The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is urging air-navigation service providers (ANSPs) and their regulators to follow published missed-approach procedures so pilot distraction is minimized during these high-workload scenarios. In a safety information bulletin (SIB) published March 20, EASA calls on ANSPs and civil aviation authorities to heed specific recommendations in a 2013 study by France’s BEA accident investigation agency.
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AirAsia India, the country’s new no-frills carrier, received its first Airbus A320, inching closer to launching its operation in the domestic sector to help connect smaller Indian cities. A joint venture between Malaysia’s low-cost carrier AirAsia Group Bhd and local investors the Tata Group and Arun Bhatia’s Telestra Tradeplace, the airline got permission from the Indian government late last year to import 10 aircraft.
Jetstar Airways’ decision to end its service between Singapore and Auckland appears to be influenced at least partly by a proposed Air New Zealand-Singapore Airlines (SIA) partnership on this busy route.
An industry-led working group collecting best practices for helping pilots improve their situational awareness has narrowed its focus to monitoring the flight path, two group members tell Aviation Week. “We realized that that’s where the action is,” says NTSB Member Robert Sumwalt, whose challenge to industry at a 2012 human factors meeting led to the working group’s formation (Aviation DAILY, July 19, 2013).
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Hainan Airlines subsidiary Lucky Air has set up a base at Chengdu, extending the group’s westward push and challenging Air China, the biggest major operator at the large western Chinese city. Following approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China last month for Lucky Air to establish a branch company in the city, the carrier has begun began flying the short route between the Chengdu Shuangliu and Jiuzhai Huanglong Airports. Jiuzhai is a major tourism destination.
Early CSeries flight-test results are supporting performance predictions, giving Bombardier confidence in its projections for the all-new narrowbody airliner, says Guy Hachey, president of the company’s aerospace business. “We are seeing in flight test that we will be able to back up our numbers,” he said today at Bombardier’s investor day in New York. “We feel good about our projections.”
While a cyberattack is believed to be among the less-likely scenarios being considered by investigators for the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370, Boeing and the U.S. FAA have already initiated moves to prevent the hostile takeover of any 777 model by unauthorized access to critical systems and data networks from the passenger cabin.
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Bombardier is marketing a 50-seat passenger/cargo combi version of the Q400 turboprop as it strives to extend the production life of its regional aircraft through the transition to full-rate output of the CSeries narrowbody aircraft. There are no sales yet for the 50-seat version, Bombardier Aerospace President Guy Hachey said at the company’s investors’ day in New York on March 20, but the company has its first customer for a new 86-seat configuration with a reduced seat pitch.
With no last-minute solution in sight, Lufthansa appears set to face a pilot strike in the coming weeks. Pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) said March 21 that its members have overwhelmingly voted in favor of a strike. The strike threat is immediate, but VC said it will announce its work stoppages 48 hr. in advance.
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Australian officials remain cautious about satellite images that may show debris from MH370, although the possibility is strong enough that they have focused the southern Indian Ocean search on the new finding.
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Garuda Indonesia has been forced to again delay launching its proposed Jakarta-London route, owing to lack of available slots in the U.K. The airline originally planned to launch its Soekarno-Hatta Airport to Gatwick Airport route in the fourth quarter of 2013, but problems with the certification of the Soekarno-Hatta runway meant the route could not be flown economically.
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