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  Encyclopedia: NATO phonetic alphabet
W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet.
After further study and modification by each approving body, the revised alphabet was implemented November 1, 1951: The RAF phonetic alphabet is not a phonetic alphabet in the sense in which that term is used in phonetics, i.
The final version given in the table above was implemented by the ICAO on March 1, 1956, and was undoubtedly adopted shortly thereafter by the ITU, because it appears in the 1959 Radio Regulations as an established phonetic alphabet.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/NATO-phonetic-alphabet   (4005 words)

  
 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - IATA Airline Designators
IATA Airline Designators are two-letter codes assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the world's airlines.
The two character airline designator listed are for use in reservations, timetables, tickets, tariffs, air waybills, schedules publications and in airline interline telecommunications, as well as for the airline industry applications.
The designator is used to identify an airline for all commercial purposes.
fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/IATA_Airline_Designators   (288 words)

  
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If airlines go on strike, there is an immediate impact on consumers, and in the longer run, there can be a significant impact on the airline being struck and on industry competition.
The Office of Aviation Analysis is responsible for advising the Secretary on the effect of airline strikes or the potential of airline strikes on these services, including the continued availability of service to consumers, the financial impact on the airline and identifying which markets will be the most affected by the strike action.
Many of the airlines in the industry were facing considerable financial difficulties prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks due to sluggish economy as well as high cost structures.
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 ipedia.com: Air India Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The operational hub of the airline is at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India.
In 1953, the Government of India chose to exercise its option to purchase a majority stake in the carrier and Air India International Limited was born as one of the fruit of the Air Corporations Act that nationalised the air transportation industry.
The airline ferried 3.39 million passengers during the financial year ending March 2003 and achieved a load factor of 71.6 per cent, substantially higher than the 66 per cent load factor recorded in the preceding year.
www.ipedia.com /air_india.html   (1618 words)

  
 ICAO airline code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with ICAO airline designator.
ICAO Airline Codes are three-letter codes assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to the world's airlines.
This section merged into the ICAO airline designator (B).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ICAO_airline_code   (229 words)

  
 OAG - Travel Jargon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The flights all need to be on the same airline and have to be bought outside of the country in which they will be used.
A flight where the operating airline allows seats/space to be sold by one or more than one airline and all participants to such an agreement sell their seats/space on that flight under their own flight designator.
A flight where the operating airline leases (or blocks) some seats/space to one or more other airlines and all participants to such an agreement sell their seats/space on that flight under their own designator (s).
www.oag.com /NorthAmerica/traveljargon/index.asp?ctyorg=JPN   (2924 words)

  
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ICAO standards and recommended practices state that SIGMET's should be for periods no greater than 6 hours and preferably for periods no greater than 4 hours except in the special case of volcanic ash cloud where the period may be extended up to 12 hours.
ICAO abbreviations considered by the meteorologist not to be readily understood should not be used; in this case the intended meaning should be spelled out.
ICAO abbreviations are given by ICAO Document 8400, "ICAO Abbreviations and Codes." A copy of this document should be available at each MWO; the document may be obtained from the Aviation Services Branch.
www.nws.noaa.gov /wsom/manual/archives/ND388805.HTML   (4191 words)

  
 THE CARGO LETTER [372]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Airlines were left without insurance following the attacks in the U.S, the EC said.
By mid-Jan. Crossair's LX designator is likely to have replaced the "SR" code on short & medium haul flights and is the front runner for long haul flights that revert to Crossair at the end of March.
DAT Airline May Not Fly........as DAT, intended successor airline to bankrupt Belgian carrier Sabena, looks bad after a group of potential investors withdrew their business plan for Sabena Interservices Center, the defunct airline's in-house bank, which had been scheduled to provide 100 million euro.
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 Reporting Requirements for Disability-Related Complaints - 2002 Hot News Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
These airlines are primarily trans-border air taxis operating between the U.S. and Canada, and to a lesser extent between the U.S. and Mexico and the U.S. and the Caribbean.
Under the wet-lease arrangement, it is the operating carrier (lessee) and not the airline that is providing the aircraft and crew (lessor) that is responsible for recording disability-related complaint data and submitting such data to the Department in an annual report.
The two-character airline designator code that is used to identify these flights in schedules and on tickets is the code of the carrier whose name is used rather than that of the carrier actually providing the service.
www.ohiosilc.org /news/2002/020214_dot_complaints.html   (5041 words)

  
 Senate Executive Report 108-8
Absent an airline's voluntary waiver of the Warsaw liability limits, recoveries for death or injury during an accident that occurs on an international flight to or from the United States are currently subject to a limit of $75,000 per passenger.
The only exception would be a case in which the airline was able to show that it was not responsible for any of the damage done, or that the damage was solely due to the responsibility of a third party.
Above the 100,000 SDR amount, the airline would retain its ability to show that the damage done was either not due to its own negligence or other wrongful act or omission or that the damage was solely due to the negligence or other wrongful act or omission of a third party.
www.state.gov /e/eb/rls/othr/25039.htm   (15840 words)

  
 Business News of Monday, 14 March 2005
ADM has received information from airline industry sources that "anytime from now the summer schedules would be published".
Ghana International Airlines, the new airline has however already received the "national carrier" designation and ICAO designator code and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) recently awarded the airline Air Carrier License (ACL") number 197 valid for domestic, regional and inter-continental routes.
The Chief Executive Officer of GIA is J. Ralph Atkin, the founder of SkyWest airlines of the United States.
www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/rumor/artikel.php?ID=77205   (639 words)

  
 DELTA AIR LINES INC /DE/ (Form: 10-K, Received: 03/12/2004 17:12:34)
Based on calendar year 2003 data, we are the second-largest airline in terms of passengers carried, and the third-largest airline measured by operating revenues and revenue passenger miles flown.
Airlines are permitted to set ticket prices in most domestic and international city pairs without governmental regulation, and the industry is characterized by significant price competition.
Reid was an executive of Lufthansa German Airlines from 1991 to June 1998, serving as President and Chief Operating Officer from April 1997 to June 1998, as Executive Vice President from 1996 to March 1997, and as Senior Vice President, The Americas, from 1991 to 1996.
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 Home Based Travel Agent - ABC's of Travel
airline codes: The systems of abbreviations for airlines, airports, cities, and fares used by the travel industry throughout the world.
off-line carrier: Any airline other than the one whose computer is being used to obtain information and make reservations; any carrier other than the airline an agency is using to make a multi-airline booking, whether by computer or by telephone.
off-route charter: A flight by a scheduled airline to or from a point it is not authorized to serve on a regularly scheduled basis; limited by some governments.
www.home-based-travel-agent.com /abcs_of_travel.asp   (8383 words)

  
 dot travel TLD application
IATA also is responsible for allocating the three-letter codes which designate the cities and airports of the world (e.g., “JFK” for New York’s John F.
This turnover is expected to more than double during the next three years, with airlines leading the way in the travel industry in terms of the e-commerce share of their total business.
Airlines operating in the USA could be doing more than 10% of their business on-line by 2003, up from 6% today, again according to Jupiter Communications.
www.icann.org /tlds/travel1/sectionc1.htm   (2295 words)

  
 ATC Readme file
The DFW collection was designated as a "pilot corpus" from the beginning, and minor changes in collection protocol and even equipment were allowed between recording sessions for this reason.
Three letter air carrier company designators are assigned to all air carriers by the F A A using ICAO standards.
Intersections are designated along airways formed by radials from VORTACS and are used for position determination and Air Traffic Control separation purposes.
www.ldc.upenn.edu /readme_files/atc.readme.html   (7064 words)

  
 LTL Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Installation Contractor - the preferred contractor (designated by show management) or an independent contractor (hired directly by exhibitor) that is responsible for supervision and coordination of labor for installation and dismantling.
Log Body - a truck or trailer body designed primarily for the transportation of logs or other loads that may be boomed or chained in place.
Semi-trailer - a vehicle designed to be drawn by another vehicle and constructed so that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon, or is carried by, a towing vehicle.
www.usfreightways.com /ltl/new_customers/glossary.jsp   (16335 words)

  
 Operational Support / Aircraft Entry Requirements in Russia & the CIS - Global Aviation Consulting, Inc.
b) the airline must be eligible to flight operations in accordance with provisions of a bilateral or multilateral agreements between the States of foreign airlines and the Republic of Kazakhstan;
When operating flights by foreign airlines at the airports of the Republic of Kazakhstan the flights can be performed provided that there is a kazakhstan specialist on the aircraft board (a navigator or pilot), exeption - Astana, Almaty, Aktyubinsk, Karaganda and other airports where foreign aircraft operate a regular scheduled flights.
All documents must follow the ICAO standard format according to relevant Appendices to ICAO Annex 9 and shall be provided in Russian or English.
www.globalavia.com /technical/kazakhstan.htm   (1906 words)

  
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These areas are the Eastern (E), Central (C), and Western (W) U.S. The boundaries that separate the Eastern from the Central and the Central from the Western U.S. are 87 and 107 degrees West, respectively.
In the conterminous U.S., this means that a phenomenon that is assigned an alphabetic designator in one area will retain that designator as it moves within the area or into one or more other areas.
FISDL is designed to provide coverage throughout the continental U.S. from 5,000 feet AGL to 17,500 feet MSL, except in those areas where this is unfeasible due to mountainous terrain.
www.airresearch.com /Pilots/AIM/Chap7/aim0701.html   (11864 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
See for the movie and Air America Radio Air America was an airline secretly owned by the CIA that supplied in Southeast Asia during the Second Indochina War.
The operational hub of the airline is at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India India.
Air Jamaica is the national airline of Jamaica Caribbean Cubana and BWIA History Air Jamaica traces its roots to April 1969, when it connected Kingston and, with New York and Miami owned a minor share and provided technical, maintenance and logistical help.
www.en-cyclopedia.com /index1/ai   (2029 words)

  
 now: icao designator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Airlines of the World - the Major Airlines - IATA airline designation...
ICAO Headquarters, Montreal, Canada For general information on ICAO please contact: ICAO, External Relations and Public Information Office (EPO) 999 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3C 5H7, Canada Tel...
Insert the 4-letter ICAO designator for the destination airport.
www.mono-zelle.de /icao_designator.html   (265 words)

  
 The Online DC-3 Aviation Museum Log Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As I recall, it was flown by American Airlines pilots and took the southern route.
I flew the DC-3 with PBA Airlines from 1980 to 1985.
She was a mature old gal but her beauty was and is unsurpassed in aircraft design.
www.centercomp.com /dc3/logbook/logbook.html   (13996 words)

  
 SBF Glossary: I to ICGSL
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Email acronym for a common expression that means the same thing as the old expression it presumably (some dispute this) evolved from: ``I could not care less.'' Maybe it was a case of too much irony.
The failure of the common assumption that scattering cross sections are field-dependent, and the associated calculational approximations (fundamental calculations of scattering rates usually assume asymptotically flat ``initial'' and ``final'' potentials).
www.plexoft.com /SBF/I.html   (6076 words)

  
 SBF Glossary: W
In Spanish, Italian and various other languages, the letter w is called by a name that translates `double vee.' It seems to make more sense than double-yoo, but yoo and vee developed from different glyphs of the same Latin character.
The reason is that the difference is what one calls a ``second-order correction.'' Suppose that the total centerline-to-centerline separation between axles is C, the horizontal separation between wheel centers on level ground is W, and the difference in wheel radii (under whatever load) is h.
This is a multisection generalization of the design in E.
www.plexoft.com /cgi-bin/W.cgi   (12723 words)

  
 Lufthansa - IBWiki
Lufthansa is the name of the largest German airline company.
It uses the IATA designator LH and the ICAO designator BLH.
As a League decision, the Hansa decided on January 6, 1926 to unify their air-transport interests and thus Lufthansa was born.
ib.frath.net /w/Lufthansa   (336 words)

  
 Why is it called WN?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Airlines in US CRS's use two letter designators, assigned by, I think, the ATA.
The SW airline designator code is assigned to Namib Air.
Further info can be found at International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) www.icao.int and International Air Transport Association (IATA) www.iata.org.
www.flyertalk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=85047   (620 words)

  
 Airliners.net Civil Aviation: Canadian Airports - Why The "Y"
I believe C is the ICAO code for Canada - though I can never remember whether the ICAO code or the IATA code is the 4-letter one.
Someone decided to include airports in that, so CY was designated for Airports, though other navaids were still assigned to the CY sequence as well.
Additionally, preceding the two-letter code, was placed a Y (meaning "yes") where the reporting station was co-located with an airport, a W (meaning "without") where the reporting station was not co-located with an airport, and a U where the reporting station was co-located with an NDB.
www.airliners.net /discussions/general_aviation/read.main/1404354   (1543 words)

  
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