All Safety News – Page 1462
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US airlines 'will make $2 billion'
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US SCHEDULED airlines are expected to report net profits of $2 billion for 1995, says the US Air Transport Association (ATA) in its year-end report. The ATA says that long-haul carriers earned $2.2 billion in the first nine months of the year, ...
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Air safety takes a dive
David Learmount/LONDON THE AMERICAN Airlines Boeing 757 crash in Colombia on 20 December contributed to a plunge in world airline-safety figures during the last six months of 1995, following the most promising first half-year period in history. Provisional figures show that there were just over 1,200 deaths in ...
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Airbus pressured to speed up A3XX studies
Julian Moxon/PARIS A STRING OF major airline orders involving the Boeing 747/777 combination is increasing pressure on Airbus Industrie to "accelerate its studies" into a rival programme known as the A3XX. "We can't leave the 747 to dominate the market," says an Airbus source, "so ...
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Eurocontrol invites tenders for POEMS radar
EUROCONTROL, THE European air-traffic management organisation, has issued an invitation to tender for the development of two Pre-Operational Mode S (POEMS) radar ground stations. Manufacturers have been invited to bid for the construction of two new ground stations in France and the UK, with a third station in ...
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American 757 crashes
An American Airlines Boeing 757, which left Miami for Cali, Colombia on 20 December, crashed into mountains at night, killing all but four of the 167 people on board. The aircraft was on its descent into Cali from the north, which requires a step-letdown procedure using VHF-omni-range/distance-measuring-equipment navigation beacons. The ...
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Airlines win battle to delay noise controls
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE AIRLINE industry has won a reprieve from the threat of a stringent new set of noise and emission controls, which risked wiping billions of dollars off the value of the world fleet. The immediate threat receded as the Committee on Aviation Environmental ...
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USAir predicts surprise profits for 1995
USAIR CHAIRMAN Seth Schofield says that the carrier's profits performance for 1995 is on course to exceed even the most optimistic of expectations among financial analysts. Speaking at a meeting of analysts in New York, Schofield confirmed that traffic figures have stayed strong throughout the fourth quarter of ...
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Cathay Pacific is warned on future
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A MAJOR CHINESE shareholder in Cathay Pacific Airways has issued a blunt warning to the Hong Kong-based carrier that it faces competition after the colony is handed over to China in 1997. In an interview with Hong Kong's main English language newspaper, the ...
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747 assessment
China Airlines (CAL) may have to scrap a Boeing 747-200, which crashed while attempting a three-engine take-off from Manila Airport. The 13-year old aircraft, worth an estimated $40 million, is in a borderline condition. Repair work would require a complete replacement of its lower section 41 and, possibly, lower section ...
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Pilot performance records may be disclosed in USA
THE WORK records of commercial pilots would be open to inspection under proposed US legislation designed to keep sub-standard pilots out of the cockpit. The new rules would permit the transfer of relevant pilot employment and training records between airlines. When a transfer of information is requested and ...
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Executive Airlines to fit GPS to ATRs
PUERTO RICO-based American Eagle carrier Executive Airlines is equipping its ten ATR 42s and 72s with global-positioning systems (GPS) to allow cost-saving direct routing. Executive has selected Universal Avionics' UNS-1M GPS-based navigation-management system for its aircraft. The airline's decision follows a six-month proof-of-concept programme, which demonstrated ...
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DHL expands its Panama presence
DHL WORLDWIDE Express is to invest $30 million over the next three years to expand its Latin American and Caribbean network. Initially, the fast-package carrier will upgrade its Panama hub with a new automated sorting system and introduce a Boeing 727-200F freighter service operated by new Panamanian carrier DHL Aero ...
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ANA orders powerplants for its A321s and 777s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS (ANA) has announced $400 million worth of orders for V2500 and growth PW4090 engines to power its new fleet of Airbus A321-100s and Boeing 777-300s. The Japanese carrier has selected the International Aero Engines 135kN (30,000lb)-thrust V2530-A5 for its A321s. ...
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Avianova flies Fokker 70
ALITALIA subsidiary Avianova put the first of its new Fokker 70 regional jets into service on 20 December, between Turin and Paris. The Rome-based airline has now taken delivery of the first three of its 15 ordered aircraft, with seven more to come in the third quarter, and the remaining ...
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SAS adds cargo capacity
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) is leasing a Boeing 747-200F freighter from Atlas Air for services from Scandinavia to Asia and the USA. The aircraft will enter service in March and boost the insufficient cargo capacity on the airline's passenger aircraft. In 1994, SAS carried 200,000t of cargo and expects to ...
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Airlines
Kevin O'Toole/Business Editor THE WORLD AIRLINE INDUSTRY finally shook off the recession in 1995, to produce what are likely to be the highest profits on record. Barring unforeseen disasters, the industry should continue to forge ahead in 1996. The figures have yet to be collated for ...
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Airport Systems steers to Indonesian joint venture
AIRPORT SYSTEMS International (ASI) plans to establish a joint venture in Indonesia to produce navigation aids (navaids) and landing systems. The Kansas-based company has reached agreement with Indonesia's PT LEN and PT Elektrindo Nusantara, to form the Asian country's first navaids manufacturer. ASI projects that the ...
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Airline navigation
Kieran Daly/Editor Air Navigation International THE OPERATOR-community will see only a little more of the future air-navigation system (FANS) turn to reality during 1996, but, across the globe, a vast amount of development work will take place. That has to happen if the numerous target dates ...
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Downwind turns: more to do with pilot perception
Sir - In reply to the letter "The dangers of down-wind turns" (Flight International, 13-19 December, 1995), I believe that Mr Maskens is barking up the wrong tree. The dangers of low-level turns have nothing to do with "the sum of potential and kinetic energy", but everything to do with ...
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Angola accident
A Trans Service Airlift Lockheed Electra has crashed in Lunda Norte province, Angola, killing 139 of the 144 people on board. The Kinshasa, Zaire-based airline had been chartered by the Angolan political movement UNITA to operate the flight from Jamba, Lunda Norte, on 18 December. Source: Flight International