All Ops & safety articles – Page 497
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News
Qantas CEO defends employees held in Vietnamese probe
Two Jetstar Pacific executives who were stopped from leaving Vietnam due to an investigation into the airline's fuel hedging losses were not involved in...
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Qatar enlists Airbus in pursuit of alternative fuels
Qatar Airways has joined forces with Airbus to launch a new environmental initiative aimed at producing biomass-to-liquid (BTL) jet fuel.
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United confirms landing gear incident at Newark
United Airlines flight 634 landed safely at Newark Liberty International airport on 10 January after experiencing difficulty with one of three main landing...
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Opinion
Comment: Do you feel in danger?
Airline safety and security have advanced dramatically but are not getting any better, and if improvement is to come then mindsets - not just procedures and technology - need to change
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Airbus' 2009 orders on course to exceed Boeing's
Airbus appears virtually certain to exceed Boeing's declared year-end net order total of 142 aircraft when it discloses its 2009 figures next week.
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South African CAA starts clearing Airlink Jetstreams to fly
South African inspectors have cleared Airlink to resume services with a single aircraft from its British Aerospace Jetstream 41 fleet, two weeks after the...
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US regulators uphold Virgin America’s citizenship
Regulators at the US Department of Transportation (DOT) have ruled that Virgin America's US citizenship will remain intact now that the carrier has agreed...
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Interview
Flight Interview: Simon Luxmoore, Royal Aeronautical Society
Simon Luxmoore likens his own early opinion of the organisation he now runs to the challenges it faces in recruiting the brightest talent in aerospace.
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Jetstar Pacific execs held in Vietnam following fuel hedging losses
Vietnamese authorities have detained the former CEO of Jetstar Pacific and stopped the airline's chief operating officer and chief financial officer from...
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Mexican airports report steep drop in traffic for 2009
Mexican airport groups ASA and GAP both saw passenger numbers drop by 13% in 2009 as the swine flu and economic downturn impacted demand.
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Airbus submits patent for airspeed error monitoring
Airbus has submitted a US patent application for an independent means of monitoring an aircraft's pressure-based airspeed measurement for errors. While...
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AAPA warns against use of full body scanners
The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) has warned against regulators over reacting in the wake of the recent terrorist attempt on a Delta Air Lines...
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Indonesia's Wings Air receives its first ATRs
Wings Air, a unit of Indonesia's Lion Air, has received the first of three ATR 72-500s on order and is using the turboprops to replace Boeing MD-80s on domestic...
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Talk of 150-seat CSeries in the fray following analyst report
Bombardier is calling a report it is working on a 150-seat version of the 110/130-seat CSeries airliner "speculative", but some analysts believe the airframer...
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Pilots in AA Kingston overrun were advised to use a different approach
Controllers at Norman Manley International airport in Kingston, Jamaica offered the crew of an American Airlines Boeing 737-800 that overran a runway on...
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Delta chief executive touts MD-80 cost advantage
Delta chief executive Richard Anderson has reiterated his bullish view that the carrier's large fleet of ageing Boeing MD-80s retain a cost advantage over...
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Asian passenger traffic improves in November
Passenger traffic among major Asian carriers grew in November 2009, rising 3.5% year-on-year and providing further evidence of a recovery in air traffic...
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Jetstar-AirAsia alliance to influence narrowbody design
The newly-formed Jetstar-AirAsia alliance hopes to influence the future design of narrowbody aircraft to better fit the needs of low-cost operations in Asia.
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AirAsia and Jetstar ink wide-ranging cooperation agreement
Low-cost carriers Jetstar and AirAsia have formed a new alliance that will allow them to study the joint purchase of new aircraft, cooperate in ground and...
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Taiwan's EVA Air plans Taipei-Toronto service
Taiwan's EVA Air plans to begin direct thrice-weekly Taipei-Toronto services from March.