All Ops & safety articles – Page 1308
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A red flag to a bull?
New scheduled operators Spanair and Air Europa have shaken up Iberia's traditional monopoly in the Spanish domestic market. Lois Jones reports from Madrid and Palma de Mallorca on how competition has prompted the Spanish flag carrier to get its act together. Never be fooled into thinking the Spanish market staid, ...
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Empire builders in fight to the finish
Make no mistake, it's a battle - a fight to the finish. A battle for territory, for customers, for markets, for revenue streams. A strategic war in which treaties are made with friendly powers, only to be abrogated when those powers turn out to be not quite as friendly as ...
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Senate grills the two Bobs
As theatre goes, it was in a class of its own. And as the curtain went down on a US Senate hearing into the US-UK open skies talks in early June, the prospect of progress seemed as remote as ever. The general consensus was that Robert Crandall and ...
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Sun blazes a trail for SAA
The experience gleaned during the sell-off of state-owned South African carrier Sun Air should help ease the partial privatisation of South African Airways. But there are strong doubts that the flag carrier will be in any fit shape to meet the government's stated end-of-year deadline. Captain Johan Borstlap, ...
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BA places a no strike bet
British Airways' plan to reap £1 billion a year in efficiency savings by March 2000 could suffer a severe blow if two separate ballots of cabin crew and ground staff, the latter over the airline's plan to sell its catering operations, result in support for strike action. Both ...
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BA hit by tit for tat ban
Air services between the UK and Nigeria were suspended in early June as a reciprocal ban of British and Nigerian registered aircraft assumed wider political implications. The UK Department of Transport banned Nigerian-registered aircraft from British airports in mid-May due to alleged poor safety standards. The Nigerian government ...
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Network agility
Will the gap widen between the most sophisticated European players in network management and those that have not yet grasped the concept fully? By Luis Rivera, Lucio Pompeo and Alberto Martin. Five years ago, network management was still quite an abstract concept for most European airlines. Though many had heard ...
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Airlines unite over Africa
Rising concerns over air safety in most of Africa have spurred several major European carriers to support a South Africa Airways' initiative that could see some countries boycotted if they do nothing to improve the parlous state of their air traffic control systems. In May SAA put forward ...
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Trial separation over London
Sir - Media attention has focused on the UK Civil Aviation Authority's plans to reduce separation on final approach at Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports in the UK. This attention followed publication in Transmit, the Journal of the Guild of Air Traffic Control Officers (GATCO), of a report ...
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Continental Express is eager for small regional jet
Continental Express has converted the first 25 of 175 options it holds on Embraer EMB-145s. It has also expressed a serious interest in the smaller regional jets now being planned, as it ponders the move to an all-regional-jet fleet. The airline has ordered the longer-range LR version. The ...
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ICAO plans CNS/ATM implementation conference in Rio
ACKNOWLEDGING that financing the transition costs is the biggest hurdle to introducing satellite-based communication, navigation, surveillance and air-traffic management (CNS/ATM), the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) plans a conference on the subject in Rio de Janeiro on 11-15 May, 1998. ICAO president Dr Assad Kotaite announced the conference ...
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Canada considers sanctions over US overflight charges
Graham Warwick/WASHington DC CANADA IS considering sanctions that could be imposed on the USA if it fails in legal efforts to ban overflight fees introduced by the US Federal Aviation Administration in May. Options range from levying similar fees on US airlines overflying Canadian airspace to asking the ...
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Thomson-CSF and Siemens form ATM joint venture
Thomson-CSF Airsys and Siemens have formed a joint venture to offer air-traffic-management (ATM) systems in the market for "highly complex, integrated ATM systems". Thomson-CSF and Siemens have 60% and 40% stakes in the venture, Airsys ATM. It will be based in France, with operations in Australia, Germany, the ...
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Bosnia ATC upgrade
Northrop Grumman is to provide Bosnia-Herzegovina with modernised air-traffic-control (ATC)equipment, including a monopulse secondary surveillance radar (MSSR). The US firm will also build an ATC control centre for en route operations. The MSSR is upgradable to full Mode S capability and the ATC centre will be equipped with the AMS-2100 ...
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Apprentices have earned licences
Sir - I was pleased that Jim McKenna, UK Civil Aviation Authority head of engineer licensing, responded to my letter on European Joint Aviation Requirement (JAR)-66 aircraft maintenance basic licences (AMBL) (Flight International, 11-17 June, P144)) -although the point of my letter was missed. I was not highlighting ...
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SIAand Ansett study options for wide-ranging alliance
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is reported to be close to reaching a tentative agreement with Ansett on a potentially wide-ranging alliance, encompassing commercial co-operation and the possible purchase of equity in the Australian carrier. The two are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding as a first step towards ...
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Foreign aircraft safety checks get green light in EU
European transport ministers have given the political go-ahead for the safety assessment of foreign aircraft (SAFA) programme, under which airlines suspected of operating unsafely will be submitted to ramp inspections at European Union (EU) airports from 1999 or possibly sooner. Final clearance for the SAFA programme, which embraces ...
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Airbus partners bicker on restructuring
Friction between the partners in the European Airbus consortium remained strongly in evidence during the show, with Germany launching thinly veiled attacks against the French position on restructuring the consortium. "We have no time to indulge in the favourite game of Europeans, which is summed up by the ...
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Airbus Industrie nets two new customers
Finnair and Brazil's TAM have become new Airbus Industrie customers, with orders for a total of 17 aircraft and options on a further 29. Finnair has chosen the Airbus A319/A320/A321 narrowbody range to replace its fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. The Finnish carrier will take an ...
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Sabena selects Avros and Airbuses to replace 737s
Sabena is to order a mix of Aero International (Regional) Avro RJ100s and Airbus A319s and A320s by the end of 1997 to replace its 14 Boeing 737-200s, according to Air Transport Intelligence (ATI), the new Reed Aerospace news and data service . The electronic news service, formally ...