Marc Joel Atrero

Compass Attracts Healthy Business Traffic: Almost half of all Compass passengers are professionals travelling for business reasons, according to an inter- nal survey carried out by the airline. The internal survey revealed that 49. 7% of the airline’s passengers were business travellers, a result which reportedly surprised Compass management (given that the carrier was originally

Bottom Line • Australian Airlines has announced a net operating profit of $8. 97m for the six months to 31 December, comparing with the pilots’ dispute induced $48. 03m loss incurred in the same period 1989. Chairman Ted Harris noted post-deregulation fare discounting had cut into profit margins. • Hawker de Havilland has announced a

FAA Acts on Malibu Crashes: The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Piper are acting to curb the spate of Malibu crashes, with a type rating for Malibu pilots being considered. At least eight Malibus – six in the US, one in Mexico and one in Japan – have been lost during the past two

Wing Failure Downs Raaf Orion: Wing structural failure apparently caused the crash of the RAAF P-3C Orion at Cocos Island on 26 April, according to an RAAF spokesperson. The Orion was one of two such aircraft involved in searching for a missing bulk ore carrier when it crashed. The aircraft was flying low over Cocos

Tay Powered 727 to Fly: The first Rolls-Royce Tay 650 powered Boeing 727-100 Is expected to fly in April 1992 to commence US Federal Aviation Administration certification flight trials. Developed by Texas based subsidiary of Italy’s Alenia, Dee Howard, the Tay retrofit program is being developed amidst growing market interest. The company already holds a

707 Made “Economically Obsolete”?: A Federal Aviation Administration directive, patterned after a Boeing recommendation for structural modifications, threatens to make the 707/720 “economically obsolete”, according to Av Week. The directive comes as a result of a Boeing recommendation prompted by fatigue cracking and corrosion detected in the aircraft. The FAA notes that some 43 US