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2 Duty Free Shops secures Cairo TEgyptair

concession(1)

Travel retailer Egyptair Duty Free Shops, the national carrier’s duty-

free division, is one of three duty-free operators to be awarded

concessions at the revamped Cairo International airport terminal

two due to open next April, following a Cairo Airport Company

commercial tender earlier this year, DFNIonline can confirm. Cairo

Airport Duty Free (Chaloub Group) and Dufry Group are the

winners of the two remaining concessions, DFNIonline

understands.

Egyptair Tourism (Karnak) & Duty Free vice-president of duty-free

Saad Mohamed Ahmed Meabed toldDFNIonline that Egyptair Duty

Free, which already runs around 1,300sq m of retail space in T1

and 3,500sq m in T3 at Cairo airport, will operate a further 1,550sq

m in T2, which closed for a full three-year $400m renovation in

2010. The renovation began in 2012 and on re-opening next year,

T2 will be dedicated to OneWorld and SkyTeam carriers with an

annual capacity of around 7.5 million passengers. According to

Meabed, 700sq m of its T2 space will be in departures with the rest

in arrivals and the contract will be for five years.

Meabed also revealed to DFNIonline that the company, which is

present in most major Egyptian International airports including

Sharm el Sheikh and Hurghada as well as downtown, will be joined

in T2 departures by Cairo Airport Duty Free (Chaloub Group) and

Dufry Group—the latter will also run an arrivals concession

alongside Egyptair Duty Free, according to Meabed. DFNIonline

has contacted Cairo Airport Company and Dufry Group for

confirmation and further information, the former confirming the

concession awards and the latter yet to respond.

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)2(Meabed told DFNIonline: “Competition will be tough because we

have never had a contract where three [duty-free operators] have

worked in the same terminal. We are actually quite confident we will

manage as at the end of the day this is the situation we have to

face.”

The company does, however, have experience of working with two

other operators in Cairo T3, which it hopes will stand it in good

stead. “We were working exclusively in terminal three until Chaloub

joined over there. This actually made us perform even better. Our

turnover increased and net profitability was higher than previously.

Working alongside two operates is much easier and can be

accepted, but to have three over there will be quite tough.”

He added: “When you have this kind of competition it energises

people to do more, which we hope will be the case in Cairo T2.”

DFNIonline will bring you more as this story develops and the

winners of the other concessions (food and beverage, other retail

and pharmacies) are announced. Please see the November edition

of DFNI for more on Egyptair Duty Free Shops’ ambitious

expansion plans in Cairo and elsewhere.

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Plane crashes on takeoff from South Sudan

airport: reports, witnessesJUBA: A plane crashed on Wednesday shortly after taking off from

an airport in South Sudan, killing 10 people on board, a police

officer and local media reported. Two survived, they said.

Reuters witnesses said the tail fin of the plane and other parts were

scattered along the banks of the White Nile River near the airport in

Juba, the capital.

A police officer near the scene, who did not give his name, said

there were two survivors, including a child, but could not say how

many people were on board or give further details.

The aircraft was a cargo plane with five Russian crew and seven

passengers, South Sudan Tribune, a local media outlet, said on

Twitter. It also said two people survived, one of them a child.

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dead: 25 airplane crashes in South Sudan, Cargo

UN radio

Juba: At least 25 people were killed on Wednesday

when a plane crash-landed shortly after taking off

from South Sudan's capital Juba, according to AFP.

Police were pulling the bodies of men, women and

children out of the wreckage of the cargo plane, which

crashed into a small farming community on a small

island in the White Nile river, close to Juba airport, the

reporter said, who counted at least 25 dead..

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Fog hits UK travel: London airports face third day

of disruptionsFor the third day in a row, passengers using airports in the London area will

face disruption on Tuesday because of heavy fog. At Heathrow, the “flow

rate” of landings and take-offs will be reduced tomorrow morning, forcing

airlines to cancel flights.

British Airways is offering short-haul passengers the chance to postpone their

journeys free of charge, and is telling them: “Please do not come to the

airport unless you have a confirmed booking on a flight that is operating.”

is fog and why is the UK so foggy right now?What

On the day when the planet’s travel industry was due to converge on London

for the annual World Travel Market, hundreds of delegates were unable to

reach the capital. Thick fog lingered over London throughout Monday

morning, leading to hundreds of flight cancellations that affected tens of

thousands of travellers.

Among the airlines at Gatwick, easyJet was the worst affected. After dozens

of the budget airline’s flights were delayed or cancelled on Sunday, many

more were hit today.

British Airways cancelled more than 50 flights to and from Heathrow, and

over 60 to and from London City airport. The Docklands airport was closed

all morning, with visibility down to around 50 metres.

Flybe, CityJet and Swiss cancelled multiple operations from London City, and

BA’s business-class only arrival from New York to London City was diverted

to Gatwick.

Most of the other affected flights were short-haul, but intercontinental

services on Air India to Delhi and United to Chicago were respectively

severely delayed and cancelled.

The problems highlighted the lack of resilience in the London airport system;

Heathrow and Gatwick are respectively the busiest dual-runway and single-

runway airports in the world.

Outside the capital, many of the cancellations were flights to and from the

London airports. But morning flights from Bristol to the key hubs of

Amsterdam, Brussels and Frankfurt were cancelled, a pattern repeated at

several other regional airports

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Lufthansa cabin crew reject new management

overturesThe main cabin crew union at Lufthansa dismissed an effort by

management to avert a potential week-long strike by calling the

airline's latest proposals a "PR stunt".

Flight attendants' union UFO had said on Monday it would call for a

strike on Nov. 6-13 if Lufthansa did not put forward a serious offer

by Thursday evening in a long-running row over pension costs and

early retirement benefits.

The airline earlier on Wednesday said the demands of the cabin

crew union would increase costs by 25 percent, but that it would

send the union four new variants of its previous offer as a basis for

new talks.

Nicoley Baublies, head of the UFO union, described that as "old

wine in new bottles" and confirmed plans to strike should a new

offer not be forthcoming.

Lufthansa, which is negotiating with various staff groups to cut

costs and reduce its pension burden by moving to defined-

contribution from defined-benefit schemes, also said the threat of

strike action had resulted in more customers cancelling flights this

week than usual.

Along with the cabin crew row, the airline is still in talks with pilots'

union Vereinigung Cockpit over pay and retirement benefits. Talks

also commence on Thursday with union Verdi concerning

retirement benefits for around 33,000 ground, cargo and other

cabin crew staff.

The cabin crew union had previously threatened strikes over the

summer but backed down after Lufthansa offered a compromise.

But the pilots' union has staged strikes this year, most recently in

September, costing the airline 130 million euros ($142 million) in

the first nine months of the year.

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Cabin crew union says Lufthansa strikes

unavoidable

FRANKFURT, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The head of Lufthansa's main

cabin crew union said strikes at the carrier are now "unavoidable",

after the union reviewed the latest proposals on pensions and early

retirement benefits from management.

Lufthansa had tried to encourage the union, which represents

around 19,000 flight attendants, back to the negotiating table by

sending across on Wednesday some new variants of a deal based

around previous proposals.

The union had on Monday said that it would call for a week-long

strike from Friday if Lufthansa management did not make a better

offer by 1600 GMT on Thursday. (Reporting by Peter Maushagen;

Writing by Victoria Bryan; Editing by Maria Sheahan)

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SeptembeAir Freight Markets Grow Slightly in

Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (IATA)

released data for global air freight markets showing very modest

growth in September. Measured in Freight Tonne Kilometers, air

cargo volumes rose 1.0% compared to the same month a year ago.

This is a slight improvement on the August performance when

volumes were broadly stable. Overall, however, air cargo volumes

remain 1.2% down from their 2014 year-end peak.

The results varied widely by region. Carriers in the Middle East

reported the most significant growth (7.5%) followed by European

(2.8%) and African airlines (2.5%). Asia-Pacific based airlines

recorded negligible growth (0.3%), and markets in North America (-

3.3%) and Latin America (-6.4%) recorded declines. All regions

reported capacity expansions ahead of growth in demand, taking

the freight load factor down to the lowest level since 2009 (43.2%).

“Although slightly improved from August, the global trend is fragile,

and the improvement is narrowly based. The 2.8% growth reported

by European carriers reflects positive trends in trade with Central

and Eastern European economies as well as a general

improvement in manufacturing in the Eurozone. But the largest air

cargo region, Asia-Pacific, was only just in positive territory, held

down by weak regional trade,” said Tony Tyler, IATA’s Director

General and CEO.

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ICAO PANEL DELIVERS IMPORTANT NEW

RECOMMENDATIONS ON LITHIUM BATTERY

SHIPMENTSState and industry experts on the ICAO Dangerous Goods Panel

(DGP) agreed to important new recommendations last week on

the restriction of lithium battery shipments carried on passenger

and freighter aircraft, the Council President of the International

Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) confirmed today.

“The proposal to require lithium batteries to have a state of

charge of 30% or less, when carried in shipments on commercial

aircraft, was felt to be prudent enough to improve aviation safety

while a packaging performance standard is being developed,”

highlighted Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu. “This recommendation

will still permit the rapid and reliable global transit of what has

become a vital energy source for people and businesses

everywhere in the world.”

President Aliu clarified that the DGP’s recommendations must

still be reviewed under ICAO’s Air Navigation Commission

(ANC), before ultimately being brought before the UN aviation

agency’s 36-State Council for final assessment and decision.

“ICAO greatly values the time and effort of all its panel experts in

bringing forward these types of recommendations,” he noted.

“The Air Navigation Commission has been requested to prioritize

its review of the DGP’s proposed measures and the Council

hopes to see a final proposal by early next year. This

collaborative process does take some time, but in the end it

delivers consensus-based and effective long-term safety

progress for international civil aviation.”

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Sheikh, citing -elSharmUK delays flights from

probeMetrojet

The UK government has taken the “precautionary step” of

delaying flights that had been scheduled to fly from Sharm el-

Sheikh, Egypt to the UK the evening of Nov. 4. It cited new

321 Airbus AMetrojet“information” from the investigation into the

.31Oct. that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula

In addition, the Irish Aviation Authority said Nov. 4 it was directing

“Irish airline operators not to operate to/from Sharm el‐Sheikh

Airport, Egypt or in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula airspace until

further notice.”

UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s office issued a statement

Nov. 4 saying that “as more information has come to light we

have become concerned that the plane may well have been

brought down by an explosive device.”

Cameron’s office said delaying flights from Sharm el-Sheikh

bound for the UK “will allow time for a team of UK aviation

experts, currently traveling to Sharm, to make an assessment of

the security arrangements in place at the airport and to identify

whether any further action is required. We expect this

assessment to be completed tonight.”

The statement added that Cameron has spoken to Egyptian

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi “to discuss what measures the

Egyptians are taking to ensure the tightest possible security

arrangements at Sharm el-Sheikh airport.”

Cameron’s office emphasized that it “cannot say categorically

why the Russian jet crashed.”

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