1. Ennawawi said Rayan needs to privatize the airline, a move suggested by the World Bank. 2. Taiwan wants to privatize the airline, but its plans have been delayed because of the global downturn and investor antipathy toward airline stocks. 3. A new board of directors is allocating shares to applicants following a decision by regional leaders to privatize the airline. 4. Also to be discussed is how to privatize the money-losing regional airline Leeward Islands Air Transport, known by its acronym LIAT. 5. Communications and Works Minister Leontios Ierodiaconou told state radio that if strikes did not stop at Cyprus Airways, the government would privatize the airline. 6. Critics have demanded the government reform and privatize the airline in the wake of the crash, the latest in a string of accidents largely blamed on pilot error. 7. He had said recently that he was not interested in staying on if the airline was not privatized, as the previous conservative government had planned. 8. He said privatizing the airline would probably take at least two years. 9. In the longer term, Azimi wants to privatize the airline, or to enter into a joint venture with a major foreign airline. 10. Kenya Airways has been wholly state-owned but the government announced last summer plans to privatize the airline. |