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PeopleINTERIOR MINISTRY BRINGS BACK HOME 100 NIGERIAN PROSTITUTES
ITALY, The Italian Interior Ministry has organized yesterday a charter flight to bring 100 Nigerian clandestine prostitutes back to their country. The charter took off from Linate with 30 passengers and... more
PeopleUS AIRLINES REPORT
USA, The US Department ot Transportation has published the day before yesterday the report of the 11 main American airlines for the month of February 2001, the Air Consumer Report, which estimates the... more
PeoplePILOT REFUSES TO BOARD PASSENGERS BECAUSE TOO DRUNK
LUEBECK, GERMANY, The pilot of a Ryan Air flight from Luebeck to London refused to board 30 men because they were too drunk. The 30 people "went running around the airport building throwing cola and coffee... more
PeopleTAIWAN WILL NEED 190 AIRCRAFTS IN THE NEXT TWO DECADES
TAIWAN, A Boeing excutive said that Taiwan is expected to need 190 commercial jets over the next two decades. About 70 percent of the planes would increase capacity, while 30 percent would be used to upgrade... more
PeopleSAIRGROUP (2): MOODY DEGRADES RATING TO SWISSAIR
ZURIGH, SWITZERLAND, Moody, American company that values the credit entrust, degraded the long period rating of Swissair, reducing from "A3" to "Baa3" the long period rating and from "P-2" to "P-3" the... more
PeopleSAIRGROUP: NEGATIVE RECORD IN 2000, BUT LIQUIDITY ANYWAY GUARANTEED
ZURIGH, SWITZERLAND, SAirGroup, owner of Swissair, Swisshotel, of the German tour operator Ltu, Aom, Air Littoral, Air Liberté (French airlines), the Belgium Sabena and of 34% of the Italian airline Volare,... more
PeopleTAIWAN AND RUSSIA CONNECTED BY A DIRECT FLIGHT AFTER 50 YEARS
VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA, Russia and Taiwan will be connected, from April 30, after 50 years, by a direct twice-weekly flight, as reported by travel agency officials. The first flight will depart from Vladivostok... more
PeopleTU-134 AIRCRAFTS BANNED FROM FLYING TO EUROPE
MOSCOW, European Commission is to ban Tu-134 flights to Europe from April 1 2001 because the aircrafts don't meet european standards. A russan deputy minister commented the ba saying that it will cost... more
PeopleJAL ADOPTS NEW MEASURES TO PREVENT ''DVT''
TOKYO, JAPAN, The Japanese airline Jal decided to introduce, starting from April 1, on all its intercontinental flights measures to prevent famous "DVT". A ten minute video, illustrating the exercises... more
PeopleAIRFARE STUDY SHOWS PRIVATE JETS ARE WITHIN REACH OF MORE BUSINESS TRAVELERS
WASHINGTON, An airfare study released by SkyJet, the pioneer online service for booking private business jet, shows "increaes in full-coach and first-class airline fares over a one-year period have placed... more
PeoplePASSPORT VISA ABOLISHED TO ENTER UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, United Arab Emirates decided to eliminate passport visa necessity, until now indispensable for entering the country, for passengers coming from many Nations. Passengers will be given... more
PeopleBRITISH AIRLINES WILL CONTROL ENGLISH SKIES
LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN, English Goverment announced that it has chosen Airline Group for the partial privatization of the Great Britain's air traffic controlling system (NATS), of which Goverment will maintain... more
PeopleFIRST ALGERIAN CIVIL AVIATION SCHOOL OPENING
ALGERI, ALGERIA, In short time, a few months, in Algeria the first private civil aviation school will be opened to future pilots. According to its Director, Madjid Louai, both professional pilots, destinated... more
PeopleFRENCH TRANSPORT MINISTER: ''THE CONCORDE WILL FLY SOON''
PARIS, FRANCE, The French Transport Minister, during a press conference in Paris, confirmed that "there are good possibilities that the Concorde will return to fly in 2001". These words arrive after the... more
PeopleALCOHOL AND DRUG TESTS FOR CIVIL AVIATION STAFF
GREAT BRITAIN, British Goverment advanced a proposal to submit to alcohol and drug tests all people engaged in essential tasks in civil aviation, such as cabin crew, air traffic controllers and maintenance... more
PeopleENAV: RADIOMEASUREMENTS MADE AT BEIRUT: AND AT MALPENSA?
ROME, ITALY, A gratifying recognition from the Lebanian Civil Aviation's authorities in the activity carried out during the last week by the Italian "Ente Nazionale Assistenza al Volo" S.p.A. (ENAV SpA)... more
PeopleFIRST BRITISH CONCORDE PILOT DIES
LONDON, Brian Trubshaw, the first British test pilot to fly Concorde has died on saturday in his sleep at the age of 77. Trubshaw made the first 22 minutes supersonic aircraft flight in Gloucestershire... more
PeopleAIR DISASTER RISK IN AFGHANISTAN FOR ONU ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
AFGHANISTAN, ONU's economic sanctions against Taliban risk to provoke air disasters on domestic Ariana Airline routes, already bannedfrom international routes, since 1999, because of the difficult availability... more
PeopleIRAQ ACCUSES UK AND USA OF AIR BLOCKADE
IRAK, Acording to iraqi newsagency INA "The American and British representatives on the UN Sanctions Committee have blocked, despite support from seven other committee members, demands from Jordan and... more
PeopleNTSB RELEASED YEAR 2000 AVIATION ACCIDENTS STATISTICS
USA, The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released statistics summerizing U.S. civil aviation accidents in year 2000 According with these figures, accidents in the year 2000 decreased to... more
PeopleINQUIRY BETWEEN PASSENGERS: ''AIRLINES TOLERATE VIOLENCE ON BOARD AND IN AIRPORTS''
USA, According to a research between passengers conducted in the airports, the U.S. airlines do little or nothing concrete to curb the growing cases of violence on board and in the airports perpetrated... more
PeopleRESEARCH ON MORE THAN 30,000 FREQUENT FLYERS REVEALS AIRLINES FAULTS
USA, A research on more than 30,000 "frequent flyers", those who, in other words, uses often planes for their travels, conducted for a year by Tim Zagat, in his "Zagat Survey", revealed many curiosities... more
PeopleSIX A-380 ''RESERVED'' FOR ALITALIA
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, In Airbus Industrie A380 backlog there is a "gap", before the fortieth order, which, according to Aeroflot officials in visit at French aeronautical group, includes six A380 aircrafts "reserved"... more
PeopleSOUTH AFRICA TO WITHDRAW LAST FLOOD-RESCUE AIRCRAFT
SOUTH AFRICA, South Africa completed yesterday the withdrawal of aircraft and personnel it provided Mozambique for rescue and relief operations in the massive flooding of the central Zambezi River basin.... more
PeopleFAA: NUMBER OF FLIGHTS TO INCREASE MORE THAN A THIRD IN THE NEXT DECADE
USA, The FAA released its forecasts in conjunction with the annual aviation conference and predicted and increase of number of flights by more than a third in the next ten years. This growth will put... more
PeopleFAA FORECAST ONE-THIRD INCREMENT OF THE AIR TRAFFIC IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS
USA, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) forecasts that in the next 10 years the number of flights to increase by more than a third, putting new pressure on an already overburdened airline system.... more
PeopleSPANISH PROSECUTOR DEMANDS SIX YEARS JAIL FOR FLIGHT AGGRESSOR
MALAGA, SPAIN, A Spanish prosecutor demanded a six-year jail sentence for a British tourist who attacked drunken an hostess with a broken bottle while on a Airtours charter flight to Malaga. Steven... more
PeopleETHIOPIA-U.K. AGREEMENT
ADDIS ABEBA, Ethiopian and British governments have recently signed an agreement to reinforce their cooperation in the aeronautical transport field: Ethiopian Airlines (EAL) and British Airways (BA) will... more
PeopleEGYPT: TOURISM REVALUATION
EGYPT, In the next years Egypt will invest a lot on the tourism and on the revaluation of the own natural and cultural wonders: the Tourism Minister has already approved of the financings, between the... more
PeopleTHE U.S. AIRLINE DOT BLACK LIST
USA, U.S. Department of Transport (DOT) diffused, as every month, the 11 U.S. major airline performance report in relationship with customers, called Air Travel Consumer Report. In the issue of January,... more