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Government tightens air cargo security

Parliament has passed new laws which will strengthen screening arrangements for air cargo, in line with the Aviation White Paper released last year. Under the changes parcels and other freight will be security checked and certified earlier in the supply chain, before they are consolidated. This will replace the practice of aircraft operators conducting security

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Qantas Freight joins Cargo 2000

Qantas Freight has announced that it has joined freight quality management program Cargo 2000 as an associate member, which will see it move towards auditing and benchmarking of its efficiency. Qantas Freight head of commercial Theo Triantafillides said that joining Cargo 2000 would help to differentiate it and bring together many of the process improvements

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ACCC survey finds Brisbane Airport best performing, Sydney worst

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has finalised its 2008/09 annual airport service monitoring report, which ranked Brisbane Airport as the best performing in the country, while Sydney came in for major criticism. The report, which highlights a range of indicators including quality of service, prices, costs, profits and investment levels, ranked Brisbane with

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QantasLink applies for Cairns-Port Moresby services

Qantas has lodged an application with the International Air Services Commission (IASC) seeking an allocation for QantasLink to operate services from Cairns to Port Moresby from July 2010. The brief application notes that the airline seeks an allocation of 888 seats per week to operate 12 weekly services on the route using the 74-seat Bombardier

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EADS won’t go it alone on KC-X “soap opera”

EADS has confirmed it won’t go it alone in bidding for the USAF’s KC-X tanker replacement after partner Northrop Grumman’s decision not to bid for the program, effectively making the process a one-horse race for Boeing’s 767 based ‘NewGen Tanker’. EADS CEO Louis Gallois told European media on March 10 that he doesn’t “see any

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Glass cockpits no safer: NTSB

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The US National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) has adopted a study which shows that single engine aircraft with glass cockpits had a safety record no better than those with conventional instruments. The study, which was initiated over a year ago, looked at the accident rates of over 8000 small piston powered aeroplanes manufactured between 2002

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