All Safety News – Page 1306
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Gaining an edge
Managers may dream of introducing the ground-breaking innovation that reshapes the industry. Or of the revolution that launches their airline to new heights of sustained performance. But in today's real world of increasingly competitive marketplace, victories tend to be smaller, more fleeting and harder to win. Welcome to the age ...
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Virgin stirs US cabotage debate
Virgin Atlantic Airways chairman Richard Branson has touched a nerve in the USA by calling for seventh freedom rights so that he can start a low-fares, low-cost, airline. His calls for cabotage came in the same month that a senior US Department of Transportation (DoT) official questioned whether current aviation ...
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A Renaissance hub
With the opening of the new Malpensa airport, northern Italy may at last achieve its ambition of challenging northern Europe's major hubs. On the face of it, the transfer of international flights to Milan's shiny new airport at Malpensa should hardly have caused much of a fuss. Yet fuss ...
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Airports
-Vienna International Airport has recorded an 8.4% rise in passenger traffic in the first six months to June 1998. Passenger numbers for the period totalled 4.9 million. Cargo saw an 8.8% increase to 73,688t. -BAA is seeking approval for a £200 million ($120 million) two-phase expansion of London Stansted Airport ...
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African safety improves in 1998, despite growth
Lois Jones/DAKAR Air accidents in Africa are reducing, says ASECNA, the air navigation agency for Francophone Africa. The number of reported accidents stand at 14 in 1998, compared with last year's tally of 30. Reported near misses stand at 17 this year, compared to 26 in 1997, says ...
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Big Sky moves in on Aspen Mountain Air routes from Dallas
US regional Big Sky Airlines is to take over bankrupt Aspen Mountain Air's (AMA) Essential Air Service (EAS) routes from Dallas/Fort Worth, beginning in the middle of November. In an emergency action, the US Department of Transportation selected the Billings, Montana-based regional in preference to three other applicants. The ...
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IATA warns of longer European air traffic control delays
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says that it is concerned at the rise in air traffic control (ATC) delays in Europe. Statistics just released reveal that, over the 1998 summer period, 22% of all flights were delayed by an average of 24min, with total ATC delays 39%higher than ...
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Marketplace
-Detroit-based ProAir will add a third Boeing 737-400 in December, leased from Boullioun. The secondhand aircraft will be used to increase frequencies and for expansion. -US regional Trans States Airlines has exercised six options for the 50-seat Embraer RJ-145. Its original contract, signed in February, included nine firm orders and ...
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Boeing builds profits and 737s as 747 slips
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Boeing is to reduce the production rate of the 747-400 from five to three and a half aircraft a month by the second quarter of next year in the face of a continuing soft market, particularly in the Asia region. Company chairman Phil Condit warns that ...
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Modifications delay Japan's XF-2 prototypes
The Japanese Technology Research Development Institute (TRDI) is working on a series of modifications to its four XF-2A/B flight test prototypes, causing further delays to the flight test schedule. Work includes structural reinforcement to the aircraft's wing-tip for rolling pull-out manoeuvres and the reshaping and positioning of underwing missile pylons ...
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Australian reforms
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS "It is an uncertain market, because there are various people at different levels of desperation as a consequence of their position," warned Qantas managing director James Strong, explaining the impact of the Asian downturn even on carriers indirectly affected. The comment, made in August at the same conference ...
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Transition Planning
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration has produced a new blueprint for modernisation of the country's airspace system, but industry remains far from convinced that the document represents a firm timetable for the introduction of new technologies. Manufacturers have been researching the new communications, navigation, surveillance and air ...
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Big ideas
Julian Moxon/NOORDWIJKERHOUT To a travelling public that sees the occasionally horrific television images of the aftermath of a major air disaster, the idea that they might one day fly on an aircraft capable of carrying up to 1,000 passengers is likely to bring the inevitable thought - what if it ...
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Northwest/Continental alliance showdown looms
Northwest Airlines' plans to take a controlling shareholding in Continental Airlines could be thrown into jeopardy because of concerns by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) over the proposed link-up. The two airlines confirm that they are negotiating with the DoJ to resolve unspecified differences over Northwest's plan to ...
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Galaxy keeps performance but puts on weight
The Galaxy will meet, and even exceed, its performance specification, despite growing in weight and encountering several handling problems, says Galaxy Aerospace. The aircraft, which had its US premiere at the show, has gained more than 320kg (700lb) as a result of greater allowance for the interior and "more ...
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Certification work will delay Jetcruzer 500 by 12 months
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) says certification work on the Jetcruzer 500 turboprop pusher will not be completed until the "second half of next year", meaning a delay of more than 12 months over the company's original predictions. AASI says the delay is part of a conscious effort to ...
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Airport tag
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a $932,000 contract to Sensis of De Witt, New York, to develop a tagging system for transponder-equipped aircraft operating on airport taxiways and runways. The award could go to $2.5 million if all contract options are exercised. The safety device, which is dubbed ...
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727 shot down
A Congo Airlines Boeing 727-100 (9Q-CSG) crashed on 10 October after take-off from Kindu Airport in the eastern province of Congo after being shot down by unidentified troops. The aircraft was bound for Kinshasa and all 40 passengers and crew on board were killed. Shortly after take-off, the pilot sent ...
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US cargo group members plan ADS-B tests
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a supplemental type certification (STC) to II Morrow for installation of equipment to support tests of automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast (ADS-B) systems on several freight aircraft belonging to members of the Cargo Airline Association (CAA) . Three CAA members, Airborne Express, ...
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Pilots' share deal paves way for the privatisation of Air France
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France's management and pilot unions have finally struck a deal which should end years of dispute and allow the airline to proceed to partial privatisation next year. The agreement, a refined version of the one that ended the crippling pilots' strike in June, is regarded ...