All Ops & safety articles – Page 1397
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Air traffic mismanagement
The Western air-transport industry realised around 1989 that the most enormous commercial opportunity in the entire transition to the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) was opening up before its very eyes: Russia needed a new navigation infrastructure. Since then it has deluged Moscow with advice - some of it wrong, ...
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IATA agonises over CIS air-traffic management
Kieran Daly/LONDON A SPLIT IS EMERGING inside the International Air Transport Association (IATA) over the development of air-traffic management (ATM) in the CIS. Russian ATM authority Aeronavigatsia is considering whether to accept an offer of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development funding, supported by the USA, ...
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Concorde wins race against US TCAS ban
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS and Air France have avoided the threat of a ban on their Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde operations to the USA, after Rockwell-Collins finally solved technical problems associated with the external antennae for the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems (TCAS) which it is supplying for the supersonic airliner. ...
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Boeing tackles 'tail-wag' problem on United 777s
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING PLANS TO MAKE changes to the 777 gust-response system as part of efforts to eliminate a slow yawing motion, or "tail-wag", experienced by crews on the first few United Airlines aircraft. "We sent a team out to fly with the aircraft on revenue ...
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AlliedSignal wins 2h cockpit-voice recorder certification
A solid-state cockpit-voice recorder (SSCVR) made by AlliedSignal Aerospace, which stores 2h of digitally recorded sound, has received US Federal Aviation Administration certification. An SSCVR will be required on all Part 121 transport-category aircraft in Europe by April 1997, and AlliedSignal believes that the FAA will require the ...
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Solo launch in Malaysia
Plans for a single multinational airline to operate within the Asean region appear to be falling by the wayside with the planned 1 January launch of a new Malaysian operator, Saeaga Airlines. The newcomer is a joint venture between Malaysia's Ekran Air Services (20 per cent) and the ...
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Thamnoon's high noon?
Thamnoon Wanglee is fighting for survival as president of Thai Airways International amid investigations into allegations that he authorised the sale of a damaged Airbus A300B4 to Switzerland-based Sebina Trading for US$1.8 million, when it was said to be worth close to $12 million. Investigators are trying to ...
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Fortunes return
After a slight hiccup in the previous year, the money spinners of the airport industry are back on the upward curve. Revenues for the top 45 reporting airport authorities in 1994/5 rose 8.3 per cent, while their collective net profits leapt an enormous 17.8 per cent. The resumption ...
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Love lost but at what cost
The row-turned-lawsuit between Northwest Airlines and codesharing partner KLM has both carriers asking a simple question: can the world's most successful alliance survive? The question comes as the US airline industry appears to be on the verge of a major restructuring, with or without a United Airlines-USAir merger. ...
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China stakes on the line?
Recent high-level signals from Beijing suggest the Chinese authorities are backing away from a policy which clears the way for foreign investment in airlines and are directly contradicting plans for foreign stock market listings for China's three main carriers. In late October, Civil Aviation Administration of China's deputy ...
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China set to move on HK
Cathay Pacific is facing its worst nightmare, the startup of a Chinese-controlled, Hong Kong-based rival backed by powerful friends in Beijing's corridors of power. Despite complaints that the action breaks the Sino-British joint declaration on the hand-over of Hong Kong to China, the territory's civil aviation director Peter ...
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'Economic' spying bugs Japanese
Not many people were surprised to learn, in October, that the CIA undertook 'economic' spying on US trade rival Japan. The high-profile impetus for the intelligence gathering was the US-Japan automobile trade talks that were resolved in July after the two sides negotiated an eleventh-hour settlement under the spectre of ...
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From bust to boom in a year
The good times are here again - but nobody can predict for just how longIt's at times like this that largesse takes over. As 1995 draws to a close, it is clear that at long last we have a vintage year for airline profitability - Iata says its members will ...
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Asian Express
After a bitter defeat in Europe three years ago, Federal Express is now taking on Asia to compensate for declining yields at home and develop high yield premium international business. By Mead Jennings.Fred Smith, founder and CEO of Federal Express Corporation, has never had trouble thinking about the big picture. ...
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Flowers of Asia
Asia-Pacific is awash with new startups and domestic carriers expanding off shore. Tom Ballantyne looks at how big a threat they are to the region's majors.They are like bees attracted to the honey pot, says one executive from a major Asian airline of the rash of new startups swarming to ...
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Kiwis close in on Ansett
The on-again, off-again flirtation between Air New Zealand and Ansett Australia has found a new lease of life with a surprise twist. At presstime, the Auckland-based flag carrier was within 'a few days' of finalising the purchase of up to half of Ansett - from TNT. ...
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Alitalia hit by One startup
Startup carrier Air One will end Alitalia's monopoly on Milan-Rome, the Italian flag carrier's most profitable domestic route, following increased slot availability at congested Milan/Linate. Air One, formerly Air Adriatica, will serve Europe's fifth largest route five times a day from end November, with plans to increase to ...
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New deals aid Taiwan
Compromises on symbolic points have produced new air agreements between Taiwan and both Hong Kong and Macau. Following expected ratification in December, Taiwan will have five-year agreements that straddle the return of both territories to Chinese control. The deals provide new opportunities for Taiwan's airlines and an end to the ...
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Merpati mire after sacking
Indonesia's troubled government-owned airline industry is in turmoil following the sacking of the president of domestic carrier Merpati Nusantara over his refusal to obey a Transport Ministry directive to lease 16 aircraft through a local company. Ridwan Fataruddin's departure came just a few months after the resignation of ...
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Abacus first in the frame
Abacus has become the first CRS to win access to the vast Chinese market in a deal that should give the Singapore-based company a lead in developing a full-scale CRS for China. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) awarded the contract in mid-October after a three year battle that ...