International airlines, including those of South Korea, will be able to "regularly use" the airspace of North Korea, beginning in December, according to the International Air Transport Association. Airlines can expect to save about $125 million a year because of the shorter flights, IATA said. North Korea signed the International Civil Aviation Organization's International Air Services Transit Agreement in February 1995, after which it began negotiations with IATA. IATA said it played a crucial role in assisting North Korea to implement the agreement technically.
The House Friday gave its final approval to legislation that will re-enact the aviation excise taxes, and the Senate was expected to follow suit Friday night (DAILY, Aug. 2). The reinstatement through Dec. 31, is included in the conference report on the small-business tax relief bill (H.R.3448), and the revenue is counted as an offset to tax cuts elsewhere in the legislation. President Clinton is expected to sign the legislation, which includes a popular 90-cent-an-hour increase in the minimum wage.
Joyce Fleischman was formally appointed acting inspector general at DOT Thursday (DAILY, Aug. 1), filling the vacancy created by the resignation July 3 of Mary Schiavo. A lawyer with 17 years' experience in federal inspector general offices and currently deputy IG at the Agriculture Department, Fleischman will move to DOT Aug. 12. She has previously worked at the Energy and Interior departments and the Federal Labor Relations Board.
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Parker Bertea promoted Bob Barker to group VP-flight control and hydraulic systems operation, Frank Nichols to group VP-fluid management and control systems operation and Ed Arnold to group VP-marketing.
McGraw-Hill Aviation Week Group will host an electronic conference on FAA's Global Analysis and Information Network (GAIN) tomorrow at 9 p.m. EDT on CompuServe. Christopher Hart, FAA assistant administrator for system safety, will be the guest. To participate, key in Go Conference.
Reno Air plans to begin daily seasonal flights to Durango, Colo., from Albuquerque Dec. 19, with continuing service to Los Angeles. The advance- purchase Albuquerque-Durango fare will be $59 one way. On Oct. 1, Reno Air will add a third daily flight from Reno/Tahoe to Denver and to Colorado Springs, a fourth daily flight between San Jose and Las Vegas, and a second and third daily roundtrip between Portland and Seattle.
U.S. Major Carriers Pacific Share of Service, First Quarter 1996 Total Revenue Departures American 517 Delta 690 Northwest 5,678 United 5,719 Total 12,604 Average Number of Seats Per Departure American 243 Delta 264
AvAero said it has received Transport Canada certification of its 737 hushkit. WestJet of Calgary will be the first Canadian carrier to use the device.
All Nippon Airways and Air Canada launched daily code-share service Thursday between Osaka Kansai Airport and Vancouver. The service is operated on Air Canada 284-seat Airbus A340s, and ANA has a block of seats and a flight attendant on every flight. Air Canada considers the service a step in its "rapidly developing strategy to expand across the Pacific," VP- Corporate Strategy Ross MacCormack said. For ANA, it is its first to Canada and its first in a transpacific market from Osaka.
Accurate Automation Corp. has developed an aircraft for NASA and the Air Force with a computerized flight control system that learns as it flies. The experimental aircraft will be used to explore new flight control techniques involving neural networks, which enable the aircraft control system to learn by mimicking the pilot. The aircraft is a Mach 5 waverider, a hypersonic aircraft that cruises on top of its own shock wave.
Vice President Gore's Aviation Safety and Security Commission will hold its first meeting tomorrow at FAA. Members will be chosen from a group selected at the last meeting of the Aviation Safety Advisory Committee to look into aviation security. Industry officials had been concerned that Gore might go outside aviation circles for commission members.
Granted orally to American Trans Air authority to conduct scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between Orlando, Florida, and Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands...Granted orally to Aviacion del Noroeste renewal of its exemption to engage in scheduled combination service between Mexico City (including Toluca) and San Diego and charter combination operations between Mexico and the U.S., using large equipment...Granted orally to Mexicana renewal of its exemption to conduct scheduled combination service between Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and Los Angeles...G
Avitas promoted John Vitale to VP-asset valuation, Noel Petrie to asset valuation analyst and Kevin Archambault to manager-technical projects, and appointed John Elias manager-technical services.
TWA President Jeffrey Erickson has told employees it is time to resume normal operations following the Flight 800 tragedy. The carrier's flights are full, he says, and its first Boeing 757, delivered on schedule but without the planned hoopla, was put in service between St. Louis and Orange County.
Regional airline industry continued its record growth in the first quarter as revenue passenger miles increased nearly 25% to 3.3 billion, according to a survey by the Regional Airline Association. The number of passengers jumped more than 20% to 14.4 million, and the average load factor rose 11.8 percentage points to 51%.
BWIA International Airways installed Gilles Filiatreault as chief executive last week with the mission of turning the carrier around in what it termed the "shortest possible time-frame." Filiatreault is assigned to make BWIA more efficient and profitable, with better operational reliability and managerial accountability. After many years at Air Canada, Quebecair and Air Alliance, Filiatreault joined LIAT in 1994 with the aim of initiating a privatization plan by the end of 1995. He implemented a restructuring plan within six weeks.
- In Federal Register dated July 29...Issued special conditions on Embraer 145 aircraft...Issued an AD on certain Airbus A320-200 aircraft requiring modification of the shock absorber subassembly of the main landing gear...
