geoff dixon - Orient Aviation

SPECIAL REPORT
2005 IN REVIEW
46 Airlines over a barrel
47 ‘Frilling’ time for LCCs
48 A year of change
50 Cathay battles for
greater toehold in China
51 Pilot shortages put pressure on training
52 Bumper aircraft order book
for Asia-Pacific
55 Conversion boom
NEWS
8 Cathay Pacific Airways chairman Turnbull resigns
8 A step up for China Airlines president Wei
9 Asia-Pacific airlines order big, more deals to come
9 More direct flights across the Taiwan Strait approved
REGULAR FEATURES
7 Comment: A year to remember, but...
60 Business Digest: Cargo demand softens
53 Cargo: China
calls the shots
54 Airport
openings,
expansions,
investments
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DECEMBER 2005-JANUARY 2006 ORIENT AVIATION 5