All Safety News – Page 1460
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FedEx faces China crisis
FedEx may have thought it was simply buying Evergreen International's all-cargo route authority to China. In fact, it bought a ringside seat to an aviation row between Beijing and Washington, which had, at presstime, left the carrier unable to operate any China services. Evergreen was the only US ...
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Facing up to new frontiers
As described in Pricing it Right in the February issue of Airline Business, O&D yield management is the current frontier in airline marketing planning. In addition to the direct revenue benefits to be gained by controlling the mix of passenger itineraries flowing over an airline's route network, the ...
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Fuel tax debate is primed to heat up
In a time of US budget cutting, when small government endowments say, support for non-commercial public broadcasting, and big federal agencies, like the Department of Transportation are all facing funding recisions, the idea of subsidising the airline industry through tax exemptions of close to $530 million seems absurd. That ...
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Meeting market needs is essential
Airlines are turning their organisations upside down - creating new problemsIn examining the airline business, many company strategists are working overtime these days. Following the disastrous start to the 1990s, most airlines are going through the most intensive period of soul-searching ever. They are asking questions like: What is our ...
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GAO allies to profit motive
It may come as no surprise that the long-awaited study by the US General Accounting Office has concluded that codesharing alliances can be lucrative. But what is surprising is the degree to which these partnerships profit, and the speed with which the agreements produce results. The GAO study, ...
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Oz in battle on HK
Australian air service negotiators are under mounting pressure as they grapple with a potential crisis in bilateral relations with Hong Kong and the prospect of a major equity link between Ansett and Air New Zealand, which could put the status of a range of bilateral agreements in doubt. ...
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Indian scene starts to slip
The long-awaited clear out in the overcrowded Indian domestic market appears close at hand, with the owners of at least one private operator considering pulling out of the business. As the private domestic operators report declining load factors and plunging profits, the owner of Damania Airways is seriously ...
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Virgin's eggs in US basket
The full focus of the Virgin Atlantic-British Airways battle switches to the US following an out-of-court settlement of the UK legal case. Virgin accepted British Airways' offer to settle the case in early March with both sides picking up each other's legal costs. Unusual enough, but even stranger ...
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Talks labour on rocky trail
Negotiations between labour and management continue unabated at USAir, whose pilots in late March agreed in principle to a concessions-for-equity deal. Meanwhile, Canadian Airlines International is following the lead of its US counterpart by threatening unions with a corporate downsizing if concessions are not obtained. USAir negotiators finally ...
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Japan's case is on the rise
It has taken years, but Japanese transport officials appear to have their first chance of forcing the US into a renegotiation of the 43-year-old bilateral over beyond rights from Kansai/Osaka. Japan has long complained that US airlines have unfair competitive advantages over Japanese carriers as a result of ...
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Opt-out halts Swiss talks
The only significant hurdle that appears to stand between Swissair taking a 49 per cent stake in Sabena is the European Commission. Ironically, it has not been Swissair's bid to gain access to the internal European market through the backdoor that has cast the Commission in the role ...
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Europe under threat
Despite advances aimed at addressing the airport-capacity problems of the late 1980s, Europe is again facing scenes of delayed flights, packed airport terminals and angry passengers. Although measures have been largely successful in easing the region's overcrowded skies, hold-ups in the approval of airport-infrastructure projects and delays in enhancing air-traffic-control ...
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Rocky passage
A second wave of airport privatisation is now well under way in Canada, involving Toronto's Pearson International Airport, Ottawa's Macdonald-Cartier International and Winnipeg International. Negotiations between the Canadian Department of Transport and the airports began earlier this year and, assuming that they go well, the Federal Government is ...
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'Worst' UK air miss reported
A NEAR-COLLISION between a Suckling Airways Dornier 228 and a Business Air Saab 340 near the UK's Trent VOR navigation beacon was the closest the investigators "...had ever had to consider", according to an Aircraft Proximity Hazard Panel report. The two aircraft were on reciprocal headings on Airway ...
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Questair halts operations temporarily
Questair, manufacturer of the Venture and Spirit high-performance kitplanes, has temporarily suspended operations following the crash in November 1994 of one of its aircraft, in which company chief Bob McLallan was killed. A new management team will be in place by the end of April and a "major ...
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MDC prepares for last phase of ACT programme
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is preparing "best and final" offers in competition with Boeing for the last phase of NASA's Advanced Composite Technology (ACT) programme. The company's Advanced Transport Aircraft Development (ATAD) division delivered a composite stub-wing box test specimen to NASA's Langley Research Center, Virginia, in February under ...
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Crash and murders hit China Airlines profits
CHINA AIRLINES (CAL) has reported a sharp cut in 1994 profits following the crash of an Airbus A300-600R a year ago and the slump in the number of Taiwanese tourists visiting China. The airline's 1994 pre-tax profit plunged to NT$642 million ($25 million), down from NT$3.4 billion. CAL ...
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Ansett Australia director resigns
ANSETT AUSTRALIA has declined to link the sudden resignation of its operations director with the outcome of internal inquiries into the partial wheels-up landing of one of its Boeing 747-300s on 19 October 1994. The director, Capt. John Dorward, resigned on 12 April. Following the accident, a consultancy ...
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Gentle giant
It seemed remarkable to be flying the 777 a mere year after it was first unveiled, but such has been the pace of the programme from the start. Flight test hours have grown at twice those for previous models, in a schedule of certificating three engine types and early qualification ...
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Southern gateway
The first 11-gate phase of Miami Airport's new concourse A is due to open in June as part of the southern gateway's $2.7 billion expansion and redevelopment programme which is due to last until 2010. Gateway is the operative word at Miami, Florida, which boasts more carriers - ...