All Ops & safety articles – Page 1396
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European airlines press for fast ground-handling reform
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS EUROPE'S AIRLINE chiefs have called on the region's politicians not to drag their feet over plans to liberalise the airport ground-handling market. The warning came from the Association of European Airlines (AEA), two days before Europe's air-transport ministers were due to meet on ...
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CityLine hands turboprop operations to Contact Air
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA CITYLINE is to hand over its Fokker 50 operations to partner Contact Air to enable it to concentrate on jet-airliner operations. In a related move, Contact Air is to return five de Havilland Dash 8-300s to the Canadian manufacturer. The move, approved ...
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Boeing defines plans for a 'simple' 777-300 stretch
Guy Norris/SEATTLE DETAILED PLANNING for the design of the stretched Boeing 777-300 is to be completed by mid-February 1996. Half of the design will be released to manufacturing by September, and major assembly is due to begin in late March 1997. Boeing is keeping the ...
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MDC details test plans for F-18E/F
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) expects to fly the second F-18E Super Hornet by 16 December. Flight testing of the first F-18E is expected to resume shortly after repair of an environmental-control-system bleed door, failure of which caused the 29 November first flight to be cut short. ...
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ATC deadline
Canada has set a 1 April, 1996, deadline for the planned handover of its air-traffic-control system to Nav Canada, a not-for-profit corporation owned by employees, airlines and business- aircraft users. Source: Flight International
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Safety comparisons with US record should be balanced
Sir - The article "Hull-loss accident rate climbing" (Flight International, 22-28 November, P22) calls for a response. It is correct to use the USA as a benchmark to trace the evolution of the frequency of this type of accident. The USA has been, and still is, a leader ...
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Psychologists: analyse thyselves
Sir - Experienced pilots applying for airline jobs are required to take an increasing number of psychological tests, but are these relevant to the job of flying an aircraft safely and efficiently? Do psychologists take their own tests to select themselves for jobs? As an established airline captain ...
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Is there an 'anti-poaching' scheme?
Sir - I believe that there are in existence "anti-poaching" agreements between some airlines whereby, when the imminent big recruitment drive comes, pilots will be prevented from getting better jobs with bigger airlines. This would be illegal, since it would restrict civil liberties, and managers involved in such ...
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Les Wilson
Les Wilson, managing director of Bristol Airport, Avon, in the UK, died in a car crash on 27 November. He was deputy managing director at London Luton Airport before joining Bristol in 1980. A previous past chairman of the Airport Operators Association, he was awarded an OBE in the 1995 ...
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T-tail, take three
McDonnell Douglas has finally launched its MD-95 into the hotly contested100-seat market. Guy Norris/LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) hopes to build a lot of future business on its newly launched MD-95. Not only will it lead the attack on the yet-to-be-realised 100-seat market, but the small airliner ...
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Sabena hit by strike
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS STRIKING SABENA workers closed down the airline on 29 November in the first of what is expected to be a series of industrial actions following the abrupt cancellation of all labour agreements on 27 November. The unprecedented contract move surprised observers who are ...
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Growing up
Boeing has begun assembly of its firstnew-generation 737.Guy Norris/SEATTLE IT IS UNPRECEDENTED but, by mid-1997, Boeing's Renton site in Seattle, Washington, will be producing six different models of the same jet airliner. The aircraft is the best-selling 737, and the ramp-up represents the phase in its development when production of ...
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Finnair maintains strong position
THE FINNAIR GROUP continued its impressive performance improvement in the six months to the end of September. Compared to the same first-half period of 1994, Finnair made a FIM462 million ($110 million) profit before reserves and taxes, against FIM298 million. Turnover increased by 7.7% to FIM3.6 billion, while ...
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Lufthansa posts profits despite continued exchange-rate trials
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA achieved a growth in profits for the first nine months of 1995, despite the massive exchange-rate losses which have blighted German industry all year. The German airline's pre-tax profits, before special items, showed a modest DM4 million ($2.9 million) improvement on the corresponding ...
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New members join in-trail-climb club
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NORTHWEST, AMERICAN and Singapore Airlines (SIA) are set to join Delta Air Lines and United Airlines in operational trials of in-trail-climb (ITC) procedures over the Pacific. The use of ITC is being examined as a way of preventing one aircraft becoming "trapped" beneath ...
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Osprey tilts the balance
A leaner, cheaper, V-22 tilt-rotor is taking shape, thanks to advances in manufacturing technology. Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH MAJOR PIECES OF THE FIRST production-representative V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor are coming together at Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing Helicopters, and confidence is growing that the dramatic cost and weight reductions achieved ...
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FAA safety ratings sting Latin American/Caribbean carriers
SANCTIONS HAVE begun to bite at airlines in Latin American and Caribbean countries judged by the US Federal Aviation Administration to have inadequate safety oversights. An increasing number of carriers has been unable to put aircraft into service because bilateral agreements have been frozen by the USA until their safety ...
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American grants Hawaiian a reprieve
FINANCIALLY TROUBLED carrier Hawaiian Airlines has secured a last-minute, but still tentative, agreement with American Airlines to restructure long-term lease agreements for its fleet of ex-American McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. The carrier has until 8 December to put together a set of renegotiated financial agreements with its creditors before ...
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Airport costs threaten Russian revival
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW HUGE INCREASES in airport charges and fuel costs are threatening to stifle the beginnings of a recovery in the Russian airline market, the country's carriers have warned. Russian airlines have been reporting signs of growth for the first time since 1990, when passenger traffic ...
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Airbus extends widebody family
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE HAS launched the shortened, longer-range, version of its twin-engined A330 widebody and confirmed its development of the ultra-long range A340-8000. The A330-200 is scheduled to be flown for the first time in the middle of 1997, and to be ready for service ...