All Ops & safety articles – Page 1403
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China wins control of Hong Kong airlines
Paul Lewis/HONG KONG SWIRE PACIFIC has ceded control of Dragonair and lost to China its absolute majority interest in Cathay Pacific Airways, in a far- reaching settlement ending a year-long battle for control of Hong Kong's airlines. Under a deal struck just 14 months before ...
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AST becomes the first victim of UK training policy
David Learmount/LONDON THE UK'S OLDEST flying training school has become the first victim of a Government policy loophole enabling UK pilots to gain UK commercial pilot's licences in foreign training establishments. The 60-year-old Air Services Training (AST) at Perth, Scotland, announced on 26 April that ...
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Digital ATC
AIT Recorders has developed a digital air-traffic-control (ATC) data-recording system, which it claims can simultaneously record all radar, voice and environmental data entering an ATC centre, using digital compression techniques. The UK company's Comfile 2000 Digital Recorder uses DAT cassettes as the storage medium, along with a 1Gb hard disk ...
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Australia to make TCAS compulsory for transports
AUSTRALIA's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) plans to order the use of the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS) for transport aircraft. CASA has circulated an industry discussion paper following a 1995 Bureau of Air Safety Investigation (BASI) report recommending that TCAS be compulsory for all public-transport Australian ...
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New Sabena chief warns that costs must be reduced
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA'S NEW president, Paul Reutlinger, has warned staff that the ailing carrier needs to shave billions of Belgian francs from its cost base. Reutlinger, who joined Sabena from Swissair after Pierre Godfroid's resignation, says that the carrier needs to make annual savings of ...
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DASA ready to finalise sale of Dornier unit to Fairchild
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) hopes to complete the sale of of its Dornier Lufthahrt regional-aircraft manufacturing unit to US manufacturer Fairchild Aircraft before the end of the month, according to Manfred Bischoff, DASA's president and chief executive. Speaking in Washington on 30 April, ...
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Unique Internationalism
THE UK'S OLDEST flying-training school is to close. Air Service Training (AST) blames not the now-ended airline recession, but its own regulator for allowing overseas schools with lower costs to train ab initio pilots for the full UK commercial pilot's licence, and its Government for giving UK students tax incentives ...
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Pilot accord
Air France has secured a temporary agreement from two of its pilots unions, SNPL and SPAC, for a 30 per cent productivity increase with no extra pay. Pilots will fly 623 hours in 1996 compared with 542 in 1993. The accord should be made permanent in October, and equates to ...
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Still under the influence
Everyone in the US says that they want 'clean' elections. But until the long-threatened reform in campaign finance actually occurs, Washington decision-making will always be influenced by corporations, unions and professional interest groups via political action committees (PACs). Witness United Parcel Service. Its PAC, a legal entity set ...
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Up in smoke
Qantas is facing a showdown with its unions over a move to extend workplace smoking bans. The airline has barred staff from smoking anytime they are in uniform, even outside work hours, and says anyone caught three times will be dismissed. Union officials argue the measure infringes civil liberties and ...
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Bedek backs 707 as tanker platform
Douglas Barrie/TEL AVIV ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries' Bedek group is to stay with the Boeing 707 airframe as the basis for its tanker-conversion business, following internal studies into alternative airframes. Despite the age of the 707 design, senior Bedek officials believe that the airframe still provides ...
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Airborne chooses TIMCO for 767 conversion work
US AIRCRAFT-modification specialist TIMCO says that it has been selected by Airborne Express to develop a freighter conversion for the Boeing 767. Express-package carrier Airborne has acquired 12 ex-All Nippon Airways 767-200s for $290 million, including modification, and plans to acquire between ten and 15 additional aircraft for a total ...
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Investigators probe DarkStar accident
THE LOCKHEED Martin/Boeing team is hurriedly revising plans for its second DarkStar unpiloted surveillance aircraft, following the destruction of the first aircraft in a crash at Edwards AFB, California, on 22 April. The accident compounds already-serious delays to the Tier III Minus DarkStar programme, which is being developed ...
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Profitable Dassault keeps quiet on Aerospatiale link
FEW CLUES HAVE emerged as to the state of Dassault Aviation's enforced merger talks with Aerospatiale from chairman Serge Dassault's unveiling of an increasingly healthy financial results for 1995 . Dassault refers only briefly to the negotiations with Aerospatiale, which have been more or less forced on his ...
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South Africa maintains grip on competition
SOUTH AFRICAN transport minister Mac Maharaj, has confirmed the Government's commitment to the competitive development, of aviation in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, but has warned that some restrictions, must remain for the foreseeable future. In a speech prepared by Maharaj, but delivered by deputy director of the ...
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Polar Air Cargo
Peter Hansen is named vice-president for Asia at Polar Air Cargo, of Long Beach, California. He was formerly regional director of cargo sales for the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico at American Airlines and, before that, he spent 17 years with Flying Tigers. Source: Flight International
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SIA seeks six extra-large-capacity aircraft
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), has outlined a need, for an initial six new 500- to 600-seat, ultra-high capacity-type aircraft, now being studied by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. "We need around six to start with," says SIA managing director Cheong Choon Kong. "It does not ...
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All bark and no bite?
Demands on the European Commission to protect smaller or new entrant airlines from anti-competitive behaviour could increase with the recent rise in startup activity. But is the Commission equipped for the task? By Trevor Soames.Europe has come a long way since the third package of air transport liberalisation measures swept ...
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All a matter of control
We were very interested in the article 'Planners in control' (Airline Business, April). Our research institute has recognised the inefficiency of financial tools for correcting errors in an airline's processes, and in 1994 we released our Business Economics Assessment Method (Beam) process control method. We believe this is the new ...
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Latin American lead
Increasingly creative financial mechanisms and new products that insure against political and contractual risks, are providing incentives for private sector investment in Latin American and Caribbean airports. By Ellis Juan.As the air transport sector continues its rapid expansion in an increasingly globalised economy, the entry of fast-growing new participants like ...