Aviation

Health of passengers in Aviation

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Recently there has been some concern about the health of air travelers over long range flight. We would like to know what the Federal Aviation Administrator is doing to correct this situation. Many incidents of discomfort over long flights has come into the news, strange to note that it is gone unnoticed in Aviation history for a long time and even reports of the matter was never available in early aviation news either why? One reason could be due to the advent of modern Aviation. Now that the Aviation safety is a major factor world wide the international civil aviation organism must look into the matter carefully. Nowadays in many countries Aviation and the role of government are inseparable if we forget about business aviation for the moment.
Perhaps the most vivid in our memories is the case of that young new bride. Who died due to a massive clotting of blood, this ought to have caused some awareness and concern. Commercial Aviation Safety authorities should have come under increased criticism.
More recently a stand by remedy has been proposed although what good it will do remains to be seen. They advise passengers to just get up and move about (walk up and down the aisle) once or twice while in flight but just imagine the chaos this is going to create, if suddenly all the passengers start getting up and going up and down. The captain is going to have a nasty time adjusting the centre of gravity of the air craft during the entire flight! Let new guidelines be set in the interest of the further of the Aviation industry.
Incidentally have the latest aircraft, including the a380 super jumbo and its American equivalent (B777 or B787) taken into account this problem. We would also have to consider the factor of aviation security where many passengers who would be nervous due to natural fears of danger could be mistaken for terrorists. All this is only going to make the Aviation Insurance people happier. As this would be their next chance to open a new series of policies in this regard. This is going to increase the cost of the ticket. How are Aviation authorities going to cope in the face of already increasing costs of Aviation fuel too?

China to open up key domestic air routes to competition

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BEIJING, (AFP) –The monopoly enjoyed by China’s three airlines on the nation’s most lucrative domestic routes will end by 2010 as part of plans to liberalize the aviation industry, states press said last week. Under the plan, the civil aviation administration of China will lift its control of domestic routes so that carriers can choose which routes they want to fly, the China daily reported, citing an official with the organization. Currently the nation’s three biggest carriers – Air China, China Eastern and China Southern – have a monopoly on most of the big profit-making routes.

“Liberalization of the transport services sector is a global trend, and China will follow the trend,” the newspaper quoted the administration’s deputy director, Yang Guoqing, as saying as he explained the plan. “We have drafted an overall policy (to) strengthen safety controls and gradually loosen other controls.”The China Daily said removing the monopoly would give a chance for small privately owned airlines and joint ventures to compete with the major carriers on the profitable routes.

Airline industry raises profit forecast, but debt weighs

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VANCOUVER, Canada, (AFP) – The world airline industry last week raised its profit forecast for this year to five billion dollars, from 3.8 billion dollars, but said the sector was languishing in debt. Giovanni Bisignani, director general of international air transport association, made the announcement in Vancouver at the opening of IATA’s annual meeting. “While the results are encouraging, airlines are encouraging, airlines are a 470-billion-dollar industry,” he said. Calling a profit of five billion dollars “peanuts,” Bisignani said the industry needed 40 billion dollars “just to cover the cost of capital.” “The industry is moving in the right direction, but with 200 billion dollars of debt, the financial hole is deep. The challenge is to turn peanuts into sustainable profits,” he said.
The latest financial forecasts for the sector confirmed a healthy recovery from the nosedive that followed the September 2001 attacks in the United States and soaring fuel prices, sinking the sector in more than 40 billion dollars in losses over the past six years. IATA already had sharply revised upwards its 2007 estimate in April, from 2.5 billion dollars, as a relatively tourism and airline transport. IATA represents some 250 airlines which account for 94 percent of scheduled international air traffic. More than 150 airlines chief executives as well as top management from airports, civil aviation authorities, manufactures and non-governmental organizations attend the three-day event.