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1996 - 0066.PDF
AIR TRANSPORT China starts investing in its infrastructure CHINA'S AIRLINES are be ginning to make substantial investments in infrastructure to match their rapidly growing fleets. China Southern Airlines has aw arded AMR's Sabre Decision Technologies (SDT) a contract to develop an operations control cen tre, while China Eastern has or dered Airbus A300-600R training equipment from Thomson Train ing & Simulation. China Eastern has ordered a full- flight simulator and flight-training device for installation in mid-1997 in its new training centre in Pu- dong, close to the site for Shang hai's new international airport. The A3 00 device will be equipped with a FlightSafety International Vital ChromaView visual system. China Eastern's McDonnell Douglas MD-82 simulator, supplied in 1987, will be upgraded with a ChromaView visual. China Southern plans to build its new airline-operations control centre in Guangzhou. SDT will provide the client/server computer hardware and software, American Airlines will train China Southern employees to operate the centre, and Sabre Computer Services will assist in development of air-to- ground communications systems. The centre will automate flight dispatch, flight monitoring, load planning and crew scheduling. • Airports Council condemns ICAO environmental rules deferral THE RECENT DECISION taken by the International Civil Aviation Organisation's Com mittee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) to postpone the implementation of stricter environmental standards (Flight International, 3-9 January) has been condemned by the Geneva-based Airports Council International (ACl), which is one of the Com mittee members. Avi Gil, ACI's director of envi ronmental affairs, has expressed his disappointment with the decision. "We believe there is an environ mental need for increased stringen cies on noise and engine emissions," says Gil. The ACI has proposed a 4dB reduction in aircraft-noise certifi cation standards at each measuring point for all new aircraft, and also called for a 20% increased strin gency for NOx emission standards over the 1996 requirements. On both issues, the 15-member CAEP was divided roughly equally, pre venting any progress on these con tentious issues. • FSI penetrates regional-jet market FRENCH REGIONAL airline Brit Air has ordered a Bom bardier Canadair Regional Jet full- flight simulator from FlightSafety International (FSI). The simulator will be installed at the airline's ICARE flight-training centre in Morlaix, alongside an FSI-supplied ATR 42/72 simulator. Brit Air is the first Regional Jet operator to acquire its own simu lator. Lufthansa Cityline oper ates a Regional Jet simulator centre in Berlin in a joint venture with Bombardier and simulator manufacturer CAE Electronics, while Bombardier operates a Regional Jet training centre in Montreal, also in a joint venture with CAE. The Level D simulator, which is FSI's first for the 50-seat Regional Jet, will be equipped with FSI's Vital ChromaView visual system. The ATR 42/72 simulator, sup plied in 1991, will be upgraded with a ChromaView visual. • Embraer has appointed FSI as the official training company for the EMB-145 regional jet. FSI will build an EMB-145 full-flight simu lator and flight-training device. J US airlines 'will make $2 billion' RAMON LOPEZ/WASHINGTON DC US SCHEDULED airlines are expected to report net profits of $2 billion for 1995, says the US Air Transport Association (ATA) in its year-end report. The ATA says that long-haul carriers earned $2.2 billion in the first nine months of the year, and the organisation is predicting a break-even fourth quarter. As a re sult, the US airline industry is ex pected to report its first annual profit since 1989 because of an im proved economy, higher air fares and low fuel prices. Between 1989 and 1994, the nation's scheduled air carriers lost $13 billion. Safety statistics were marred by the 20 December crash of an Am erican Airlines 757 near Cali, Col ombia, claiming 160 lives. Up to that point, US carriers had re corded only one major accident in the year, when scheduled cargo carrier Millon Air lost an aircraft on 28 April in Guatemala City, killing six people. There were also two fatal acci dents, with nine fatalities, among the US regional airlines. One death resulted from a crash in Alaska on 25 February and eight people were killed in an Atlantic Southeast acci dent in Carrollton, Georgia, on 21 August. This compares with three major airline accidents with 71 fatalities in 1994, and three fatal accidents with 88 fatalities among the scheduled commuter airlines the same year. US airline employment levels at the end of the year had slipped mar ginally to 542,500 people, down from the 1994 figure of 543,325. Since 1990, more than 120,000 air line employees have now been laid off or furloughed because of the industry's five-year slump. ATA member airlines' jet-airlin er fleets totalled 4,611 aircraft at mid-year, an increase of 161 from 1994. The industry had nearly $26 billion worth of new aircraft on order in June, in spite of cancelling or delaying hundreds of aircraft orders, says the ATA. • Malev receives Fokker 70s MALEV HUNGARIAN Airlines has taken delivery of the first of four Fokker 70s which it plans to put into operation in the first half of this year. Three of the aircraft are on lease from International Lease Finance and the fourth is being purchased directly from Fokker. Malev expects to use the aircraft on European routes. It also expects to fly the Fokkers on a new service to London City Airport. 12 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 10 - 16 January 1996
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