All Ops & safety articles – Page 1454
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Revamped deal saves Loral ATC
LORAL IS TO BE allowed to continue with major elements of the US air-traffic-control (ATC) modernisation programme, which it inherited from IBM. The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded it a $898 million fixed-price incentive contract to build more than 3,000 display system replacement (DSR) units - automated ...
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US and Australia change single-turbine rules
Australia and the USA are set to amend rules to allow the carriage of revenue passengers in single-engine turbine-powered aircraft under instrument flight rules and at night. The concession is certain to boost sales of single-turbine types and is particularly important to Cessna with its Caravan and ...
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EU proposes trans-Atlantic bilateral treaty counter-attack
EUROPEAN Commission (EC) Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock, has warned that, unless the EC is given a mandate to centrally negotiate future aviation agreements with the USA, "we will witness implementation of a policy that is not just America first, but America first, last, both ways across the Atlantic and within ...
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FDRs ruling unites carriers/airframers
OPPOSITION IS growing to the US proposal to force the retrofitting enhanced flight-data recorders (FDRs) to early-model Boeing 737s and other aircraft. Airlines and manufacturers insist that the proposed installation deadlines are unrealistic and that, in any case, the move is not economically justifiable. The ...
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CNAC challenges Cathay at Hong Kong
China National Aviation (CNAC) has applied to the Hong Kong Government for an air operators' certificate (AOC), threatening Cathay Pacific Airway's virtual monopoly and undermining confidence in its post-1997 position. Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department (CAD) has confirmed that CNAC, a subsidiary of the Civil Aviation Authority of ...
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FAA changes pilot pairing regulations...
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has tightened its rules on air-transport pilot pairing to prevent low-time pilots being rostered together. The rule changes, which take effect in four months for major airlines and at the end of the year for regional carriers, result from several accident investigations in ...
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Political row grows over Tata-SIA joint venture
The Indian Parliamentary committee on civil aviation has come out strongly against the entry of foreign airlines into the domestic sector. The committee is headed by Pramod Mahajan, the general secretary of India's main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata. It fears that Indian Airlines, the state-owned domestic carrier, ...
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Harsh reality
The civil-aviation industries of Russia and the CIS complain that a lack of state funding, and difficulties in certificating their products in the West, lie at the root of their massive problems. They are wrong, in that those difficulties are only the symptoms of a far worse malaise. The harsh ...
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Financial results
Alitalia improved its operating result and cut its loss, but net debt rose 50% to $1.9b as net assets fell to $280m. Staff cuts cost $77.5m. Cathay's net profit rose 4.1% yet turnover grew 13.4%. Gross yield fell 4.3% and available tonne km per employee rose 7.5% to 573,700. ...
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Age old decision
New aircraft or old? Airline executives are weighing up the options to make the right fleet decisions to last the next decade. Sara Guild contrasts the narrowbody decisions made by Air Canada, Finnair and Northwest.For an aircraft, getting old and creaky used to mean that your owner was about ...
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Coming of age
This worldwide survey of regional airlines, the first of its type, paints a picture of an industry segment that has come of age. The tables reveal a business which carried over 100 million passengers last year, generated nearly $8 billion in revenue, and turned in a net profit of nearly ...
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GAO allies to profit motive
It may come as no surprise that the long-awaited study by the US General Accounting Office has concluded that codesharing alliances can be lucrative. But what is surprising is the degree to which these partnerships profit, and the speed with which the agreements produce results. The GAO study, ...
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Virgin's eggs in US basket
The full focus of the Virgin Atlantic-British Airways battle switches to the US following an out-of-court settlement of the UK legal case. Virgin accepted British Airways' offer to settle the case in early March with both sides picking up each other's legal costs. Unusual enough, but even stranger ...
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Singular battle over EU currency
At the core of the heated debate in Europe about the future of the European Union lies the concept of the single currency. While the politicians battle it out as to whether a common currency across the EU would be a political act with a loss of sovereignty, the technical ...
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Oz in battle on HK
Australian air service negotiators are under mounting pressure as they grapple with a potential crisis in bilateral relations with Hong Kong and the prospect of a major equity link between Ansett and Air New Zealand, which could put the status of a range of bilateral agreements in doubt. ...
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Japan's case is on the rise
It has taken years, but Japanese transport officials appear to have their first chance of forcing the US into a renegotiation of the 43-year-old bilateral over beyond rights from Kansai/Osaka. Japan has long complained that US airlines have unfair competitive advantages over Japanese carriers as a result of ...
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FedEx faces China crisis
FedEx may have thought it was simply buying Evergreen International's all-cargo route authority to China. In fact, it bought a ringside seat to an aviation row between Beijing and Washington, which had, at presstime, left the carrier unable to operate any China services. Evergreen was the only US ...
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Fuel tax debate is primed to heat up
In a time of US budget cutting, when small government endowments say, support for non-commercial public broadcasting, and big federal agencies, like the Department of Transportation are all facing funding recisions, the idea of subsidising the airline industry through tax exemptions of close to $530 million seems absurd. That ...
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Meeting market needs is essential
Airlines are turning their organisations upside down - creating new problemsIn examining the airline business, many company strategists are working overtime these days. Following the disastrous start to the 1990s, most airlines are going through the most intensive period of soul-searching ever. They are asking questions like: What is our ...
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Facing up to new frontiers
As described in Pricing it Right in the February issue of Airline Business, O&D yield management is the current frontier in airline marketing planning. In addition to the direct revenue benefits to be gained by controlling the mix of passenger itineraries flowing over an airline's route network, the ...