All Safety News – Page 557
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News
Air India to cut 13bn rupees in costs, pilot strike continues
Air India aims to achieve cost savings of 13 billion Indian rupees ($272 million) in the remaining six months of its fiscal year.
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Air India pilot strike forces more flight cancellations
Industrial action by pilots has forced Air India to cancel flights today and reportedly suspend bookings for the next 15 days.
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Airservices Australia begins ground-based augmentation system installation
Airservices Australia will start to install Honeywell's SmartPath precision landing system at major airports throughout the country from the end of this...
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A320 re-engine decision in 2010
Airbus expects to decide by the end of next year whether to re-engine the A320 family, CAO has learned. A senior Airbus executive said the manufacturer...
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Antonov discloses An-158 specifications
Antonov has revealed detailed information about its planned 99-seat An-148 derivative and data about additional variants. The Ukrainian design bureau's...
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Air India flights disrupted as pilots take sick leave
Several domestic and international Air India flights have been disrupted since the weekend, when dozens executive pilots took sick leave en masse in protest...
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Opinion
Comment: Output miracle will be a hard act to follow
As 2009 began, the production plans for Airbus and Boeing defied logic. The world's economies were in meltdown, traffic was in freefall and banks had stopped...
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Asian airline traffic continues fall in August
Passenger and freight traffic among the major Asian carriers continued to fall in August, with demand continuing to be weak despite signs that global economies...
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Business: Good week - Bad week
BIOJET Mitch Hawkins, head of the California biofuels company, hailed a fourmillion barrel contract for its jatropha-based aviation fuel as "by far the largest...
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Naverus secures key FAA endorsement for RNP development
Performance-based navigation (PBN) provider Naverus has received a letter of qualification from the US FAA to design and validate required navigation performance...
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Airbus warns industry faces a 'difficult winter'
Airbus is hopeful that its production will remain flat in 2010, but warns that it expects airlines are about to endure a "difficult winter", which will inevitably...
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News
Trent icing modification likely to extend to Airbus fleet
Airbus A330s and A340s fitted with Rolls-Royce Trent engines appear likely to require the same anti-icing modifications to fuel-oil heat exchangers already...
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Pinnacle pilots reject tentative labour deal
A federal mediator will determine the next steps for US regional operator Pinnacle Airlines and its pilots now that members of Air Line Pilots Association...
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IATA sets out plan to halve emissions by 2050
The International Air Transport Association has outlined a proposal to the United Nations under which airlines will aim to halve emissions by 2050. Carriers...
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American ready to embrace brave new world of IT
After years of deliberation American Airlines has chosen HP to reinvent its core passenger reservations system
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Safran and GE make move for C919 engine supply
Safran and its partner GE Aviation are placing more manufacturing work in China, as the country nears selection of a western engine supplier for its new...
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Computers can't replace pilots - yet, say experts
Aviation safety academics say the term "pilot error" is greatly over-used. Accident chronicles may record human error, they say, but the many occasions when...