Cathay Pacific City, 8 Scenic Road, Hong Kong Int'l Airport, Lantau Island HONG KONG, CHINA CODE: CX EMPLOYEES: 14,744 WWW.CATHAYPACIFIC.COM TEL. (852) 2747-1577 FAX (852) 2560-1411 OWNERSHIP: 100% PUBLICLY TRADED EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT CHAIRMAN CHRISTOPHER PRATT DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR & COO ANTHONY TYLER DIRECTOR SALES & MARKETING JAMES BARRINGTON DIRECTOR FLIGHT OPERATIONS NICK RHODES DIRECTOR ENGINEERING DEREK CRIDLAND
It may be useful to examine some of the causes of fatal aircraft accidents, as these disasters are attributed to human error about 80% of the time. Just as speed is a hazard in road transportation, the loading of an aircraft is a vital factor in airline operations. While airlines offer speed, comfort and safety on their flights, they should develop an awareness among travelers to restrict their baggage to reasonable proportions.
Japan Airlines, which plans to cut 6,000 jobs, is thinking about eliminating a further 3,000, representing 6% of its payroll. The new round of reductions would apply to ground staff and, if implemented, would be achieved with a hiring freeze and voluntary redundancies, says the airline.
People with insight into the Pentagon's Fiscal 2008 supplemental budgets say they contain defense technology funds that may be challenged because they aren't for direct Iraq-war replacements. But the allocation replaces funding for key weapon improvements that were stripped out of earlier, approved budgets to pay for combat operations. Two technologies are of particular future operational value--advanced situational awareness and electronic attack.
PO Box 620, Jeddah 21231, SAUDI ARABIA Code: SV Employees: 25,000 www.saudiairlines.com Tel. (966-2) 686-0000 Fax (966-2) 686-4552 Ownership: 100% state Executive Management CEO Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Director General Khalid Abdullah Almolhem Executive VP Operations Adnan Al-Dabbagh Executive VP Marketing Abdulaziz Al-Hazmi VP Flight Operations Talal H. Ageel VP Materials Management Nasser A. Al-Mansour
The European Space Agency is beginning to refine the outline of its future strategic space map for presentation to European ministers in mid-2008, likely to include its views on whether, and how, to participate in NASA's return to the Moon.
1600 Smith St., Houston, TX 77002, USA Code: CO Employees: 42,200 www.continental.com Tel. (713) 324-2950 Fax (713) 520-6329 Ownership: 100% publicly traded Executive Management Chairman & CEO Larry Kellner President & Director of Finance Committee Jeffery Smisek Executive VP & CFO Jeff Misner Senior VP Airport Services Bill Meehan
Thad Beier seems to have missed the fact that the Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 are aimed at two almost entirely different markets (AW&ST Dec. 4, 2006, p. 6). The A380 is a natural successor to the Boeing 747, as flagship airliners grow to keep pace with the inevitable demand for bigger aircraft to cope with burgeoning traffic. The 787 will show innovative technology, specifically that the extensive use of composites can offer substantial advantages in airframe strength and weight reduction.
Less than a third of global airlines in the Americas, Europe and Asia provide training to company officials on how to deal with the onslaught of media attention that follows an airline disaster outside their home market, according to a survey by Kenyon International Emergency Services. Houston-based Kenyon, which counts about 150 international airlines as clients, is best known for its disaster management responses to such horrific events as the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S., the 2002 bombing in Bali and the 2005 tsunami in South Asia.
1370 Gong Hang Dong, Gang Seo Gu Seoul, SOUTH KOREA Code: KE Employees: 14,942 www.koreanair.com Tel. (82-2) 2656-3977 Fax (82-2) 2656-3918 Ownership: 100% publicly traded Executive Management Chairman, Co-CFO & Director Yang Ho Cho President, Co-CEO & Director Jong Hee Lee VP Kyung Ho Choi
