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ICAO FUND
Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has established its planned fund to help developing countries afford improvements to their air industry security, the International Financial Facility for Aviation Safety. Its budgets are ring-fenced and will be drawn upon to finance projects identified by ICAO’s Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme.…
SINGAPORE/AUSTRALIA
BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE and Australia have reached an informal ‘general agreement’ on an open skies arrangement and formal discussions are expected to begin on liberalising the two countries’ respective air space within months. The deal could clear regulatory hurdles hindering a Qantas-Air New Zealand alliance and allow Singapore Airlines to operate direct Australia-USA-Europe direct flights.…
QATAR AIRWAYS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
QATAR Airways has revealed it is keen to participate in the leasing of domestic airports in India. Its CEO, Akbar Al Baker, has told the Indian press that a subsidiary was in talks with an Indian company over forming a joint venture to participate in such an initiative.…
INDIAN METROS AGAIN
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
ANOTHER delay has hit the protracted Indian government scheme to lease out the key metropolitan airports of Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay), Chennai (Madras) and Kolkata (Calcutta). The proposal was referred to a committee of two cabinet ministers in January, so that further details could be worked out over a month by the ministries of finance and civil aviation.…
JAPAN AIRPORT FEES
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
JAPAN has rejected an American government demand that it lower landing fees at its two major international airports as part of wider business deregulation, according to the Japanese Shipping & Trade News. It says that the demand was made at a meeting of government officials from the two countries on regulations and business competition.…
AIR TRAFFIC STATS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation has claimed that September 11 did not significantly dampen demand for air travel last year, releasing air traffic figures pointing to a two per cent rise in increase over 2001 for total and international scheduled traffic in tonne-kilometres.…
AUDI - BLOCK EXEMPTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has struck a deal with Audi over a system of choosing and authorising repair shops in its network that Brussels will use as a model for other manufacturers trying to follow the European Union’s new block exemption regime.…
NON-ROAD MACHINERY
BY ALAN OSBORN
NEW legislation to reduce pollution from tractors, construction equipment and other non-road machinery has been proposed by the European Commission which said that all future diesel engines would have to be equipped with particulate filters using low sulphur fuel.…
RYAN AIR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STATE aid inquiry has been formally launched by the European Commission into the benefits offered to Ryanair by its first base in mainland Europe, Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgium. The Commission says there is a case to answer over advantages provided by the airport, which is controlled by the Walloon regional government.…
EMEA MARKETING WITHDRAWAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) has announced that the European Union marketing authorisation for hepatitis B treatment HEPACARE has been withdrawn by the European Commission. The decision followed manufacturer Celltech Pharmaceuticals Ltd’s commercial decision to abandon plans to sell the medicine.…