All Systems & interiors articles – Page 543
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Airline safety record reverses
The recent spate of fatal accidents worldwide, culminating in the loss of a TANS Peru Boeing 737-200 yesterday, ensures that 2005’s airline safety record will mark an unwelcome reversal of the downward trend in fatalities over the last three years.
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Quietly does it
The quest to silence airliners with sophisticated new noise monitoring and attenuating technology is showing results during tests
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Green light
Development of hydrogen-powered aircraft remains stuck in low gear. What is stalling this apparently highly efficient and environmentally sound technology?
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BA to use loophole to avoid passenger compensation
UK flag carrier pins faith in European rules covering ‘extraordinary circumstances’
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Air France undeterred by SkyTeam anti-trust setback
Air France remains confident that it will gain US anti-trust immunity for itself and five other members of the SkyTeam alliance, despite damning feedback from its application from the US Department of Justice.
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MD-82 suffered double flame-out
Flightcrew of West Caribbean Airways twinjet reported that the aircraft was ‘uncontrollable’ before fatal crash
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Southwest’s Seattle showdown
Playing tough on airport costs, Southwest Airlines says it will leave Seattle/Tacoma airport and build its own terminal at the little-used Boeing Field across the city.
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Market outlook:Time to take stock?
Although the performances of many carriers have improved so far this year, there is still a need for a cautious outlook, writes Chris Tarry of CTAIRA, with analyses from Fabrice Tacoun
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Leisure travel: New horizons
Leisure carriers are shifting their attentions to medium- and long- haul destinations as they face a stiff challenge from budget airlines and respond to changing consumer behaviour
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Fare rises limit fuel pain
With the price of crude oil edging towards $70 a barrel, compared with $55 in mid-March, airlines are reliant on fare hikes or surcharges to compensate for the shortfall.
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European carriers report mixed results
Once again high fuel prices tempered optimism among European carriers despite robust early summer results.
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Cargo counts
The techniques that airports need to employ to attract cargo service are very different to those used to woo passenger carriers
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France’s BEA begins Helios CVR examination
France’s air accident investigation body, the BEA, is assessing information on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 which crashed in Greece on 14 August.