All Ops & safety articles – Page 1291
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Delta plans HUD choice soon
Delta Air Lines is expected to select a head-up-display (HUD) system for its Boeing Next Generation 737 fleet by early November, as the leading manufacturers scramble to respond to the airline's request for proposals (rfp). Delta is the first of the US majors after Southwest Airlines to opt ...
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CAA reshuffle
Two board-level executives at the UK Civil Aviation Authority have been replaced. Head of the flight operations department John Mimpriss has resigned. He is succeeded by his former deputy, Doug Akherst. Michael Willett, group director safety regulation, has been replaced by Richard Profit, former director of safety, security and quality ...
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Finnair opens talks with BA on alliance
Finnair has opened alliance talks with British Airways to compete with the Star Alliance partners SAS and Lufthansa in Scandinavia. The Finnish carrier says that no shareholding is on the table. The talks will cover a range of options stretching from linked frequent flyer programmes and code-sharing to joint marketing ...
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North Korea plans to upgrade its air-traffic-control system
The North Korean Civil Aviation Administration is scheduled to complete an initial upgrade of air-traffic-control equipment by the end of the year, in readiness for the start of international flight trials through the Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR) in late February. North Korea is modernising communications equipment at ...
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Air Littoral cancels Bombardier CRJ options
Air Littoral has cancelled options for five Bombardier CanadairRegional Jets (CRJs) due to be delivered in 1998. The action follows a pilots' strike begun on 13 October and was still under way as Flight International went to press. The dispute, which has hit up to 60% of flights, ...
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City Bird aims to raise new cash from public listing
City Bird, Belgium's low-cost start-up airline, aims to raise $40 million from a public listing to help fund ambitious expansion plans designed to make it the "major long-haul operator" from its base at Brussels Airport. The airline began operations in March with a Boeing MD-11, targeting long-haul scheduled ...
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Stretched 777 takes to the air
The first Boeing 777-300 had a "flawless" maiden flight from the company's Everett site on 16 October, completing the 4h 6min test mission at Boeing Field, Seattle, with no technical problems. Boeing 777 programme chief pilot Frank Santoni says: "We spent 4h shaking the aircraft down thoroughly. You ...
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SATIC studies A340 Beluga designs
An outsized cargo "Beluga" derivative of the Airbus A340 is being proposed by Super Airbus Transport International (SATIC) as an option for delivering A3XX subassemblies to the final assembly line. SATIC, the Aerospatiale/ Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) joint venture responsible for the design and manufacture of the original A300-600-based ...
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Airbus aims at A320 production boost
Airbus Industrie chief operating officer Volker Von Tein has raised the possibility of an increase in the production rate of the A320 family from the planned 18 per month - but only if the consortium secures an order for 120 aircraft from US Airways. The current rate of ...
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Volga-Dnepr leases Tu-204Cs
Volga-Dnepr is to take two Tupolev Tu-204C-120 freighters equipped with Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4B engines on lease in a deal about to be signed with the leasing company Sirocco Aerospace International. The Russian cargo airline is also spending nearly $30 million upgrading its Antonov An-124 fleet. Volga-Dnepr president Alexei Isaikin ...
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Video interferance
Passenger use of a video camera on a Japan Air System (JAS)Airbus A300 interfered with the aircraft's navigation aids at a critical point, the flightcrew has reported. The aircraft was on a night instument-landing-system (ILS) approach to Tokyo Haneda Airport on 13 March when the crew, alerted by aberrant ILS ...
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VisionAire selects SimCom to provide training on Vantage
VisionAire has selected SimCom International to provide pilot and maintenance training for the Vantage single-turbofan business jet. St Louis, Missouri-based VisionAire will provide training for one pilot and one maintenance technician within the Vantage's $1.75 million purchase price, and plans to require pilots to gain a type rating ...
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Political Noises
As many in the European aviation industry are learning to their cost, the environmental debate can have a lot more to do with politics and public sympathy than it does with technology. The new emissions surcharge scheme at Zürich Airport, now being challenged by the International Air Transport ...
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Siemens tests new parking system
Siemens is testing a new precision-parking system at Munich Airport, Germany, which recognises an aircraft approaching a stand and then gives the pilot parking guidance. Testing of the video-based Siemens Docking Guidance System (SIDOGS) should be completed by the end of the year, says the German company, which ...
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Netherlands unbends on Schiphol noise
The Netherlands Government has reached a last-minute compromise which will allow Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to breach its strict noise regime, which was threatening to cause chaos in operations in the final three months of the year. The airport says that it will still have to rein in its growth in ...
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Ministers turn down EC open-skies request
Europe's transport ministers have turned down a request from the European Commission (EC) to broaden the remit of its open-skies talks with the USA to include negotiations on traffic rights. EC transport commissioner Neil Kinnock hopes to raise the issue again at the next meeting, in December. Kinnock ...
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Fuel-tank safety checks initiated
About 2,000 of 6,000 aircraft operated by 68 airlines worldwide will be inspected over the next three years for the type of fuel-system defects suspected of causing the crash of a Trans World Airlines Boeing 747-100 in July 1996. The Aircraft Fuel Systems Safety Programme will involve checks ...
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US overflying charges spark protests
US Government plans to raise $100 million annually from foreign carriers by charging for use of Federal Aviation Administration-controlled oceanic airspace have raised a storm of protest from 20 governments, and most of the 170 carriers which the International Air Transport Association says would be affected. Airlines fear ...
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China tackles issue of ATC integration
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is expected to issue a request for proposals (RFP) by the end of the year for the first of three planned area-control centres (ACCs) to provide integrated coverage of the eastern half of the country. Under a national plan drawn up ...
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IATA fights airport emission rules
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has issued a legal challenge to the new aircraft-emissions surcharges at Switzerland's Zürich Airport. The action is seen as a key test case for the legality of similar penalties proposed elsewhere in Europe. Zürich became one of the first major airports to ...