Air Transport News.For more company news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Jun 26, 2006 Mineta quits quits adj. On even terms with by payment or requital: I am finally quits with the loan. [Middle English, probably alteration (influenced by Medieval Latin as transportation chief. Norman Mineta, the only Democrat in the Bush administration cabinet, will leave next month as transportation secretary, having overseen the woes of the aviation industry after 9/11 and the bankruptcies of some of the biggest US airlines, United, Delta and Northwest. Mr Mineta, 74, a congressman for 20 years, was appointed by President Bill Clinton as secretary of commerce, becoming the first Asian-American cabinet member. He moved to transportation under Mr Clinton before becoming the first cabinet member to switch directly to a Republican administration. Jun 23, 2006 European Regions Airline Assn. said it opposes a new regulation that calls for special training and licensing of cabin crews. Dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. EU OPS Ops (ŏps), in Roman religion, goddess of harvests. She was the wife of Saturn, by whom she bore Jupiter and Juno. At her festivals, the Opiconsivia and the Opalia, held in August and December, respectively, she was worshiped as a goddess of sowing , it would require EU member states to impose standards of training and safety that currently are voluntary under the JAA JAA Joint Aviation Authorities (European equivalent of FAA) JAA Judge Advocates Association JAA Junior Achievement of Armenia JAA Just Another Acronym JAA Joint Action Area JAA Joint Aerospace Applications system. ERA argues that such a licensing system will not ensure minimum safety standards Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities or processes, etc. They may be advisory or compulsory and are normally laid down by an advisory or regulatory body that may be either voluntary or statutory. and may even decrease existing safety levels. Currently, individual airlines train their own cabin crews, but if the EU decides to license cabin crews there may be no legal obligation for individual airlines to conduct their own training programs. Cabin crew members who undertake training for a license will not necessarily have gone through an airline's recruitment and training procedures. In a statement, ERA declared that it supports strengthening safety standards as needed as needed prn. See prn order. but believes "there is no demonstrable definitive safety benefit in the issue of a license to the cabin crew." Jun 21, 2006 Iceland and India reached an air services agreement that will allow both countries to designate as many airlines as they wish and either country to limit, suspend or revoke To annul or make void by recalling or taking back; to cancel, rescind, repeal, or reverse. revoke v. to annul or cancel an act, particularly a statement, document, or promise, as if it no longer existed. service by a carrier designated by the other country under certain conditions, the Indian government announced last week. Designated airlines will be allowed to fly from any point in their own country to any two points in the other via any two intermediate points and to any two points beyond. The agreement will be signed formally upon approval by both governments. Jun 21, 2006 |
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