Sentence examples for slash capacity from inspiring English sources

A new Philippines Civil Aviation Board, composed mostly of Tan supporters, told Taiwan to slash capacity.

Compounding matters, Japan's domestic oil market was deregulated in 1996, forcing refiners long cloistered from international competition to slash capacity.

American majors were able to slash capacity much faster than their European and Asian counterparts because many of their elderly planes were fully depreciated.

Jeffery A. Smisek, the chief executive of United Continental Holdings, said he was determined to further slash capacity if fuel prices remained high.

Delta and United face the prospect of tougher terms in August and January respectively, when their credit-card contracts with the banks are up for renewal.Beyond the support of interested and profitable parts of the aviation food-chain, and the difficulty of revising labour contracts and pension promises, there is another huge obstacle to a general shake-out that would slash capacity.

But now that the transition is complete, complaints have declined and the company can slash capacity.

This, it says, has allowed prices to shoot upwards and slashed capacity margins, which are "so tight that National Grid's emergency power deals have become the norm".

Air Berlin is slashing capacity after being thrown a lifeline by Lufthansa but easyJet (and Ryanair for that matter) would prefer to see more radicalism.

Chief executive Michael O'Leary also warned of slow autumn demand, meaning Ryanair is now slashing capacity over winter, grounding as many as 80 aircraft to cut costs.

But BA reacted to the aviation slump that followed the terrorist attacks of 2001 by slashing capacity and costs: some 13,000 jobs have gone and more cuts are on the way.

Passengers flocked to Ryanair and its rival easyJet, which embarked on similar aggressive discounting.The reaction of the big, established network carriers in Europe and America was quite the opposite: they slashed capacity by 15-20%, anticipating (correctly) a slump in their passenger numbers.