All Ops & safety articles – Page 1292
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Shooting stars
The world's regional airlines grew strongly in 1997, and this sector remained the most profitable. Survey compiled by Tim Welch of Air Transport Intelligence and Richard Whitaker. The regional airline industry continues to be the healthiest sector in the business, judging by the results of this year's Airline Business Regional ...
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Airbus lowers A3XX numbers
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Airbus Industrie's latest long range market forecast has maintained a bullish outlook for jet airliner demand over the next 20 years, despite the present Asian economic crisis, but its analysis has shifted towards greater demand for smaller aircraft compared to 1997 predictions, and reduced the size of ...
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Quiet Wing 727 modification gets FAA approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a supplemental type certificate (STC) to DuganAir Technologies for a modification package which allows Boeing 727-100 and -200s to meet Stage 3 requirements without hushkits. The "Quiet Wing System" has been under development for four years. It combines winglet technology developed by ...
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DHL studies 747 to cope with transatlantic growth
Steve Waller, senior vice-president of Network Transportation at DHL Airways, says the documents express carrier "-is truly a company without a national identity". DHL Airways is the US operational arm of DHL International, a private company with major stakes held by Japan Air Lines (JAL), Lufthansa Cargo and Deutsche Post ...
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ANA Star gazes after signing deals with Lufthansa and United
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has signed its codesharing agreements with Lufthansa and United Airlines, suggesting that it may now join their Star Alliance. At the same time, the airline's pilots are to suspend their strike action. Under the new alliances, ANA will codeshare on 11 routes to the USA ...
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Air France pilots receive scant sympathy from US colleagues
The US airline pilots association (ALPA) has provided an ambiguous reply to the request by Air France's main pilots' union, the SNPL, for a critical analysis of the carrier's salary structure. The SNPL is objecting strongly to Air France's insistence on a two-tier salary level and a 15% reduction ...
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Airbus ponders commercial market prospects for Beluga
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Super Airbus Transport International(SATIC) and Airbus believe that the growing success of the Beluga's third party cargo charter business could see an external market develop for the aircraft with outsized cargo carriers. The A300-600 based Beluga was designed, built and certificated for Airbus by the Toulouse-based Aerospatiale/Daimler-Benz Aerospace ...
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FAA targets business aircraft EGPWS
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration plans to include business aircraft in new rules requiring installation of the enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS) in all turbine-powered aircraft with six or more passenger seats. Types as small as the Raytheon Beech King Air will be affected. The ...
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New wave of airline alliances hits USA
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC American Airlines and US Airways have agreed to a marketing alliance which initially combines their frequent flier programmes, while United Airlines and Delta Air Lines have followed with confirmation that they are discussing a global alliance. The US Airways/American pact, which stops short of a ...
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EC steps up open skies battle as American/BA approval nears
Alan George/BRUSSELS Mounting controversy over the legality of bilateral open skies agreements between the USA and individual European Union member states is threatening a further twist to the American Airlines and British Airways alliance as approval nears. The European Commission (EC) is set to clear the partnership in ...
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Polar challenge
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Polar Air Cargo and its older competitors are facing tough times. The Asian economic engine that helped pump Polar rapidly into life is faltering and cargo traffic is down by almost one-third compared to 1997. Yet the five year old carrier is in good shape ...
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The vital combinations
Shahe Ouzounian/LONDON and FRANKFURT, Brent Hannon/TAIPEI ACCORDING TO Wilhelm Althen, chairman of the executive board of Lufthansa Cargo, the revolutionary break in January 1995 with the passenger side of Lufthansa's business was "-a process that hasn't just been about the last three years, it's a 20 year old road ...
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Concern grows over Sydney noise regime
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas and Ansett have warned of mounting chaos at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport following an Australian Government directive on overflying the city's suburbs which has effectively halved off-peak capacity at the airport. Controllers have also raised safety concerns. A new long term operating plan (LTOP) had ...
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East Europeans set to join single skies
A comprehensive air transport agreement between the European Commission (EC) and 10 East European states has been drafted and could take effect early next year. Frederik Sorensen, head of airline policy at the EC's transport directorate, says that the accord will create "a complete integration" of the countries into ...
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Eurocontrol tests pilot-controller link
A major step was taken towards operational datalinks for air traffic management (ATM) on 14 April when a Lufthansa Boeing 747-200 en route from Frankfurt to Miami accepted clearances from traffic controllers in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The preliminary Eurocontrol test of the PETAL-II air to ground datalink saw Maastricht ...
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FAA to refund overflight fees
The US Federal Aviation Administration is to refund millions of dollars in overflight fees charged to foreign air carriers between October 1997 and the end of January after a Federal Appeal Court decision questioning the basis of the fees. The FAA says it will not appeal against the ruling ...
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Single Mandate
British Airways and American Airlines appear on the verge of securing the long-awaited competition approval for their alliance from the European Commission (EC) with Brussels insiders set to give a mid-May date and a painful but probably realistic demand for slot surrender at London Heathrow. With some irony, however, ...
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More room on top
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON On 24 October 1997, Airbus Industrie retired the last Boeing Super Guppy from service, bringing to an end some 26 years of the outsized cargo turboprop's operations ferrying subassemblies between the consortium's European plants. At its peak, the fleet of converted Boeing 377s/C-97s totalled four aircraft, but in ...
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ADP plans five year investment in Charles de Gaulle
France's Aéroports de Paris (ADP) airport authority is embarking on a five year programme of heavy investment at Charles de Gaulle (CDG), its main base and Air France's increasingly successful hub. As it opened the first half of the new terminal 2F at the airport on 27 March, ADP ...
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First for Dutch ATC
The Netherlands has accepted into operation the FIRST air traffic control (ATC) tower simulator supplied by Raytheon Systems UK and installed in a new training centre at Amsterdam Schiphol-East. Controller training is scheduled to begin in the third quarter. Source: Flight International