All Safety News – Page 1455
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M-55 crashes at Zhukovsky
A MYASISCHEV M-55 Geophizika high-altitude research-aircraft derivative of the M-17 Mystic reconnaissance aircraft crashed at Zhukovsky flight-test research centre, near Moscow, on 29 May. The pilot was killed in the accident. The aircraft was due to be displayed at the Paris air show, and the pilot was understood ...
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Government conditionally clears Strato 2C funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN Government has approved a further DM45 million ($32.5 million) funding package for the Grob Strato 2C research-aircraft programme, on the condition that altitude tests are successful. The project ran into trouble in June 1994, when manufacturer Burkhart Grob demanded more Government ...
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Current outlook
The latest long-term forecasts from Boeing and Airbus point to better times. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Given that they more or less failed to flag up the most severe downturn in airline history, the casual observer could be forgiven for having less than absolute faith in the ...
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Germany floats idea of European engine consortium idea floated
Andrjez Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ is negotiating the sale of up to 51% of its MTU engine subsidiary to German rival BMW Rolls-Royce, and is hoping to use the merger as the core of a future European consortium including Snecma of France (Flight International, 31 May-8 June). ...
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Zhuhai Airport hit by ban on foreign flights
CHINA'S NEW ZHUHAI Airport has opened, amid growing fears that a Government ban on international flights will turn it into a gigantic white elephant. The airport is equipped with a 4,000m (13,000ft)-long runway and a 90,000m2 (970,000ft2) terminal building, capable of handling up to 14 million passengers a ...
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US/EU tensions build up over open skies
Julian Moxon/PARIS TENSIONS BETWEEN the European Union and the USA are expected to be further inflamed as the US Government attempts to conclude simultaneous open-skies agreements with several European countries, while Brussels threatens legal proceedings against the countries involved. European Commission (EC) transport minister Neil ...
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A320: training is crucial factor
Sir - I agree wholeheartedly with Capt. Sorensen's comments (Flight International, Letters, 26 April-2 May, P42). Having flown both conventional aircraft and the Airbus Industrie A320, I would like to add my opinion of the operation of the A320. It is no secret that, with the exception of ...
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Striking Back
The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has ruled that strikes by airline pilots in Russia are legal. The decision ruled as "non-constitutional" a 1989 law prohibiting strikes of civil employees in the transport industry. The law has been used by the authorities to prosecute pilots' unions attempting to organise ...
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Financial results
An exceptional charge of £139.2m ($226.8m) for restructuring contributed to the loss. Team Aer Lingus, the maintenance unit, lost £27.9m. Air France expects losses of FFr3.5b ($713m) for its 15 month 'year'. Debt fell from FFr33.6b to FFr27b due to the state capital injection. Lower ticket prices and ...
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Fly America in the ointment
The failure of US and UK aeropolitical negotiators to reach agreement on a proposed 'mini deal' in mid-April was just another chapter in years of fractious negotiations between the two countries. But the tripping point was so small that even veteran negotiators turned away in disgust at their inability to ...
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US antipathy gives focus
Nations in Asia-Pacific ponder the benefits of a single market. Aeropolitics in the Asia-Pacific region are at something of a crossroads. The US has always been a single market, and the European Union created a single market in 1993. But the Pacific Rim nations remain aeropolitically fragmented, and this could ...
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A question of give and take
Many airlines have become more demanding of marketing alliances and are now prepared to abandon bad agreements or switch partners to get the right benefits.To the untrained eye the level of alliance activity over the past year could seem rather subdued compared to the frenetic activity of previous years. Some ...
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Not so easy
Where are the Southwests of Europe? As 1997 fast approaches, Sara Guild talks to the sole example, Ryanair, and looks at the difficulties of establishing the profitable low cost, low fare European airline. Tentative inquiries from the US are reaching the ears of would-be European airline companies. Two years away ...
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A fighting chance
Aer Lingus managers have yet to solve the airline's problems on UK regional routes and must complete the restructuring of the rest of the group in order to secure the final payment of state aid. Mark Odell reports from Dublin.When the European Commission gave a derogation to the Irish government ...
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China cramps Taipei links
Taiwan is struggling to retain or expand regional air links in the face of Beijing's campaign to isolate the island state and force it into direct ties with mainland China. The commercial agreement that serves as a bilateral between Taiwan and Hong Kong was extended for an interim ...
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Home sales, closed ranks
The sale of stakes in three of Taiwan's larger domestic airlines in less than a month appears to be linked to Taipei's plan to open international routes to these airlines. EVA Air paid $13 million for 20 per cent of Great China Airlines and $18 million for 32 ...
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What's in a code?
After a year of research, two US government-sponsored studies on codesharing alliances are complete. Mead Jennings says the findings confirm what most airlines have already known for some time: codesharing pays. In the early part of 1994, US transportation officials began to question the precepts of the 'glue' that ...
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Cathay HK role threat
The future of Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific looks increasingly uncertain as it attempts to fathom the motives behind a China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) application for an air operator's certificate in the territory, in a move to set up a Chinese-controlled, Hong Kong-based international airline to compete with Cathay. ...
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JAL: cancel US bilateral
Japan Airlines has fired the opening shot in expected Japan-US aviation talks by calling for cancellation of the existing bilateral so that both sides can start with a clean slate. With talks imminent, JAL is signalling its determination to urge a harder line that is consistent with Tokyo's growing resistance ...
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Alitalia pilots feel the heat
Alitalia is forcing its intransigent pilots into a corner. The recent move by management to convert lower cost domestic subsidiary Avianova to a regional European operation follows the decision to wet-lease B767s on some transatlantic routes. Both moves mean cheaper labour for Alitalia and less work for its pilots. ...