All Safety News – Page 1385
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Malay duo to share routes
Malaysia's second international carrier AirAsia is planning a rapid expansion programme but this is unlikely to trouble incumbent Malaysia Airlines after the two carriers agreed to avoid competition. Operating as Pacific Eagle, the carrier is set to launch services to Shanghai in China - alongside MAS - and ...
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BA fuels Air Algerie spat
Air Algérie hasn't exactly received the warmest welcome back to Paris/Charles de Gaulle since it resumed flights from the airport in April, with British Airways leading a 34-airline protest against security arrangements at the French airport. The UK carrier is concerned about sharing a baggage conveyor with Air ...
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Cathay axes offshore plan
Plans by Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific to cut labour costs by setting up a cabin crew base in Bangkok have had to be abandoned following complaints by attendants that the rostering system was unworkable. The move is a body blow to a longer term scheme to ...
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US opens up centre
Sceptics could be forgiven for questioning the true 'open' nature ofthe new US open skies agreements with six Central American countries since carriers from two of the countries are prohibited from flying to the US. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama each signed open skies ...
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Who dares follow Crandall's path?
Somewhat ruefully, a speaker at AvMan's recent CEO conference for Latin American and Caribbean airlines remarked that it now seems as if all roads lead to Bob Crandall, American Airlines' president and chief executive officer. There is a wide gulf, however, between those who eagerly hope to tread that path ...
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Europe is set to expand
The European Commission is drawing up legislation for the aviation sector to match US antitrust laws, as the first stage in expanding the European aviation market to the east nears completion. Commercial aviation is one of the few industry sectors in which Brussels suffers from 'split competence'. The ...
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Financial results
Company Period Net US$ mil Comp period Sales US$ mil % change Aer Lingus Y Dec 31 51.2 24.2 1,225 -4.0 AMR Corp 1Q Mar 31 152.0 157.0 4,006 2.4 Austrian Airlines Y Dec 31 19.8 30.4 1,228 8.8 China Eastern Airlines ...
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Bonn settles on share bill
The final hurdle to the full privatisation of Lufthansa should be cleared by early September, when the framework to ensure the carrier remains in majority German ownership finally comes into effect. State-owned bank Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) currently holds the government's 37.5 per cent stake, but intends to ...
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Out of tune
After a period of relative quiet, noise is creeping back on to the mainstream aeropolitical agenda. Operators are already starting to feel the effects of a patchwork of regulations, which have emerged to fill the vacuum created by slow progress on the march to the next generation of standards. ...
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Proceed with care
If a single US airline were to be picked out for its sheer likeability, then that airline would have to be Southwest Airlines. This darling of the industry consistently puts smiles on the faces of its employees, its passengers, bankers, analysts, shareholders, and even former Department of Transportation inspector general ...
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Star bursts on to scene
United Airlines and Lufthansa have moved alliance building into a new era with the launch in mid-May of the five carrier Star Alliance, which attempts to present the passenger with a more uniform product while retaining individual brands. At presstime, details were scarce but the carriers were keen ...
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Direct links see change
They've done it by sea, and now Taiwan is searching for ways to ease its self-imposed ban on direct air links with the People's Republic of China. In an historic but short voyage in late April, the first ships carried cargo directly across the straits. Each side has ...
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Wolf stalks, unions resist
Frustrated by the lack of progress in labour negotiations and under pressure to cut costs, US Airways chairman and chief executive officer Stephen Wolf has launched an 'efficiency programme' that includes the ending of jet services to nine US cities, the grounding of 22 aircraft, and consolidation in maintenance and ...
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UK quick to labour point
The new UK government has put Washington to shame by moving rapidly to bring itself up to speed with the complex issues surrounding the proposed British Airways-American Airlines alliance and the related US-UK open skies discussions. Within a week of a landslide election victory for the Labour party ...
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Will A3XX ever get off the ground?
Sir - From studying the European Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR) 66 Notice of Proposed Amendment, I would like to put forward a comment. For maintenance engineers who already hold technical qualifications and experience equal to, or greater than, the knowledge required by the Joint Aviation Authorities for the ...
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Should licence rules be adapted?
Sir - From studying the European Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR) 66 Notice of Proposed Amendment, I would like to put forward a comment. For maintenance engineers who already hold technical qualifications and experience equal to, or greater than, the knowledge required by the Joint Aviation Authorities for the ...
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The pros and cons of retiring at 65
Sir - The US Federal Aviation Administration has tried to increase the retirement age for US airline captains from 60 to 65, but its efforts were rejected by the self-interest of the US Airline Pilots Association (ALPA), which cannot be truly representative of experienced US pilots' views, as a high ...
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Flight engineers needed on board
Sir - I agree with Alan Mason on the need for a flight engineer (Flight International, 26 March-1 April) - perhaps not so much for the reasons he gave, but for those of crew resource. - the engineer is responsible to the fleet's chief engineer, not the chief ...
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New Trent 700 failure
The fifth inflight shutdown - the third within in a two-week period - of a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 occurred to a Dragonair A330-300 en route from Malaysia to Hong Kong on 23 May. The aircraft was diverted to Subic Bay in the Philippines. "From first reports, we have no reason ...
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Dive from conflict
The crew's response to the threat of a mid-air collision caused a Nigerian ADC Airlines Boeing 727-200 to dive the aircraft into a lagoon during its descent to Lagos Airport on 7 November 1996, say investigators. Flight-data and cockpit-voice recorders, read by the US National Transportation Safety Board, show that ...