All Safety News – Page 1274
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Pauknair 146 accident
A British Aerospace 146-100 of Spanish regional carrier PauknAir has crashed in north-east Morocco on approach to Melilla Airport in the Spanish enclave of Melilla. The 1983-built aircraft was inbound from Malaga, Spain, in good weather at about 09:00 local time on 25 September. All 34 passengers and four ...
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Branson seeks US rule changes
Virgin Atlantic chairman Richard Branson has launched a crusade to remove restrictions on foreign ownership of US airlines, so that he can start up a US domestic carrier. Branson visited Washington DC on 24 September to begin lobbying Congress to amend the "antiquated and outmoded" regulations prohibiting foreign ownership ...
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Royal gets a result from Signature deal
Canadian Charter carrier Royal Airlines expects to add C$100 million ($66 million) a year in revenue from a recent agreement to carry most of the passengers for Signature Vacations of Toronto. Under the agreement, previously held by rival airline Canada 3000, Signature will fill 75% of four Royal Airbus A310-300s ...
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Healthy future ?
The European regional airline industry has once again beaten all records, with this year's European Regions Airline Association (ERA) meeting in Hanover, Germany, reporting double digit growth in passenger traffic, re-equipment by carriers with new regional jet aircraft and reasonable profit margins. The health of the regionals is traceable ...
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Enduring value
The Astra has been a steady, if not stellar, seller since IAI introduced the aircraft in 1985 as a long-range, high-speed, mid-size business jet. The design mated a stretched Westwind II fuselage with a new, low-set, swept wing featuring a cranked leading edge and supercritical aerofoil section. This increased both ...
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Maintenance: Europe and the CIS
Andrew Chuter/London and Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC, Data supplied by Air Transport Intelligence After a Farnborough air show at which airliner sales exceeding $20 billion were announced, any talk of recession seems like scaremongering. But the air transport industry is already bracing itself for the next downturn - the ...
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Boeing aims to achieve longer 777 ETOPS allowance
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is proposing to raise the standard 180min extended range twin engine operations (ETOPS) restriction to 207min. The objective is to allow Boeing 777s on some transpacific services to take an optimum routeing which would save up to 30min flying time. "It is the operators ...
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PAL collapse causes new chaos
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The almost unprecedented demise of Philippine Airlines (PAL) has left the country's domestic carriers scrambling to find additional capacity to fill the void, while creditors and bargain hunters are beating a path to Manila to pick over the bones of the defunct flag carrier. The decision ...
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Focus falls on solo airlines after tie-ups
With British Airways and American Airlines having confirmed their move to counter the Star Alliance - with the five-airline "oneworld" alliance - attention is now turning to potential responses by major airlines which have not yet committed to one of the global blocks. The oneworld link, formally unveiled in ...
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E&S wins WAH-64D contract
Graham WARWICK/Washington DC Evans &Sutherland (E&S) has received a $32.2 million contract from Boeing to supply four visual systems for the BritishArmy's WAH-64D Apache attack helicopter training systems. Boeing is building the training systems for its Aviation Training International venture with GKN Westland, which will build and operate the Apache ...
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Canadian company claims first for new European FTD approval
Canadian company Mechtronix Systems is claiming to be the first manufacturer to have a flight training device (FTD) approved under new European regulations. An FTD operated by Atlantic Flight Training in the UK has been approved under the Joint Aviation Authorities' new Flight, Navigation and Procedures Trainer (FNPT2) category. ...
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Kendell gets 50-seaters in Ansett's regional reshuffle
Paul Phelan/MELBOURNE Ansett Australia is to restructure its regional operations in a move which will see subsidiary Kendell Airlines acquiring a fleet of 50-seat regional jets. Meanwhile, a decision on Ansett's long-term route and fleet strategy is expected by the year-end. Kendell is finalising a deal for 12 ...
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FAA close to finalising Flight 2000
Emma Kelly/LONDON The US Federal Aviation Administration is to present its final plans for the revised Flight 2000 programme in December. Flight 2000, formerly dubbed Ha'laska, was intended to be the FAA's operational demonstration of integrated flight system capabilities in Hawaii and Alaska. The programme, based on ...
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Kitty Hawk follows Fine Air and drops plans to buy Southern Air
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Kitty Hawk has terminated negotiations to buy financially troubled Southern Air Transport (SAT), after the two companies failed to reach a final agreement. Neither airline would say what led to the decision to break off talks, which started soon after Miami, Florida-based Fine Air Services ...
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Lufthansa clears plans for $2.3 billion fleet expansion
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa has cleared plans for $2.3 billion of new aircraft orders for the airline and its regional and freight subsidiaries. A total of 42 new aircraft is to be ordered for delivery from 2000. The airline says that this order is in line with anticipated traffic increases in ...
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Italy rethinks airport proposals after Malpensa rejection
The Italian Government is revising its proposals ordering airlines to transfer from Milan Linate to Malpensa Airport after the European Commission (EC) had rejected the plan, calling it "discriminatory, disproportionate and therefore illegal". Despite the decision, Italian transport minister Claudio Burlando still insists that the airport will open as ...
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Northwest faces mechanics after pilot deal
Northwest Airlines managers face more unrest as they turn their attention to mechanics who are threatening to strike over pay and work rules. This follows resolution of a pilot strike earlier this month. The 27,000 maintenance workers of the USA's fourth-largest airline, who are represented by the International Association ...
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Workshop
-AvAero will supply Stage 3 hushkits for five Boeing 737-200s operated by Calgary, Canada-based WestJet Airlines. -Lucas Aerospace, which supplies 14 different line replacement units (LRUs) for the Embraer RJ-145, has signed a 10-year spares deal with Trans States Airlines to provide LRUs, plus maintenance on a cost-per-flight-hour basis. -United ...
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Two's Company
The announcement of the American Airlines/British Airways-led strategic alliance brings into sharp focus the long term destiny for the world's airlines. The move, which was announced on 21 September, creates a second major power to rival the Star Alliance, which until now has existed in splendid isolation. Working on ...
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Regional jam ?
Paul Lewis and Graham Warwick/FARNBOROUGH The regional aircraft market has undergone a radical shake-up in recent years, during which time supply has been dramatically curtailed in the face of finite demand. The casualties have been numerous - Fokker, Jetstream and Saab to name a few. The market has shifted from ...