All Ops & safety articles – Page 514
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Airbus identifies 5 November for A330-200F maiden sortie
Airbus plans to fly its A330-200F for the first time on 5 November. The European airframer says that the new freighter will take its first flight "weather...
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Training to fly a desk
This is the story of five graduates from the airline pilot training system who face a situation familiar to many flightcrew today: plenty of qualifications and no job
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New Zealand to impose safety levy on Australian carriers
New Zealand will begin charging Australian-licensed carriers operating on domestic routes a passenger safety levy from 4 December.
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Opinion
Comment: SESAR off the radar?
Air traffic management is usually low on the political horizon unless there is a crisis, but with traffic down, the Single European Sky is in danger of disappearing behind the clouds
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Continental eyes lie-flat seats on Boeing 767-200s
Continental Airlines is evaluating installing lie-flat seats on its Boeing 767-200ERs as the new seat made its debut today on a 777 flight from the carrier's...
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Southwest pilots ratify new contract
Pilots at Southwest Airlines have voted in favour of a tentative five-year contract after rejecting a previous tenative pactin June of this year.
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TAM A320 crash: Reason for mis-set throttle still unclear
Brazilian investigators have been unable to determine why the crew of the TAM Airbus A320 which fatally overran at Sao Paulo Congonhas, two years ago, landed...
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Opinion
Comment: Awakening from a connectivity coma
Boeing has far more important things to worry about than deciding what in-flight connectivity it will choose for the 787. Shouldn't it focus on getting the...
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Plans for the future
As new updates come on stream, ATR and Bombardier are now evaluating their next moves in theturboprop sector Both of the major turboprop manufacturers...
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Crew skills under the spotlight in London
Airline pilot performance in non-standard situations is being affected by the way in which line flying has changed over the past 20 years, says Airbus's...
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Air India tries to avoid another pilots' strike
Indian flag carrier Air India is trying to avert another strike by its pilots by securing funding from financial institutions to pay salaries and incentives.
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Qantas joins sustainable fuel development effort
Australia's Qantas Airways has joined the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group, an industry effort to develop commercially successful sustainable jet fuel.
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Virgin Blue's domestic traffic remains soft in September
Australian carrier Virgin Blue's traffic continued to rise in September due to the start up of its long-haul operations, but the group's key domestic market...
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Qantas traffic up 2.7% in September
Passenger traffic at Australia's Qantas Airways and its subsidiaries increased in September due to domestic demand, but the carrier warns that yields remain...
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A330F test regime to include main-deck flooding
Airbus is planning to flood the cargo compartment of its A330-200 freighter as part of the testing regime, to check that it can handle water run-off during...
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FAA proposes massive Piper airworthiness directive
The US Federal Aviation Administration is proposing that owners of nearly 42,000 piston-powered Piper-built aircraft have their right and left control columns inspected and possibly repaired due to faulty factory assembly work
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FAA mulls GPS interference detector, corrector
The US FAA is studying the possibility of deploying a nationwide network of GPS interference detectors that would be placed on cellular communications towers...