My colleague will not fly on any airline that outsources its maintenance and mechanical work.
arthur -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Futurework] Unfriendly workplace in the sky Harry Pollard wrote: > Yep, re-regulation will raise prices and keep the great unwashed off the > planes. Harry surely prefers cheapo airlines that save on maintenance. Better dead than red, right Harry? http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/25/france.air.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest France 'to publish air blacklist' Thursday, August 25, 2005; Posted: 8:41 a.m. EDT (12:41 GMT) Photo: 121 died when Helios airliner slammed into mountains north of Athens. PARIS, France (Reuters) -- France says it will soon publish its own blacklist of airlines and countries with poor air safety records, after a spate of air crashes raised concerns passengers were being kept in the dark over safety. Transport Minister Dominique Perben, who indicated last week Paris supported a Europe-wide blacklist, told Le Monde newspaper France wanted to move quickly to allay public fears. "In the coming days, the French civil aviation authority (DGAC) will publish different lists on the Internet," Perben told Le Monde on Thursday. "As in the United States and Britain, we will provide passengers with all the information at our disposal." Airline safety has become a sensitive political issue after three fatal crashes in less than two weeks. On Tuesday, 40 people died in Peru's northern jungle when a Boeing 737-200 of the state-run TANS airline crashed. Some 121 people died when a Cypriot airliner slammed into mountains near Athens on August 14. Two days later, 160 people died when a Colombian jet crashed in Venezuela, including 152 French nationals from the French-administered Caribbean island of Martinique. Demanding tougher international scrutiny of airlines, Perben told Le Monde Paris would publish a list of airlines banned from landing in France and name the states whose planes were banned from the country. In addition, the DGAC civil aviation authority would publish a list of regular and charter airlines whose aircraft have permission to fly from France. It would also name the airlines likely to be chartered by authorized airlines, Perben said. "At the end of the year, we will publish rules forcing tour operators and companies that charter other (airlines) to tell passengers, when they buy their ticket, who the carrier will be," Perben told Le Monde. France has been pushing for a so-called "Blue Label" for reliable airlines but has run into opposition from the airline industry. Perben said he had told airlines he wanted the scheme in place by the end of the year or early 2006 at the latest. The French drive mirrors one by the European Union. European Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot said last week the EU executive was planning to introduce a blacklist of airlines whose aircraft had been grounded for safety reasons. The measure, to be set up under an EU accord that predates the Venezuela crash, only needed a vote in the European Parliament to come into force, Barrot told French radio. Once the measure was approved, Europe's air safety agency would be able to organize information-sharing on grounded airlines, said Barrot. The data would have to take the form of a blacklist, as in the United States, he said. Copyright 2005 Reuters. All rights reserved. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
