All Ops & safety articles – Page 1453
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Lufthansa and SAS form strategic alliance
Andrzej Jeziorski/COPENHAGEN LUFTHANSA AND Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) have forged an alliance linking their traffic systems and putting an end to SAS's role in the European Quality Alliance. No equity exchange is involved. The agreement, signed on 11 May in Copenhagen, will combine the partners' ...
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Coping with technology
Kieran Daly/TOULOUSE The almost universal use of cockpit-resource-management (CRM) techniques will be one of the major features of training as airline pilot-recruitment reaches its next peak. Even though the concept is today far from new, its practice is still very much in development and is having to evolve ...
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Tying the knot
In the world of airline alliances, few proposed so far have implications as great as that between Lufthansa and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) - not entirely from what is being done (though that is impressive enough), but also from what is not. This deal pulls together, in ...
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Low-cost measures
Agreeing to new training regulations is one thing - being able to afford them is another. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Regional airlines have long hoped for advances in technology, which would make flight simulation more affordable. Now US regulatory changes are planned which will make simulator training ...
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737 control-system study produces no crash clues
A REVIEW OF THE design of Boeing 737 flight control has uncovered no flaws, which could have caused the unexplained crashes of two aircraft, says the US Federal Aviation Administration. The critical design review of the flight control system, was prompted by the 1991 United Airlines crash at Colorado Springs ...
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Airbus challenges 737 'grandfather' allowance
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is bracing itself for a bitter struggle to force the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) to decline "grandfather" certification-rights for Boeing's new 737 family. The consortium is determined to raise the profile of the issue, which has become a key factor in recent airline aircraft-selections. ...
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USAir moves nearer union accord agreement
USAIR HAS WON tentative agreement on labour concessions from the International Association of Machinists. They join company pilots, in agreeing to the loss-making carrier's programme to cut $2.5 billion in labour costs, over five years. The airline is continuing negotiations with the Association of Flight Attendants and members ...
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Airbus homes in on future derivatives
GROWTH VERSIONS OF Airbus Industrie's A319 and A340, together with a "shrunk" A330, are emerging as the priority items in the manufacturer's continuing studies of possible new models. A further stretch of the A321 - the so-called A322 - has been ruled out for now, but the consortium ...
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Arrow strikes deal with FAA
ARROW AIR EXPECTS to resume cargo operations by the end of this month following a deal made with the US Federal Aviation Administration. The two sides agreed that Arrow Air would retain its operating certificate if it paid the aviation agency $1.5 million to defray the cost of ...
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TNT considers Subic Bay tie-up with FedEx
TNT Worldwide Express is looking to relocate its Philippine-based Asian freight hub from Manila to Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA) and is negotiating a line-haul co-operation agreement with FedEx as part of the move. The company's joint venture Pacific East Asia Cargo (PEAC) carrier is constrained by a ...
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Nordam is cleared over blade failures
NEW ZEALAND authorities have cleared Nordam's hushkit, of causing turbine-blade failures in the Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines, of Air New Zealand's (ANZ) fleet of Boeing 737-200s. The airline suffered four low-pressure turbine-blade failures on hushkitted 737s (Flight International, 22-28 February), but now appears to be the victim ...
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Cargo boosts long-haul economics
TWO OF AIRBUS Industrie's long-haul customers are using their aircraft to fly pure-freight services. Cathay Pacific has found the A330 and A340 sufficiently efficient to operate as lower-deck-only freighters once their day-time passenger duties are completed, and Aer Lingus says that it converts one of its three A330-300s ...
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Indian cargo step Up
Elbee Airlines is to become India's first all-cargo airline. The new carrier is scheduled to become operational in June, having acquired an air-taxi-operator's certificate from the country's Directorate General of Civil Aviation to operate four Fokker 50s on domestic routes. There are no dedicated cargo airlines in India's domestic sector, ...
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Competition conference
Europe is less than two years away from completing the single European air market, yet bitter disputes continue to rage over issues ranging from airport access and slot allocation, through to state aid and US open-skies deals. To help address these crucial issues, Flight International has been invited ...
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UK gives option to cut take-off separation
SOME AIRCRAFT departing from London Heathrow Airport will be operated at half the present take-off separation minima during a UK Civil Aviation Authority-sanctioned trial scheduled to start in June. The current separation for a narrow-body following a wide-body is 2min, and the proposal would reduce this to 60s. ...
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Dangerous occupation
Seismic activity - the search for oil and gas - is booming in Latin America, although it is not an area where exploiting natural resources is easy. The environment is among the most inhospitable in the world, with a huge variety of terrains and climates. The two dominant ...
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Double standards
It seems strange that, in an industry, which is rightly obsessed with safety, there should be a disagreement between major players over whether particular safety standards should be applied to particular aircraft. It seems even stranger that the disagreement is based not on when a particular airframe was built, but ...
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USAir reduces losses in 1995
USAIR HAS CUT its first quarter 1995 net loss to $97 million, compared with a loss of $197 million in the same period of 1994. Revenue rose by nearly 5%, to $1.76 billion. Its operating loss was $42 million against $140 million in the 1994 quarter. "Even accounting ...
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AlliedSignal wins key SAS deal for MD-80 anti-icing
SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System (SAS) has selected AlliedSignal's overwing anti-icing system for its McDonnell Douglas MD-80s. The airline lost an MD-80 in 1991 when ice shed from its wings caused the rear-mounted engines to flame out. Its selection of AlliedSignal's Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System (ETIPS) for its 69 MD-80s ...
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CIS engine head defends PS-90A
THE HEAD OF THE CIS aero-engine manufacturers' association (ASSAD) has hit out at Western and Russian firms which, he claims, are plotting against the Aviadvigatel/Perm Motors PS-90A turbofan. Victor Chuiko, president of ASSAD, failed to show up at the conference for unspecified reasons, but his presentation was included ...