The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform
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* How long can the cut-price bonanza carry on before the bubble<br />
bursts? 19/08/01 B 15 1>6 Photograph, map<br />
* Singapore Airlines is thinking big, despite claims that it<br />
overpaid for Virgin Atlantic 19/08/01 N 7 1>5 Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> American airlines deal with British Airways 26/08/01 N 4<br />
4>7 Photograph<br />
* British Airways plans to cut a further 2,000 jobs next year as it<br />
tries to avoid the worst ravages of the economic downturn<br />
09/09/01 N 1 1>4<br />
* An inquiry is to be launched into fears that tens of thousands of<br />
air passengers and cabin crew are being poisoned each year by a<br />
cocktail of toxic chemicals 09/09/01 B 9 1>2<br />
* Last week's events in the US will change the face of air travel<br />
for ever 16/09/01 E 2>3, 12 1>4 Photographs<br />
* Airports face turmoil after security crackdown 16/09/01 X 3<br />
1>7 Photographs<br />
* American airline pilots are refusing to take off with Arabs - or<br />
people who look like Arabs - see Terrorism 23/09/01<br />
* Travellers face continuing confusion following warnings that<br />
some airlines may ground flights from Tuesday because insurers<br />
are unwilling to provide war cover for planes - see Travel<br />
23/09/01<br />
* British Airways is ready to raise a £2bn survival package if it<br />
faces financial collapse as the devastating impact of the US<br />
terrorist attacks reverberates around the airline industry<br />
23/09/01 N 1 1>7<br />
* <strong>The</strong> new battle of Britain to keep the air giants flying 23/09/01<br />
N 4>5 1>8 Photographs<br />
* Ryanair's O'Leary tells why he is sticking with low fares<br />
30/09/01 N 5 1>5 Photograph, graph<br />
* Sir Richard Branson has been called in by the Belgian Prime<br />
Minister as a potential rescuer for part of the ailing national<br />
airline, Sabena 07/10/01 N 1 1>7<br />
* Heathrow expansion plan faces legal blitz 07/10/01 B 8 6>7<br />
* More job losses a certainty in the aviation industry as airlines<br />
feel the pressure 07/10/01 B 8 1>7 Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> privatisation of Britain's air traffic control system has run<br />
into major difficulties only three months after the Government<br />
engineered the sale 14/10/01 N 2 8<br />
* Trainee pilots have invested up to £50,000 each in their careers<br />
- but as airlines shed experienced staff, British cadet flyers are<br />
saddled with debt and uncertainty 14/10/01 B 9 1>5<br />
Photographs<br />
* Who picks up the tab if public-private partnerships go wrong?<br />
- see Public/Private Sector 28/10/01<br />
* <strong>The</strong> crisis facing British Airways and Virgin Atlantic will<br />
intensify with the start of a High Court row over claims that they<br />
refused to warn passengers of the dangers of 'economy class<br />
syndrome' 28/10/01 B 12 5>6 Photograph<br />
* Fears are growing that Virgin Atlantic's profits may have<br />
plunged by up to 80 per cent in the six months to the end of<br />
September 28/10/01 N 2 1>2<br />
* Virgin Express and BA are understood to been in talks with the<br />
stricken Belgian airline Sabena 28/10/01 N 2 1>3<br />
* Concorde flies again in style after a £50m revamp 28/10/01 B<br />
7 1>8 Photographs<br />
* US attacks revive British Airways' American ambitions<br />
04/11/01 N 2 1>6 Photograph<br />
* Don Carty, chief executive of American Airlines, is 95%<br />
certain of pulling off a partnership deal with British Airways by<br />
the end of the year 11/11/01 N 2 3>6<br />
OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC <strong>2001</strong><br />
14<br />
* Crisis in the air: small may be beautiful for low-cost airlines,<br />
but that is no solution for flag carriers on either side of the<br />
Atlantic 11/11/01 N 4 1>5 Photographs<br />
* Joanna Walters talks to Gordon Bethune of hard-hit<br />
Continental and Don Carty of American Airlines 11/11/01 N 4<br />
1>8 Photographs<br />
* Fear in the air: when Flight 587 dropped out of the sky, it<br />
brought renewed anguish to New York and dealt another<br />
grievous blow to the world's airlines 18/11/01 B 21 1>8<br />
Photograph, illustration<br />
* Fresh blow to air travel as crash kills at least 10 25/11/01 B 1<br />
1>6<br />
* Heathrow has borne the brunt of the slump in air travel, with<br />
more than 20 per cent fewer passengers 02/12/01 N 2 4>6<br />
Photograph<br />
* <strong>The</strong> lowcost airline, Ryanair's financial arrangements with<br />
Belgian airport come under scrutiny 09/12/01 N 1 1>7<br />
Photograph<br />
* British Airways has drawn up secret plans to axe up to 10,000<br />
jobs and slash domestic flights in a desperate bid to avert<br />
financial disaster 09/12/01 B 1>2 1>3<br />
* Airbus is to slash 1,600 jobs 16/12/01 N 1 5>8<br />
* Revealed: how Ryanair did Belgian deal 16/12/01 N 1 1>3<br />
* Business travel fell by 40 per cent after 11 September, will it<br />
ever recover? 16/12/01 E 3 1>4 Photograph<br />
* <strong>The</strong> low-cost boom in air travel 16/12/01 E 6>7 1>6<br />
Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> Government looks set to bail out Britain's troubled air<br />
traffic control network less than six months after it was<br />
privatised 30/12/01 B 21 3>6<br />
BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWN-UPS<br />
* See Book Reviews - Mars-Jones, Adam 20/05/01<br />
BACKING INTO THE LIMELIGHT<br />
* See Book Reviews - Preston, Peter 02/09/01<br />
BAD BLOOD: A MEMOIR<br />
* See Audiobook Reviews - Redford, Rachel 11/03/01<br />
BADDIEL, DAVID<br />
* David Baddiel is best known as one half the comic duo<br />
Baddiel and Skinner, now he is to breathe new life into the<br />
country's film industry by finding funny film ideas - see Comedy<br />
25/11/01<br />
BADU, ERYKAH<br />
* See Music: Soul 22/07/01 R 11 1>4 Photograph<br />
BAINBRIDGE, BERYL<br />
* Lynn Barber meets this year's Booker Prize favourite Beryl<br />
Bainbridge 19/08/01 M 12>16 1>4 Photographs<br />
BALDNESS<br />
* Scientists have developed a revolutionary new treatment for<br />
baldness - in early trials the dug, dutasteride, has shown dramatic<br />
success in restoring hair to bald men - see Science 10/06/01<br />
BALLAD OF SYLVIA AND TED, THE<br />
* See Book Reviews - Thorpe, Vanessa 10/06/01<br />
BANGLES, THE<br />
* See Music: Pop 09/09/01<br />
BANNISTER, MATTHEW