AlliedSignal Aerospace won FAA approval to market a solid-state cockpit voice recorder (CVR) that stores two hours of digitally recorded sound. Most current CVRs record only the last 30 minutes of sound. The European Joint Aviation Authorities soon will require a two-hour capability to increase the probability of having recorded sound from the onset of a problem until an accident occurs, AlliedSignal said. The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that FAA adopt a similar rule.
UPS has reached agreement with the leadership of Teamsters Local 2727, which represents about 800 maintenance workers, on a six-year collective bargaining agreement. Union members will vote on the contract next week, and its terms would have a retroactive effective date of Aug. 1.
U.S. Customs Service has awarded a $92 million five-year contract to EG&G Dynatrend for national asset management for the Treasury Department. The company provides custody, management and disposal of seized property for Customs and other federal agencies.
Austrian Airlines is expecting a green light from DOT to set up "Atlantic Airlines" before the end of the year, according to the Austrian carrier's chairman, Mario Rehulka. Atlantic Airlines is the product of a partnership agreement among Austrian, Sabena, Swissair and Delta to offer "a homogeneous product" on transatlantic routes, which requires antitrust clearance from U.S. authorities, said Swissair sources. Rehulka said Austrian expects to post an operating profit of 50 million schillings in 1995, compared with a loss of ATS202 million last year.
Honeywell/Racal said they have shipped their 500th multi-channel aeronautical satellite communications system. The team has sold more than 800 systems in the air transport and corporate aviation markets since beginning the partnership in 1989. The 500th system went to Swissair. More than 70% of all multi-channel systems flying today come from the Honeywell/Racal team, they said.
Members of the American Bar Association's ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law Committee on Railway and Airline Labor Law have written a reference book on the Railway Labor Act. BNA Books, a division of the Bureau of National Affairs, is offering the book for $225 after a 30-day free trial review. To order, call 1-800-960-1220.
Frontier Airlines, after 16 months of service, has booked its one millionth passenger. The customer and her husband will fly free on their Denver-Las Vegas flight, and will receive a complimentary bottle of champagne.
A United official took his carrier's argument for hanging onto beyond rights in U.S.-Japan aviation talks to an industry luncheon yesterday, encouraging U.S. negotiators to stay focused on long-term benefits and shun American's position on loosening rights for other U.S. carriers. Stuart Oran, executive VP-corporate affairs and general counsel, told the International Aviation Club in Washington that there are a number of ways Japanese and U.S. carriers can participate in the growing Pacific market without forcing United and Northwest to surrender their beyond rights.
Harris Corp. was awarded an FAA contract valued at more than $10 million to develop an advanced system that will enhance communications and permit air traffic controllers to increase the number of flights over the Gulf of Mexico. The Buoy Communications Systems contract will use a network of satellites and water buoy-based radio links to provide controllers with direct voice communications to pilots. The new system will "seamlessly" transition into the Voice Switch and Control System that Harris is installing at 21 en route control centers in the U.S.
Mexico President Ernesto Zedillo has sent to the Mexican Congress proposed legislation to authorize long-awaited private investment in the country's airports. The government plans to issue 50-year renewable concessions for airport operation. Foreign investors will be limited to a 49% stake in consortia operating the airports, although there are provisions for the government to allow a larger investment on a case-by-case basis.
Total Revenue Departures Total Revenue Departures America West 436 American 23,181 Continental 6,687 Delta 2,900 United 4,133 USAir 1,828 Total 39,165 Average Number of Seats Per Departures Average Number of Seats Per Departures
American has allowed Hawaiian Airlines to defer its lease payment of approximately $7.1 million for a DC-10 further, until Dec. 9, while Hawaiian negotiates agreements with a private investor group, creditors and labor groups. Hawaiian is seeking new equity capital from the private investors and has signed a letter of intent which would terminate automatically if definitive agreements have not been reached by Dec. 8 with the investors, creditors and labor groups. The payment due American is for the lease of the DC-10 in late 1994 and early 1995.
Total Revenue Departures Total Revenue Departures American 6,213 Continental 1,122 Delta 8,663 Northwest 1,749 TWA 2,409 United 3,882 USAir 589 Total 24,627 Average Number of Seats Per Departures Average Number of
General Aviation Manufacturers Association board elected Horst Bergmann, chairman of Jeppesen, chairman for 1996. Fred Breidenbach, president of Gulfstream Aerospace, was elected vice chairman. Newly elected to the GAMA board were Bing Lantis, president of Mooney, to succeed Jacques Esculier, Greg Summe, president of Allied Signal Aerospace Co. Engines, to replace James Robinson, and C.W. Miller, president, AlliedSignal Aerospace Co. Avionics, to replace Greg Summe, who had been president of AlliedSignal Avionics.
In its first police action on the information superhighway, DOT assessed civil penalties of $14,000 against Virgin Atlantic Airways for failing to disclose the full price of flights advertised on the Internet's World Wide Web. The department said fares advertised about June or July on the carrier's home page included a "21-day APEX" fare of $499 for weekday roundtrip flights between Newark and London during certain travel periods.
TWA intends to offer only daily nonstops to Tel Aviv from New York in January, knocking out a stop in Paris now operated two days a week. The 747 flights will be increased to 12 a week next summer, and the stop in Paris will end Jan. 8. TWA said this type of change normally is made in the summer, but there is a heavy demand for the nonstops now. Other schedule changes for January include increasing aircraft capacity from New York to San Francisco, Los Angeles-St. Louis and St. Louis-Denver/Boston.
Thomson Training&Simulation said it won a contract to update Air New Zealand's fleet of Boeing flight simulators. It will install simulated TCAS 2 (traffic alert and collision avoidance system) on 747-200, 747-400 and 767-200 simulators. The 747-400 simulator also will be fitted with simulated FANS (future air navigation system). All three simulators were built by Rediffusion.
Illinois State Sen. Aldo DeAngelis introduced legislation last week to create a regional airport authority that would run Chicago's airports as well as develop, own and operate a proposed South Suburban airport near Peotone. The bill also calls for the formation of the O'Hare Noise Compatibility Commission "to ensure suburban input into, and, in some cases, control over" noise mitigation and funding issues at O'Hare Airport.
Air Line Pilots Association members at Federal Express have voted overwhelmingly to implement self-help actions if the union and management cannot agree to a contract during the current 30-day cooling off period, which expires Saturday at 12:01 a.m. As of late yesterday, there was no word that a contract agreement had been reached in mediated talks, which resumed Monday. In a vote counted by a neutral committee of pilots not affiliated with FedEx, the carrier's ALPA members voted 90% in favor of self-help.
Malaysian Airline System reported net earnings of 149.72 million ringgit ($59 million) on sales of 2.75 billion ringgit during the six months through Sept. 30, the first half of its 1995-96 fiscal year. The amounts represent increases of 46.7% and 18.3%, respectively, over totals for the first half of 1994-95.
Swissair's Gate Gourmet catering unit said yesterday it has acquired the catering operations at Rio de Janeiro's airport of Varig of Brazil as part of its continuing expansion in South America. Gate Gourmet already operates in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. The purchase price at Rio was not disclosed.
ValuJet plans to file an amended complaint this week in its suit against TWA and Delta, alleging antitrust violations in the lease of New York LaGuardia slots. Early this month, ValuJet filed a federal lawsuit alleging antitrust violations and breach of contract by TWA for leasing 10 slots to Delta instead of ValuJet, and it asked for a temporary restraining order to keep TWA from transferring the slots to Delta. But Atlanta Judge Ernest Tidwell ruled Friday that ValuJet failed to prove it had an enforceable agreement with TWA.
Japan Airlines said FAA has renewed its certificate as an approved overseas repair station, authorizing the carrier to carry out maintenance on U.S.- registered aircraft at its Narita and Haneda airport facilities. FAA told the carrier last August that some of its procedures did not comply with the agency's requirements, and it limited the maintenance services JAL could provide U.S. carriers. JAL said the quality of its technical work was never questioned. "The items raised by the FAA were legal differences between U.S.
Airlines Reporting Corp. said total travel agent sales processed for the first 10 months of the year were up 5% from the same period in 1994, while October's sales climbed 8%. Domestic commissions fell 2% for 10 months to $3.2 billion, and international commissions rose 5% to $2.2 billion. Domestic fares were up 6% and international fares 3%.
Peter Taylor Aircraft Sales Ltd., Brisbane, has been named an authorized sales agent by Dassault Falcon Jet Corp. to promote and sell Falcon jets in the Australian region.
