All Ops & safety articles – Page 1442
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Commission targets UK
The European Commission is set to extend its legal challenge aimed at the six member states talking 'open skies' with the US to include the UK, in a seemingly unbalanced bid to win external competence in air service negotiations. At presstime, the Commission was set to initiate legal ...
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Doubts fail to rip Oz
Despite two outstanding strategic issues clouding the long awaited privatisation of Qantas, initial investor interest appears solid. But a reduced issue price is threatening to cut dramatically the value of British Airways' 25 per cent investment and shrink the expected returns for the federal coffers. As applications for ...
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Superjumbo or white elephant?
Mrs Akido is flying from Sapporo to Fukuoka to visit her mother. While the aircraft is taxiing to the runway, she goes through the safety procedure on her virtual reality screen. In the noise-proofed cabin she cannot hear the roar of the engines, nestling under the 80 metre wingspan, as ...
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GRA presents fairer picture
While I thought that Mead Jennings' article on codesharing (Airline Business, June 1995) was a reasonable portrayal of GRA's study, there are a few statements that I take issue with. Where you note that we qualified our results and therefore discounted our findings before they were presented, it ...
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Investors favour Valu
For some carriers media scrutiny at times of misfortune adds fuel to the fire. But not for ValuJet Airlines. The darling of Wall Street and consumers alike seems to have sidestepped a recent spate of bad luck. Lewis Jordan, president of the Atlanta-based carrier, waves off suggestions that ...
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LAX land fee row rolls on
US airlines continue their landing-fee battle with Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), but so far all they have made is a small dent in the increases, as new fees are imposed and the validity of the old ones is largely upheld by the Department of Transportation. In late ...
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Indian feed for starters
A third tier of Indian feeder carriers is emerging as more turboprop operators, backed by state governments and investment from home and abroad, start up in a potentially lucrative market. The smaller carriers will fill the gap below the country's jet operators, which, with profitability still eluding them, ...
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Financial results
Air Canada cut its operating loss from C$12m to C$7m. Passengers and yields both rose 6%. There were C$40m of non-operating gains in 1994. Operating income trebled to US$162.2m, moving ANA into the black. Boosted by the Kobe earthquake and the strong yen, traffic rose 6.1%. ...
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Tomorrow's flight plan
They call it the autonomous aeroplane. An aircraft which can be navigated around the world independently of any ground navigation aid and which, rather less easily, can return to earth anywhere in any weather. Technically the concept is a practicable one. Whether it will be coming to an airport near ...
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The sum of future parts
Global Airways flight 632 is midway between Manchester and Orlando. A line maintenance technician in Orlando, monitoring the aircraft's systems via satellite, is alerted to a malfunctioning aft fuel pump. The technician, who has never handled this problem before, consults a virtual workplace to review the system design and get ...
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Be innovative to succeed
The article on the Southwests of Europe (Airline Business, June) brought this idea of the carbon copy strategy into my mind again. I find it amazing how companies always want to duplicate something which has been successful elsewhere, with the idea that they also will get a competitive advantage out ...
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Same old story
Bilaterals The reasons underlying the long-running bilateral dispute between the US and Japan are little changed. But David Knibb explains that economic and political imperatives could well signal the end to what has become an uncomfortable impasse.The scene is a familiar one: a US airline proposes a route beyond Japan, ...
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Pemco pushes heavier 727-200
PEMCO WORLD AIR Services Group has received US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certification (STC) for weight increases for the Boeing 727-200. The STC raises the maximum zero fuel weight to almost 70,370kg from 63,320kg, and maximum landing weight is increased to almost 74,500kg from 72,575. The first ...
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Nagoya A300 families to sue CAL and Airbus
RELATIVES OF VICTIMS killed in the 1994 China Airlines (CAL) Airbus Industrie A300-600R crash, in Nagoya, Japan, have decided to sue the aircraft manufacturer and Taiwanese carrier, for substantial damages. Families of 124 of the crash victims are jointly seeking around '100 million ($1.16 million) each in compensation ...
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A320 Overhaul
Lufthansa Technik (LTAG) began overhauling Airbus A320 landing gears at its Hamburg, Germany site in July. Meanwhile, LTAG has acquired a complete Boeing 747-200 landing gear, in addition to the 747-400 gear already held in the company's inventory of rotable spares. Source: Flight International
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FAA calls for check on THY JT8Ds overhauls
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration will issue an airworthiness directive (AD) calling for detailed inspection of Pratt & Whitney JT8D turbofan engines overhauled by Turk Hava Yollari (THY), an FAA-certificated aircraft and engine-maintenance shop in Turkey. The AD results from an investigation of the 8 June uncontained failure ...
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Japan/USA agree on air cargo deal
THE JAPANESE AND US Governments have reached a compromise agreement on air-cargo rights, clearing the way for FedEx to start its Subic Bay-based intra-Asian freight network. Under the agreement reached in Los Angeles, FedEx has been granted "beyond rights" to seven destinations in Asia. Nippon Cargo ...
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High-speed trains pose no threat to aircraft services
Sir - A recent report to the International Civil Aviation Organisation-CAEP, High-speed trains - competition and competitive power, written by Jan Veldhuis (Netherlands Civil Aviation Authority), Alf Schmitt (Germany) and myself, provides minimal support for the apprehensions put forward by "name withheld" and Haluk Taysi of Airbus (Flight International, Letters, ...
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Turbulence injures US airline passengers
AT LEAST 26 passengers and crew were injured when an American Airlines Airbus A300-600R hit clear-air turbulence (CAT) en route from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 19 July. On 25 June, a Continental Airlines A300 en route to San Juan hit CAT, which injured 20 passengers and crew. ...
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Haitian airlines are banned from USA
HAITIAN AIRLINES have been banned from US skies following a US Federal Aviation Administration judgement that the country's national aviation authority safety-oversight standards are "unacceptable". The Philippines has effectively been given a warning about the same issue. FAA foreign-safety decisions are given ratings, based on each country's effectiveness ...