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...earned $1.2 billion in the fiscal year that ended in March 2006, on sales of $28.2 billion, and $1.62 billion for the first three-quarters of the current one, an increase of 31%. Those results have been built on regained passenger confidence, the allure of Paris as an international hub and an increasingly rare commitment to high-quality, free in-flight service, which have boosted ticket sales enough to lift Air France--KLM to the top of Europe's airlines, with a 25% market share. And it might make a run at ailing Alitalia, whose fractious workforce resembles that...
With global travel in its best shape in years, Air France is enjoying the fruits of its 2003 merger with Dutch airline KLM, creating a dual-hub network with considerable global reach. Skeptics predicted the marriage would founder on Dutch resentment of notoriously overbearing French handling of past binational mergers. Yet the partnership has not only functioned better than management or labor had hoped, but has also established the sector's standard for future linkups. "Everyone else is now trying to follow. Some airlines are actually seeking to replicate it to the smallest details," says Yan Derocles, an analyst with...
...possible to the existing River Houses and adjacent to the new Allston ones. Provided that the new center is modern, operational, and sufficiently spacious—which it should be, given the amount of money Harvard is poised to spend in Allston—it will become a hub of student activity...
...community is right in one regard: A lot more than an art museum and its café and gift shop will be necessary to transform Barry’s Corner into the social and cultural hub that the Allston Development Group has envisioned. But construction has to start somewhere, and building the art museum is a sound choice that balances the University’s interests with those of the community...
...safety and that “instead of being reactive, which the city sometimes seems to be, we chose to be proactive.” While advance action is admirable, such arbitrary preemption by an unelected figure is alarming. In a city of 600,000 that is the local hub for nightlife and A-list musical acts, thousands will suffer for this draconian maneuver. And Malone did not seem to have given these tremendous effects much thought, telling The Crimson “I had no idea how popular these concerts were.” When asked whether the vague...