All Ops & safety articles – Page 1382
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LOT on fast track
LOT POLISH AIRLINES, virtually trebled profits in 1995, helped by soaring traffic figures - especially on its fast-growing domestic network. The Polish carrier ended the year with net profits of Pzl6 million ($2 million), as passenger numbers rose by 16%, to 1.8 million. Flights to Central ...
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Inevitable end
The ultimate declaration of bankruptcy by Fokker will be greeted in various quarters with varying degrees of anger, regret and relief. The anger - from Fokker's employees - will be understandable. The regret - especially from Fokker's suppliers and customers - will be justifiable. The relief - from competitors - ...
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The difficulties of MDA level flight
Sir - David Learmount's article "Research pinpoints non-precision risks" (Flight International, 6-12 March, P5) on research by the Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory into non-precision approach and landing procedures puts figures to what has been articulated by air industry for many years. One aspect of the non-precision approach should ...
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Pena delivers warning to the UK
LONDON HEATHROW Airport could lose its status as the premier gateway to Europe, if the UK Government continues to prevent open-skies bilateral-air-services talks with the USA, US transport secretary Federico Pena has warned. Pena says that success in negotiating liberal bilaterals with European nations, including Germany, allows passengers ...
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Costly corporate updates on the way
THE COST OF additional or replacement equipment for business aircraft to meet impending regulations could cost almost $1 million for older aeroplanes, warns fixed-base operator Magec Aviation of Luton, UK. Some equipment has yet to be specified and its' cost to be defined. Magec flight-operations director ...
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Former Transwede executives are cleared of fraud
Transwede founder and former chief executive Thomas Johansson and ex-managing director Lars-Olof Svenheim have been cleared of defrauding the airline during their period in office at the Stockholm, Sweden-based scheduled and charter operator. After a six-week investigation, Swedish state prosecutor Berndt Berger, could find no evidence of business ...
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Meeting the challenge
The effects of the recession may be subsiding, but the general-aviation community continues to face some tough problems, as delegates attending the UK General Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association (GAMTA) annual conference at the Forum Hotel in London on 7-8 March, heard. Andrew Doyle, David Learmount and Forbes Mutch report. ...
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Cathay profits leap
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways beat market expectations with a 25% leap in profits for 1995, boosted by higher revenue and improved cost efficiency, but also helped by an accounting change. The Hong Kong carrier turned in a net profit of just under HK$3 billion ...
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Cathay expands fleet
US cargo carrier Atlas Airways is to lease five Boeing 747-200 freighters from FedEx until 1998. The aircraft are the last of 22 747s acquired when FedEx bought Flying Tigers in 1989. The deal, will take Colorado-based Atlas 747 freighter fleet, to 24 by the end of 1997. ...
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Catering for tropical needs
Sir - In your editorial "Filling the gap" (Flight International, 10-16 January) you place great emphasis on the ability of Airbus Industrie to "...create a world-bearing product-line, with world-beating technology". While it may be able to create advanced airliners, Airbus appears to have little or no consideration for ...
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Ansett prepares for ANZ with executive shake-up
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS ANSETT HAS CLEARED the decks for the imminent Air New Zealand (ANZ) buy-in, with managing director Graeme McMahon and two of his senior managers departing in favour of a new ten-member executive structure at the Australian airline. News Limited chief and executive chairman of Ansett Holdings, Ken Cowley, ...
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Benchmark America
THE ISSUE OF UK PILOT training to approved UK commercial-pilots-licence standard abroad arises, because flying training overseas, particularly in the USA, is less expensive than in the UK. Direct costs, can be about half of those in the UK, but the licence gained is a full UK one. ...
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Germany proposes air-safety 'blacklist'
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN TRANSPORT minister Matthias Wissman is pushing for the introduction of a European "black list" of airlines which have questionable safety standards. Airlines on the list would be banned from operating in the European market. If the proposal does not get backing from other ...
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Air France wins pilot fight
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR FRANCE CHAIRMAN Christian Blanc has won a major round in his battle to cut costs, with the company's two main pilots' unions settling a drawn-out dispute over working conditions. The deal could boost pilot productivity by 30% and bring to an end a series of ...
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Korean Air wins from won's appreciation
KOREAN AIR (KAL) came close to tripling its profits in 1995, although much of the improvement came as a windfall from the appreciation of the South Korean won against the US dollar, in which the airline holds most of its debt. KAL's net profit soared over the year, ...
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Airports grow again
Airports report continued strong passenger growth for 1995. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE WORLD'S MAJOR airports have reported a fourth successive year of strong passenger growth for 1995, although the rate of expansion now appears to be slowing. Preliminary figures from the Airports Council International ...
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Former managers return after Alitalia's boardroom coup
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON IN A COMPLEX SAGA, worthy of the politics of ancient Rome, yet another management team has been swept from power at Alitalia. This time, former managers have returned to take control of the airline. The final act came, as chairman Roberto Riverso, handed ...
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Door accident delays 777 appearance
DISPLAY OF THE Boeing 777 at FIDAE '96, as part of a Latin American sales tour, was delayed when the forward passenger-door was torn off by an air bridge at Bogota, Colombia, on 8 March. The jetway fell, ripping the open door from its hinges. The door is ...
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BA puts commercial case for Terminal 5
BRITISH AIRWAYS HAS painted a bleak picture for its' own and the UK's future if London Heathrow's fifth terminal is not built. In its closing submission to the first phase of a public inquiry on the subject, BA estimates that up to 26 million passengers could be lost to London's ...
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Airbus partners scale up combined R&D for A3XX
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS pushing for an unprecedented level of co-operation between its partners and suppliers during the research-and-development (R&D) phase of the proposed A3XX ultra-high-capacity airliner. The new approach, under the so-called "3E Plan", is seen as crucial to the consortium's efforts to keep the aircraft's ...