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How do you know? Is it public
information?
Salvador
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:01
PM
My colleague
will not fly on any airline that outsources its maintenance and mechanical
work.
arthur
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:51 PM
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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.
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