All Ops & safety articles – Page 1443
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Southwest Airlines makes plans for Florida expansion
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES plans to expand into Florida early in 1996. Share prices of airlines already serving the leisure-dominated Florida market fell sharply with the news of Southwest's first expansion eastward since it established a presence at Baltimore/Washington Airport in September 1993. Dallas, Texas-based Southwest will begin services to ...
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ATA warning tempers industry optimism
THE US AIR TRANSPORT Association (ATA) is urging caution as airlines begin reporting improved second-quarter earnings. The ATA warns that the anticipated industry-wide $700 million quarterly profit is "a drop in the bucket" compared with the $13 billion in losses since 1990 and the $75 billion in capital ...
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Central European ATC centre closer
Julian Moxon/PARIS AGREEMENT HAS BEEN reached, on the first stages for a Maastricht style central European joint upper airspace air traffic control (ATC) centre, which if implemented, would significantly reduce congestion over the area. Wrangling continues over the location of the headquarters for the Central ...
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ATC News
An advertisement published in recent editions of Flight International included a misleading reference to the status of a newsletter entitled ATC News. We have been assured that ATC News continues to thrive and has a growing international reputation. We regret any misunderstanding and apologise for any suggestion to the contrary. ...
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Concerns at UK CAA despite profits
THE UK CIVIL AVIATION Authority has voiced serious worries about finance for investment in air-traffic-control (ATC) development, despite declaring a trading surplus and showing convincing evidence of increased operational efficiency in its latest annual report. Success in reducing ATC departure delays - from an average of 20min ...
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Licence to change
European pilot-training organisations at all levels will have to cope with a new set of standards. David Learmount/LONDON Most European pilots know that flight-crew licence requirements are changing to a European standard, but few could say when or describe the differences. Pilot-training organisations, on the other hand, ...
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Customers tune in to weather system
AAI's SYSTEMS management subsidiary (AAI/SMI) has announced new customers for its Next Generation Weather Observing System (NEXWOS), the commercial version of the ASOS automated weather-reporting system in production for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Latvia's air-navigation service has ordered an ASOS II, the export version of ...
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European maintenance regulations
APPROVAL OF MAINTENANCE ORGANISATIONS JAR 145 specifies maintenance equipment and procedures required for all commercial air-transport aircraft. The regulation has been European Union law since July 1991, and was brought into effect in January 1994. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATING STAFF JAR 65 defines the ...
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The next windshear?
ALMOST EVERY airline flight these days, at least over the USA, seems to entail an encounter with turbulence. This is usually akin to driving over cobblestones or, sometimes, potholes, but occasionally it is like driving off a cliff. On 19 July, an American Airlines Airbus A300 hit clear-air ...
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UK stand on non-EU operators
Sir - I read with interest the article "UK charters challenge leases" (Flight International, 12-18 July, P8). I agree strongly with the opinion shared by the main UK charter airlines on the operations of non-European Union (EU)-based aircraft in the European Community. It is a relief that UK ...
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Russian regrets?
The initial enthusiasm for East-West joint projects appears to be waning. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW AT THE END OF THE 1980s, political and economical changes in the Soviet Union opened the way for a series of co-operative agreements between Western and Soviet aerospace companies. Now, five years ...
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It is vital to invest in young pilots
Sir - I read with dismay in Flight International that most jobs advertised call for commanders, chief pilots, and captains who are in their fifties, while the UK Civil Aviation Administration has extended the age limit of these categories. It seems a strange irony that many of the ...
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R-R solves RB.211-524H combustor problem
David Learmount/LONDON ROLLS-ROYCE HAS introduced modifications and additional inspection procedures to the RB.211-524H turbofan following an in-flight incident in which a core fairing just aft of the combustion chamber burned through. A UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) report of an incident involving a British Airways ...
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Door falls from American Eagle ATR 72
INVESTIGATORS ARE examining a cabin door which fell from an American Eagle ATR 72 shortly after take-off from Chicago O'Hare International airport on 10 July. A flight attendant sitting in the jump seat beside the door was saved by a passenger who grabbed her arm. Other passengers then ...
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747X studies go on as VLCT plans are frozen
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS CONTINUING studies of 747 stretch designs, despite the suspension of joint studies with the Airbus partners of a very large commercial transport (VLCT) on the basis of insufficient market potential. The company is concentrating on two design options - the largest able to ...
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Europe to take action on unsafe nations
David Learmount/LONDON EUROPE IS PREPARING to impose sanctions on nations which fail to exercise effective air-transport safety supervision. The UK Department of Transport (DTp) has confirmed that the 31-nation European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) is looking at the possibility of operational sanctions against countries. The action ...
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Harrods Air Service Now!...
Harrods Air Service Now! At Harrods Passenger Service Bureau on the 2nd floor, adjoining the Library Lounge, you can now book for journeys by air with exactly the same ease as you book for travel by sea or land. Air travel is now a proved, safe and established thing, ...
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Airlines finalise Stuttgart plans
EUROPE'S AIRLINES are finalising their plans for maintaining services to Stuttgart Airport, Germany, ahead of the partial closure of the airport at the end of July. British Aerospace 146s and Avro International Aerospace Avroliners will be the only jet-powered passenger aircraft able to be operated to and from ...
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FAA and airlines launch next-generation communications
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has joined with industry to develop the Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) offering rapid and reliable information exchange, including air-traffic-control instructions and engine-performance data, among pilots, controllers and airline operations worldwide. The deal was struck between the FAA and ...
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Euraviation nears base-station deals
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA EURAVIATION IS close to signing agreements with the first four base stations which will operate the single-turboprop ST-50 under its Time Sharing Consortium (TSC) programme. The Geneva, Switzerland-based company plans to have ten TSC stations in place by the time ST-50 deliveries begin in July 1996. ...