People
5,928 news found
PeopleUsa: air transport risks nationalization
New York, Usa - Air Transport Association asks intervention of Government
The sistem of American Air Transports is crisis because the sector is continually in decrease and for the attacks of 11 September 2001, so now risks the nationalization if the government won’t intervene t... more
PeopleFaa orders Boeing aircraft to fly with more fuel
Washington, Usa - A pumps fuel overheating the cause of the decision
A provision that will have immediate effect and that it will involve not less than 3500 Boeing aircraft, that one promoted by Faa. After some months of searches the inspectors of the Faa have verified... more
PeopleInternet during the flight: almost ready the project of wiring the aircraft
Rome, Italy - The first email from the sky perhaps will be sent before Christmas
As published before by AVIONEWS it is almost ready a project which aim is to allow all people that needs it to send email by the flying aircraft. The thing that now seems only science will be real in... more
PeopleBoeing previews huge economic growth for Latin American aviation market
Miami, Usa - 2100 aircraft to be needed in the next 20 years
As every year Boeing releases a document on the forecasts about market aviation, not only civil, in which it's provided the esteems and the guidelines about the situation at world-wide level. In the... more
PeopleUsa: carriers to justify their own delays
Washington, Usa - The new rule will be operative in the next six months
According to the figures at American civil aviation's disposal a flight on four is hit by a delay at least of 15 minutes, an intolerable situation for the million passengers who use the aerial service... more
PeopleAir traffic controller's strike paralyzes French airport
Paris, France - Main carriers to delay their flights
Lufthansa has had to cancel 70 flights, the British Airways 64, Alitalia 68 while the Scandinavian Airlines has been forced to delete 27 connections. This is the situation for today in France because... more
PeopleStolen to an Ukrainian pilot the flight sheets for Kabul
Rome, Italy - They were in a suitcase
In a hotel of the beachside near Rome it has been stolen in the last days to an Ukrainian pilot a suitcase containing a personal computer. The curiosity of the robbery is the fact that in the bag were... more
PeopleRussia and UE get closer about decisions in the civil aviation field
Saint Petersburg, Russia - Solving in short time
The representatives of the civil aviation of European countries (ECAC) and those of the Ministry of Russian Transportation (SCAS) have held an important meeting at the international airport of Saint Petersburg.... more
PeoplePartially interrupted air travels in ex Zaire's northeast
Kampala, Uganda - First consequnces of the treaty between two parties fighting in the suffering African country
With a treaty signed in the last days between two parties fighting in the northeast of ex Zaire now Congo Democratic Republic with the mediation of Ugandese governement, they should have partially blocked... more
PeopleEU stops single member States' treaties with the USA
Bruxelles, Belgium - "Only the Union can sign agreements with the USA"
The EU transportation commissioner Loyola de Palacio with a document, coming from her office, remembers to the member States that only the European Union is competent to sign agreement called "open skies"... more
PeopleAsian carriers oppose to the US resolution about armed pilots
Cebu, Philippines - Governments to commit to doing more
It seems the civil aviation is crossing an unhappy period in its history, and not only for the serious economic crisis. A consideration that is tied closely to the way in which it is attempted to face... more
PeopleLow-cost flights have appeal also for managers
Rome, Italy - 60% of managers would pay also the services for the web
Iata announces that the growing success of low-cost flights has appeal also for managers. They think that this kind of transport is useful for their business travels. A research said also that 60% of... more
PeopleUSA: soon armed pilots in the cockpits
Washington, Usa - The proposal could become law by the next Monday
It's expected for the next Monday the final decision about a proposal that just 12 months ago was thought as bizarre: armed pilots in order to defend the cockpit at any cost. If this is going to become... more
PeopleTaiwan refuses the charter coming from China
Peking, China - "It is an irresponsible decision"
Taiwan refuses the Civil Aviation Administration of China Popular Republic proposal regarding some tens of charter aircraft to use in the flights to Taipei. The proposal had the aim to make faster the... more
PeopleIata to cut job units
Geneva, Switzerland - Dismissals are ready for more than sixty employees
Iata is ready to dismiss more than sixty employees in several airports: among them the most important are Geneva, London, Miami and Montréal. It will pay to each employee one month of income for each... more
PeopleClass economic syndrome": it starts today the trial for 28 carriers
London, UK - They risk heavy refunds
The process has been opened today, in London, for 28 airlines that will have to defend from an heavy accusation: to have not warmed the passengers of the thrombosis risk. Indeed approximately 50 passengers,... more
PeopleUE blocks the "open sky" agreements
Brussels, Belgium - Pacts of this sort damage the customers
The European Community has admonished the States that have stipulated agreements for an "open sky" with the USA because would be contrary to the communitarian rules. The pacts in issue regard Denmark,... more
PeopleAcquitted for no evidences a supposed hijacker
Stockholm, Sweden - The young man had been arrested with a weapon in the bag
Acquitted from every accusation for no evidences a Swedish young man recently converted to Islam arrested in an airport nearby Stockholm. The young man was going to to Birmingham for a convention of "salafites",... more
PeopleJapan asks for the extradition of JAL flight hijackers in the 1970
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Terrorists are involved also in the abducting of Japanese nationals
The summit that in these hours is being carried out in Kuala Lumpur among North Korea, South Korea and Japan has been also the chance, for the government of Tokyo to ask the extradition of the hijackers... more
PeopleUnited European Sky: UE should agree by the end of the year
Brussels, Belgium - The responsabilities of all operators of the field will be redefine
The European Commission has concluded the drawing up of a document for the realization of the "European United Sky". According to the communitarian regulations this normative rules will have to be approved... more
PeopleDouble ticket for obese persons
Ottawa, Canada - It's not to be treated as an invalid who is overweight
The decision of the Canadian Transportation Agency (Cta) will be sure followed from vigorous controversies, not only in Canada. Indeed it was a much debated question the Air Canada's decision to make to... more
PeopleHijacking over the Russian sky (3): it should be a technical failure
Moscow, Russia - Official Russian sources would have diffused this last new
Being to some declarations, of few minutes ago, by Russian official sources, the two airplane would not have been diverted, but to cause the alarm it would have been a malfunctioning of the system of antiterroristic... more
PeopleHijacking over the Russian sky (2): Tass confirms, others press agencies deny
Moscow, Russia - 2 Antonov 24 should be involved
They are still fragmentary and contrasting the news that are coming about the two diversions that would be in course on two Russian airliners. According to the first news it would be two Antonov 24 that... more
PeopleBy 2004 will be possible using mobiles during flying
New York, Usa - The final decision only after FAA opinion
A shielding system to the radio frequencies will render the instrumentation of the airplane cockpit immune from the mobile interferences. The project is going to be studied by FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)... more
PeopleAmerican pilots dismiss themselves to be not vaccinateed
Washington, Usa - American Air Force is losing its better pilots
They don't say to have fear of the classic puncture, but to avoid the collateral effects of the vaccine against the carbuncle. Indeed the American Armed Forces must, obligatorily, have this immunization,... more
PeopleFBI searched a Russian flight for New York JFK
New York, Usa - The presence of radioactive material was feared
The Russian intelligence agency had alert its American colleagues about the possibility to recover of the radioactive material on an Aeroflot flight coming from Moscow to New York. FBI, acting therefore... more
PeopleUSA: people fly less than a year ago
Washington, Usa - It is not just September 11 psychosis
The causes of the reduction in the market of the civil aviation are many, and in part they only can be traced back to the attacks of New York and Washington of the last year. It's what emerges from an... more
PeopleContinental: legal actions are expected for an episode of racism
New Jersey, USA- Discriminative the attitude of the airline
They had been made removed for emergency reasons, the two men who, the eve of New Year's Day, were going to join a flight of the Continental Airlines. The decision does not convince a federal judge because... more
PeopleIt will slip of approximately one year the privatization of Air France
Paris, France - Unfavorable the economic conjuncture for an action of the sort
French minister of the Economy Francis Mer takes time about the total privatization of Air France. Indeed 54.4% of the French airline is still property of the State but it will not be launched before... more
PeopleFalse alarm blocks a flight of the Delta Airlines to Boston
Boston, USA- Simple ice-skates have been the cause of the alarm
"They were in the wrong place at the wrong moment" Robert Johnson, spokesman of the Air Transport Agency, has yesterday asserted. Flight 505 of the Delta had to take off, about noon, for Atlanta when a... more
PeopleFalse alarm blocks a flight of the Delta Airlines to Boston (2)
Boston, USA- Probably a loss of air the cause of the episode
No news on the causes that, yesterday evening, have forced an aircraft of the Delta Airlines, directed from Boston to Atlanta, to abort the scheduled flight. Not a pair of ice-skates for children to... more
PeopleUSA: travel ID card will be launched shortly
Washington, Usa - The attempt is to increase the security measures
It's expected in few weeks the free way that the Congress would have to give to the program to experience the travel identity card. The experimentation will begin at the hubs of Los Angeles, Philadelphia,... more
PeopleNew development for civil aviation in Asia
Tokyo, Japan - New strategies will be discussed in an international forum
It is evident that the aeronautical Asian market it is potentially, the most rich of the world. In fact, about 75% of the population lives in this continent that needs a lot of links among different cities.... more
PeopleRe-election of the Fai president
Dubrovnik, Croatia - Assign the task at Wolfgang Weinreich
During the last 95th general conference the executive board of Fai re-elected Wolfgang Weinreich (Germany) as a President. After a first term of two years, Fai president was re-elected for a second period... more
People95th Fai General Conference
Dubrovnik, Croatia - New members accepted by Fai
During the latest General Conference FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) accepted as new active members the following countries: Bulgaria, Nepal, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Saudi Ar... more
PeopleNew developments in hijack of the Saudi Arabian Airlines flight
Khartoum , Sudan - The saudi attacker's objective was to get political asylum
Definitively confirmed by official sources the news about a hijack foiled of an airbus of the Saudi Arabian Airlines on leaving from Sudanese airport of Khartoum to Gedda. At the beginning the egyptian... more
PeopleUnited European sky was born: the agreement was subscripted yesterday
Brussels, Belgium - Historic event for the future of the European aviation
It will be surely a date to be remembered: no more borders in the skies of the European countries. If it has been being possible to travel freely since Schengen ratification through the whole of UE, by... more
PeopleMalev: two more aircraft came back because of bomb-threat
Budapest, Hungary- The false allarm just after the departure
A bad October for Malev, the Hungarian air company, that had to face with several bomb-menaces on its planes, proved to be completely untrue. However the insubstantial intimidations find their concreteness... more
PeopleNew fly devices will increase the safety as never before
Washington, Usa - FAA will make operative the new systems as soon as possible
The security issue has always been recurrent in the last months, especially in US, and it's also tha leit-motive of the new projects that have been developing thanks to a profitable co-operation between... more
PeopleFAA promised vigilant oversight on struggling air industry
Washington, Usa - Urgent measures requested for worst ever financial downturn
Marion Blakey, administrator of the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), said, after addressing an aviation forum at the US chamber of commerce, that her agency is sympathetic to the industry's plight.... more
PeopleGhost planes appear on computer screens
Swanwick, UK - Phantom aircraft seen by the air traffic control personnel
In the new British national air traffic control centre, at Swanwick in Hampshire, air traffic control personnel could not believe what was appearing on their computer screens: a phantom aircraft. The... more
PeopleEuropean Airlines: August traffic down, load factors up
Brussels, Belgium - As reported by AEA
August traffic and capacity figures for the Association of European Airlines maintained the trend which had prevailed throughout the Summer. Overall passenger traffic was down 8,8% compared to August 2001.... more
PeopleOCCC members call on Oneworld alliance to clean-up act on labor and safety
Hong Kong, Cina - To adopt the highest standard of fairness and safety
The Oneworld Cockpit Crew Coalition (OCCC), representing 28.000 cockpit crew worldwide, issued a stern call to action to the Oneworld alliance for some of its members and partner airlines to clean-up their... more
PeopleDisappointment for the decision about Linate came from Danmark
Copenaghen, Danmark- "Nothing changed" says a Denish journal
It's strong the dislike for the non-taken-interventions by the Italian authority after Linate's disaster and for the way the investigations are carried. "The security conditions in Linate airport didn't... more
PeopleEu okayed officially Alitalia' s recapitalization plan
Brussels, Belgium - By the publication of the decision on the official gazette
On last October 4, via the publication on the Eu's official gazette, Brussels formally ratified Alitalia's recapitalization plan. From that day on, other airlines have a two-month period to present any... more
PeopleThey were in a drink-driving: it's heavy the position of the two American West pilots
Washington, Usa - November fourth will be the day of their decree
It's getting worse day by day the position of the two American West pilots, Thomas Cloyd and Cristopher Hughes, accused to have flown in drunk conditions the last first July. They will have to be able... more
PeopleNamibia to shield its beleaguered flagship airline
Windhoek, Namibia - By preventing two South African airlines to fly to Windhoek
Two South African air carriers, SA Express and SA Airlink, have been banned by the Namibian government to operate flights to and from Windhoek. Even though, Namibian ministry of Defence said the move aims... more
PeopleEmbry-Riddle leader for its aeronautic activities of research
Daytona Beach, USA- An award of USD20m for the diligence of the consortium
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta in person announced the award of USD 20m to the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for its important contribution in the research and innovation fields;... more
PeopleAEA: aviation industry demands urgent government action on insurance crisis
Brussels, Belgium - To ensure the continuation of normal operations
According to AEA, Association of European Airlines, without the immediate support of European governments Europe's airlines and airports will soon be left with insufficient third-party war and terrorism... more
PeopleSms from aircraft: 1700 devices have been already installed
Washington, USA- It will be easier to communicate during flying
The necessity to communicate whatever comes, wherever we are, is a need very important for a lots of people, especially in the present society which has made the information its main feature; peculiarity... more