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WOUF NEWS IN BRIEF M SUDAN BOYCOTT The US and the UK are con sidering a campaign to per suade the UN Security Council to impose an arms and aviation embargo against Sudan if it persists in refusing to surrender to Ethiopia three men accused of involve ment in the June 1995 assas sination attempt against Egyptian President Mubarak in Addis Ababa. A new US resolution imposing diplo matic and visa restrictions against Sudan is imminent. • SHEFFIELD AIRPORT Amsterdam and Paris are the most likely destinations for scheduled services when Sheffield City airport opens late in 1997. Plans for the pri vately funded airport are expected to be unveiled on 9 May. The northern English city of Sheffield, reputedly the largest in Europe without an airport, was to have had one in 1993. The previous developers, however, met financial trouble after much of the preparatory work had been completed on a site east of the city at Tinsley. The original £15 million ($23 mil lion) proposal envisaged a 1,200m (4,000ft) runway. • SWIFT ACTION Australia's newly elected gov ernment has ordered swift action to remove the chronic air-traffic bottleneck at Sydney's Kingsford Smith (KSA) Airport, and boost its capacity by about 25%. Movements on KSA's inter secting east-west runway 07/25, whose approaches overflew the electorates of two ex-government mem bers including former trans port minister Laurie Brereton, will resume. The runway had been closed by the former minister except for emergen cies. The ministerial direc tion also requires KSA to provide a long-term plan by December for operation of the airport. USA and Japan start new row over passenger flights PAUL LEWIS/SINGAPORE JUST A WEEK after Japan and the USA reached a basic agree ment on air-cargo services, the two countries have become embroiled in a new row over passenger flights. The fresh dispute centres on the US Department of Transport's (DoT) rejection of Japan Airlines (JAL) application to fly between Tokyo and Kona, in Hawaii. JAL had planned to launch the thrice- weekly service from 1 April. Japan's Ministry of Transport (MoT), in a tit-for-tat retaliation, turned down United Airlines appli cation to temporarily increase its frequencies between Honolulu and Kansai from seven to 14 flights a week for a holiday period in April. The DoT decision to block JAL's Kona service follows complaints by United Airlines that the MoT had failed to approve its application to launch beyond services from Tokyo to Seoul and Bangkok. Japan is refusing to grant US car riers any more fifth-freedom pas senger services, until the 1952 bilateral air-services agreement between the two countries is rene gotiated. MoT accuses United of abusing the agreement by carrying more than 50% Japanese traffic. JAL argues that its planned route to Kona was a substitute for its ser vice to Washington, which was dis continued in November, and is allowed under a 1989 memoran dum between Japan and the USA. This latest row is not expected to affect the signing of the new air- cargo-services agreement in Wash ington, due in mid-April. • Italy becomes part of Eurocontrol T TALYHAS finally become a full J- member of Eurocontrol, clear ing the way for its full participation in the agency's efforts to harmonise air traffic control (ATC) through out Europe. Italy is the 21st nation to join Eurocontrol, its membership hav ing previously been blocked by successive governments which failed to ratify membership. The country already participates in Eurocontrol's EATCHIP ATC harmonisation programme, and has allowed its Rome ATC centre to be integrated into the Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU). Eurocontrol's finances will benefit from Italy's financial contribution from route overcharges. • Airlines filing flight plans to the CFMU can now use a paperless on-line process connecting to Eurocontrol's Integrated Flight Plan Processing System (IFPPS). The IFPPS consists of two com puters, one at Haren in Belgium and the other at Bretigny-sur- Orge, near Paris in France. The system processes the flight plans for accuracy, takes account of likely congestion, sends them auto matically to ATC units in any of the 32 participating countries, and advises the airline of the route. Q North and South Yemen airlines to merge SIX YEARS after North and South Yemen became a single republic, their airlines are to merge into a single company. Yemen Airways (Yemenia), based in the northern capital of Sana'a, was formed in the 1970s as a joint venture between the North Yemen Government and the Saudi Arab ian flag carrier Saudia, which had a 49% stake. Yemen Airlines (Al Yemda) was 100% owned by the Aden-based Government of the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. Yemenia chairman Hassan Sub- hi says that Saudia will hold 49% of the merged company.. The new company, as yet not named, will operate 12 aircraft, including two Airbus A310-300s scheduled for delivery in 1997. • Condor fresh at 40 LUFTHANSA CHARTER SUBSIDIARY Condor Flugdienst is celebrating its 40th birthday with a light-hearted new look for one of its Boeing 757s, courtesy of well-known US artist James Rizzi and Lufthansa Technik's Hamburg paint shop. The air craft, christened the "Rizzi Bird", has provoked mixed reactions. Condor officials at the 28 March roll-out believe that the bright design will please passengers and raise the carrier's public pro file, while at least one Lufthansa executive believes that Condor could have done better. Rizzi's commission remains undisclosed. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 10 - 16 April 1996
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