All Safety News – Page 1395
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TWA is still in dire straits
A move by Trans World Airlines to raise $26 million in cash from pre-purchase tickets is further evidence of the airline's growing financial woes. TWA struck an advance purchase deal with 20 leading businesses in its home town of St Louis for discounted tickets. It is the second ...
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Cleaning up on yields
The benefits of a yield management system depend upon what competing airlines are doing. Peter P Belobaba and John L Wilson from MIT's Flight Transportation Laboratory explain why. Most airlines have embraced the practices of differential pricing and yield management over the past decade. By offering a range of fare ...
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US to tackle central issue
American's proposed alliance with British Airways and the prospect of US-UK open skies is grabbing all the headlines. But the Dallas-based carrier's alliance building in Latin America could temporarily overshadow that with the promise of another slanging match and the prospect of Central American open skies. The alliance ...
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Boeing tries to convince
Boeing's attempts to clinch a second big exclusive aircraft deal, similar to the one signed with American Airlines last November, comes at a time when the US manufacturer is trying to persuade regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to approve its merger with McDonnell Douglas. The company's ...
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CAI survives the big chill
Canadian Airlines International has survived the winter with the help of government, employees and creditors, but competition in western Canada is still growing with charter operator Canada 3000 expanding its scheduled services. Canadian's cash position has improved enough to defer searching for a C$60 million (US$40 million) credit ...
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Clinton still confident
The American economy has shown remarkable resilience in the 1990s. Over the last five years more than 11 million new jobs have been created, the rate of unemployment has fallen to 5.4 per cent of the workforce and inflation has been kept below 3 per cent. Even the US budget ...
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Algeria plans amid chaos
The vision of the president and chief executive of Air Algérie as a profitable and privatised airline may seem more like a Saharan mirage in a country riven by a bloody, religious conflict. But Faycal Kellil's actions certainly prove he is serious. The government-owned airline became a joint ...
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Private funds elude Alitalia
Put your wallet away: Alitalia's no longer for sale. The carrier has abandoned its quest for private investors and turned to state holding company IRI for the full capital injection. The Italian treasury has now confirmed that IRI will inject the remaining L1.5 trillion (US$880 million) of fresh ...
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IFALPA: It's not a row, just concern
Sir - The article "IFALPA sparks row over use of TCAS logic in RVSM airspace" (Flight International, 12-18 March, P8) is slightly misleading. The International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations (IFALPA) is concerned that the UK Civil Aviation Authority has published guidelines for the North Atlantic (NAT) ...
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Blanc warns pilots
Air France president Christian Blanc has warned pilots that he has no intention of changing current salaries as a result of proposed strike action over pay scales. He says the move threatens 450 new pilot jobs and would cost Fr1 billion ($200 million). Air France wants to reduce ...
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737 AD issued
US Boeing 737 operators are being ordered to retrofit their fleets with four newly developed rudder-system components, following the formal issue by the US Federal Aviation Administration of two airworthiness directives (ADs). The announcement follows a US National Transportation Safety Board report, urging the FAA to make its proposed AD ...
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FAA Accepts DSR
The US Federal Aviation Administration has formally accepted the initial display-system replacement (DSR) developed by Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management. The delivery culminates 23 months of development and testing to assure operational performance of the next-generation air-traffic-control (ATC) system. Lockheed Martin will produce the controller workstations under an $898 million ...
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Untenable situation
Western national carriers British Airways, KLM of the Netherlands and Germany's Lufthansa have recently begun direct flights to Azerbaijan capital Baku, in anticipation of an oil boom which is expected to increase passenger and cargo traffic to the region. Bina International Airport in Baku, however, is dogged by ...
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Europe's business-aviation fleet increases by 10%
THE EUROPEAN business-aviation fleet grew by 10% during 1996, with 2,051 aircraft registered, against 1,857 logged in the previous year. The increase came mainly in France (115 more aircraft), the UK (32), Sweden (nine) and Turkey (16), according to the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), which held its ...
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Lockheed Martin and Bovis win contract
Lockheed Martin and UK-based Bovis Construction have been named preferred bidders for the contract to provide the new Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre (SCATCC) located at Prestwick. Scheduled to become operational in 2001/2, the SCATCC will replace the existing Prestwick centre, which controls Scottish airspace and oceanic regions ...
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Ministers support fuel-tax change
Dutch and Belgian transport ministers have spoken out in favour of abolishing the European airline industry's exemption from fuel taxes. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has responded quickly, saying that such a tax would do nothing to help the environment, as its supporters argue. At a meeting ...
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Jeanniot warns against over-expansion
Pierre Jeanniot, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has issued a stern warning to airlines to think twice before expanding their fleets. The warning follows evidence from IATA that international airlines last year failed to repeat their record profits performance of 1995. The net result ...
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TWA sees losses soar
News that a Saudi Prince has taken a 5%stake in Trans World Airlines (TWA)did little to lift the gloom surrounding the struggling airline's heavy losses posted for 1996. Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family, picked up the stake for $14 million and helped ...
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There is still a need for flight engineer
Sir - The absence from the cockpit of the flight engineer has once more been placed in question by the story "Airbus fits switch guards after A340 hydraulic incident" (Flight International, 12-18 February, P16). This incident took place in a reputable aircraft, belonging to a reputable airline, with an all-pilot ...
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Global goes quiet
Both BMW Rolls-Royce BR710 engines were inadvertently shut down in flight during testing of Bombardier's second Global Express prototype. The engines were restarted from the AlliedSignal RE200 auxiliary power unit. One BR710 had been shut down for relight tests when the crew accidentally attempted to relight the operating engine, causing ...