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1988
1988 - 0010.PDF
AIR TRANSPORT Discount conditions must be visible WASHINGTON D.C. The US Department of Transportation is watching with interest a plan endorsed by the States governments that will set standards for truth in airline advertising. The plan is supported by a majority of the Attorneys General of 43 States, who met early in December in San Diego to draft "enforcement guidelines" in taking airlines to court for deceptive consumer practices. The guidelines call for legal actions whenever an airline violates the advertising code. These include failure to include a notice to consumers that an advertised low fare applies to only one airport serving a city. Restrictions on the low fare may not be buried in fine print at the bottom of an adver tisement. They must be in type that is no less than one third the size of the largest type in the advertisement. Advertising on television must include fare restrictions in the oral part of the message, and not just in fine print at the bottom of the screen. Fares that are adver tised as one-way must clearly state if they are available only as round trips. Some of the changes that have angered holders of frequent-flyer bonus fares would be outlawed by the new guidelines. Airlines will have to give present participants in their frequent-flyer pro grammes a year's notice if mileage requirements are raised. Airlines have refused to comment on the actions taken by State law enforcement offi cers. In general the airlines have taken the legal position that federal regulations pre empt State and local laws. Even so, the Attorneys General say they are prepared to bring suits if the airlines fail to comply with the new standards. Bromon BR-2000 mockup unveiled Bromon Aircraft Corporation has revealed a full-sized mock- up of its planned BR-2000 twin turboprop at its San Diego, California, design facility. The project, which should start production in 1990, has both civil and military applications. LAX security inadequate" m LOS ANGELES Security at Los Angeles Inter national Airport is inade quate, according to US congressional officials investi gating the crash of PSA flight 1771 on December 7. It is believed that a former USAir employee evaded secu rity checks and smuggled a • 44 calibre Magnum handgun on board the PSA BAe 146, where he shot his former boss and the two aircrew before the aircraft crashed, killing the passengers. The General Accounting Office (GAO), the investi gative arm of the US Congress, reports that airport procedures for screening passengers for weapons at LAX are inadequate, distribu tion of employee identi fication badges is improperly controlled, and restricted areas, including aircraft, are easily entered without challenge by security person nel. In other tests during January-November 1987, Federal Aviation Adminis tration (FAA) inspectors smuggled five fake dynamite bombs past PSA's X-ray secu rity checkpoints at LAX before the December 7 crash. Kinoru Takimoto, manager of the FAA's Los Angeles Civil Aviation Security Field Office, warned six airlines including PSA on October 1, and PSA again on November 7. PSA security tests did manage to detect 11 other mock weapons during the FAA tests, including gren ades, bombs, and a revolver. US Government auditors also estimate that more than 6,000 of 38,000 LAX security badges issued are missing. LAX currently employs about 25,000 staff. Malaysia commuter takes off KUALA LUMPUR A colourful new Malaysian domestic carrier takes to the skies on January 1, bearing the "Bunga Raya" national flower as its logo in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Pelangi Air will begin oper ations with two Twin Otters on routes linking the capital with Kertih and Pulau, and offering charters to various tourist spots. "We will increase the fleet if there is a demand for services," says company chairman Abdul Aziz Rahman. MARKET PLACE Ansett W. A. has ordered a third British Aerospace 146- 200 for delivery late in 1988. Ansett's existing 146s entered service in Spring 1985. Firm orders for the 146 now stand at 107. DHL Airlines is buying a fleet of 14 Convair 580 turboprops for its European hub at Brussels airport. The aircraft will be operated by DHL's subsidiary, European Air Transport (EAT). Philippine Airlines (PAL) has bought two more Shorts 360-300s for use on its domes tic network. PAL was the launch customer for the -300 in February, taking four of the type. Options were also taken on the two aircraft now added to the fleet. Hapag-Lloyd Flug has ordered six Boeing 737-500s, for delivery starting May 1990, and has taken options on two more. The aircraft will be configured to take 130 passengers in one class. Puerto-Rico-based Execu tive Air Charter, an Ameri can Eagle carrier, has leased a Casa C-212, bringing its fleet total to 11 of the type. The aircraft is configured to take 19 passengers. EAC also oper ates three Aerospatiale/Aer- italia ATR42s. Australian-based TNT has ordered three more British Aerospace 146QT freighters for delivery during 1988 and 1989. TNT has now ordered eight of the aircraft, and is committed to taking all the freighter variants from a five- year production run. The three 146QTs will be used in TNT's European operation. Ontario Express has confirmed six options on British Aerospace Jetstream 31s, bringing total orders for the 19-seat aircraft to 200. Three Jetstreams have already been delivered to Ontario Express, and the remainder will be delivered during the first half of next year. Air Malta has bought a spare General Electric/Snecma CFM 56-A1 engine for the Airbus A320-200 which it is due to' receive in 1990. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 2/9 January 1988
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