All Ops & safety articles – Page 1300
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Cathay to place orders with Airbus and Boeing
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is planning to place orders for up to 20 additional new Airbus Industrie and Boeing widebody aircraft, as part of a large-scale expansion of its international operations. The airline is opening up the engine side of the competition to all three potential suppliers. ...
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Mesa Air regional-jet operation experiences a sluggish start
Mesa Air Group says that its Texas-based regional-jet operation, started in May with two Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs), is growing more slowly than anticipated. Marketing of the initial Fort Worth-Houston service is being intensified, and Fort Worth-San Antonio flights will be added in September, with a San Antonio-Colorado Springs ...
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GATX Airlog close to returning reworked cargo 747s to use
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Two airlines have started work to return to service two Boeing 747 freighters grounded in mid-1996, when the US Federal Aviation Administration imposed load restrictions on the GATX Airlog cargo conversion. Airlog says that work to recertificate the conversion is "about 80% complete" ...
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Cathay will re-engine entire 747-400 fleet
Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL) will ship Cathay Pacific Airway's first hybrid Rolls-Royce RB211-524G/H-T engine to Boeing in early September for flight certification, following agreement to modify the airline's entire fleet of 21 747-400s. HAESL is now modifying the first -524G and plans to run the engine ...
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Dash 8-400 favourite at SAS
Kevin O'Toole/Stockholm An official announcement on the selection of a new 70-seat turboprop for the SAS Commuter fleet is imminent, says the Scandinavian airline, with an order expected for as many as 20 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400s, to be used alongside the existing Saab 2000 50-seaters. ...
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Tests complete on first 'Block 4' GE90
Boeing has completed flight and performance tests of the first 777-200IGW (increased gross weight) powered by the "Block 4" variant of the General Electric GE90-90B turbofan. The aircraft is being refurbished at the company's Everett site in Washington before delivery to Lauda Air in late September. ...
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Bombardier proposes Dash 8-300X flightdeck upgrade
Bombardier is showing customers an upgrade of the 50-seat Dash 8-300, which incorporates the Sextant Avionique glass-cockpit suite being introduced on the new 70-seat Dash 8-400. The move would be in line with the Canadian company's moves to achieve a common type-rating across its turboprop family. The upgrade, ...
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"Non-addition" Chapter 3 rules
Sir - The editorial "Noise blight" (Flight International, 16-22 July) criticises the European Civil Aviation Conference and the European Commission for drafting "non-addition" rules for aircraft which are hushkitted to comply with Chapter 3 noise-certification standards, adding that the best environmental results will be achieved "-with the co-operation of the ...
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Studying off-design performance
Sir - As is evident from the article "DC-8 training faulted" (Flight International, 23-29 July, P15), it took an accident [that of an Airborne Express McDonnell Douglas DC-8 in December 1996 in Virginia] to get the aviation community to notice an area about which simulator engineers have been crying for ...
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Reflected glory
Peter Henley/SEATTLE The dilemma which Boeing faced when launching its Next Generation 737 was whether to update the proven model or start afresh. The big 737 operators wanted an updated 737 for fleet commonality, but they demanded a version which would fly faster, higher and more economically. They ...
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Europeans unite on ozone layer
Herman De Wulf/Brussels The European Commission (EC), Airbus Industrie and five European airlines have restarted the MOSAIC scientific programme, initially launched in 1995 to measure ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere. It is estimated that air transportation is responsible for 2-3% of all air pollution and, ...
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Trans-Tasman partners study operations link for efficiency
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Air New Zealand and Australia's Ansett Airlines are studying innovative ways of making flight operations and aircrew training more efficient, and are looking to include Singapore Airlines in some of the initiatives, taking advantage of the three-way alliance they announced in July. Under the ...
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Olympic near the edge
During take-off from Iraklion, Crete, on 12 August, an Olympic Airways Boeing 737-200Adv shed the tyre tread from two of its main wheels and the pilot elected to abort the take-off run. The aircraft, carrying 110 passengers, came to rest 200m from the runway end, just beyond which there is ...
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Delta takes lead
Delta Air Lines has started to retrofit fire suppressors and smoke detectors in the cargo holds of its Boeing 737s, and plans to fit its entire narrowbody fleet with the safety devices. The US Federal Aviation Administration has given notice of proposed rulemaking indicating that such installations will be required ...
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-and get tough on maintenance deficiencies
In its toughest punitive move to date, New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority is to ground the small Palmerston North-based operator United Aviation because of "serious maintenance deÌciencies" discovered during audits. The airline, which ßies a small ßeet of piston twins, suffered a fatal accident with one of its ...
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New Zealand officials examine delayed crash warning-
Paul Phelan/Cairns New Zealand's Transport Accident Commission is probing whether paint on the radar-altimeter antennas may have degraded the performance of the ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) on an Ansett New Zealand Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8, which crashed at Palmerston North, New Zealand, in June 1995, with the ...
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Kitty Hawk/Kalitta companies take decision to merge
Kitty Hawk, the Dallas-based charter passenger and cargo air carrier, has agreed to merge with the Ypsilanti, Michigan-based Kalitta Companies, which includes American International Airways (AIA), American International Cargo, American International Freight, Flight One Logistics, Kalitta Flying Services and OK Turbines. In a related transaction, Kitty Hawk will ...
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Cessna unveils new training programme
CESSNA HAS UNVEILED a computer-based instruction (CBI) programme to train pilots in fewer hours at its Cessna Pilot Centers (CPCs). The initial private-pilot course is to be introduced by US-based CPCs in the second quarter of 1998. Beginning in 1999, courses will be developed for other ratings and for international ...
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Star offers leading role to Cathay/SIA
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The recently established Star Alliance is set to further expand in Asia, with both Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines (SIA) now holding separate discussions to join the global partnership. According to industry sources, talks between Star and the two Asian airlines have been ...
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Taiwan's carriers close on widebody orders
Paul Lewis/TAIPEI Taiwan's two rival national carriers China Airlines (CAL) and EVA Airways are showing renewed interest in new ultra-long-haul aircraft, in response to the recent provisional launch of the Airbus Industrie A340-500/600 and a proposed open-skies agreement with the USA. Competition between Boeing and Airbus ...