All Safety News – Page 1413
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Gulf Air boss calls for action
Gunter Endres/LONDON THE NEW HEAD of Gulf Air, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saif al-Nahyan, has reacted swiftly to the severity of the airline's $159 million loss in 1995 by convening an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to seek agreement on measures designed to bring the multi-national carrier back to profitability. ...
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USA and Poland expand air-services agreement
THE USA AND POLAND have amended their air-services agreement, to expand route rights and clear the way, for limited codesharing, between Polish and US air carriers. Announcing the new pact, US Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena said that he hopes to "...continue to liberalise our aviation relations with ...
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Safety target
Helping to raise the low levels of airline safety achieved in developing countries should be a principal objective for the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations, it was agreed at its annual conference in Dublin, Ireland. The Federation says that 20 major airlines own half of the world's fleet, yet ...
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Continental Express order heralds ATR US fightback
CONTINENTAL EXPRESS has ordered eight Aero International (Regional) ATR 42-500s and taken options on a further 12 aircraft, at an estimated cost of $260 million. The order follows a barren spell for ATR in its most lucrative market since the highly publicised crash of an American Eagle ...
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UPS picks Flight Dynamics head-up system
UPS Airlines is to equip its 59-strong Boeing 727 fleet with the Flight Dynamics head-up guidance system (HGS). The move will allow UPS 727 crews to fly manual Category IIIA approaches in visibility as low as 210m (700ft) and take off in visibility down to 90m. ...
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USA gains more time in bilateral disputes
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS THE USA HAS temporarily headed off the threat of serious confrontations in Asia and Europe over airline traffic rights. In the last week of March, US Department of Transportation officials have secured a cargo deal with Japan and agreed with France to ...
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UPS picks Taiwan as Asian hub
UPS AIRLINES HAS signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a $400 million Asia-Pacific hub in Taiwan. The hub is expected to become operational later this year UPS, says that it needs a "centrally located" Asia-Pacific hub, to support its growing business in the region, and Taiwan is ...
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UN Libyan sanctions may become tougher
Alan George/LONDON THE USA, UK AND France are considering a tightening of the United Nation's aviation sanctions against Libya, to include a crackdown on European companies operating aircraft in Libya's oilfields. The 1991 sanctions were aimed at forcing Libya to surrender for trial two men accused of planting ...
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Through the looking glass
FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL and Airbus Industrie have developed a "glass-cockpit CRM" [cockpit-resource management] course which is part of the A320 type-conversion training provided by Airbus for customers. In designing the specialist training, the two companies have identified factors, or training needs, which are unique to cockpits with sophisticated flight-management systems (FMS). ...
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Otam? Oh, that Otam...
It is hard not to view the recently signed US-Germany open skies agreement as an example of high German engineering. Like all good designs, it is the details that reveal the craftsmanship. In this case, where most see an agreement between two countries, German air transport officials have designed a ...
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French spectacle
When France opened the door to the domestic market Air Liberté rushed in, while TAT and AOM entered more cautiously. Sara Guild looks at how Air France Europe and its smaller rivals are finally coping with competition.Newly liberalised markets can be exciting to watch, and while Europe waits for the ...
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Restoring orders
Last year finally saw that long-awaited recovery in aircraft orders, but few expect the boom years of 1990-1 to return on quite the same scale. Jacqueline Gallacher reports. Phew! After hitting an all-time low in 1994, aircraft order books are filling up again - but more for some than for ...
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Stop this free for all
he article by Dermot Scully about the third package and increased access within the European Economic Area (Airline Business, January 1996) neglected an important aspect of the new situation. It is all very well to encourage companies to obtain operating licences in whichever country has the slackest regulations. ...
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It's all Greek to Doganis
The Greek government may wish it had consulted the oracle before sacking Olympic Airways' chairman and chief executive Rigas Doganis - the Brussels oracle, that is. Privately, a senior European Commission official is unimpressed by the sacking in mid-March, which came only a week after transport commissioner Neil ...
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Can you do IT better?
The quest for greater efficiency and financial benefits is driving carriers to outsource their information technology services. Carlos de Pommes and Steve Geller detail the benefits and potential pitfalls. As airlines dig more deeply to uncover efficiency improvements, the restructuring of information technology departments is being reviewed with greater vigour. ...
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Planners in control
Traditional financial tools do not allow airlines to correct inefficiencies as they arise, a fault which can be rectified by the newly developed technique of process controlling. Report by Wendy Nichols and Harald Deprosse. It could have been any airline at any airport. The head of the check-in department was ...
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New deal for airline reps
I read with interest the remarks of Doug Rhymes in 'The Market Makers' in the February issue of Airline Business. While I share most of Mr Rhymes' opinions, I am under the impression that 'outsourcing' is a new, better word for the old concept of 'airline representation'. We ...
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Wish you were here
A plethora of low fare airlines has invaded Florida, an aviation market that traditionally serves low yield leisure traffic. Mead Jennings considers what this means for competition - both in and out of the state. Bloodbath is not a term most people associate with Florida, the US's self-proclaimed sunshine state. ...
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Airline news
British Airways is to fit out its entire shorthaul fleet with the Traffic Alert & Collision Avoidance System supplied by Honeywell Avionic Systems. Lufthansa is launching a weekly, non-stop service from Frankfurt to Shanghai from July. It will start four flights a week from Munich to Pisa and ...