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Northwest seeks deals to ease Asian worries
Paul Lewis/Tokyo NORTHWEST AIRLINES is working to strengthen its Japanese-based hub operation through new co-operation agreements with Asian carriers, as local criticism intensifies of US airline industry fifth-freedom rights in the region. The airline is looking to develop a strategic relationship with at least one ...
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Assertive cabin crew save lives
David Learmount/COPENHAGEN ASSERTIVE ACTION, by cabin crew, could greatly increase passengers' chances of survival after a crash-landing, new research has shown. Assertively applied emergency-evacuation drills can accelerate airline-passenger emergency-evacuation markedly, the study demonstrates, whereas, non-assertive cabin crew make little difference to egress rates. ...
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Hughes wants more cash for Canadian ATC work
CANADA'S DEPARTMENT of Transport and Hughes Aircraft of Canada are renegotiating the terms of a C$659 million ($488 million) programme to install an integrated air-traffic-control system across the country. Hughes' portion of the project is now valued at C$420 million. In documents filed with Transport Canada, however, Hughes ...
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Ready for business
Lockheed Martin is replacing its controversial Series 7000 bus with the new A2100. Tim Furniss/LONDON Most of the proposals for new satellite contracts being made by the Astro Space division of Lockheed Martin in New Windsor, New Jersey, feature the new A2100 spacecraft bus (Flight ...
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Change of mood
SAS president Jan Stenberg has brought a new realism to the airline Kirean Daly/LONDON Even in the difficult days of the early 1990s, few airlines saw their fortunes tumble quite so rapidly as did Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). Under the leadership of Jan Carlzon, the tri-national carrier ...
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Operating rules hit commuters with high costs
MANUFACTURERS AND operators of 19-seat regional aircraft are hoping to persuade the US Federal Aviation Administration to minimise the impact of proposals to raise commuter-certification standards. The FAA estimates that the commuter rule will cost $275 million over the next ten years, with operators of ten- to 19-seat aircraft bearing ...
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Confidential safety
Airbus Industrie is the first manufacturer to set up confidential reporting. David Learmount/LONDON Even co-operative airlines often withhold some information when the report incidents to the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Safety Information Exchange, according to its administrator, Bob Woodhouse. Fear of litigation explains at least a part ...
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IATA urges consensus on raising passenger-liability restrictions
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE WORLD'S major airlines are due to meet in June in an attempt to break the deadlock over raising the international passenger-liability limits laid down in the Warsaw Convention. Insurers have welcomed the initiative to make the existing $75,000 limit more realistic, but ...
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Contran heads for FAA trials
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is to begin trials of a system designed to prevent simultaneous air/ground voice-communication transmissions. UK purchasers of the system, however, are complaining about the UK Civil Aviation Authority's attitude to it. The FAA will shortly receive four examples of the ground version, and ...
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The dangers of in-house training
Sir - Authorised Examiner (AE) courses conducted by the UK Civil Aviation Authority are due to end soon, because of the requirement to harmonise with European Joint Aviation Authorities Regulations. The AE course is to be replaced with a new concept, aimed more at the instructional element of ...
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GAO questions FAA over its GPS schedule
THE US GENERAL Accounting Office (GAO) is raising doubts over the Federal Aviation Administration's ability to meet its global-positioning-system (GPS) implementation schedule. The investigative arm of the US Congress has recommended that Transportation Secretary Federico Pena direct the FAA to come up with a comprehensive plan for augmenting ...
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Terminal Illness
"The new terminal will have a profound effect on the environment" Last week, a public inquiry began into the plans of the UK's major airport operator, BAA, to build a fifth passenger terminal at London Heathrow, the country's largest and most important airport. Some 300km (160 miles) ...
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Incident reporting
All airlines are subject to at least one level of compulsory incident reporting: this normally involves reporting to their national aviation authority those relatively serious events which result in physical harm to people, damage to equipment, or risk to safety. Less-serious incidents may be reported within an airline ...
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USA plans 'no-blame' incident reporting
David Learmount/LONDON AN AMERICAN AIRLINES aircrew "no-blame" voluntary reporting system is being studied for possible nationwide adoption in the USA. The US Air Transport Association (ATA) says that, if adopted, it would supplement the existing NASA-administered Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS). Safety specialists ...
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Volga-Dnepr pushes An-124 co-operation
Kieran Daly/LONDON VOLGA-DNEPR Airlines is leading a renewed effort to co-ordinate the investment by operators of the Antonov An-124 Ruslan outsized freighter in technical improvements to the aircraft. The carrier hosted an April meeting of An-124 operators and suppliers in Ulyanovsk, where it proposed a ...
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Development of TCAS 4 begins
ROCKWELL'S COLLINS Air Transport division is developing a follow-on traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS 4), based on the global-positioning system (GPS), with the goal of providing a prototype unit to the US Federal Aviation Administration in December 1999. The TCAS 4 will use differential-GPS position reports and automatic ...
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Bedek faces probe after 747 work is questioned
A US FEDERAL Aviation Administration inspection team is to visit Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Bedek overhaul division later this month, following concerns over the company's Boeing 747 maintenance work. Bedek, one of the world's primary 747 over-hauls, has meanwhile consented, to stepped-up FAA surveillance of its work on ...
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Cathay pushes for stretched 777
Paul Lewis/SEATTLE CATHAY PACIFIC HAS declined a Boeing request to increase its orders for 777s beyond the current level of 11 to help launch the stretched version of the aircraft. At the same time, however, the Hong Kong airline is pressing the manufacturer to launch ...
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GE probes surge cause on BA's 777
Guy Norris/SEATTLE GENERAL ELECTRIC is investigating foreign-object damage (FOD) as being a possible cause of a surge experienced on a GE90 engine powering the first British Airways Boeing 777. The incident took place immediately after take-off from Boeing Field, Seattle, on 4 May on a certification ...
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Boeing floats short 777 with longest range yet
Paul Lewis and Guy Norris/ SEATTLE BOEING IS considering launching a short-bodied ultra-long-range variant of the 777, which would be capable of carrying around 250 passengers on routes up to 16,650km (9,000nm). Airlines are already being briefed on the aircraft The 777-100X or "Shrink" as ...