All Ops & safety articles – Page 1294
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Four-seat Phoenix rises from the Squalus
Alberta Aerospace plans to develop a four-seat version of the former Promavia Jet Squalus jet trainer. The Calgary-based company is now working to certificate the basic two-seat, side-by-side version, renamed the Phoenix FanJet, for the airline-pilot ab initio training market. The follow-on pressurised four-seater would be marketed as ...
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Financial results
Operating income leapt from $27m to $97m. A 16% growth in passenger revenues and higher yields helped produce a 9.5% operating margin. Air NZ suffered from a strong dollar, high fuel prices and tougher competition. Restructuring cost $17.6m but selling catering made $4.2m. Operating profit increased from $11.5m to $25.1m ...
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Fair or foul?
Recent accusations by smaller US carriers of predation by their major rivals have renewed the debate over what is legitimate under US law. By David Knibb. It's a problem as old as deregulation itself. When does the legitimate competitive response of an incumbent carrier to a new entrant cease to ...
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Safer than ever?
Airlines fear the regulation of safety oversight is fragmenting while Icao seeks to stamp its authority on the process. By Doug Cameron. Outsourcing can be taken to extremes. One Asia-Pacific state contracted out its airline licensing and safety oversight functions to a neighbouring country but failed to inform international regulators ...
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Gently down stream
As with the engine manufacturers, consolidation among major airframe producers is likely to be followed closely by bold moves to secure dominance in the after sales market. Report by T Wakelee Smith and Jonathan Culley.It may be hard to believe. But with the recent absorption of McDonnell Douglas into ...
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USA and Japan miss deadline
Andrew Mollet/TOKYO US and Japanese negotiators meeting in Tokyo failed to reach a new bilateral air-services agreement by the 30 September deadline set in July. The US delegation says that sufficient progress has been made for talks to continue, however, and another round is due for the week ...
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No-frills feel summer chill
It may have been a red-hot summer season for the US major carriers, but the climate remained decidedly chilly for the low-cost startups. Air South is the latest to feel the cold draft of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and analysts believe there will be more casualties unless Washington intervenes. ...
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Rogue RVSM flights cause concern
Kevin O'Toole/AMSTERDAM Air traffic control (ATC) services have warned that the success of new reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) across the North Atlantic is being marred by safety concerns over their inability to discriminate against aircraft not approved to operate within the minima. When the RVSM was ...
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Cathay warns of a terrible year
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Leading finance houses are cutting their year-end profit forecasts for Cathay Pacific Airways by as much as 30% after a fourth month of sharply curtailed passenger traffic for the Hong Kong carrier which has coincided with its hand-over to China at the end of June. ...
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Cargo flux?
The dedicated freight operator Cargolux is banking on an all-B747-400F fleet and alliances to put it on a firmer footing in this notoriously unstable sector. MarkOdell reports from Luxembourg on the carrier's chances. Look beyond the seemingly perpetual decline in yields and the overcapacity that plagues the cargo industry and ...
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Hummingbird tests hover capability
Aero Design and Development (AD&D) of Israel is continuing to expand the operating envelope of its Hummingbird manned vertical- take-off and landing platform, which hovered for a few minutes for the first time recently. The craft is designed to carry its pilot for about 45min at altitudes of up to ...
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PAL calls for total US ban
Philippine Airlines has called on Manila to suspend flights by US carriers into the Philippines, as a result of US Federal Aviation Administration restrictions which are causing major losses on trans-Pacific services. The appeal came within days of PAL announcing it was abandoning some flights to the key ...
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Europe close to noise ban
Proposed environmental measures to reduce aircraft noise and emissions at European airports are stirring up a storm of protest. The European Commission looks set to adopt Ecac recommendations to ban hushkitted Chapter II aircraft after 1 April 1999. An official confirms that the Commission's proposals, which are due ...
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Good news, bad news
David Learmount/London While THE USA can exult in its lowest general aviation (GA) fatal-accident rate in history, and Canada's raw data for 1996 also look promising, the UK is forced to declare that last year was its worst since 1987. On the other side of the globe, New ...
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BA-AA enter political ring
The US Department of Transportation has finally launched its review of the proposed American Airlines-British Airways alliance.But 15 months after the linkup was first mooted, the US regulators are in danger of getting left behind as the process migrates to the political level. Still, the prospective partners are ...
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Why do authorities fear democracy?
Sir-Bob Crowe (Letters, Flight International, 10-16 September) puts forward a very reasonable case for the lessening of the authoritarian stance of the UK Civil Aviation Authority when it comes down to rule-making and the stand it takes on such items as single-engined commercial freighters and other matters. The ...
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BA waits on Russian approval for FANS go-ahead
British Airways is ready to equip up to 40 Boeing 747-400s with Future Air Navigation System (FANS) avionics to take advantage of new cost-saving routes across Russia - but may walk away from the project if there is no sign of funding for ground infrastructure by the end of this ...
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ANA may join club of four
Bilateral talks between the US and Japan, which were set to resume in Tokyo in late September, are likely to result in the clearance of two codeshare alliances. But All Nippon Airways could emerge as the real victor as it is finally recognised as an incumbent carrier, enjoying almost unlimited ...
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High altitude choice
Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites has selected the Williams-Rolls FJ44-2 to power its twin-turbofan Model 281 High Altitude Platform, a piloted long-endurance aircraft designed to carry 900kg-class payloads to altitudes above 60,000ft (18,000m). A first flight is planned for mid-1998. Source: Flight International
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The people's airline
The new climate at employee-owned United, instilled by chairman Gerald Greenwald, has not filtered through to the airline's grass roots nor brought any obvious great advantages over US rivals. But the airline's strategy looks sound and profitability is at an all-time high. By Karen Walker. Gerald Greenwald, United Airline's ...