All Safety News – Page 1464
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Conditions: in your dreams
As the European Commission starts investigating Iberia's plan for a second state aid package from the Spanish government, it emerges that Aer Lingus was allowed to receive the second tranche of its £175 million ($270 million) aid package despite the breach of a key condition. Iberia is seeking ...
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AMR cuts go to the core
Restructuring of the executive ranks at AMR Corp is widely considered cosmetic for the short term, with an eye towards labour negotiations. However, the restructuring is also focusing on preparing for longer term goals such as forming partnerships and joint ventures, especially in information technology. Robert Crandall turned ...
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Sabena aided in opt-out?
The momentum built up around Swissair's plans to take a 49 per cent stake in Sabena after the Belgian government granted an exemption on part of its flag carrier's social cost obligations, could yet falter as the opt-out comes under the scrutiny of the European Commission. Sabena stands ...
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Overhauling costs
The US carriers are proving slow to react to calls for over-reliance on labour cost cuts to give way to a reengineering of the entire way in which airlines do business. Jane L Levere reports. While cost-cutting is nothing new to the US airline industry, the term 'reengineering' represents a ...
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Indian stake in question
The high hopes of ModiLuft's management to pull Lufthansa in as an equity partner appear threatened by a claim from a US consultancy on 40 per cent of the carrier's equity. ModiLuft has made no secret of its desire to have the German major as an equity partner, ...
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DGPS demonstration is a success for Daimler-Benz
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has successfully demonstrated its differential GPS (DGPS) automatic landing system, using a Dornier 328 turboprop at Braunchweig, Germany. Four flights were carried out, each including one touch-and-go landing, during which 60 international observers had the opportunity to monitor guidance information in the aircraft cabin. The ...
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Oxford Cartographers develops new route-mapping concept
OXFORD Cartographers has developed a new concept in map imagery, which offers airlines a three-dimensional alternative to conventional "flat and featureless" route maps and inflight route-tracking displays. The UK mapmaker has based its "space" view of the Earth, on the photographic reproduction, of a specially modeled globe. ...
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Depressed market damps SAe figures
A DEPRESSED AIRCRAFT- maintenance market and higher taxation combined to push Singapore Aerospace's (SAe) net profit down by nearly 19% for the year ending 31 December 1994. SAe reported after-tax earnings of S$25 million ($17.6 million), compared with S$30.7 million posted in 1993. Company turnover, however, was up ...
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A340 fuel problem was 'acceptable'
THE EUROPEAN JOINT Aviation Authorities (JAA) says that the Airbus A340 fuel-indication problems highlighted in a UK safety inspectors' report were known of at the time of certification. JAA large-aircraft coordinator Adre Kraan says that the problems were considered to be acceptable teething troubles for which a fix ...
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Australians buy Honeywell/Pelorus DGPS
HONEYWELL AND Pelorus Navigation Systems have sold an SLS-1000 satellite landing-system for installation at Armidale Regional Airport in New South Wales, Australia. With certification planned for the second quarter of 1996, this will be the first local-area differential global-positioning-system (DGPS) in Australia, says purchaser Dumaresq Shire Council. ...
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Sabbath flight ban harms El Al
EL AL IS WARNING THAT it is being financially "crippled" by the Israeli Government's ban on its national carrier flying on the Jewish Sabbath and other holy days. There are also fears that the carrier's imminent privatisation could be affected. President Raphael Harlev issued the warning as he ...
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ICAO mandates GPWS upgrade
NEW REQUIREMENTS for the installation of ground-proximity warning systems (GPWS), on transport and general-aviation aircraft, have just been issued by the International Civil Aviation Organisation Council, in its fight against controlled-flight-into-terrain accidents. Commercial transport aircraft, which were registered before July 1979, which were previously exempted from the need ...
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FAA endorses de-icing boot change to overcome ATR 42/72 difficulties
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved the use of larger de-icing-boots on the ATR 42 and 72 regional turboprops. The modification, developed and tested by the Aerospatiale/Alenia consortium, is aimed at preventing the formation of an ice ridge on the wing by nearly doubling the effective coverage of ...
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US action triggers EC open-skies move scramble
WITH ALMOST unprecedented speed, the European Commission (EC) has rushed through draft proposals for a pan-European open-skies agreement. The action follows US success in tying up individual open-skies deals with European countries. These are seen by the EC as being illegal and threatening to EC airlines as they ...
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Asia-Pacific firms cautioned on markets
AIRBUS HAS WARNED that emerging Asia-Pacific aerospace industries may be attacking the wrong market with their emphasis on regional jets. The warning is based on the latest Airbus long-range forecast, which shows that airlines in Asia-Pacific will account for only 10% of airliner deliveries in the 100-seat class. ...
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Bilateral Impasse
As US air-services negotiators, return from an apparently promising meeting with their British counterparts, and the European Commission (EC) suddenly discovers that it doesn't like what the US negotiators have agreed with the rest of Europe, a new question arises. Who really talks for Europe, and who really talks for ...
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Angry Canada stops payments to Hughes
THE CANADIAN Government is refusing to make payments to Hughes Aircraft in a major dispute over the modernisation of the nation's air-traffic-control system. Deputy minister of transport David Wightman says that the C$659 million ($464 million) programme is "up to two years" behind schedule, prompting the suspension of ...
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ICAO Lists Accidents
Scheduled airlines suffered 28 accidents involving passenger fatalities during 1994, compared with 34 in 1993, says the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). In 1994, the number of deaths was 941, an increase of five fatalities on the 1993 total. Non-scheduled operations suffered 54 accidents, accounting for 251 fatalities, reports ICAO, ...
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Twin Otter Simulator
ATC Flight Simulator of Los Angeles, California has introduced a low-cost de Havilland Twin Otter flight-simulator. The standard device costs under $300,000, with motion and visual systems available as options. Source: Flight International
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Ozone watcher
The European Space Agency's latest satellite will monitor the Earth's ozone layer. Tim Furniss/ LONDON Europe's most complex environmental-monitoring satellite yet is scheduled for an Ariane 4 launch in April. The ERS 2 is the second of the European Space Agency's (ESA) remote-sensing satellites and, in ...