All Ops & safety articles – Page 1409
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Restoring orders
Last year finally saw that long-awaited recovery in aircraft orders, but few expect the boom years of 1990-1 to return on quite the same scale. Jacqueline Gallacher reports. Phew! After hitting an all-time low in 1994, aircraft order books are filling up again - but more for some than for ...
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CVR data indicate chaos in 757 crash
David Learmount/LONDON THE COCKPIT-VOICE recorder (CVR) of the Birgenair Boeing 757-200 which crashed in February reveals a picture of pilots who, faced with minor problems, became confused and lost control of a flyable aircraft, according to an interim report by the Dominican Republic's accident-investigation commission. ...
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AeroMexico on firmer footing
AEROMEXICO HAS emerged from a critical year with its financial restructuring safely in place and its losses apparently under control. The Mexican carrier, which came close to collapse during 1995, reports that net losses ended the year at 173 million pesos ($23 million). That compares to more than ...
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France to hit back after US rebuff
FRANCE SAYS THAT it will "...react accordingly" to the US rejection of its application for an increase of 24% in the number of flights to North America during the summer season. One Paris source says that the USA is "flexing its muscles" to push France towards an open-skies ...
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Tentative Agreement
FedEx has tentatively agreed a new five-year contract with its 3,000 pilots, including pay increases partly linked to profitability and work-rule changes to improve flexibility and productivity. FedEx pilots, who took industrial action when talks broke down, have yet to vote on the deal. The carrier began direct US-China cargo ...
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...And standing alone
THE ROW THAT has erupted suddenly between France and the USA over traffic rights demonstrates yet again the weakness of individual countries when they attempt to negotiate balanced agreements with the world's most powerful air-transport nation. The USA has concluded individual "open-skies" agreements with eight other European countries, ...
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Atlas contract
Atlas Air has signed a long-term contract to operate a Boeing 747-200 freighter for Swissair Cargo. The aircraft, the first of five leased from FedEx, enters service this month. Atlas already operates 11 cargo 747s. Source: Flight International
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USA told: 'offer more' to beat bilateral block
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC LACK OF LEVERAGE ON the part of US negotiators has led to the current impasse in bilateral aviation talks with the UK, according to the US General Accounting Office (GAO). As the GAO issued its report, British Airways chairman Sir Colin Marshall, visiting Washington, was ...
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Lessons to learn from Concorde
Sir - In "Twenty years young" (Flight International, 7-13 February, P41) you comment that "...in terms of flight cycles and hours, the aircraft [Concordes] are remarkably young, despite the physical age of the fleet". British Airways, you report, operates each Concorde for 900-1,100h a year - one-quarter (or less) of ...
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Disconnect option
The European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has changed its philosophy on auto-pilot-disconnect options for Airbus A300-600 and A310 pilots on precision approaches. This results from lessons learned from the April 1994 China Airlines A300-600 crash at Nagoya, Japan, in which 264 people died. Previous regulation required that, below 400ft (120m) ...
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UK turns up heat on engine-control study
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AN ADVANCED electronic engine-control (EEC) system, capable of operation in the high-temperature core of a jet engine, rather than being mounted on the fan casing, is under development by a UK consortium. The project could lead to production of more-responsive and reliable EECs ...
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FAA warns Wilcox on WAAS
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC WILCOX ELECTRIC IS in danger of losing its $475 million contract to develop and produce the global-positioning-system (GPS) wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) for the US Federal Aviation Administration. On 18 March, the aviation agency advised the US-based subsidiary of Thomson-CSF that the WAAS ...
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Saf-T-Glo hopes Pathfinder lighting will shine in USA
AN EMERGENCY FLOOR-path-lighting system, which requires no electrical power and has no batteries, bulbs or wiring to install and maintain, has been certificated in the USA by Diversified Aviation Services (DAS). The Pathfinder photo-luminescent lighting system, manufactured by UK company Saf-T-Glo, has been approved and installed by airlines, in France ...
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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 ...
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Airbus sets up a new division for A3XX
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS TO set up a new division to develop its proposed A3XX, with the aircraft now expected to go into service as early as 2002. The division will bring together personnel from the partner companies, and Airbus Industrie itself, under ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...