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An airline catering vehicle lowered his wheelchair from the plane down to the tarmac and the red carpet for the formal arrival.
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One, to contract out airline catering supplies, is easy to resolve.
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It probably makes more money from its interests in airline catering (in which it owns 20% of world market), ground handling, maintenance and air cargo than it does from actually flying.
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As well as taking a sizable chunk of an airline's inflight catering budget, wines also contributes a large part to an airline's image, particularly among premium passengers.
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Most airline services command only thin margins (catering is one example), but a company that provides them across the world can achieve economies of scale.
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Group CEO Alan Joyce revealed the airline was reviewing its maintenance facilities in Australia and consolidating its catering and engineering operations.
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While such initiatives are certainly helping to reduce aviation's environmental footprint, however, the rapid growth of the airline industry, with an ever-increasing number of flights catering to an ever-increasing demand for air travel, means that their impact is at best limited.
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He hopes it'll be the saving grace for the airline which has faced, amongst other things, recent staff strikes at catering firm Gate Gourmet.
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But this also left BA at the mercy of Gate Gourmet the only catering firm in the Heathrow area in a position to serve the airline.
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