that had been scheduled to fly from Sharm el-
Sheikh, Egypt to the UK the evening of Nov. 4. It cited new
321 Airbus AMetrojet“information” from the investigation into the
.31Oct. that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula
In addition, the Irish Aviation Authority said Nov. 4 it was directing
“Irish airline operators not to operate to/from Sharm el‐Sheikh
Airport, Egypt or in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula airspace until
further notice.”
UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s office issued a statement
Nov. 4 saying that “as more information has come to light we
have become concerned that the plane may well have been
brought down by an explosive device.”
Cameron’s office said delaying flights from Sharm el-Sheikh
bound for the UK “will allow time for a team of UK aviation
experts, currently traveling to Sharm, to make an assessment of
the security arrangements in place at the airport and to identify
whether any further action is required. We expect this
assessment to be completed tonight.”
The statement added that Cameron has spoken to Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi “to discuss what measures the
Egyptians are taking to ensure the tightest possible security
arrangements at Sharm el-Sheikh airport.”
Cameron’s office emphasized that it “cannot say categorically
why the Russian jet crashed.”
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