All Ops & safety articles – Page 1221
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Passenger seat restraint
Kevin O'Toole Continuing fall-out from Asia's economic crisis reverberated around markets last year as is clear from the latest passenger airline rankings. But it is concerns over falling yields rather than traffic that are now taking centre stage. Last year posed something of a test of resolve for airline ...
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Profits on a plateau
Kevin O'Toole In the final analysis, the airline industry's financial results for 1998 were once again a mix of the encouraging and the depressingly familiar. Overall profitability came out at almost identical levels to the year before. The industry should perhaps take heart from that fact, given the dire ...
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Reading the signs
Major carriers appear to be signalling their intent to rein back on excess capacity. Chris Tarry at Commerzbank looks at the signs and the possible influence of alliances in the equation. It does not take a degree in rocket science to realise just how testing this year has already been ...
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Routes
SriLankan/MAS codeshare - SriLankan Airlines, formerly Air Lanka, has agreed to share codes with Malaysia Airlines on flights between Colombo and Kuala Lumpur. Under the agreement, MAS is adding its code to thrice-weekly services being operated by the Colombo-based carrier. JAS and Northwest in Japan - Japan Air System ...
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Stormy weather
Carole Shifrin WASHINGTON DC Air traffic delays are not unique to Europe. The USA is also being forced to look hard at upgrading services After some fierce attacks by several top airline officials on the Federal Aviation Administration's running of the US air traffic control system, airline and FAA ...
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Boeing completes 717-200 tests as certification nears
Boeing is "on track" to achieve certification of the 717-200 on 1 September after completion of the flight test programme at its Yuma test site in Arizona. This will allow deliveries to begin next month to launch customer AirTran Airways, which has begun training crews. The 717 is set to ...
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Fairchild could produce freighter version of 328JET
Paul Lewis/OBERPFAFFENHOFEN Fairchild Aerospace proposes to develop a freighter version of its new 328JET, while undertaking range performance improvements of the recently certificated regional aircraft. "There is a proposal for an all-cargo version of the 328JET," says Stanley Deal, Fairchild vice-president 228/328/428 series. He declines to identify the interested ...
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AeroPeru goes into liquidation after final rescue efforts fail
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Final hopes of finding a new financial backer for AeroPeru have been extinguished as creditors rejected four last-ditch rescue proposals and initiated moves to liquidate the grounded national carrier. "The creditors met to consider four proposals, none of which were acceptable-The creditors were obliged to ...
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African nations to finance CNS/ATM system
Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA Twenty-one African countries are to invest jointly in a communications, navigation and surveillance/air traffic management (CNS/ATM) system to manage their upper airspace. A memorandum of commitment is expected to be endorsed by members of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) in October, with ...
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COMESA states agree open skies
Airline operations across a swathe of eastern and southern Africa are poised for a major shake-up following the adoption of a new open skies policy by 21 countries spanning the continent. Aviation authority representatives from Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) states agreed the regional pact at ...
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FAA continues augmentation system flight tests
The US Federal Aviation Administration conducted the latest stage of its local area augmentation system (LAAS) flight testing this month. LAAS, based on use of the global positioning system (GPS), will replace the 40-year-old Cat 1/2/3 instrument landing systems operating in the USA. The US agency had conducted LAAS ...
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Surge problems prompted P&W switch at CAL
Brent Hannon and Andrzej Jeziorski/TAIPEI Continuing surge problems with its Pratt & Whitney PW4056-powered aircraft contributed to China Airlines' (CAL) decision to choose General Electric as the engine supplier for its latest aircraft orders. "Engine surge is still a problem. We can live with it, but we are ...
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Heads roll in Kazakhstan over N Korean deal
Kazakhstan has sacked its defence minister and launched a criminal investigation into alleged illegal sales of fighters, following South Korean protests that the country had supplied Soviet-built fighters to North Korea. South Korea has expressed "serious concern" over the alleged sales, and intelligence chief Chun Yong-Taek claims North Korea ...
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Strategic stretch
More than a long-range niche filler, Boeing's 767-400ER promises to bring new life to the entire big twin family Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing's big twinjet strategy takes another important step forward on 26 August when the 767-400ER is officially rolled out of the company's Everett assembly site in ...
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Boeing focuses on longer-range 757-200
Guy Norris/SEATTLE As pressure builds on Boeing to inject new life into the 757 programme, the company is focusing studies of a longer-range 757-200X on a group of six key scheduled and charter operators. It believes the variant could enter service after 2003. Major changes to the current 757-200 would ...
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Airbus focuses on A330 shrink in search for 200-seater
Paul Lewis and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Airbus Industrie's search for a new 200-seat widebody jet is focusing on a further shrink of the A330 as a possible alternative to earlier studies of updating the A300/A310 family or developing an all new design. Internal attention is now focused on an ...
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A300 autopilot checks ordered after approach yaws
Uncommanded rudder inputs on final approach traced to a faulty Airbus A300-600 autopilot have caused the US Federal Aviation Administration to issue an airworthiness directive (AD) requiring autopilot checks on the entire A300B, A310 and A300-600 fleet. The unidentified incident is still under investigation by the French civil aviation ...
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Table: Top 50 Airlines
Click on links to view individual tables: TOP 1998 PROFIT-MAKERS …AND LOSS-MAKERS 1998 TOP 10 - SCHEDULED PASSENGER TRAFFIC 1998 TOP SCHEDULED CARGO CARRIERS 1998 TOP 10 - SCHEDULED PASSENGERS EUROPEAN AIRLINE SCHEDULED PASSENGER/FREIGHT STATISTICS 1998 NORTH AMERICAN AIRLINE SCHDULED PASSENGER/FREIGHT STATISTICS 1998 ASIAN ...
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FAA orders insulation to be replaced on 700 aircraft
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Thermal insulation on all McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and Boeing MD-80s, MD-90s and MD-11s must be replaced within four years, the US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered. The regulation has been under consideration for more than a year, but has become mandatory just as the Transportation ...
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Boeing tackles 777 power problems
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is working on an urgent redesign of the variable speed constant frequency (VSCF) generators on the 777 after a number of failures caused damage to engine mounted gearboxes. The VSCF problem is receiving maximum priority as it directly affects extended range twin operations (ETOPS) just as ...