All Safety News – Page 1439
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Macau faces slow start
The long-awaited opening of Macau's airport next month may not see the carriers lining up as planners had envisaged, but they can at least take comfort from the barrier still facing their irrepressible rival and neighbouring airport at Zhuhai. When the first scheduled flights start from the Portuguese ...
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Dragon sale to calm fears
Senior managers at Cathay Pacific are still fighting to prevent the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) from invading their home turf. The latest gambit is to offer the potential rival a stake in regional carrier Dragonair, but there are doubts whether this tactic will curb the Chinese operator's ambitions. ...
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JAL smooths over FAA ban
Japan Airlines was understood to be close to an agreement in early September to end the US Federal Aviation Administration's suspension of its licence to repair US registered aircraft. The airline's FAA authorisation was cancelled in August after a routine annual inspection showed violations of US standards, according ...
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Global economy spreads little joy
A distinct mood of pessimism has descended upon the finance ministers and central and commercial bankers who were due to gather in Washington in October for the autumn meetings of the Group of Seven, International Monetary Fund and World Bank. With only a few exceptions, the signs of ...
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Blanc rejigs his top team
Air France chairman Christian Blanc is putting pressure on flight attendants to accept a two-tier pay structure. The latest bid to cut costs follows a management reshuffle at the end of August. Blanc has commissioned a study by Munich-based consultants Roland, Berger and Partner which shows that cabin ...
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Iberia hit by pilot threat
Hell hath no fury like a pilot scorned. And Iberia's pilots believe the European Commission is scorning them by delaying the ruling on the proposed state injection of Pts130 billion ($1.03 billion). Fed up with waiting, the pilots decided to turn up the heat by refusing to ratify ...
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New faces sweep Lagos
Nigeria's aviation industry has undergone a massive shake-up, with the sacking of the entire management of Nigeria Airways and the merger of the Federal Civil Aviation Authority and the Nigerian Airports Authority. Group captain Peter Gana replaces managing director Andrew Agom at Nigeria Airways, after what the minister ...
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How much trust in US?
With all nine European countries signed up to open skies agreements with the US, Washington has completed a key part of its international aviation policy announced last November. But the fallout could have serious repercussions for the European Commission's attempts to win an external negotiating mandate with the US, in ...
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The truth about Greek airspace
Sir - The article concerning the state of the Greek air-traffic-control system (Flight International, 13-20 September, P9) accurately sums up the frustration shared by those who use Greek airspace. You concentrate on the problems at Athens Airport, but there are problems throughout the system. For instance try obtaining ...
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Lucas studies 'more-electric' technologies
Andrew Doyle/LONDON LUCAS AEROSPACE's Power Systems division is studying the next stage in the development of so-called "more-electric" aircraft concepts, following its successful bid to introduce variable-frequency generators on Bombardier's Global Express business jet. The company is focused on developing high-power variable-frequency generators for larger ...
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Ranging wider
Canadair has gradually improved its Challenger corporate jet over the past decade. Harry Hopkins/WICHITA THE CANADAIR CHALLENGER series of corporate jets has evolved over 15 years in a series of small steps which have not detracted from the success of the original formula - to marry the ...
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BA beds in for class battle
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS SAYS that the highly publicised launch of its new long-haul first-class "cabin" concept is just part of a broader £500 million ($776 million) programme to redesign all cabin services over the next three years. The new first-class offering, which was officially ...
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Czech restructuring plans change again
Andrzej Jeziorski/PRAGUE ANOTHER PIECE of the Czech aerospace industry's restructuring appear to have unraveled, with the collapse of joint-venture discussions between Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) and Czech engine manufacturer Walter. It is believed that the deal finally fell through because P&WC was unwilling to ...
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Greenwald blames bilaterals for strangling industry
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON UNITED AIRLINES (UAL) chairman Gerald Greenwald has launched one of the most scathing attacks yet on the system of bilateral air agreements, including among his main targets the slow progress being made on UK-US liberalisation. "What we have now is a kind of ...
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Arinc/China in datalink deal
ARINC HAS SIGNED a multi-year contract with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to implement air-to-ground digital datalink systems in the country. The CAAC development, consistent with International Civil Aviation Organisation-approved communications, navigation, surveillance and air-traffic-management system, will enable datalink-equipped aircraft to transmit and receive air-traffic-control and ...
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Pension beckons for grandfather rights
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES David Learmount/LONDON EXISTING RULES governing the certification of derivative aircraft are to be scrapped if the US Federal Aviation Administration and the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) approve new proposals presented by an international task force of manufacturers and aviation authorities. The ...
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Deregulation fails to dent European duopolies
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON MORE THAN TWO years after Europe signed up for liberalisation, the majority of the region's air routes remain dominated by traditional flag-carrier duopolies, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority's latest progress report on the European single air market. By the end of ...
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United kicks off transpacific FANS flights
UNITED AIRLINES has inaugurated transpacific operations using Boeing 747-400s equipped with Honeywell's FANS-1 satellite-based communication/ navigation system. The first FANS-1 flight was made on 2 September, from Chicago to Tokyo, over Russia. United Flight 881 was the first over Siberian airspace to communicate with a new FANS controller-workstation ...
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Age-old dilemma
IT APPEARS that the European and US authorities have reached agreement over "grandfather rights" in the certification of derivative airliner types. Now all they have to do, is agree their respective interpretations over what is a grandfather right and what is a derivative, which may be a little more difficult, ...
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Airbus closes in on ValuJet deal
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AIRBUS IS CLOSE to winning the hard-fought battle to sell ValuJet its first new aircraft. The deal, which is expected to involve around 25 A319s, with an option for a further 25, would be a major coup for Airbus, coming in the face of fierce competition ...