All Safety News – Page 1391
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PDQ gears up for new display
From runway to raceway - PDQ Airspares has this year added a racing car to its display (Hall1/A7). The company, a Boeing production support organisation, supplies expendable and rotable components. It aims to highlight the advances it has made in the field of transferable technology. Many of ...
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Alliances key to competitive edge
The concept of ‘global alliances' between airlines has become increasingly evident in the past three years, according to KPMG International Airline Group. This is one of the findings of a survey of 24 international airline CFOs. The report, Strategic Issues and Current Trends in the International Airline Industry, ...
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Set-up moves into the fast lane
Binocular-toting ‘spotters' must have thought Farnborough ‘96 was cancelled when they saw no sign of major activity on the airfield site this summer. It normally takes at least six months to build the exhibition halls and chalets that make up the show ‘village'. This year the company in ...
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Load factors
A unique computer tool which allows users to predict the workloads faced by air traffic controllers has been pioneered by Roke Manor Research, Siemens' centre of excellence for research and development in the UK. The Performance and Usability Modelling for Air traffic management (PUMA), developed under contract to the ...
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Webbed feat
Am-Safe has signed a ‘belting' deal to help improve passenger safety. Phoenix-based Am-Safe, a leading supplier of aviation seat belts and restraints, has purchased the assets of webbing maker Technical Textiles. The acquisition, announced at the Show, improved Am-Safe's capability to respond to a changing market requirements for ...
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Safety first
British Midland's parent, Airlines of Britain Holdings, has hired Frank Turner, the former managing director of Lucas Aerospace, to oversee the group's maintenance and engineering operation. The new post was created following a review of procedures after bad maintenance led to an emergency landing by a B737 last year - ...
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PAL phased by cargo bias
Struggling Philippine Airlines is fighting to retain its share of the cargo market as it starts to suffer under the impact of the government's liberal air services regime. Reportedly heading for a US$65 million loss in its current financial year, the carrier has appealed to the Civil Aeronautics ...
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Cost-cutters save more
As Lufthansa launches an interim cost-cutting campaign to offset a weak first half performance, Swissair aims to cut salaries by 5 per cent after agreeing a pay deal with its pilots. Lufthansa is looking to save DM190 million ($130 million) in the second half of 1996, following a ...
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Pan Am II goes it alone
With financing complete, routes and aircraft in place and eight international codesharing partners signed up, the new Pan Am is hoping to be in service by September. But it will start without taking over Carnival Airlines first. Martin Shugrue, Pan Am's president and chief executive, who will trade ...
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More dirty tricks and legal twists
In Europe, a volley of legal attacks by airlines on their competitors has been launched. In the US, hard on the heels of KLM's spat with alliance partner Northwest, USAir has declared legal war on its partner, British Airways. If your aviation lawyer is not involved in either ...
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Delta stokes fires in east
With the launch of its low-fare Express concept, Delta Air Lines will want to avoid repeating the disastrous low-fare Continental Lite experience on the US east coast and mirror that of the Shuttle by United, whose performance has been good enough for United to give it a dedicated fleet of ...
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Fans support spreads
The benefits of the Future Air Navigation System have been slow in coming, but now they are tantalisingly close to being realised and more countries are rallying to the cause.
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Asia's liberal minority
Aeropolitics The US is making headway with its open skies philosophy in Europe but the Asia-Pacific market is proving a tougher nut to crack. Tom Ballantyne looks at the differing regional attitudes to liberalisation with the outside world and then assesses progress on open skies locally. To Asia-Pacific's growth-hungry ...
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Starting over
The second wave of US new entrant airlines is proving more resilient than the first and some venture capitalists are now looking at Europe. Russell Winter offers a formula to make sure aspiring low-cost startups, especially in Europe, find financial backers with deep pockets.Many industry specialists continue to believe that ...
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Off to a head start
After a long wait, deregulation in Europe has spawned a growing number of startup carriers which are now providing a serious challenge to the majors. Lois Jones reports Until now, startup carriers have tended to provoke no more than a bemused glance from Europe's old timers. But the ...
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Financial data
Air Canada's operating profit fell from US$33m to US$27m as domestic yields fell, but the sale of Continental Airlines shares netted C$129 million. America West's record quarterly earnings came as traffic grew 13.8%, load factors rose 3.3 points, yields jumped 4.1%, and unit costs fell 7.5%. ...
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United goes soft on fifths
A softening of United Airlines' opposition to limiting fifth freedom traffic beyond Japan could yet signal a breakthrough in the acrimonious dispute that has stalled passenger talks with the US. The signal came in unprepared remarks by United's chief executive Gerald Greenwald, on which the carrier has declined ...
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Air Afrique states case
We have been deeply upset by the article 'Eleven oust Afrique boss' (Airline Business, June) commenting on Yves Roland-Billecart's departure from Air Afrique. Roland-Billecart's decision to resign was a consequence of the resolution from the Ministers of Transport of Air Afrique's owner states to separate the functions of chairman ...
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North open by year end?
Iata claims to have brokered an agreement to open North Korean airspace to all carriers from December, producing annual savings to effected carriers of US$125 million through flight time savings. The breakthrough comes after 18 months of talks between Iata and Pyongyang. But the scheme may yet face ...