Jan
31
Alitalia for sale, buyers anyone?
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ATWOnline, Jan. 22
Alitalia set to report massive operating loss as AF KLM declines to bid Tuesday January 30, 2007
Alitalia Group expects to post a consolidated operating loss of about eu380 million ($490.7 million) in 2006 on revenue of eu4.33 billion, the company said in a statement Sunday following a request from the country’s securities regulator.
AZ’s [...]
Jan
31
FAA: Pilots can fly until 65
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Via: ATW
Wednesday January 31, 2007
“After nearly five decades of strict adherence to a rule whose origin ”still is a matter of debate,“ Administrator Marion Blakey yesterday said US FAA is ready to ”seize the moment [and] close the book on Age 60.“
Jan
30
British Airways – The strike and all that…
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Well, thank goodness that’s all over! The stress in the industrial ‘Tectonic plates’ has been relieved and the company can start clearing up the mess as they reflect on the damage done and what has been achieved.
Jan
28
The truly digital aviator ~ paper or pixels?
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The methods used for storing and presenting information to both pilots and engineers is changing. Engineers have had laptops containing a suite of manuals wirelessly connected to ‘mother’ for years. The labour/time saved by not having to traipse from the flight deck of a 747 under maintenance, across inspection platforms and down gantries to the [...]
Jan
26
On reading Rob of Jetwhine’s piece on the technical side of blogging I felt compelled to dash out a line of support.
[rant] I understand that Wordpress and other blogging programs are open-source and developed by enthusiasts. But why, oh why, does everyone assume that all those of us that haunt the hallways of the [...]
Jan
25
Bob Hoover ~ still an aviation ‘Great’
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So much has been written about this man that I will leave it to others to sketch in his career and accomplishments. He is someone I have admired from afar for years and to see him perform is to watch a magician at work, what a pair of hands, what a brain and what cohones [...]
Jan
25
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Boeing ends plan to put wireless on 787 Dreamliner:
Boeing has abandoned its plan to install a wireless inflight entertainment system on the 787 Dreamliner, a system it had touted earlier as saving weight and complexity through eliminating wires.
Boeing will substitute a wired system with cables running to each [...]
Jan
25
British Airways Cancels Heathrow Flights
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British Airways said Thursday said that it is canceling all flights from London Heathrow airport for two days next week because of a strike by cabin crew.
The airline said, however, that it still hoped to reach an agreement with the Transport and General Workers union to prevent a 48-hour walkout on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“If we [...]
Jan
22
Steve Morris and Air Team Images
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Seldom do you come across someone who has an eye for a photograph that is so acute that the images they produce make you draw breath. Steve Morris is one such, Dennis Anderson is another. That is why I have chosen to give them both and their impressive works an airing here.
Jan
21
“Choices, choices.”
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I spent seven very happy years in the right hand seat of the 747-400. Hand flying the aircraft or simply the act of operating it was, and is, a pleasure.