Air Transport News.Apr 2, 2007 Privacy experts criticize U.S.-EU data-sharing deal European privacy experts criticized the terms of data-sharing agreements between the U.S. and EU at a hearing organized by the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) is a standing committee of the European Parliament. External links
Open skies doesn't go far enough: The current open skies agreement The Open Skies Agreement is a recently negotiated treaty between the United States and the European Union. The agreement will allow any European or U.S. airline to fly any route between any city in the EU and any city in the United States. does not go far enough, the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). editorial board writes. The board notes the agreement allows U.S. airlines to fly within Europe, but does not allow European airlines to fly within the U.S. Congress should agree to a more sensible aviation policy, the board writes Mar 26, 2007 US State Dept. lauds Lauds is one of the two "major hours" in the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours. It is to be recited in the early morning hours, preferably near dawn. Structure of the hour open skies pact, agrees to delay, second phase Hailing the new EU-US open skies agreement as "a harbinger of further liberalization lib·er·al·ize v. lib·er·al·ized, lib·er·al·iz·ing, lib·er·al·iz·es v.tr. To make liberal or more liberal: "Our standards of private conduct have been greatly liberalized . . . ," the US Dept. of State last week signaled that the Bush Administration is prepared to sign the deal on April 30, that there will be no congressional opposition and that late European conditions regarding delayed implementation and second-stage negotiations are acceptable. Mar 26, 2007 European transport ministers, in addition to approving the EU-US open skies agreement last week, established an "equalization In communications, techniques used to reduce distortion and compensate for signal loss (attenuation) over long distances. mechanism" or fund to ensure airlines launching new services over Siberia do not gain competitive advantage over those currently paying overflight o·ver·flight n. An aircraft flight over a particular area, especially over foreign territory. Noun 1. overflight - a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory) charges. Last fall Russia agreed to phase out the charges by 2013 and said carriers starting new services before that date would be exempt . The regulation will apply from Sept. 1, the EU said, and will require all airlines to pay a fee equal to the average overflight charge minus 5%, according to press reports from Brussels. Mar 26, 2007 Assn. of European Airlines Assn. of European Airlines members flew 736.94 billion RPKs in 2006, up 5.2% from the previous year. Capacity climbed 4.4% to 963.48 billion ASKs and load factor rose 0.6 point to 76.5%. Passenger numbers were ahead 4.5% to 343.6 million. Among 30 members, Spanair enjoyed the largest RPK RPK Republican Party of Kentucky RpK Rocketplane Kistler (Oklahoma City, OK aerospace company) RPK Revenue Passenger Kilometre RPK Random Player Killing (gaming) increase at 20.6%, followed by THY Turkish Airlines at 20%. THY's 25% capacity increase was by far the largest. Adria Airways' 4.5-point improvement in load factor to 63.7% was the organization's biggest. Highest load factor overall was 83.7% at KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) . Mar 28, 2007 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new, free service that aims to keep travelers informed flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. Mar 26, 2007 |
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