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1992
1992 - 0920.PDF
THE BULLISH BEAR AiRO^LOT81'"•• ,Aeroflot's internatiqnaT"-dhision at:_ . ___ ' [Moscow has ordered five'Airbus Industrie A3r) Some 68 airlines have replaced the former USSR's monolithic Aeroflot in the Commonwealth of Independ ent States (CIS). Many are private, with the others owned by national or regional governments, but they are setting up with a bullish enthusiasm for their future. Meanwhile, the CIS member states have chosen to keep their civil air transport regulatory body centralised to ensure co ordination, nationally and internationally, during the industry's redevelopment. On 30 December, 1991, the CIS heads of government signed a treaty defining an Inter-State Aviation Committee (MAK) and its objectives. As well as taking over the basic tasks of licensing, certification and domes tic fares and routes regulation, it negotiates international bilateral agreements and overflying rights. Initially, control of each of the divisions of Aeroflot has been transferred to the Government of the state of its base. Thus 18 divisions have gone to the Gov ernment of Russia and 16 divi sions to the other 14 states. MAK is pledged to base the CIS states' regulations on International Civil Aviation Organisation The member nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States have been robbed of their centralised air transport system — both the airline operations and the regulatory infrastructure. Paul Duffy, in Moscow, talks to the head of the CIS new joint aviation committee, MAK. Dr Tatiana Anodina: leading the organisation that implements change (ICAO) recommendations, and to work with the US Federal Aviation Administra tion (FAA) and European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) on safety and new aircraft design standards. The agency is also given the task of managing and implementing inter-state avi ation-project research and development. Any former USSR state, or any other which sees an advantage in it, is free to join MAK, whether it is a member of the CIS or not. Lithuania, however, has so far not joined the scheme. MAK's senior personnel are already work ing with major regulatory authori ties in other countries, including the FAA and the European JAA, to establish systems and standards. When the former USSR ministries established contacts in 1991 with the FAA, the Americans, according to MAK, found that the difference between US and Soviet certifica tion standards was less than ex pected, and said that the prospects of recognising each other's certifi cations by 1995 were good. MAK is modifying its own certification programmes to meet the FAA's and JAA's FAR and JAR safety- standard requirements. 20 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 8 - 14 April, 1992
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