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11-09-2011 | 04:54 PM
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11-11-2011 | 06:26 PM
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the FAA sorted through over 600 operating manuals and approves what THEY wanted Not just what the compant wanted. We now have 179 operating volumes and over 10K
pages of documents still for the FAA to review. Until the IT stuff is resolved with the Electronic log book we won't be finished. The flight proceedures are NOT the overriding factor. Dispatch will be integrating this winter Maint.Control not until next May if ever and then everything will be changed again when we all move to an even NEWER system.
There's no way in HELL anybody could have forseen what date the SOC was coming.
And even AFTER SOC none of this integreation will be even STARTED much less Finished
The FAA inspector we talked to said that even Delta and Northwest aren't even close to finished integrating yet. so this might take another 2-3 years to complete which includes the A350's and the UAL ordered 787's and possibly the 747-8's..
pages of documents still for the FAA to review. Until the IT stuff is resolved with the Electronic log book we won't be finished. The flight proceedures are NOT the overriding factor. Dispatch will be integrating this winter Maint.Control not until next May if ever and then everything will be changed again when we all move to an even NEWER system.
There's no way in HELL anybody could have forseen what date the SOC was coming.
And even AFTER SOC none of this integreation will be even STARTED much less Finished
The FAA inspector we talked to said that even Delta and Northwest aren't even close to finished integrating yet. so this might take another 2-3 years to complete which includes the A350's and the UAL ordered 787's and possibly the 747-8's..
11-14-2011 | 01:20 PM
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From: 787 CA
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-...09-717193.html
United Continental Given Time To Complete Safety Tests
By Doug Cameron
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL) won a partial victory in its quest to cement the merger of its two legacy airlines, as U.S. regulators gave it more time to complete essential safety-related tests on its aircraft fleet.
The largest U.S. airline group by traffic aims to secure a single operating certificate, by year-end, a grant from regulators that will allow it to start meshing the aircraft and crew from its United and Continental units.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a regulatory filing it turned down United Continental' request to skip retaking two essential safety tests--a partial aircraft evacuation and simulated water ditching--on three plane types.
The company plans to use Continental's operating certificate, which would see the transfer of three aircraft types that it doesn't fly--United's fleet of Boeing Co. (BA) 747s, 767-300s and Airbus A320-family planes. It had argued that since United already flew the planes--and Continental used to fly the 747--there was no need to retake the tests.
The FAA ruled it would have to complete the demonstrations, but said this wouldn't delay the grant of a single certificate and gave the company until June 1 next year to complete the requirements.
Continental, the launch customer for the Boeing 787, will also have to perform the two tests when the first of the planes arrives in the second half of next year.
-By Doug Cameron, Dow Jones Newswires; 312-750-4135; [email protected]
United Continental Given Time To Complete Safety Tests
By Doug Cameron
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL) won a partial victory in its quest to cement the merger of its two legacy airlines, as U.S. regulators gave it more time to complete essential safety-related tests on its aircraft fleet.
The largest U.S. airline group by traffic aims to secure a single operating certificate, by year-end, a grant from regulators that will allow it to start meshing the aircraft and crew from its United and Continental units.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a regulatory filing it turned down United Continental' request to skip retaking two essential safety tests--a partial aircraft evacuation and simulated water ditching--on three plane types.
The company plans to use Continental's operating certificate, which would see the transfer of three aircraft types that it doesn't fly--United's fleet of Boeing Co. (BA) 747s, 767-300s and Airbus A320-family planes. It had argued that since United already flew the planes--and Continental used to fly the 747--there was no need to retake the tests.
The FAA ruled it would have to complete the demonstrations, but said this wouldn't delay the grant of a single certificate and gave the company until June 1 next year to complete the requirements.
Continental, the launch customer for the Boeing 787, will also have to perform the two tests when the first of the planes arrives in the second half of next year.
-By Doug Cameron, Dow Jones Newswires; 312-750-4135; [email protected]
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