Air France has secured a temporary agreement from two of its pilots unions, SNPL and SPAC, for a 30 per cent productivity increase with no extra pay. Pilots will fly 623 hours in 1996 compared with 542 in 1993. The accord should be made permanent in October, and equates to a monthly saving of $800 per pilot.
Source: Airline Business
The January incident at Ellsworth AFB resulted in the destruction of the $450 million bomber and a rare quadruple ejection of the crew, who were attempting to execute an instrument landing during poor weather.
Investigators probing the fatal Bombardier CRJ200 crash at Kathmandu will inevitably focus on the extraordinary attitude the aircraft developed as it lifted off from runway 02. Nepal’s civil aviation regulator states that the captain survived the 24 July accident but the first officer, and the 17 other occupants, did not. ...
A Bombardier CRJ200 operated by Nepalese carrier Saurya Airlines has crashed during take-off from Kathmandu airport, with fatalities among those on board.
