All Safety News – Page 1423
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Job cuts could hit companies hard
America West Airlines laid off 500 machinists in December following a 736-person cutback last March. As part of its dramatic cost-cutting campaign began, Delta Air Lines let go of more than 3,000 workers. In 1995 alone, Continental Airlines dropped 5,000 jobs from its roster. What is happening? Long attributed ...
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Uncertainty wins the casting vote
Some airlines are viewing the spate of elections this year with trepidation.Even in parts of the world where airlines are privately owned and have the commercial freedoms associated with deregulation, they remain uniquely susceptible to the political environment in which they must operate. Small wonder that the prospect of a ...
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Delta: what value pilots?
Delta Air Lines is struggling to reach a deal with its pilots over the launch of a low-cost B737 operation to go head to head with ValuJet, as the no-frills Atlanta-based carrier turns up the heat by launching into USAir's heartland. Delta management, which is seeking $340 million ...
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Unions face Wolf's bite
USAir's surprise appointment of former UAL chief Stephen Wolf to its helm could further exacerbate an already fragile situation with its unions. The new USAir chairman and chief executive, renowned for his hard-line stance towards unions, now faces labour groups deeply mistrustful of management. One labour leader at ...
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EU liable to impose will
The European Commission has hijacked the global debate on airline liability with proposals that would force all European Union carriers to conform to a Japanese-style unlimited liability system. The move towards a legally enforceable liability regime not only appears to have taken the European carriers by surprise but ...
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Thai/US stalemate ends with new bilateral accord
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A SIX-YEAR stand-off between Thailand and the USA has ended with agreement on a new bilateral air-services treaty which lifts capacity restrictions and increases fifth-freedom flights. The new agreement, which has still to be ratified by the Thai Government, will allow US carriers ...
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Alitalia seeks ban on strikes to help recapitalisation
ALITALIA IS AWAITING responses from its main unions over plans for an 18-month ban on industrial action, which has become essential if the cash-strapped carrier is to go ahead with its badly needed recapitalisation. The Italian flag carrier requires a cash injection of L1.5 billion ($950 million) to ...
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Engine problems ground Swiss Airbuses
SWISSAIR HAS grounded five Airbus A320/321s after cracks were discovered in the turbine section of their CFM International CFM56-5B turbofans. The grounding affects Swissair aircraft recently fitted with the low- emissions dual-annular combustor (DAC). The airline describes the move as precautionary. The aircraft were withdrawn from ...
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'Financial irregularities' found at Transwede
SWEDISH STATE prosecutor Berndt Berger has found "gross irregularities" in the finances of Sweden's Transwede Airways. Investigations into the airline were started after the present owners raised the alarm over the whereabouts of nearly krona 180 million ($26 million). Two former presidents, Lars-Olof Svenheim and Thomas Johansson, have ...
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Tahiti's FANS makes headway
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S THOMSON-CSF has completed the second phase of Tahiti's new satellite-based oceanic air-traffic-control system, with delivery of the automated data-link component. When complete in early 1997, the Tahiti system will be one of the main components of the South Pacific Future Air Navigation ...
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...while Continental and United forge ahead with record results
FURTHER GOOD news from the US airline industry included record profits at Continental Airlines and progress from United Airlines as it ends its first full year under employee ownership. "This was a whopper year for us no matter how you measure it...we're back on the map and ...
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Checking the numbers
There are fears that Hong Kong's new airport is already heading for a capacity problem. Chris Yates/HONG KONG IT IS THE WORLD'S single largest project in civil engineering today and one of the most complex combined excavation and reclamation projects in history, requiring the largest fleet of seaborne dredgers, ...
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Safety Contract
China Airlines (CAL) has contracted Lufthansa Technik to help the accident-prone Taiwanese national carrier improve its safety record. Lufthansa Technik will advise CAL on drawing up new operational and maintenance management procedures over the next two to three years. The airline has suffered from a spate of fatal and non-fatal ...
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Emission control
Experiments are in hand to determine the real impact aircraft are having on the atmosphere. Martin Hindley/LONDON SCIENTISTS STUDYING the effects of aircraft emissions on the Earth's atmosphere have produced results, which may dispel one of the most commonly held theories about air pollution. After more than ...
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Safety: who is really to blame?
Sir - I refer to the Airline Safety Review (Flight International, 17-23 January), which gives a table of the most common reasons for airline accidents. The top five causes (aircrew error, controlled flight into terrain, weather, loss of control, engine failure/fire) can all be brought together, under one ...
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Pakistani first
First officer Maliha Sami of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has become the first woman pilot in the company to fly an Airbus A310. Sami was also the first woman pilot to fly the Airbus A300 as co-pilot, and was the first woman pilot to join PIA in 1990. Before that ...
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USAir turnaround ends six straight years of losses
PROFITS HAVE continued to roll in from the US airline industry, with USAir delivering on its promises of a dramatic turnaround, producing its first annual profit since 1988. USAir ended the year showing net profits of $120 million, against a loss of $685 million a year ago. ...
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US en route ATC system unreliable, but safe
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC AN INVESTIGATION by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has concluded that the country's en route air-traffic-control (ATC) system is safe, but that equipment breakdowns have had a detrimental effect on air- traffic-movement efficiency. The NTSB probe is one of three ...
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All's well
The Independent Pilots Association (IPA) is both delighted and relieved by the decision of the Department of Employment and Education (DoEE) to finally reject British Airway's application for work permits for USAir pilots. Had it been approved, it would have made a mockery of the immigration laws ...
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Defining IATA's role in Russia
Sir - Your leader "Air traffic mismanagement" (Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995) states: "The fear is that Russia will adopt a series of isolated, unco-ordinated, primarily vendor-driven ATM systems", which, in itself, is not unjustified. The conclusions of the analysis are wrong, however. The International Air Transport Association's ...