All Safety News – Page 789
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India set to finalise new civil aviation policy
A new civil aviation policy to steer the next stage of development in India's growing air transport sector finally looks set to be approved. A new...
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Southwest's profit lag
Southwest Airlines is planning job and capacity cuts and a tweak to its business model to help restore its falling profits. After reporting a 17% drop...
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Opinion
Comment: Danger signs
IATA is forecasting a further improvement in industry profits in 2007 and 2008. But recent signs point to a downturn sooner rather than later. The "super...
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Airline Strategy Awards 2007: Regional & low-cost leadership
Anyone can start a low-fare airline, and many have, but few low-fare carriers can come back from the brink of failure and grow to become one of their nation's...
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Airline Strategy Awards 2007: Airline Business Award
Norman Y Mineta's biography reads like an American legend: the child to immigrant parents, the victim of childhood discrimination, hard work, progress up...
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Airline Strategy Awards 2007: Judges
Sir Rod Eddington Sir Rod has returned to Australia after five years as chief executive of British Airways. In 1979 he joined the Swire Group, becoming...
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Paul Coby: The IT lever
After an uncertain time earlier this decade, the role of Information Technology in the boardroom has moved to centre stage as a key enabler of business transformation...
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NewsA350 avionics to expand on A380 systems
Airbus and Boeing are providing glimpses of the potential for flightdeck development beyond the initial equipage for their new competing widebodies, respectively...
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PICTURE AT AIRVENTURE: Epic's Victory Jet to get BRS parachute
Epic Aircraft has revealed at Oshkosh its plans to install...
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Gokongwei: Correcting mistakes at Cebu Pacific
Asia's first low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific is returning to strength with improved efficiencies and a firm belief in its business model This is a classic...
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US airport safety under microscope
Alleged systemic covering-up of air traffic control errors by US Federal Aviation Administration employees at Dallas Fort Worth airport is to be investigated...
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Qinetiq turns down EASA duty hours research project
A leading research authority on pilot fatigue and its effect on flight safety has shunned an opportunity to advise European aviation authorities directing...
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Probe asks why Airbus A320 could not stop
sector author name location Probe asks why A320 could not stop Although the runway is short it was technically long enough, so investigators...
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FAA: new separation standards more realistic
The US Federal Aviation Administration says a new method for defining reportable operational errors by controllers who allow...
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BAE and Northrop bid to test anti-missile systems on commerical airliners
BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman plan to compete for a new solicitation issued by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to test anti-missile systems...
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Business in brief
business briefs UTC optimistic after strong second quarter outlook United Technologies has raised its outlook for 2007 as a whole after posting...
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Violent lightning strike brought down Kato Dornier 228
Norwegian investigators have confirmed that a lightning strike, which severely damaged the tail of a Kato Airline Dornier 228-200, caused the aircraft to...
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French pilots go to Europe over operational age cap
A French pilots' campaign group has lodged a complaint with the European Commission against a French decree that restricts pilots over the age of 60 from...
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Boeing, Qinetiq discuss HALE UAV pact
Boeing is investigating possible collaboration with Qinetiq on the UK company's Zephyr unmanned air vehicle and other...