Around the industry
Safety Glasses:
An eye on safety
Frequent caller awards
MCI Communications Corp.—the USA’s second-largest long-distance company—
is trying to turn frequent flyers into frequent callers. Starting today, members of
American Airlines’ AAdvantage frequent- flyer program can now get five miles of
credit towards free trips or other awards for each $1 of calls they make through
MCI.
FAA directive
The FAA said an airworthiness directive it issued last month applies to all Boeing
aircraft delivered since December 31,1980, “because all of the cross-wiring and
plumbing defects that have been discovered were found on airplanes delivered
after that date” (Aviation Daily, February 2,19^). The directive applies to 741
aircraft, including B737s. Boeing, in the meantime, is studying the design,
production procedures, and functional testing of the systems to determine
whether changes are needed, the FAA said.
Continental may grow CLE
Continental is planning to finance a more
than $30 million expansion project at
Cleveland Hopkins with bonds issued by the
city of Cleveland. Continental said the
project would give it the capacity to add
dozens of daily flights to its current sched
ule of 72 departures. Under terms of the
expansion project. Continental would build
additional gates and either buy or build a
hangar.
SAS likes Texas
Scandinavian Airlines System has increased its stake in the Texas Air Corp. to 7.9
percent, from 6.3 percent SAS bought the additional 624,500 shares on the open
market for prices ranging from $13.87 to $14.87 a share.
Eye on the competition
United will discontinue its three lAD-PIT nonstop roundtrips on March 1. USAir
offers four daily nonstop roundtrips in this market.
United will also expand its SFO hub service in several markets on February
15. United and USAir service is as follows:
Alaska reduced its BUR-OAK
SFO nonstop roundtrips nonstop roundtrips February 1 from
sbc to one daily. On the same date, it
also reduced its BUR- SFO nonstop
roundtrips from three to one. USM-
serves BUR-OAK with five nonstop
roundtrips. Both USAir and United
serve BUR-SFO with nine and five
nonstop roundtrips, respectively.
Continental decreased EWR-BUF nonstop roundtrips from 13 to 10 flights daily
on February 1. USAir serves this market with sbc and a half nonstops.
United
Change
USAir
Market
2/15/89 vs 2/1/89
2/10/89
BUR
5
+1
9
LAS
6
+1
3
LAX
16 1/2
+2
81/2
ONT
6
+1
4
PHX
5
+1
3
SEA
9
+2
4
“It won’t happen to me. I’ve worked
with band saws for more than 23 years
and never had a problem. But, I think
I’ll wear my safety glasses anyway, just
in case...”
This thought passed through the
mind of Bill Emluig, mechanic-PIT Cm
photo center), just moments before a
piece of metal he was cutting was pro
pelled into the right eyepiece of his
safety glasses.
The incident occurred while Emling
was operating a band saw to cut and
shape a piece of steel at the airframe
sheetmetal shop at the PIT mainte
nance facility. According to Emling,
the saw blade suddenly bound on the
oneinch thick metal stock and threw
the piece at bullet-like speed back
toward his face.
“I never saw it coming,” Emling said,
“There was no time to react. I didn’t
even have a chance to duck or deflect
it with my hand.
“I have no doubt that my safety
glasses saved my eyesight,” he said.
“Don’t wait until it’s too late. I consi
der myself very fortunate in light of
what could have happened had I for
gotten to put on my glasses,” Emling
said. ^
Charies Laughlin, mechanic-PIT Geft).
and Pete Shandrik, foreman-PIT, join
Emling to display the pair of safety
glasses that protected Emling’s eye
from serious injury.
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