All Ops & safety articles – Page 1312
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Safe and sound
Once in a while, a proposal emerges that has so many clear benefits and so few potential dangers, that the only question is why it is still just a proposal. Within a few weeks, Europe's transport ministers will be faced with just such a compelling idea when they are asked ...
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Aeroflot rapped
Following a safety incident in Seattle, US FAA investigators noticed that Khabarovsk Airlines, a renamed former Aeroflot division which now flies scheduled services from Russia's far east to Anchorage and Seattle, was using Aeroflot's operating certificate. The FAA has issued Khabarovsk with its own certificate but may penalise both Aeroflot ...
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Jet propelled into action
India's second biggest domestic airline, Jet Airways, is shedding long-time equity partners and forging links with new allies, as well as gearing up to take on rivals Air India and Indian Airlines on international services. It's all change as far as Jet's partners are concerned. Middle East operators Gulf ...
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Spain adds to civil war?
Spanish rivals Air Europa and Spanair are set to extend their domestic battle to the international arena as both carriers launch services to the US and link up with US majors. Palma-based Spanair was due to launch its first scheduled operation to the US on 20 November, flying from ...
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Born again airlines
Karen Walker. Those low-fare, low-cost US airlines still standing as the year draws to a close may well wish to take a bow. In sharp contrast to the US majors, for them 1997 will have been a year of survival rather than profitability. For the low-cost airlines that are ...
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Air China to go for IPO
Air China is pressing ahead with plans for its own initial public offering despite the postponement of the listing by the CAAC's commercial arm, China National Aviation Corporation. Air China aims to shrug off its state control and partially privatise within two years. 'We'll float by 1999 at the ...
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Airlines drop French polish
French carriers are lining up to follow the lead taken by startups Virgin Express and EasyJet, with the first no-frills operator due to enter the market by the end of March 1998. A former EuroBelgian Airlines commercial director, Bernard Brejoux, is working on plans to launch a low-cost operation, ...
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Latin airport sales closer
Brazil and Argentina are both looking to private investors to help finance airport expansion, as traffic in the region increases following the creation of the Mercosur free trade zone incorporating Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Brazil has included airports on its list of assets to be privatised by the ...
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Alliances: decision time approaches
There can be few more important commercial issues for airlines than the future shape of their alliances. A series of regulatory decisions about major alliances is about to be made. The outcome will determine the shape of the airline business, for the next several years at least. At the ...
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BA in pursuit of leisure
British Airways' much-hyped plans to launch a low-cost point-to-point carrier may herald a larger push into the European leisure market, including a standalone charter operation. BA has already come under fire for considering its own no-frills carrier to limit the advance in the UK market of low-cost players like ...
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Southern belle
Lois Jones Chairman Mao would not have approved. If, as Mao alleged, western-style commercialism and capitalism are corrupt, then China Southern Airlines is rotten to the core. As China closes the book on socialist economic dogma and emancipates its state-owned enterprises, China Southern is one of the first ...
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Boeing hits bottleneck
Boeing is trying hard to swallow a bitter pill of late delivery charges and costs linked to production delays and to get back on top of its aircraft production rate buildup. Boeing's decision to shut down its B747 and B737 production lines for a month follows a frenzy of ...
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China cries out for more
The announcement of a $50 billion order by China for Boeing aircraft coincides with an unseemly scrap for the Airbus aircraft ordered four years ago. Some carriers are set to miss out on their request for Airbus A320s and A321s as demand outstrips the 30 aircraft ordered by China ...
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Hangover cure
Karen Walker 'Swire prince' are words often whispered in the wake of David Turnbull, an acknowledgement of his rapid rise through the management strata of the Swire Group. His 21 years of experience at Swire have been tested severely over the last 12 months, however, since he inherited one ...
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Easy does it
Easy come, easy go. Hopefully EasyJet's use of this slogan to depict its ticketless booking and rapid check-in and boarding procedures will never apply to its presence in the European airline industry. Few think it will. The airline's charismatic chairman, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has made sure his startup uses technology ...
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Hong Kong lowers fees
It sometimes pays to complain. Airlines have won their battle against the proposed fees at Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok airport, which were originally to have been double those at Kai Tak. After more than a year of heated negotiations, the airport authority has sliced between 25 per ...
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Hub fever
In many industries, concentration forces have led to a few large mass producers with a global reach, each striving to achieve the lowest unit costs through increased efficiencies and higher production volumes. In the airline industry, global alliances are being created to achieve similar goals. However, the individual airline operators ...
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Garvey/Slater: great team work
In her first major public speech as the US Federal Aviation Administrator, Jane Garvey may not have set the industry on fire, but the underlying message - coupled with recent announcements made by the Department of Transportation - was unmistakeable. Garvey is putting the FAA back on the straight and ...
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US veers to port in Japan
The US is continuing its hard line in bilateral talks with Japan in the wake of its victory over the shipping showdown with Tokyo. The chances of an outline agreement being signed at the Apec economic summit in Vancouver on 24 November seemed slim but an accord seemed imminent. ...
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Swissair's offer stops Gemini from closing LTU MD-11 deal
A last-minute offer from Swissair for LTU's fleet of four Boeing MD-11s has blocked Gemini Air Cargo's attempt to acquire the aircraft for use as freighters. William Stockbridge, president of US supplemental cargo carrier Gemini, says that his failure to secure the aircraft is "very disappointing". On 17 ...