Company Watch - TUI Travel Group.Dec 18, 2006 Boeing had not announced the TUI tui: see honeyeater. (Telephone User Interface) The combination of Touch-tone input from the telephone keypad coupled with speech output from the connected voicemail or IVR application. order. TUI will operate 56 aircraft next year and expand capacity 27%. It displayed a mockup mock·up also mock-up n. 1. A usually full-sized scale model of a structure, used for demonstration, study, or testing. 2. A layout of printed matter. of TUIfly.com's new all-yellow livery on its website. The new aircraft, which were not identified, will begin delivery in 2010 and will be replacing older leased planes until 2013. TUI still has 24 737s on order with Boeing, bringing its backlog to 65 aircraft. Dec 18, 2006 German tourism giant TUI AG TUI AG (Touristik Union International) (ISIN: DE000TUAG000) is a German based company. Until 2001 it was an industrial and transportation company named Preussag AG, which in the mid-1990s decided to reinvent itself as a tourism, shipping, and logistics company. unveiled a comprehensive "action plan" Friday that includes an order for 41 new aircraft from Boeing valued at $3.64 billion, its intention to cut costs next year by [euro]250 million ($330 million)--involving the elimination of 3,600 jobs--and the merger of its airline units under the new TUIfly.com brand. Dec 18, 2006 TUI to merge airlines, buy 41 aircraft, cut 3,600 jobs. TUI said regarding its cost-cutting program, savings of [euro]150 million will come from materials and [euro]100 million from personnel, meaning the loss of 3,600 jobs in the tourism division including 2,600 in the UK and 400 in Germany. It said more than 3,300 new jobs will be created "by certain segments" in 2008. It also intends to reduce corporate costs to [euro]70-[euro]80 million from [euro]112 million by 2008 and merge its TUI Deutschland operating business into TUI AG. It is targeting a 2008 profit of [euro]450-[euro]550 million. Dec 18, 2006 TUI confirmed speculation that Hapagfly and Hapag-Lloyd Express Hapag-Lloyd Express (previously also marketed as HLX.com) was a no-frills, high-frequency, express airline based in Hanover, Germany. It operated services within Germany and to destinations in Europe. will combine under the new name "in order to secure access to the low-cost, Internet and modular tour growth markets," with the remaining five TUI airlines The TUI Airline Management (prior to the creation of the German airline of the same name also referred to as TUIfly) is an organization that links the 7 airlines of the TUI group. (Thomsonfly, TUIfly Nordic, Arkefly, Corsair corsair: see Barbary States; piracy. and Jetair) joining the fold in 2008. The strategy will have an earnings impact of [euro]60 million by that time, the company said. "With TUIfly.com, a European brand, it will be easier to address customers. At the same time, the new brand...will be an essential element of TUI's new Internet strategy," it said. Dec 18, 2006 TUIfly.com could be the new name of the combined fleet of German carriers Hapagfly and LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. HLX HLX Hapag Lloyd Express (German airline) HLX High Luxury . German media quoted a TUI management source as saying that the first repainted aircraft will be presented at a hangar in Hannover. TUI is expecting the combined airline to generate [euro]40 million in savings at the cost of up to 200 jobs. It operates 56 aircraft. Dec 15, 2006 Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Dec 11, 2006 |
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