Europe on-line

Article Abstract:

The advent of the single European market of 1992 is encouraging the expansion of the European information management industry, but no single venue currently exists which European executives can use to obtain European Community (EC) information on legal, business, and market issues. Progress has been hindered by a lack of industry-wide standardization, but the growing demand for data is encouraging the development of cross-border cooperative ventures to provide EC-wide coverage. Two information management projects that are currently being developed include a network of CD-ROM databases covering all EC countries that is being established by Bureau Marcel Van Dijk (Belgium), SCRL (France) Kreditreform (Germany) and Jordan and Sons (UK), and a network linking Eurocredit (Italy), Telematique (France), and Eurocheck (UK).

Innovations, Database industry, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Economic policy, European Union, Single European market, Information management, European Community

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How the business traveller changed the economics and the bottom line at SAS

Article Abstract:

SAS Group is the national airline of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and represents a consortium of three airlines: Danish Airlines, which owns two-sevenths of the company; Norwegian Airlines, which also owns two-sevenths of the company; and Swedish Airlines, which owns the remaining three-sevenths. SAS suffered a $17 million loss in fiscal 1979-1980, after 17 years of profits, and the board of directors issued a directive that the airline return to profitability. The company adopted a new marketing strategy that targeted business travelers, proclaiming SAS as the Businessman's Airline that provided added value and service to business travelers. The new business class resulted in increased full-fare passengers monthly after two years of declines.

Scandinavia, Civil aviation

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Chareleroi - Ryanair's Waterloo?

Article Abstract:

The reasons for the governments worldwide to subsidize air transport are presented. The impact of the emergence of low cost carriers (LCCs) on the European airline market is discussed. A case study on the implications of the European Commission's ruling on the subsidizing of the low cost company Ryanair by the Chareleroi airport authorities are examined.

Ireland, Management dynamics, Air Transportation, Scheduled, And Air Courier Services, Company business management, Ryanair Holdings PLC

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