All Safety News – Page 1212
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Brighter spots on horizon for USA
Given heavy losses from Trans World Airlines and US Airways, the latest round of third quarter results from the US majors could have played much worse on Wall Street than it seems to have done. Most aviation analysts were keen to point to some bright spots on the industry's horizon ...
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Slots Logjam
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS KEVIN O'TOOLE LONDON Hopes are growing that the new team at the European Commission could finally end the long wait for new regulations on airport slot allocation. Even the contentious issue of slot trading could be back on the agenda. Could Europe at last be ...
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Judge rules out Canadian's takeover
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Everything came to a screeching halt late on the last business day before shareholders were set to vote on the counter-proposals from Onex and Air Canada. Quebec judge Justice Wery ruled that Onex's offer to acquire 31% of Air Canada and merge it with Canadian was illegal. ...
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Aviation industry ready for 2000?
TOM GILL LONDON The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is "not anticipating any major" disruption over the new year period, following advances in preparations for the changeover to 2000, despite what appears to still be a patchy picture. More than 500 out of 800 airports audited by IATA have ...
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Europe nears harmonised working hours
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS Key industry organisations are close to a general agreement on how part of the European Union's Working Time Directive, which sets a range of binding standards on working hours, can be applied to aviation. On 15 October, the European Commission (EC) and industry groups agreed a ...
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British Midland decides on the Star attraction
GÜNTER ENDRES LONDON After intensive talks with all the major alliances, with the obvious exception of oneworld, British Midland has opted to team with Lufthansa and the Star grouping. BM is expected to join in spring or summer of next year. The alliance signing is backed by Lufthansa taking ...
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Mixed messages from Japan
On the surface, results from Japan's big three carriers seemed to offer a few grounds for optimism. All showed better operating profits for the first half of their latest financial years, yet concerns linger. Lower fares have stimulated traffic and changes in depreciation have skewed results so it is still ...
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EgyptAir data fail to supply any answers
David Learmount/LONDON Initial evaluation of the crashed EgyptAir Boeing 767-300ER cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) has failed to confirm the causes of the dive which began the fatal manoeuvre sequence, says US National Transportation Safety Board chairman Jim Hall. On 17 November, Hall released ...
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Eurocontrol plan for congestion gets green light
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol's Provisional Council has approved the agency's plans to reduce air traffic congestion in the short-to-medium term after a year in which delays have been among the worst on record. Although the Kosovo crisis has been blamed for causing most of the delays from April-July, the ...
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Catching African bugs
Age is beautiful for many African airports, which have avoided the biggest problems in becoming Y2K compliant Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA Africa is never short of contradictions. In the run-up to the year 2000, the very things that made some African airports the laughing stock of yesteryear are the reason that ...
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737 safety probe prompts tests
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is modifying a 30-year-old ex-United Airlines 737-200 for ground and flight tests of the rudder system as part of a US Federal Aviation Administration-led safety evaluation. The 737 is being leased from Indiana-based Purdue University, which acquired the aircraft after United Airlines retired it in 1997. ...
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Southern Air ready to go after DoT vote
Start-up cargo carrier Southern Air has won US Department of Transportation approval to begin operations, but will have to do so without routes from bankrupt Southern Air Transport (SAT). Services will begin next year. The Columbus, Ohio-based company plans to offer aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) wet-lease services ...
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Canadian regionals may merge
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL A Toronto-based business group, Regional Airlines Holdings, aims to establish a new national airline by buying and merging the regional carriers of Air Canada and Canadian Airlines. The move would appear viable if the two majors themselves merge. Regional Airlines Holdings wants Ottawa to force Air Canada to ...
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Vulcan delivers Observer to Italian police force
VulcanAir has delivered its first Partenavia P68 Observer 2 to the Italian State Police, around 18 months after the Casoria, Naples-based company acquired fellow Italian company Aerocosmos, former owner of the P68 type certificate. The Observer 2 piston twin, an upgraded version of the standard Observer model, offers a ...
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Boeing claims 747-X will catch A3XX
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is claiming that its new stretched 747-400X design is capable of meeting and even beating the direct operating costs of the all-new Airbus A3XX. The startling assertion is based on revised performance estimates for the 747-400X, plus new, independent airline analysis of the latest A3XX proposals. ...
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Leasing companies drop 767-400ER commitments after poor demand
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Leasing companies General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and International Lease Finance (ILFC) have dropped their combined orders for seven Boeing 767-400ERs after failing to find sufficient market interest in the stretched twins. ILFC says it has switched its four remaining -400ER commitments for ...
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UK plans partial ATC sell-off
David Learmount/LONDONUK air traffic control (ATC) is on course for partial privatisation by the middle of next year, with the government last week announcing plans to put a bill transforming the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) into a "public private partnership" before parliament during the 1999/2000 session. As the government ...
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Guesstimation
Accident investigation is in danger of getting a bad name. The three US authorities - the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - associated with the EgyptAir flight 990 investigation deserve some understanding given the ferocity of the media ...
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AlliedSignal prepares for integrated A3XX cockpit
David Learmount/RIO DE JANEIRO AlliedSignal is working on an integrated navigation/hazard display which would be suitable for new aircraft types, such as Airbus Industrie's proposed A3XX ultra-large airliner. The large liquid crystal display will combine the navigation display with all hazard information, without cluttering the picture. Although this ...
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CAL ready for launch
New Israeli freight carrier CAL (Cargo Air Lines) will start operations on 1 December using a Boeing 747-200 freighter acquired from Atlas Air and taking up extra capacity on other cargo airlines operating to Israel until it introduces a second freighter. Established in the 1970s by Israeli agricultural organisations ...