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FedEx’s Bronczek is New IATA Chairman

KLM’s Hartman to Follow in 2011

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that FedEx Express President and CEO David Bronczek started a one-year term as the Chairman of the IATA Board of Governors. Bronczek succeeds Tony Tyler, CEO of Cathay Pacific Airways, who served as Chairman from June 2009.

Bronczek takes on the IATA Chairman duties as the air transport industry rebuilds in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. “IATA has a crucial role to play. Along with improving safety and effectively managing the industry’s settlement systems, IATA must play a role in laying the foundation for sustainable profitability. We must further reduce costs and improve efficiencies. And we need to continue to lead the industry on climate change. I look forward to supporting the immediate challenge of getting a globally inclusive solution for aviation on climate change at COP-16 and to helping Giovanni define longer-term goals. These are my priorities,” said Bronczek.

A 34-year veteran of the cargo and air transport industry, Bronczek has been FedEx Express CEO since 2000. FedEx is the world’s largest express transportation company and Bronczek also serves on the strategic management committee for FedEx Corp. “I will also bring a cargo perspective to my duties as chairman. I will place a special emphasis on IATA’s two flagship cargo programs of Cargo 2000 and Simplifying the Business. We must improve quality through the Cargo 2000 program and focus our efforts on achieving the cost savings that IATA e-freight can deliver to the cargo value chain as part of Simplifying the Business,” said Bronczek.

Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s Director General and CEO said, “First, we must thank Tony Tyler for a job well done. His leadership over the past year helped us navigate through one of the most challenging years in aviation history. On top of dealing with the financial crises, under Tony’s leadership IATA was also able to achieve an industry-wide consensus on concrete targets on climate change. And Tony played an instrumental role in developing our industry’s united strategy and targets on climate change. I look forward to working closely with David in the coming year to meet our growing challenges with continued strong industry leadership as we approach COP-16,” said Bisignani.

IATA also announced that the Board of Governors agreed to appoint Peter Hartman, CEO of KLM, to serve as Chairman following Bronczek’s term. The announcements were made as the 66th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit concluded in Berlin today. The 600 industry leaders gathered for the event discussed the industry’s most important issues, with executive briefing sessions on the environment and ways to manage through the crisis.

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NTSB Press Release announces Asiana Investigation


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NTSB ASSISTS GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH KOREA IN AVIATION ACCIDENT

Washington – The NTSB is dispatching a team of investigators to assist the government of South Korea in its investigation of the crash of Asiana flight 991, a Boeing 747-400F cargo airplane.

On July 28, 2011 at about 4:12 a.m. local time, the airplane, en route from Seoul Incheon International Airport to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, People’s Republic of China, crashed into the East China Sea about 70 miles west of Jeju Island, South Korea, after the flight crew reportedly declared an emergency due to an in-flight fire. The two pilots are believed to have been killed.

The NTSB has designated air safety investigator John Lovell as the traveling U.S. Accredited Representative. Mr. Lovell will be assisted by an NTSB Operational Factors investigator and advisors from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
and Boeing.

The investigation is being conducted by the Korea Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB), which will release all information. The ARAIB phone number is: +82-2-6096-1030 / Fax: +82-2-6090-1031 and its email address is: webmaster@araib.go.kr.

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EASA Proposes Fatigue Across the Board

New European rules ‘harmonizing’ the workload limits across 27 member states could allow pilots to fly aircraft for 22 hours without sleep, increasing a pilot’s work day from 16 hours 15 minutes to 20 hours, and the maximum shift time for a long haul flight with two pilots from 12 to 14 hours, as well as eliminating the need of a third pilot on long-haol flights.

The proposals have raised the attention of BALPA, The British Airline Pilots Association.

The seventeen percent increase in workload will result in a 5.5% higher chance of an accident.

It is inconceivable how EASA can call “flying farther with less rest-time, more frequently (7 starts in a row), no back up crew and more fatigue” bringing standards “up” when it is actually leveling down safety standards. Such a workload flies in the face of the constructs of human biology.

But the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) “has said they have no fundamental problem with the rules.”

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