[C2.] China Airlines Repairing Its Image Sandy K. Y. Liu faces a formidable task as president of the airline, which had three crashes in the 1990's and needs a major reorganization to restore its image.
Achieving long-term success for US Airways as a stand-alone airline will be a formidable task.
Photo surveys have provided reasonably accurate maps, and improved aircraft and base facilities are making the once formidable "frigid zone" increasingly accessible; commercial airlines fly across the North Pole.
Strategic use of aviation policy to build a strong and profitable airline industry is still a formidable task lying ahead for policymakers.
European airlines, in particular, have become formidable competitors, especially Air France-KLM and Lufthansa, of Germany.
Virgin and Delta have vowed to become a "formidable competitor" on UK-US routes after the American airline was cleared to complete its purchase of a 49% stake of Sir Richard Branson's Atlantic carrier.
The talks also reflect the airlines' growing concern that they are trailing more formidable rivals being formed in Europe, including Air France-KLM and British Airways, which recently acquired Iberia of Spain.
Airlines, the most potent of national champions, will feel the wind of competition when the EU market is opened up to all European airlines next month.In energy, where liberalisers have faced formidable opposition from state-owned monopolies, part of the electricity market is to be liberalised over six years starting later this year; competition in gas may follow.
The once formidable Soviet-era aircraft industry has fallen so far that Aeroflot, Russia's best-known airline, recently upgraded its fleet with Boeings rather than buy Russian-made Ilyushin or Tupelov aircraft.
Neuwirth had spent the past couple of days getting keys and Internet connections for the players, as well as confirming airline reservations for the team's opening road trip, to Florida, to play the Pride a formidable team.
