All Safety News – Page 1320
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ICAO and IATA join forces to beat millennium bug
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have outlined plans to merge their efforts to tackle the Year 2000 (Y2K) millennium bug, which threatens to disrupt computer software and could cause computers to crash when the year is effectively reset. The plan focuses ...
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Satellite bug delays launches
Tim Furniss/LONDON The launch of at least two Hughes Space and Communications HS-601-based satellites have been delayed following control processor failures aboard the similar DBS1 and Galaxy 4 and 7 spacecraft in geostationary orbit from May to July (Flight International, 22-28 July). The JC-SAT 6, scheduled for launch on 29 ...
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Parachute training, 1947--and kite-ballon-popping, 10th...
Parachute training, 1947--and kite-ballon-popping, 10th RAF Display, Hendon, 1929 French delegation with Tom Sopwith, Brooklands, 1932 Yuckspeak Series of 1,000,000 "Your expected future contribution may not advance the strategic interests of the company" = Goodbye It may be too late already (sorry about the absence, Nephews and Nieces), but British ...
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Pay review
TWA and the Air Line Pilots Association have come to a tentative agreement. Alpa says pay will rise from 60 to 90 per cent of the industry average by 2002. Two years of pay negotiations between Northwest and its pilots have stalled. The Air Canada Pilots Association has balloted its ...
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And now for something . . . completely different
The term 'survivor' may be sorely overused in the airline industry, but it remains the most appropriate description for AirTran Airlines, the product of a merger with the ill-fated ValuJet whose once-bright future ended abruptly in 1996 with a controversial crash in a Florida swamp. Not that there is ...
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Wall St frets over Boeing
With Boeing back on track to deliver 550 aircraft this year as planned, chairman Phil Condit is using the word 'turnaround', but some feel such confidence is premature. Boeing delivered 148 aircraft in the second quarter, prompting Condit to declare the production recovery programme a success. 'It's on the ...
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CLK charges unchanged
Despite the current focus on resolving the initial hiccups, the long-term success of Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok (CLK) airport lies in keeping charges down. Since its inauguration on 6 June, technical and logistical problems have caused long delays for passengers and freight forwarders. But while these ...
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Czechs reach stalemate
Czech Airlines has become a bit too profitable, according to the Czech government, which is refusing to provide the airline with a capital injection. In July, the government said it would not provide CSA with a 500 million koruna (US$15 million) cash injection to help cut the company's debt ...
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A one-horse race
Though dulled by drink, the American business class passenger was able to stab a finger towards the aircraft window as it taxied into Frankfurt airport. 'Emirates. That's a good little airline,' he slurred, pointing at a parked Airbus 310. Therein lies the Dubai flag carrier's problem. Despite its well-deserved reputation ...
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Island assets offloaded
Qantas Airways and Ansett Airlines have both sold most of their remaining interests in island resorts, thereby signalling a return to core operations. 'It's a classic case of sticking to your knitting,' explains James Strong, managing director of Qantas. 'I've never been convinced that Qantas could do as good ...
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Rising confidence
Isao Kaneko became president of Japan Airlines the same day its shareholders approved a US$894 million write-off against capital reserves - the largest in Japan's corporate history. Kaneko succeeded Akira Kondo, who resigned as president to take responsibility for the unprecedented loss. It hardly seemed the occasion for the new ...
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Narita slots scramble
Where there's a will, there's a way. Despite a nine year freeze on more takeoffs and landings at Tokyo/Narita airport, Japan's Ministry of Transport (MOT) seems to have found a way to accommodate more prime time flights by US carriers. But then, faced with the obligation to make the new ...
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Love rivalry in courtroom
Continental Express will be unable to implement its new regional jet service out of Dallas/Love Field fully until 1999 at the earliest, because of a legal wrangle that has developed with the city's main airport, Dallas-Fort Worth. The court case could set an important precedent. In the latest controversy ...
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Nigeria hits rock bottom
Efforts to revitalise Nigeria's national carrier, Nigeria Airways, seem to have hit the rocks, due to its heavy debt burden, government apathy in providing financial help, and a lack of serviceable aircraft. The government is saddled with fashioning a credible political transition and creating a conducive economic environment. There ...
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Pilots rage against PAL
The acrimonious pilots dispute at Philippine Airlines (PAL) is about to spill over into the Filipino Supreme Court as the legal mudslinging between sacked pilots and the airline hots up. The Airline Pilots Association of the Philippines (ALPAP) is suing PAL, accusing it of an illegal lockout. More than ...
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Asians clean up house
In hard times, heads roll. Sometimes leaders step aside voluntarily, as in the case of Japan Airlines' president Akira Kondo and chairman Susumu Yamaji. But purges at China Airlines (CAL) and Garuda Indonesia are part of major housecleaning efforts. In a dramatic move to distance China Airlines from its ...
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Losses: What losses?
The airline industry is renowned, with few exceptions, for its poor returns. Indeed, airlines as a group actually destroyed value between 1992 and 1997, achieving a feeble 6 per cent return on invested capital - at least three percentage points below the 9 to 10 per cent cost of capital ...
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Japan's economy faces overhaul
Japan is facing a crisis of historical proportions. The dramatic fall in the value of the yen and the long-term decline in the value of the companies which make up the Nikkei stock market index are simply symptoms of far-reaching changes taking place in the way in which the country ...
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Startups look to citizen McCain
Last year it was the ticket tax; this year it's the Department of Transportation. The US majors have a new enemy in their gunsights and the atmosphere on Capitol Hill is bellicose once again. In 1997 the carriers that united in a campaign to abolish the 10 per cent ...
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Computer problems continue to delay Hong Kong freight
The disruption and delay in air freight at the newly opened Hong Kong International Airport is set to continue through to the end of August, as Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals (HACTL) struggles to overcome computer problems and to bring its "Super Terminal One" back on line. According to ...