All Ops & safety articles – Page 578
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ABX parents moves forward with MRO unit
Air Transport Services Group (ASTG) has formalized plans for a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) venture while it waits for access to at least two hangars...
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Flight 1549 crew lambastes relations between airline management and labour
Crew members of the US Airways Airbus A320 that ditched into the Hudson River in New York on 15 January are calling for an overhaul of rules governing US...
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OnAir expects installed fleet to reach 100 this year
In-flight mobile communications specialist OnAir believes up to 100 aircraft could be flying with its phone service by year-end, as Ryanair starts building...
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Chinese traffic ambitions given jolt from tough 2008
The extent of the downturn that faced China's airlines in 2008 has become clear, with the first single-digit passenger traffic growth figures being reported...
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IATA: poor safety management in one-third of accidents
Deficient safety management contributed to one in three accidents in 2008, a year in which the rate of Western-built hull losses worsened - although the...
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Norway's CAA defends itself after scathing Coast ATR probe
Norway's civil aviation authority claims to have completely overhauled its organisation in the three years since a serious icing upset involving a Coast Air ATR 42-300...
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Delta slashes prices at Cincinnati
A new fare structure from Delta Air Lines for its Cincinnati passengers may determine the future of the hub...
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Falling fuel cost is far from a panacea for US carriers
Optimism is fading for US airlines as their fourth-quarter results plummetted, and the first-quarter does not look bright
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Lion Air MD-90 in Batam landing incident
A Lion Air Boeing MD-90 late yesterday landed at Batam airport without its front landing gear extended, resulting in damage to the undercarriage and the...
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US Airways reverses beverage charges
US Airways has reversed its decision to charge domestic coach passengers for beverages, saying it is at a competitive disadvantage because no other large...
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ICAO emissions group tackles timelines, measurements
Developing nations and countries below a certain greenhouse gas emissions threshold should be held to a different standard than developed nations when addressing...
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Opinion
Comment: emissions cash cow?
Brussels' push towards a global trading scheme could earn fortunes for some European countries, but it's likely that the market will not produce the results originally envisaged
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Forecasting the long-term demand for airliners
The world's civil airframers provide regular long-term forecasts on airliner demand, which give their view about the general size of the market in terms of numbers of units.
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Finding the right formula
All airlines flying into Europe will soon need to show how they intend to disclose their carbon emissions and transport data, the first time aerospace's environmental impact has ever been so publicly held to account
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Calculating the most efficient air traffic routes
Foresight and broad planning could reduce commercial aviation fuel consumption by up to 6% annually. That is more than 3.8 billion litres (1 billion USgal)...
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New York Kennedy airport to close longest runway for repaving
A runway that handles more than half of all departures at New York John F. Kennedy International airport will close for construction during four months next...
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Injuries reported as Northwest 747 hits turbulence near Tokyo
Injuries reported as Northwest 747 hits turbulence near Tokyo