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Gale Group PROMT is a multiple-industry database that provides
broad, international coverage of companies, products, markets and
applied technologies for all industries.
It is a 'one-stop' database whose versatility and size enable you to
research a product, its markets, the materials used to produce it,
competitive products, regulatory issues and other factors that
impact on a company, industry or business.
PTSP contains information on virtually all manufacturing and service
industries, from computers, electronics and telecommunications to
chemicals, food, pharmaceuticals and finance; marketing; advertising
and public relations; aerospace, defense, and commercial aviation;
international, specialised business and industry newsletters; and
full text coverage of press releases announcing new products and
technologies, mergers and acquisitions.
PROMT offers expert opinion and insider perspective. Its extensive
source and subject coverage and highly specific indexing make PTSP
an essential database for effective business and industry awareness.
The database includes abstracts, excerpts and full text documents.
The number of full text documents has increased to around 65%.
Use PTSP to answer questions like:
- what international governments have purchased Northrop's AN/ALQ-
171(V) electronic counter measures system?
- what announcements have been made recently concerning mergers
and acquisitions between UK companies in the consumer electronics
industry?
- what are the forecasts for coal production in Europe?
- what have been the latest developments in solar calculator
technology?
- what have been the recent trends in the French yoghurt market?
- what information is available on the applications of Abbott
Laboratories' new blood-test kit, Auszyme Monoclonal?
Sources:
PTSP contains 1,100 active international trade and business
publications, plus archive sources. All documents from non- English
sources have the bibliographic details translated into English and
approximately one-third of these contain an abstract in English.
Sources covered include business and industry, newsletters,
newspapers, government and agency reports, research studies,
investment analysts' reports, corporate news releases and corporate
annual reports.
Accession number & update
48419620 19980101.
Title
NATIONAL AIRLINE COMPANIES IN A CRITICAL POSITION.
Source
Indonesian Commercial Newsletter, 13 April 1998, p. 50, Publisher:
PT Data Consult, Inc.
ISSN: 0853-2036.
Text
The extended monetary crisis in Indonesia has wrought havoc in
various sectors related to basic materials and imported capital
goods. The situation has become critical. The national airline
industry, whether regular routes or chartered flights, is in a
critical condition.Even the gradual adjustment of tariffs at the
beginning of this year to more than 30%, failed to help the
national airline companies, particularly private airline
companies which are really on their last gasp. The increases of
up to 35% in the price of tickets towards Lebaran (February
1998) was not yet able to cover the operational costs
of airlines, as revenue obtained was only US$ 3.5 cents per seat
per km. whereas the ideal revenue should be USS 11 cents per
seat per km. - at an exchange rate of Rp. 2,600 per dollar. This
ideal revenue was the result of reasonable calculations based on
an estimate of operational costs in the exchange rate at that
time. Thus, if these companies wish to recover at a reasonable
level of revenue which would be able to cover 80% of operational
costs in US dollars and make a profit,
the revenue level should reach US$ 13-14 cents per seat per km.
The economic crisis, which has reduced community purchasing
power and high cost fiscal policies have caused the load factor
to drop drastically. In March the load factor for regular
scheduled flights dropped by 50%. In fact for members of
the Indonesia National Air Carriers Association (INACA),
the load factor for scheduled flights was only between 20
and 30 per cent. The national flag carrier, Garuda, has
suffered a dramatic drop of up to 50% on international routes.
Not only has the load factor dropped, but the devaluation of the
rupiah has also affected spare parts. Most aircraft spare parts
are imports.Thus they have become extremely expensive because of
being purchased with dollars. Thus, with the swelling of
operational costs, the current tariffs, even after adjustment,
in no way balance out the expenditure of national airline
companies.
The basic problem currently being faced by national airline
companies is the sharp increase in the leasing cost or
instalments on aircraft with the rocketing of the value of the
US dollar in relation to the rupiah. Leasing costs, which
have to be paid in dollars, have risen by more than 400%.
Such leasing costs can no longer be paid by national airline
companies because they are already facing problems in covering
operational costs.
As a result of the pressure of this monetary crisis, the national
airline companies, including Garuda and Merpati, have conducted
market repositioning by reducing or cutting out several domestic
and national routes, cutting various cost sectors and starting to
lay off employees and crew, putting aircraft into hangars or
returning leased aircraft. Some of the aircraft have been taken
over by the lessor as the Indonesian operator was no longer able
to pay the purchase instalments. (...see online for full
article...).
THIS IS THE FULL TEXT: COPYRIGHT 1998 PT Data Consult Inc.
Classification codes
US NAICS Codes:
4811 Scheduled-Air-Transportation.
Product names and codes
Scheduled-Airlines (P4510000).
Event names and codes
Market-information-general (E600).
Country names and codes
Indonesia (C9INDO).
Special features
INDUSTRY.
PTSP; PTDT.
Publication type
Magazine/Journal.
Publication audience: Trade.
Language
English.
Length
2002 words.
Publication date
19980413.
Copyright statement
COPYRIGHT 1998 PT Data Consult Inc. ; COPYRIGHT 1999 Gale Group.
Availability
Full text available in format 'LONG' or 'ALL'.
Label/description Example
AN Accession number 1_: 48419620.AN.
& update date 2_: 19980101.AN.
- see also ..LIMIT
options -
TI Title 3_: AIRLINE.TI.
SO Source(*) 4_: INDONESIAN-
COMMERCIAL-
NEWSLETTER
or 5_: INDONESIAN ADJ
COMMERCIAL.SO.
ROOT JN= for a list
Note: use DT - Publication date -
to search for dates
Search for journal publishers as 6_: HENDERSON.SO.
or 7_: PT ADJ DATA ADJ
CONSULT.SO.
AU Author(s)(*) 8_: FRANK-ERICA.AU.
or 9_: FRANK.AU.
or 10_: FRANK WITH ERICA.AU.
AB Abstract 11_: SKIN WITH CANCER.AB.
- see also ..LIMIT
options -
TX Text 12_: MONETARY ADJ
CRISIS.TX.
To retrieve records with full text 13_: FULLTEXT=YES
PE Named persons 14_: GATES WITH (WILLIAM
OR BILL).PE.
KW Keywords(*) 15_: AIRLINES.KW.
The KW paragraph groups together all
descriptor paragraphs (CC, PN, EN, CN)
CO Company/ies(*) 16_: BRITISH-
AIRWAYS$.CO.
or 17_: BRITISH WITH
AIRWAYS.CO.
Ticker symbol 18_: TS=BA
ROOT CO= for a list of company names
ROOT TS= for a list of ticker symbols
CC Classification codes
NAICS codes (6 digits) 19_: 4811.CC.
or 20_: NAICS=4811
To search at a broader subject level,
enter: 21_: 48111#.CC.
or 22_: NAICS=48111$
or 23_: 4811#.CC.
or 24_: 481#.CC.
or 25_: 48#.CC.
Root NAICS= for a list of codes
The text is also searchable (*) 26_: SCHEDULED-AIR-
TRANSPORTATION.CC.
or 27_: SCHEDULED WITH AIR
WITH
TRANSPORTATION.CC.
Note: by searching by text the
broader level search feature as
described above for the codes is lost.
US SIC codes (4 digits) - search as NAICS -
Text of SIC codes - search as NAICS -
ROOT SIC= for a list of codes.
PN Product names and codes 28_: P4510000.PN.
To search at a broader subject level,
enter: 29_: P451000#.PN.
All levels down to one digit are
searchable in this way: 30_: P4#.PN.
The text is also searchable (*) 31_: AIR-CARGO-SERVICE
or 32_: AIR WITH CARGO WITH
SERVICE.PN.
Note: by searching by Product name the
broader level search feature as
described above for the codes is lost.
EN Event names and codes 33_: E600.EN.
To search on a broader level, enter: 34_: E60#.EN.
or 35_: E6#.EN.
The text is also searchable (*) 36_: MARKET-INFORMATION-
GENERAL.EN.
or 37_: MARKET WITH
INFORMATION.EN.
CN Country names and codes 38_: C8NEWZ.CN.
To search on a broader level, enter: 39_: C8#.CN.
The Country name is also searchable:(*)40_: INDONESIA.CN
or 41_: NEW ADJ ZEALAND.CN.
or 42_: NEW-ZEALAND.CN.
Refer to Notes below for further help
on searching for countries and regions.
SF Special features
Articles discussing company/ies 43_: SF=COMPANY
Articles discussing industry sectors 44_: SF=INDUSTRY
To retrieve articles assigned by Gale
to 'Marketing & Advertising Reference
Service', enter 45_: SF=PTMA
For articles assigned to 'Aerospace/
Defense Markets & Technology', enter 46_: SF=PTDT
To eliminate articles that relate
geographically to the USA, enter 47_: SF=NOTUS
Root SF= for a list of other options.
PT Publication type
Includes publication and article types
as well as publication audience. 48_: PT=MAGAZINE-JOURNAL
49_: PT=TRADE
50_: PT=EDITORIAL
Root PT= for a list.
LG Language of original article 51_: LG=ENGLISH
Root LG= for a list.
LE Length.
Records the word count of the article.
Searchable.
DT Publication date
Date DATE=YYYYMMDD 52_: DATE=19980413
Month MONTH=YYYYMM 53_: MONTH=199904
Year YEAR=YYYY 54_: YEAR=1998
- see also ..LIMIT
options -
CP Copyright statement 55_: GALE.CP.
Records the copyright of the database 56_: PT ADJ CONSULT.CP.
publisher and the publisher of the
source.
AV Availability (of full text).
To retrieve full text articles 57_: FULLTEXT=YES
(*) Phrases in these paragraphs can be searched using either
hyphens or the linking operators ADJ or WITH. The ROOT
command is especially useful here to establish, for
example, how a source or a descriptor appears in a
database.
1_: AIRLINES
DATE Publication date YYYYMMDD 2_: ..LIMIT 1 DATE>
19971231
MONTH Publication month YYYYMM 3_: ..L 1 MONTH=199804
YEAR Publication year YYYY 4_: ..L 1 YEAR WL 1995,
1999
UMONTH Update month YYYYMM 5_: ..L 1 UMONTH>199803
UDATE Update date YYYYMMDD 6_: ..L 1 UDATE<
19980415
AB=AB Retrieves documents with abstracts 7_: ..L 1 AB=AB
SHORT AN, TI, SO, AU, LE, DT, CP, AV
MEDIUM AN, TI, SO, AU, AB, LD, T1, LE, DT, CP, AV
LONG AN, TI, SO, AU, AB, TX, LD, T1, CO, DE, CC, PN, EN, CN, LE, DT, CP,
AV
ALL AN, TI, SO, AU, AB, TX, LD, T1, PE, LW, CO, DE, CC, PN, EN, CN,
KW, SF, PT, IL, LG, LE, DT,(YR), CP, AV
FREE AN, TI, LW, CO, DE, CC, PN, EN, CN, KW, SF, PT, IL, LG, LE, DT, CP,
AV
Example: ..PRINT MEDIUM 1-10,15,17.
..RANK and ..MAP are available in the SO, CC, PN, EN and CN
paragraphs.
Guides:
The DataStar Guide to PTSP is published in the DataStar Business
Manual.
For a complete list of Product, Events and Regions codes order the
'Guide to Predicasts Codes' published by The Gale Group (1999) from
Gale directly.
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