All Safety News – Page 1414

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    For immunity read disunity

    1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

    As Washington's aviation community became distracted by the tentative signing of open skies between the US and Germany; then the immediate application for anti-trust immunity by United-Lufthansa; then other aeropolitical concerns like the US-Japan cargo imbroglio, Delta Air Lines waited. Just as it has been doing for close to six ...

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    China sets legal puzzle

    1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

    China's new aviation law has changed the legal landscape and finance lawyers will be busy for months sorting it out, but they do not think it will change the overall risk of dealing with China. 'People will have to reevaluate risks and figure out how to cover them,' ...

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    Oz taxman to take his toll

    1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Australia's big operators Qantas and Ansett could be in for a rude shock when the taxation time rolls around later this year. Canberra's tax overlords have ruled that manufacturer credits do not qualify as a discount on the price of new aircraft but as assessable income and should be treated ...

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    Rome recalls its old hands

    1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Two years after Alitalia's management underwent a radical shakeup with the hiring of two private sector managers to fill the senior posts, the top dogs are out of the door, seven other executives are on 'holiday' and the status quo has returned with the appointment of trusted, politically astute, aviation ...

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    SAS fingers French lead

    1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Air France clearly enjoys sailing close to the wind. But this time it may have capsized the boat, following SAS' complaint to the European Commission that the French flag's recent weekend break promotions undercut market prices. The French flag carrier is strictly prohibited from price leading under the ...

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    Delta set for solo quest?

    1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

    After 14 months, Delta Air Lines and AT&T may be parting ways as joint equity holders of TransQuest Information Solutions, the information technology concern primarily serving Delta but also set up to rival AMR's Sabre to sell services to other airlines. NCR, the computer division of AT&T and ...

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    Cargo talks stumble on

    1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

    After a period of fractious relations, the US and Japan may still be able to agree to a limited liberalisation of the air cargo market between the two countries. But events of the past month have dashed US officials' hopes that renegotiating the cargo bilateral would be a relatively easy ...

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    FAA hurts its neighbours

    1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The US Federal Aviation Administration's controversial rating of the oversight practices of foreign civil aviation authorities is threatening the existence of Venezuelan carrier Avensa and starting to harm the international expansion plans of Air Jamaica. After an FAA safety audit, Venezuela was categorised as a Category II country ...

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    ...And standing alone

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    THE ROW THAT has erupted suddenly between France and the USA over traffic rights demonstrates yet again the weakness of individual countries when they attempt to negotiate balanced agreements with the world's most powerful air-transport nation. The USA has concluded individual "open-skies" agreements with eight other European countries, ...

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    Disconnect option

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    The European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has changed its philosophy on auto-pilot-disconnect options for Airbus A300-600 and A310 pilots on precision approaches. This results from lessons learned from the April 1994 China Airlines A300-600 crash at Nagoya, Japan, in which 264 people died. Previous regulation required that, below 400ft (120m) ...

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    France to hit back after US rebuff

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    FRANCE SAYS THAT it will "...react accordingly" to the US rejection of its application for an increase of 24% in the number of flights to North America during the summer season. One Paris source says that the USA is "flexing its muscles" to push France towards an open-skies ...

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    Tentative Agreement

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    FedEx has tentatively agreed a new five-year contract with its 3,000 pilots, including pay increases partly linked to profitability and work-rule changes to improve flexibility and productivity. FedEx pilots, who took industrial action when talks broke down, have yet to vote on the deal. The carrier began direct US-China cargo ...

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    Atlas contract

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Atlas Air has signed a long-term contract to operate a Boeing 747-200 freighter for Swissair Cargo. The aircraft, the first of five leased from FedEx, enters service this month. Atlas already operates 11 cargo 747s.   Source: Flight International

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    UK turns up heat on engine-control study

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Doyle/LONDON AN ADVANCED electronic engine-control (EEC) system, capable of operation in the high-temperature core of a jet engine, rather than being mounted on the fan casing, is under development by a UK consortium. The project could lead to production of more-responsive and reliable EECs ...

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    AeroMexico on firmer footing

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    AEROMEXICO HAS emerged from a critical year with its financial restructuring safely in place and its losses apparently under control. The Mexican carrier, which came close to collapse during 1995, reports that net losses ended the year at 173 million pesos ($23 million). That compares to more than ...

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    Lessons to learn from Concorde

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Sir - In "Twenty years young" (Flight International, 7-13 February, P41) you comment that "...in terms of flight cycles and hours, the aircraft [Concordes] are remarkably young, despite the physical age of the fleet". British Airways, you report, operates each Concorde for 900-1,100h a year - one-quarter (or less) of ...

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    Saf-T-Glo hopes Pathfinder lighting will shine in USA

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    AN EMERGENCY FLOOR-path-lighting system, which requires no electrical power and has no batteries, bulbs or wiring to install and maintain, has been certificated in the USA by Diversified Aviation Services (DAS). The Pathfinder photo-luminescent lighting system, manufactured by UK company Saf-T-Glo, has been approved and installed by airlines, in France ...

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    USA told: 'offer more' to beat bilateral block

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC LACK OF LEVERAGE ON the part of US negotiators has led to the current impasse in bilateral aviation talks with the UK, according to the US General Accounting Office (GAO). As the GAO issued its report, British Airways chairman Sir Colin Marshall, visiting Washington, was ...

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    CVR data indicate chaos in 757 crash

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    David Learmount/LONDON THE COCKPIT-VOICE recorder (CVR) of the Birgenair Boeing 757-200 which crashed in February reveals a picture of pilots who, faced with minor problems, became confused and lost control of a flyable aircraft, according to an interim report by the Dominican Republic's accident-investigation commission. ...

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    FAA warns Wilcox on WAAS

    1996-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC WILCOX ELECTRIC IS in danger of losing its $475 million contract to develop and produce the global-positioning-system (GPS) wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) for the US Federal Aviation Administration. On 18 March, the aviation agency advised the US-based subsidiary of Thomson-CSF that the WAAS ...