All Safety News – Page 1477
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De-icing vehicle developed
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA ELBERTA INDUSTRIES has completed development of a mobile de-icing vehicle designed to be operated at an airport gate, at the end of a runway or remotely. The Elberta, Alabama based company has designed the Expeditor to meet new US Federal Aviation Administration rules, which ...
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US airlines warn on losses
THE US AIRLINE industry could be on course to show its fifth consecutive year of losses in 1994, say early estimates from the Air Transport Association (ATA). The warning confounds Wall Street predictions that the major airlines would end the year with net profits of $1 billion. ...
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Boeing starts work on UPS freight 767
BOEING WAS DUE to begin building the first 767 freighter on 6 January at its Everett assembly site, with work scheduled to start on the front spar of the wing. The cargo floor will also be "loaded" on to production jigs one week later. The aircraft will be ...
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Turkey Crash
A THY-Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-400 (TC-JES) crashed into a hill 4km (2nm) from Van airport, eastern Turkey, despite a warning from air traffic control not to attempt a third approach in a snowstorm. The crash killed 53 of the 69 passengers and seven crew. Source: Flight International
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Catching crabs: can you solve mystery?
Sir - In early December 1994, a Boeing 737-400 returned to its Istanbul base after completion of a charter service to Stockholm Arlanda. The flight was considered uneventful by the crew, who were surprised, therefore, by the news that the aircraft's leading edge, at a point just outboard ...
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Lumps appeared in the gravy
Sir - The article "Gravy training" (Flight International, 14-20 December, 1994, P37) carried some inaccurate information. Taipei, Taiwan-based Taiwan stock-market-listed China Airlines (CAL) has been trying to distance itself from the "flag-carrier" image, which damaged it in almost every air-services agreement talk with countries with no diplomatic ties ...
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Governments
A change in the VAT status of the UK Civil Aviation Authority should work through as a drop in air traffic control charges, according to accountants Ernst & Young. The Eurocontrol enlarged committee for route charges has frozen work on proposed changes to route charges for up to ...
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Canada: it's in the timing
The two Canadian majors are prepared to support the concept of US-Canada open skies, but are split on the phase-in period and remain doubtful whether their US alliances will help put them on an equal competitive footing with the larger US carriers. US and Canadian negotiators appear set ...
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Airlines, take your partners - again
Many airlines are re-evaluating policy on strategic alliances. They'd better get it right. Alliance fever is hotting up again. Airlines that don't have strategic partners are rushing to find them. Some existing partnerships are collapsing or looking shaky. And even airlines which are happily married are continuing to court ...
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New year, new partners
The alliance structure of Europe's carriers is set for a dramatic reshuffle in 1995. Lufthansa appears to have succeeded in disrupting the European Quality Alliance of Swissair, Austrian and SAS. As SAS prepares to leave the EQA, the effects are likely to spread throughout the European airline industry. ...
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Coded warnings
Aeropolitics The industry should be sending clear signals to the US government to leave codesharing alone. Michael F Goldman argues the case for its deregulation. Codesharing policy is taking centre stage again. In early December both the US Department of Transport ation's outside consultants and the General Accounting Office ...
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Slipping profits
The world's airports have begun to feel the pinch at a time when many airlines finally are seeing an economic upswing. In 1993 revenues for the 45 airport authorities reporting increased by only 2.7 per cent on 1992, and the group recorded a 5.8 per cent fall in net ...
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New order plans change
US transportation officials see 1995 as highly significant for aviation. The air traffic control system may be privatised after all, and taxes, airport funding, and reform of the Federal Aviation Admin istration are all issues likely to be in play, with the new Republican majority in Congress trying to dictate ...
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US drives in Euro wedge
The US offer of open skies dialogue to nine European states has not only highlighted the European Commission's inability to obtain a mandate from EU member states to negotiate external aviation agreements, but is also attracting interest from other countries. The European countries that expressed initial interest in ...
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Tough times for US Lites
Growth problems are hitting the short-haul, low-cost sector of the US airline industry. Earnings are down at Southwest Airlines, and Continental Airlines is restructuring its Lite operation, as well as streamlining its widebody fleet, inclu ding the retirement of its A300s. Southwest shocked the markets in early December ...
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US experiences crunch over data
As much as Republicans like to talk about the inherent evil of 'big government' under the Democrats, they are missing an important point: during the Clinton administration, the federal government has indulged in an historic bout of downsizing. In aviation matters, the public focus of the budget cuts has been ...
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Korean links worry China
Chinese carriers are delaying the start of air links with Korea as they hold out for pre-emptive compensation, amid growing concerns that foreign carriers are eating into their market share. The delay centres on Chinese demands that the Korean carriers pay a commission for 'extra' passengers on their ...
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Qantas floats on and on
Qantas' drawn out privatisation process has been hit by further setbacks which threaten both the potential value and the timing of the public share issue. The main blow comes in a ruling which bars the Australian flag from pooling resources and setting prices with alliance partner British Airways ...
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Japan hopes stay at home
Japan's beleaguered airlines are cautiously optimistic as profits surge, but they may face a dangerous domestic price war that could damage overall recovery in 1995. For the first time since the late 1980s the indicators are positive, with Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways and Japan Air Services all ...
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Room to boom
Airports Asia-Pacific governments have clearly signalled their intention to take coordinated action to solve the region's serious infrastructure problems. John Meredith of ATAG reports. It's a known fact: demand for air transport is growing faster in Asia-Pacific than in any other world region. And until recently it was assumed by ...