Flight International articles from October 2005

Flight International archives from October 2005

Arlanda attracts more Asia-US stopovers.(Stockholm Arlanda airport)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Stockholm Arlanda airport is set to add up to a dozen more long- haul routes as Asian airlines take advantage of more direct routeings to North American destinations, as well as Sweden's liberal fifth-freedom regime. Malaysia Airlines (MAS)...

Demand for 757s grows.
October 4, 2005... The market for Boeing 757 passenger to freighter (PTF) conversions is growing rapidly, with two more offerings set to enter the fray over the next year as test flying of a third gets under way. Boeing expects to relaunch its 757-200SF programme...

Boeing poised to decide on 767-300BCF launch.(Passenger-to-freighter conversion programme)
October 4, 2005... Passenger-to-freighter conversion programme aimed at 2007 entry into service Boeing is confident it will launch its passenger-to-freighter conversion programme for 767-300-series aircraft before the end of the year, which would enable...

More sites chosen to host 787 simulators.(Alteon Training)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Boeing subsidiary Alteon Training is to locate 787 simulators at its Seattle and London Gatwick centres, and a site to be determined in China, as it rolls out its unique points-based system for customer training on the new widebody, writes...

BAE almost ready to relaunch 146 conversions.(BAE SYSTEMS PLC.)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... BAE Systems expects to finalise plans by the end of this year to relaunch the cargo conversion programme for the BAe 146 as it also prepares a freighter modification effort for the J41 turboprop. "A bid process is under way with various...

Specialist doubles conversion rate.(Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH)(Cargo Facts 2005 conference)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Airbus A300/A310 freighter conversion specialist EADS-EFW is expanding its facilities in Dresden to enable it to double modification output to over 20 a year. "We have firm bookings until 2009," said EADS-EFW director sales Wolfgang Schmid at...

FedEx outlines its A380F fleet expansion strategy.
October 4, 2005... FedEx Express expects to bolster its A380 fleet with a cargo version of the planned A380-900 stretch within 10 years, and converted passenger versions of the baseline model by 2020. Speaking at last month's Cargo Facts 2005 conference in...

Time is called on Taiwan's ICAS.(Inter-Continental Aircraft Services)(Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Company Ltd. made a deal with Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd.)(for cargo conversions)
October 4, 2005... Consortium looks for partner to take over 737-300/400 cargo conversion programme as GAMECO sets up new line Taiwanese consortium Inter-Continental Aircraft Services (ICAS), which offers cargo conversions for the Boeing 737 Classic, is to close...

Headline here.(Jazeera Airways launching its services)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Jazeera poised Jazeera Airways, Kuwait's first privately owned airline, is preparing to launch operations on 16 November with Airbus A320s. The low-fare airline will initially serve Amman, Bahrain, Beirut, Damascus and Dubai.

SkyWest mulls turboprop revival.(Skywest Airlines Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... US regional SkyWest Airlines is re-examining turboprops for its future fleet needs as the cost of operating small regional jets increases due to the dramatic rise in fuel price. The carrier, which operates feeder services for Delta Air Lines...

New US Airways ready to take on Southwest.(US Airways Inc. merged with America West Airlines Inc. and formed new airlines)
October 4, 2005... US Airways ended its second bankruptcy reorganisation by merging with profitable America West Airlines to form a new carrier that proclaims itself as the nation's largest full-service, low-fares airline. Using the name US Airways, the new...

Virgin starts Nigeria expansion.(Virgin Nigeria Airways uses Boeing 737-300 )(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Virgin Nigeria is to take delivery of its first Boeing 737-300 later this year as the Nigerian start-up begins to increase its fleet, writes Graham Dunn in Copenhagen. The carrier, a joint venture between Virgin Atlantic and Nigerian investors,...

Shaanxi puts Y-8F600 development on hold.(Shaanxi Aircraft Company)
October 4, 2005... China's Shaanxi Aircraft has designed a new stretched version of its Y-8 freighter, but has postponed development by one year of the Westernised Y-8F600. Shaanxi marketing department chief project manager Han Hui says flight testing of the 45t...

Lobbyists step up emissions blitz.(European Union emissions trading scheme)
October 4, 2005... Environmental groups fear the long-awaited decision to include airlines in the European Union emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS) could be scuppered by a heavy industry lobby worried about rising carbon costs. The European Commission formally...

Deliveries to slip after machinists' walkout.(mechanics strike at Boeing Co. )
October 4, 2005... Overall, assuming that the last deliveries were made on or around 1 September, Boeing had delivered around 216 aircraft in 2005. The bulk of these were 737s, still in the process of going through a production rate ramp-up with 159 delivered,...

Boeing counts cost of strike action.
October 4, 2005... The damaging month-long machinists strike that paralysed Boeing is over, but at what cost? Officially, the company says it will not know for some time -- detailed analysis of the impact and the details of how to orchestrate its recovery only...

Gamesa shares sold cheaply.(Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica S.A.)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Shares in Spanish aeronautics and energy company Gamesa fell last week after shareholder Nefinsa placed its entire stake in the business at the low end of a forecast price range. Priced at [euro]13 ($15.60) per share for qualified investors,...

Time is running out in transatlantic trade row.(European Union and US government)(financing Airbus and Boeing)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... European trade commissioner Peter Mandelson says that Europe is prepared to cut Airbus A350 governmental launch aid if a funding settlement is reached with the USA, as time runs out to reach a transatlantic agreement. The European Union and US...

Radar windfall beckons Europeans.(European airborne radar market)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Radar manufacturers will have to focus on developing new technologies that offer more capabilities and better value to their customers to take advantage of the potential $5.44 billion European airborne radar market between 2005 and 2014, says a...

Eclipse rushes to recover lost time.(Eclipse Aviation Corp. Eclipse 500 )
October 4, 2005... The Eclipse 500 very light jet (VLJ) flight-test programme is gathering momentum and may even be close to the original target of achieving 750h by the end of October, despite the recent wheels-up landing of one of the "beta" test aircraft....

Danes move in on Swiss market.(Air Alsie opens a management office in geneva)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Air Alsie, Scandinavia's largest business jet operator, has opened a management office in Geneva, Switzerland in a bid to promote Denmark's friendly taxation environment for private aircraft. The company, based in Sonderborg in Denmark, has a...

Cessna strives to set up service centre in China.(Cessna Aircraft Co.)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Cessna is looking at establishing a service centre in China and outsourcing aircraft components to Chinese manufacturers. Textron China president Ee Soon Kiong says Cessna already uses Shenyang Aircraft to supply a small volume of tooling and...

Dassault steps up drive to establish Falcon family in Far East business jet market.(Dassault Aviation S.A.)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Dassault Aviation aims to secure Chinese registration for its entire family of Falcon business jets and sell its first aircraft in China by year-end. Director of sales for Asia Carlos Brana says the Civil Aviation Administration of China...

Kingfisher chairman's new A319CJ will get VIP treatment in Texas.(Vijay Mallya)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... India's UB Group has acquired an Airbus A319 Corporate Jetliner to be operated by its Kingfisher Airlines subsidiary for its chairman, Vijay Mallya. A Kingfisher source says the airline will receive an A319CJ in January and will send it to...

Mitsubishi Mu-2 goes under FAA's microscope.(Federal Aviation Administration)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... The US Federal Aviation Administration is carrying out a safety review of the Mitsubishi Mu-2 twin turboprop on the grounds that there has been an increase in the number of accidents involving the type in the last two years. Since the...

US Army signs deal for Apaches.(with Boeing Co.)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Boeing is to build 13 essentially new AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters for the US Army under a more than $190 million deal which will bridge the gap until it secures a deal to remanufacture a further 96 Block II aircraft, writes Graham...

UK MoD to increase use of leased civil helicopters.(Ministry of Defence)
October 4, 2005... The UK Ministry of Defence plans to increase its use of leased civil-type helicopters, although questions remain about their impact on deployability, mission effectiveness and air crew retention. The UK armed forces currently use 65...

Raytheon conducts low-cost DIRCM test.(directional infrared countermeasures system)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Raytheon has conducted initial tests of its Scorpion low-cost directional infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) system, which uses the in-production seeker gimbal and processor from the AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile. Bench tests in August...

Israel's Flying Dragons roar into operation.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... The Israeli air force's new Flying Dragon aggressor squadron has conducted its first flights against the service's Boeing F-15I and Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters. Equipped with F-16A/Bs, the new unit forms part of a Red Flag-style combat...

Army plays it safe on heavylift.
October 4, 2005... Super-heavylift aircraft designs picked by a US military panel to compete for what could be one of the most ambitious rotorcraft projects in history have stirred strong debate about the technical boldness of the five candidates. On one hand,...

US military moves to cut helicopter accident rates.
October 4, 2005... The US military is to invest jointly in civil-derived helicopter safety management systems in a bid to cut non-combat accidents. Brig Gen Joseph Smith, director of army safety and commanding general of the US army combat readiness centre, says...

Australia backs Orions for extended tour of duty.(Department of Defence contracts with Lockheed Martin Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Australia's Department of Defence is studying options to extend operations of its air force Lockheed Martin AP-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft by 10 years, keeping the type in service until 2025. The new target has been established through a...

Saudi Arabia eyes $800m C-130 upgrade.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... US Congress has been notified of the potential $800 million sale to Saudi Arabia of avionics updates for 54 Lockheed Martin C-130E/H transports -- but who will supply the upgrade kits is unspecified. Saudi Arabia plans to purchase the C-130...

EADS prepares for first test flight of SOSTAR-X.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... EADS is preparing to fly next month the Fokker 100 testbed that will be equipped with Europe's stand-off surveillance and target acquisition radar (SOSTAR-X) demonstrator. The trials will lay the foundations for European industrial...

Taiwan to sign aircraft support deal.(from taipei government)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Three Taiwanese companies are poised to win a NT$48 billion ($1.4 billion) contract to take over the maintenance of four military aircraft types as part of a huge privatisation initiative by the Taipei government. Industry sources say the...

Thailand to launch F-16 work.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Thailand plans to begin upgrading its Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighters from next January, but has failed to approve the funds needed to acquire a new batch of F-16C/Ds. Government-owned Thai Aviation Industries (TAI) says it will begin...

boeing.(contracts with french suppliers)
October 4, 2005... Boeing's 787 Dreamliner has a significantly higher proportion of French involvement than any of the manufacturer's previous aircraft programmes. There are several reasons for this, Boeing says. Although France was not a specific target when it...

beyond rafale.(Dassault Rafale contracts with armed forces)
October 4, 2005... Singapore's recent rejection of the Dassault Rafale has dented the European manufacturer's ambitions of rapidly advancing the technological capabilities of France's "omnirole" fighter, despite years of intense marketing in the Asian state. The...

going global.(Small and medium sized companies)
October 4, 2005... Airbus's spectacular growth has seen many fortunes made in the small and medium enterprise (SME) communities of France's aerospace regions in the south-west and Atlantic coast. For decades, Gallic suppliers could rely on the largesse of their...

keeping faith.(Avions de Transport Regional)
October 4, 2005... ATR may be a multinational company -- it is a 50/50 joint venture between EADS and Italy's Finmeccannica -- but it is very much a French success story. With its headquarters and final assembly line in Toulouse, at least two-thirds of its 520...

AgustaWestland steps up Chinese campaign.(opens a chinese joint venture )(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... AgustaWestland has opened a Chinese joint venture company to locally sell and assemble the A109 and is trying to wrestle from Eurocopter a contract to co-develop with China Aviation Industries II (AVIC II) a new 6t twin-turbine helicopter. AVIC...

Export prospects spur PZL-Swidnik to consider SW-4 stretch.(demand for SW-4 single-engine helicopter )(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Strong export sales for the SW-4 single-engine helicopter could prompt Polish manufacturer PZL-Swidnik to develop a stretched, twin-engined version. The company said at last week's Helitech show in Duxford in the UK that it is in talks with...

Thales wins Sikorsky deal to supply S-76D cockpit.(Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. )(Thales S.A.)
October 4, 2005... Sikorsky has selected Thales to supply the new cockpit for the upgraded S-76D helicopter planned for delivery at the end of 2008. This marks the first integrated flightdeck award from a US manufacturer for Thales, which supplies cockpit...

FSI eyes A300 freighter launch.(Flight Structures is in talks with China Southern Airlines Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... US engineering company Flight Structures (FSI) is in detailed discussions with China Southern Airlines about launching its proposed passenger-to-freighter (PTF) conversion programme for the Airbus A300-600. Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance...

Airbus stalls on Alliance A380 first flight target.(Engine Alliance GP7200)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... The first shipset of Engine Alliance GP7200 engines has been delivered to Toulouse, but Airbus has yet to tell the engine maker when it plans to use them to power the A380. The first four flight-test engines were delivered to France aboard a...

States fail to fix? ATM safety flaws.(air traffic management safety)(Eurocontrol formulated Eurocontrol Safety Regulatory Requirements )
October 4, 2005... Eurocontrol is warning that the growth of European air traffic to record levels this summer has not been accompanied by sufficient action by some member states to improve air traffic management (ATM) safety. Some countries are experiencing a...

Singapore chooses GE.(General Electric F100-129)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Singapore has selected the General Electric F100-129 over Pratt & Whitney's F100-229 as the preferred engine for its new fleet of Boeing F-15Ts. GE is in contract negotiations with Singapore and P&W has been informed that it will only be called...

Galileo faces suspension as workshare talks stall.(European Galileo navigational satellite)(partners disagree for industrial workshare)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Work on the European Galileo navigational satellite programme could be suspended if four of the national partners continue to block agreement over industrial workshare linked to cost increases, says the European Space Agency. Finland, Germany,...

Whole community must act.(says Somen Chowdhury of Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... The International Helicopter Safety Symposium (IHSS) is the world's first specialist conference on rotary-wing aircraft safety. Originally the brainchild of Bell Helicopter Textron research manager Somen Chowdhury, it was at first going to...

Plea to curb rate of helicopter crashes.(International Helicopter Safety Symposium)(American Helicopter Society)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Commercial helicopter operators, manufacturers and industry associations must agree a strategy to address the unacceptably high rotary-wing aircraft accident rate, which is at least 10 times worse than that achieved by the world's airlines,...

US strives to resurrect Iraq's broken air force.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Standing up a rebuilt Iraqi air force with the capability to fight insurgents and support ground forces in action has emerged as a new focus for US Air Force planners, says a US operational commander. "Within the last couple of months, my...

Classic misuse of a name?(Letter to the Editor)
October 4, 2005... Your article "Weight lifters" (Flight International, 20-26 September) made me wonder why every Boeing is either "special" or "classic". What is so "special" about a used airliner being turned into a freighter? It's just a freighter. And...

Safety issues always matter.(Irish Airline Pilots' Association)(whistleblower legislation)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Lillian Cassin's admission (Flight International, 13-19 September) that safety issues with a putative industrial component are not an area for a safety regulator will surprise many pilots. Most Irish licence holders think issues of aviation...

Coping with snow on 737s.(Letter to the Editor)
October 4, 2005... I had the odd problem with ice on turboprops such as HS748s and Vickers Viscounts, but never on a Boeing 737 (Flight International, 27 September--3 October). However, twice on a 737-200 I noticed that, with asymmetric snow on the tailplane as a...

Freighters are a target too.(Letter to the Editor)
October 4, 2005... Your report (Flight International, 20-26 September) about the conversion of Boeing 747-400s to freighters had me wondering if I was reading correctly. But there it is, among the modifications was "removal of the flightdeck door". Are...

safetyTraining on the bounce.(Letter to the Editor)
October 4, 2005... Your report on bounced landings and the ATR 72 incident (Flight International, 13-19 September) amid the US National Transportation Safety Board's call for airlines to include bounced landing recovery training, exposes a latent flaw in training...

Overrun was not unique.(Letter to the Editor)
October 4, 2005... The whys and hows of landing overruns (Flight International, 13-19 September) are well known from investigations of many accidents. Although the investigation into the Toronto incident has not been completed, some of the presented facts of this...

India plans weather satellite.(Insat-3D)(Bhaba Atomic Research Centre and Electronics Corporation of India developing antenna)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Insat-3D, India's dedicated weather satellite with six-channel high-resolution imager and 19-channel atmospheric sounder, is planned for launch in 2007-8. The satellite, claimed to be similar in capability to the US GOES spacecraft, will be the...

ESA to back lunar base.(European Space Agency )(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... The European Space Agency expects to co-operate with NASA on a lunar base, but has been told that the launchers and spacecraft to get there will be wholly US vehicles. ESA was briefed on the US agency's Exploration Systems Architecture Study...

Space Launch to search for system sponsors.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Propulsion tests prove concept, but further development depends on backers Space Launch is seeking backers for its low-cost, small-payload launch system after completing funded testing of the air-breathing propulsion concept on which the design...

French school to go it alone.(Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (National school of the Civil aviation))(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... French national civil aviation school ENAC plans to demonstrate autonomous formation flight with two micro air vehicles in November. Two 1.4m (4.6ft)-wingspan, electrically powered Twin Star model aircraft are being fitted with GPS receivers...

Maryland experiments with formation-flying 'node' MAV network.(University of Maryland studying Multiple rotorcraft micro air vehicles )(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... Multiple rotorcraft micro air vehicles (MAV) able to operate as a reconfigurable communications network are being studied by the University of Maryland for the US Army. The miniature helicopters would fly en masse through a building, each...

DARPA sets nano-UAV challenge.(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)(unmanned air vehicles)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is to develop and demonstrate unmanned air vehicles small enough to operate inside caves and tunnels. Bidders were briefed at the Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) programme launch last week. DARPA...

UK flapless vehicle will fly in November.(developed by University of Manchester)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... A scale model of a stealthy unmanned aircraft completely lacking conventional control surfaces is expected to make its maiden flight in the UK by the end of November. Resembling Boeing's X-45 unmanned combat air vehicle, the University of...

A place in space.(space industry in France)(European Aeronautic Defence and Space)(European Space Agency)
October 4, 2005... The future of France's space industry, largest among the European Union nations, is beholden to European policy, say its leaders, They warn that the region's stagnant space budgets will leave the industry in a diminished competitive position if...

opening the door.(Midi-Pyrenees Expansion project inviting foreign investments)
October 4, 2005... Midi-Pyrenees Expansion, the French regional government agency for the Toulouse area, has a favourite trick for visiting Americans: it shows them productivity data for the region. Foreigners, especially Anglo-Saxons, have a view of French...

Let ICAO take oversight role.(Letter to the Editor)
October 4, 2005... At the root of flight safety ("In safe hands", Flight International, 6-12 September) there is the compliance to the "safety minima" known as International Civil Aviation Organisation standards and recommended practices (SARPS). This compliance...

Manual labour.(Letter to the Editor)
October 4, 2005... Your Comment (Flight International 13-19 September) raises some valid points about not placing flying training skills in flight manuals. The thought of pilots referring to a manual during a bounced landing raises all sorts of spectres -- none...

Fast track to job satisfaction.
October 4, 2005... How did you get into the aviation industry? I joined EasyJet as cabin crew in July 1998 and immediately fell in love with the industry. There was such a great team atmosphere and an exciting buzz of activity in the airport. Before EasyJet I...

French grow aerospace employment.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2005... According to projections by Gifas, the French aerospace industry association, 2005 will have seen 5,000 new staff hired in the French aerospace sector, 14% of whom will be on fixed-term contracts. This compares to 5,500 new recruits for 2004 --...

AAE looks at freighters.(Australian Air Express)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2005... Express freight carrier Australian Air Express (AAE) is looking at adding a new type of aircraft that may eventually replace its Boeing 727-200 freighters. Qantas, which holds a 50% stake in AAE, says the cargo division is undertaking "a fleet...

Trinidad to invest in BWIA rejig.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2005... Trinidad and Tobago's government is to inject $250 million into BWIA West Indies Airways under a plan to restructure the troubled state-owned operator into a new national entity. Reports say BWIA will undergo a major management and corporate...

Cimber Air Maintenance Centre looks to expand home and away.(Cimber Air Maintenance Centre )(Brief Article)
October 11, 2005... Danish turboprop overhaul specialist Cimber Air Maintenance Centre (CAMC) is aiming to dominate ATR maintenance in northern Europe and is looking at expansion opportunities in the USA. Gavin Allen, managing director of CAMC, says the firm has...

Incidents provoke military intercepts Europe-wide.(air traffic control)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2005... Eurocontrol's air-ground communications safety expert Tzvetomir Blajev reveals that, prompted by prolonged loss of communication (PLC) incidents, there were more than 120 intercepts by military fighters of civil airliners over Europe during...

Communication tops AGC risk list.(air-ground communications)
October 11, 2005... Eurocontrol identifies loss of controller-pilot link and call-sign confusion as most likely to cause traffic conflicts Loss of communication between pilots and controllers is the problem most likely to cause traffic conflicts about which...

IATA warns on Africa.(International Air Transport Association safety standards )
October 11, 2005... Africa must move forward on airline safety, infrastructure and modern business practices, said International Air Transport Association director general Giovanni Bisignani on a visit to Kenya and South Africa. If it does not, the continent's...

Il-96 returns to the air.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2005... Aeroflot estimates it has lost $20 million as a result of the seven-week grounding of its Ilyushin Il-96-300s, which ended last week, writes Vladimir Karnozov. The ban, which applied to all Russian-operated Il-96s, was lifted on 3 October by...

Tax change raises cost of leasing in India.(tax exemption withdrawn on airplane lease services)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2005... Leasing aircraft in India has become much more expensive after the government withdrew a long-standing tax exemption on lease payments at the end of last month. Estimates on how much this will increase aircraft and engine lease costs have...

Jet Airways eyes new types to go with 777-300ER order.(air teransportation industry)
October 11, 2005... India's Jet Airways is "seriously studying" future orders for the ultra-large Airbus A380 as well as the A350 or Boeing 787. Chairman and majority owner Naresh Goyal says in an interview with Flight International sister publication Airline...

India's Kingfisher poised to make regional expansion.(Kingfisher Airlines)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2005... India's Kingfisher Airlines plans to acquire a fleet of turboprops to operate a network of regional domestic routes. In a separate move the carrier has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for engines to power the Airbus A330-200s it has on...

Xian tackles turboprop boom with upgrade.(Xian Aircraft Co.)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2005... Xian Aircraft (XAC) plans another upgrade to its MA60 to meet an expected resurgence in demand for turboprops from Chinese carriers, which could also lead to new orders for ATR and Bombardier, write Brendan Sobie and Leithen Francis. Only seven...

Threat of legal limbo looms.(air transportation industry)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2005... Regional airline feeder services risk being left in legal limbo as the European Commission's investigation into interline fares looks unlikely to be concluded quickly. In June last year the EC launched an investigation into the International...

Airlines win disability concessions.(regulations)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2005... Airlines look set to be handed a partial victory in the early stages of European plans to harmonise disabled access rights to air transport. In February, the European Commission proposed strengthening the rights of passengers with reduced...

Northwest wants new subsidiary for 70- to 100-seat operations.
October 11, 2005... Northwest Airlines plans to launch another regional subsidiary to operate large regional jets during its court-protected Chapter 11 reorganisation. The new feeder plan was revealed by president and chief executive Doug Steenland during a...