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How safe are our airports?
The 9/11 events have been a wake up call to governments all around the world. Till then, security measures at airports were seen as adequate. But reality has proven them wrong, and airports all over the world have been beefing up their security measures.
Airports have always been a target for terrorists and other criminals. Due to the sheer large number of people that go through airports everyday, coupled with the possibilities with a hijacked air craft, terrorists are attracted to use airports as their home base.
What is Airport security?
The procedures used to prevent crime in airports and airplanes are collectively known as airport security. The main aims of airport security are prevention of attacks on airports and airplanes, prevention of dangerous materials being carried into airports [...]
Land Use in Australian Airports
Gradually over the years, “the changes in ownership of Australian airports have been very significant. In the first instance, the Australian government developed responsibility of aerodromes and civil airports through the Aerodrome Local Ownership Plan.
In the last few years , the aviation industry has witnessed an “unprecendented growth, and the key driver for this has been the strong global and local economies”. It is not known if the industry would continue to grow in the same pace during the time of “anticipated financial and oil crisis and the most recent the influenza outbreaks”.
Out of all these, the only factor which is certain is that the airport operators and owners will be continue to face the “ever demanding environments in which they are doing their business”.
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Profits a must for the airlines
Flight timings aren’t the only thing which is padded by the airline industry. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said that the global airline industry would not be able to make enough profits following the financial crisis. But the crisis did not make any difference to the profits made by the airline industry. According to a recent announcement made by the IATA, the airline industry made an aggregate profit of $2.5 billion.
The demand for seats is on the rise and people are traveling a lot these days. According to a report by the USA Today, Giovanni Bisignani, “The global economy is recovering from the depths of the financial crisis much more quickly than could have been anticipated”.
In the year 2009, marked the downfall of the global airline industry and suffered an [...]
Poor Ground Operations Occurrences at Australian Airports
It is believed that the aviation industry has been extremely slow when risks related to ground operations had to be realized. “While most occurrences on airport aprons and taxiways do not have consequences in terms of loss of life, they are often associated with aircarft damage, delays to passengers and avoidable financial costs to industry”. The main focus of this report is to analyse and examine the ground occurrences which involve high capacity aircraft operations.
There have been many incidences when because of a failure in proper ground operation duty an entire lapse has taken place. The results are at times absolutely not known. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau have taken several measures to take control and find out about the occurrences. But unfortunately, they have not been [...]
Mangalore Airport incident: Search continues for Black Box
A worst nightmare took its place on Saturday 23 May, when the Air India Express airliner crashed outside the Mangalore Airport. This major incident killed 158 people out of which 8 people has miraculously survived. Right on the same day of the incident, all the bodies were recovered. However, one thing that has remained a mystery is the Black Box.
Officials are still searching the crucial black box, so that they could get into the conclusion. In this case, all the debris and the bodies were found, but the black box is yet to come out from the curtain. The officials have found the cockpit voice recorder of the Boeing 737-800 on Sunday morning. To make the things clear, special investigation team has also joined their hands with the Indian officials from USA just to assist and investigate the [...]
Flights facing disruptions due to the volcanic ash in Europe
It is now a month after the highly clouds of volcanic ashes in Europe has disrupted all the flights to and from the continent. All the flights and the airports were badly hit by the ash clouds that covered the sky heavily. Volcanic ashes in Europe were actually emerged from Iceland, which after some continuous days was come to a halt. Seems like the world called Europe was stopped without functioning further.
Unfortunately, the world is again responding slowly, as the volcanic ash clouds were again started hitting the continent and the airports heavily. Now this condition is leading to the closure of almost all the airports, especially in Southern Europe. Just before two to three days, the airports were again shutting its door, and the major reason behind this is the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull. [...]
Japan Airlines: Hitch to American Airlines and Ditch to Delta
The kitten is out of bag, Japan Airlines (JAL) and American Airlines strengthening the partnership and even applying for Approval of Antitrust Immunity!
The allegiance of Japan Airlines was looming as the key players American Airlines and Oneworld as one party and Delta and Sky team being another. JAL has finally chosen over and hitched itself to American Airlines and ditched The Delta and Sky team. The air alliances are Oneworld, Sky Team and Star Alliance.
The world aviation industry faced adversity in times of recession, and now is in face of recovery. JAL filed for bankruptcy, which led to the steamy race between the airlines and air alliances. Though JAL has been receiving support from government and from Japanese taxpayers, Japan Airlines been struggling for years and now finally filed [...]
Soaring air travel lifts up Chinese Aviation Market
Records are meant to be broken, and China is bound to make on its name new records. China, emerging world economy of Asia, has contributed not only to the country itself, but brought some relief in times of recession to Asia. Putting the continent of Asia on the global economy already, China is making wings and waves in the Aviation industry.
The domination of North America, as worlds aviation market has been jolted severely as Asia Pacific is taking on as the world’s largest passenger market in Aviation. This tantalizing and amazing report has been supported by the new figures that have been issued by International Air Transport Association, which showcased that North America flew some 638 million passengers in North America whereas Asia Pacific flew 647 million.
This dramatic growth and [...]
