All Safety News – Page 1487
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Wet-leased Tu-134 crashes in Nigerian storm
A HARKA AIR Services Tupolev Tu-134 twinjet wet-leased from the Russian Komiavia group crashed in a rainstorm at Lagos, Nigeria, on 24 June, killing 16 passengers. The aircraft, which was on a scheduled domestic flight from Kaduna, landed at Lagos International Airport in rain and a heavy crosswind, ...
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Boeing wins first round of JAA certification row over new 737
David Learmount/LONDON BOEING HAS WON the first round of a battle to have its new 737 family of aircraft declared as derivatives by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The move will allow the US company to claim "grandfather rights" and avoid having to meet current safety regulations ...
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Cleaning up
The international civil-aviation community is bracing itself for the next imposition of environmental standards for aircraft. These new standards should lead to a significant reduction in the impact of airliners on the environment, which can only be welcomed. Unfortunately, there is a danger that individual pressure groups pandering to local ...
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Satellite-navigation-approach first for Alaska Airlines 737-400
AN ALASKA AIRLINES Boeing 737-400 has been flown successfully on satellite-navigation (satnav)-based instrument approaches to a 300ft (90m) decision height at Juneau, Alaska without using any ground-based navigation aids. The pioneering flight was undertaken by Boeing and Smiths Industries as a proof-of-concept demonstration to the US Federal Aviation ...
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Airbus tests ATC datalink
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE, in association with Aerospatiale and the Eurocontrol air-traffic-control (ATC) centre at Maastricht, the Netherlands, has begun in-flight trials of equipment enabling ATC by datalink. The aircraft being used in the tests are green A320s being ferried from Airbus' Toulouse, France, assembly plant to Hamburg, Germany, for ...
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Has ValuJet broken the mould?
ValuJet has been rewriting the rules for low-cost US start-ups, but for how long can it keep on growing? Kevin O'Toole/ATLANTA ValuJet's success has been remarkable by any standard. With its own distinctive brand of low-cost operations, and scant regard for conventional wisdom, the start-up carrier has stormed ...
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Canadian team develops investigation tool
A TEAM OF ENGINEERS at Canada's National Research Council (NRC) has developed an information-management system capable of translating data from aircraft flight recorders into computer animations. The team, based at the Flight Recorder Playback Centre, part of the NRC's Institute for Aerospace Research, developed the ADAAPS (Aircraft Data ...
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Monarch to take on Alitalia leases
Gnter Endres/LONDON MONARCH AIRLINES is on the verge of taking over the contentious wet-leased Boeing 767-300ER operation, now provided by Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services on behalf of Alitalia. The new deal is an extension of a long-standing agreement between Monarch and Ansett, under which the UK ...
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Eurocontrol 'on target' with ATC goals
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS EUROCONTROL HAS inaugurated its new ECU 117 million ($87.5 million) Brussels centre with assurances that measures to improve Europe's air-traffic-control (ATC) system are "very much on target". Located near the Brussels airport at Haren, the building brings together Eurocontrol's headquarters, the Central Flow Management ...
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Australia cuts price of Qantas
THE AUSTRALIAN Government has slashed the expected price of its remaining 75% stake in Qantas, in a bid to boost the privatisation, which has been flagging in the face of weak financial markets and expectations of a poorer operating performance from the airline group. Estimates for the price ...
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Managing Asia's growth
Aeropolitics, rising costs and physical impediments to growth are the biggest challenges posed by the tidal wave of growth forecast for the Asia-Pacific region. David Knibb reports from the Airline Business/ Reed Exhibitions conference on 'Managing Airline Growth in Asia', held in Singapore.Asia's growth defies superlatives. ...
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The yen factor
The strength of the Japanese yen is having major repercussions throughout the airline business. David Knibb looks at the impact.The Japanese even have a word for it. Endaka describes the inexorable rise in the value of the yen. It's not a new phenomenon; the yen has been appreciating for at ...
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Routing for growth
Airlines have added and abandoned new routes at a substantial rate in the past two years, but US carriers and those based in more liberal markets dominated the picture. Report by Reed Travel Group Market Analysis and Airline Business. Market expansion is one of the most pertinent ways to ...
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Financial results
Air Canada cut its operating loss from C$12m to C$7m. Passengers and yields both rose 6%. There were C$40m of non-operating gains in 1994. Operating income trebled to US$162.2m, moving ANA into the black. Boosted by the Kobe earthquake and the strong yen, traffic rose 6.1%. ...
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Boom conditions shift to slowdown
It was only 12 short months ago that the global financial markets were gripped by fear of overheating and inflation. Robust economic growth, particularly in the United States where output soared to 4.7 per cent in 1994, sent the yields on government bonds round the world sharply higher and the ...
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SAA boosted by Lufthansa
The cooperation agreement between South African Airways and Lufthansa is a major boost for the African carrier, while the pact nearly completes the German flag's global net of alliances. SAA has sought a European partner for more than two years and senior general manager John Hare says few ...
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Taiwan takes direct route
Conceding the inevitable, Taiwan has taken the first fateful steps that could lead to direct air links to China within two years. But Beijing's willingness to facilitate such flights will depend on whether CAAC pragmatists prevail over policy ideologues who hope to capitalise on Taipei's recognition that direct links are ...
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Sino thaw is set to grip
Chinese aviation appears to be experiencing a thaw as two recent events show that both outsiders and the CAAC have growing confidence in China's airlines. China's transition from bank-guaranteed to asset-based financing received a boost with the recent decision of an operating lessor to commit aircraft to a ...
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KLM cagey over Garuda
Indonesia and the Philippines are heading in opposite directions on state ownership of flag carriers, but neither is making progress. Jakarta cannot find a buyer for Garuda Indonesia and Manila is still waiting for a ruling as to whether it can reassert control over Philippine Airlines. On-again off-again ...
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Japan urges Asian forum
Japanese officials in Asia-Pacific have completed a diplomatic offensive to win support for a major regional aviation forum that Japan hopes will lead to tighter government cooperation on air transport policies. The initiative is emerging as the first serious attempt to bring together high level government officials capable ...