Travel Safety Update.For more safety & security news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Jun 5, 2006 Bill would send FAA, controllers back to talks. Congress has until June 5 to act on an impasse between the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control and the air traffic controllers union, the Washington Post's Stephen Barr writes. One lawmaker has introduced legislation that would send the two sides back to the table. Jun 1, 2006 US FAA this week raised the safety rating of Ecuador to Category 1 following a "reassessment" of the country's civil aviation authority Civil Aviation Authority civil (Brit) n → Behörde f für Zivilluftfahrt . Jun 1, 2006 Commercial aviation safety team identifies safety enhancements. The Commercial Aviation Safety Team has identified safety enhancements to reduce the leading causes of commercial aviation accidents in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . By implementing 47 of the most promising improvements, CAST experts believe they can reduce the fatality risk of commercial air travel in the United States by 73% by 2007. Thirty-one safety enhancements have been completed, and 16 are under way. May 30, 2006 Commercial aviation safety team's safety enhancements could save industry $620 million. Adoption of 47 safety enhancements identified by the Commercial Aviation Safety Team is expected to result in the reduction of the fatality risk of commercial air travel in the United States by 73% by 2007. This risk reduction is expected to save the industry more than $620 million each year in cost avoidance Cost avoidance is a management accounting term referring to an expense one has avoided incurring. It is commonly used in the field of energy management to describe the energy costs you avoided due to energy management initiatives. . May 30, 2006 Plane manufacturers scrutinize software. Software glitches are becoming a leading safety challenge in aviation. It is more difficult to fix problems with the latest generation of jetliners because they use more than 5 million lines of software code. Older planes use just 1 million lines. May 30, 2006 Travel stocks take a hit due to bird flu bird flu: see influenza. bird flu or avian influenza viral respiratory disease, mainly of birds including poultry and waterbirds but also transmissible to humans. fears. Fears of avian flu avian flu: see influenza. have dragged down many U.S. stocks this week. David Kotok, chairman and chief investment officer of Cumberland Advisors, a New Jersey-based money management firm supervising about $800 million in assets, says the most likely losers in a pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. would be retailers, restaurants and travel- and tourism-related companies. Airline stocks were among the hardest hit during the SARS scare in 2003. May 30, 2006 |
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