Jika pesawat terbakar, jangan panik, bertenang dan keluarlah dari pesawat dengan tenang tapi pantas.

Jika pesawat terbakar, jangan panik, bertenang dan keluarlah dari pesawat dengan tenang tapi pantas.

Nasihat itu diberikan kerana jika penumpang berebut rebut dan bertolak tolakan, maka proses mengeluarkan penumpang lebih sukar dan perlahan.

Jika semuanya orderly dan ikut arahan, pasti semua penumpang dapat keluar dengan pantas dan selamat.

Kes contoh kebakaran pesawat China Airlines pada 2006 ketika di landasan di Okinawa, Jepun.

Semua penumpang dan anak kapal selamat selepas keluar dengan tenang tapi pantas dan tidak tarik menarik atau tolak menolak.

MASwings catat peningkatan 13.56 % penumpang dan 44.42% kargo pada Januari-September 2011

Pengarah Urusan MASwings, Datuk Kapten Mohd Nawawi Awang, beliau seorang juruterbang Boeing 747 yang amat profesional dan komited dalam tugasnya.

MASwings, anak syarikat Penerbangan Malaysia, MAS mencatat peningkatan 13.56 peratus bilangan penumpang dalam tempoh 9 bulan pertama tahun ini, 2011 berbanding tempoh sama tahun lalu pada 2010.

Pada masa sama, pengendalian kargo MASwings turut mencatat pertumbuhan 44.42 peratus.

Dalam satu kenyataan dikeluarkan kementerian Pengangkutan, MASwings mengendalikan 2 juta 279 ribu 849 penumpang sejak Januari hingga September 2011.

Berbanding 2 juta 7 ribu 546 penumpang tempoh sama tahun lalu.

Pengendalian penumpang tertinggi adalah di lapangan terbang antarabangsa Kota Kinabalu sebanyak 498 ribu 821 orang.

Bagi pengendalian kargo, MASwings mengendalikan 3 juta 517 ribu 280 kilogram kargo.

Berbanding 2 juta 435 ribu 443 kilogram kargo dalam 9 bulan pertama tahun lalu, 2010.

Kargo terbanyak disumbang lapangan terbang Miri di Sarawak.

Peningkatan bilangan penumpang dan kargo MASwings, disumbang tambahan frekuensi penerbangan.

MASwings beroperasi di 7 Lapangan Terbang dan 9 padang terbang di Sabah dan Sarawak.

Ia termasuk Kota Kinabalu, Miri, Lahad Datu, Tawau, Sandakan, Bario, Ba'Kelalan dan Lawas.



MASwings menggunakan pesawat ATR-72-500 buatan Perancis menggantikan Pesawat Fokker Fifty buatan Belanda.

Syabas MASwings. Syabas MAS. Syabas Malaysia.

Syabas kepada Kapten Datuk Mohd Nawawi Awang, Pengarah Urusan MASwings.

Philippine president steps into airline row

Hope this does not happen in your place... Thousands of passengers in Manila, Phillippines were stranded in the airport for hours, not because of flight delays or technical issues or the weather factors - but there is not enough pilots to fly the aircraft!!!

Apparently 25 pilots - 13 captains and 12 first officers suddenly quit the airlines for better paying jobs as pilots in other airlines companies.. Pheww.. The situation is so serious till now that the Phillipines President, Beningno Aquino himself has to personally intervene to avoid further inconveniences to the passengers and more importantly to save the nation's aviation industry!!!

Well, Phillipines Airlines, PAL is quite a huge airlines company.

The aircrafts fleet includes :

Boeing 777-300 ER - 2 aircrafts

Boeing 747-400 - 5 aircrafts

Airbus A340-300 - 4 aircrafts

Airbus A330-300 - 8 aircrafts

Airbus A320-200 - 16 aircrafts

Airbus 319-100 - 4 aircrafts

The newsreport here :

MANILA, Phillipines 1st Aug 2010 :

President Benigno Aquino said on Sunday his government would intervene in a labour dispute between pilots and flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) which had caused flight cancellations.

Aquino said ministers from the departments of justice, transportation, labour and his chief aide would on Monday meet separately with airline executives and representatives from the pilots' union to resolve the row.

"Hopefully we will be able to come up with a resolution so that the riding public is not inconvenienced and the economy does not suffer because of what is an inter-company dispute," Aquino told reporters.

In a statement Sunday, PAL said it rejected the resignations of more than two dozen pilots and gave them a week to return to work or face civil and criminal charges.

At least 16 domestic and international flights had been cancelled, including three to Hong Kong, after 13 captains and 12 first officers flying its Airbus A319s and A320s that form the backbone of its fleet quit.

"They left without giving PAL ample time to train replacements," the airline said. "Some of them even owe PAL millions of pesos for the cost of training (them)."

PAL apologised to the public for the inconvenience, but said the resignations were unforeseen.

"Many of them simply did not show up for work and just handed in their resignation letters," PAL said.

It said most of those who quit had been poached by foreign airlines it did not name, at salaries three times those offered by PAL.

Aquino said labour officials would study whether the pilots had breached their contracts.

"If this was not warranted, then they lay themselves also open to appropriate charges," Aquino said.

The Association of Airline Pilots of the Philippines, which represent the PAL pilots, could not be reached immediately for comment.

AirAsia X denies flying too low when approaching Gold Coast, Australia

Malaysia's low cost carrier, AirAsia X has denied that its aircraft was flying too low while approaching Gold Coast airport in two incidents last week as the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) investigates the airline for two safety breaches on May 3 and 4.

“For the first incident, we do not think it is serious as we have checked all our flight data. We will supply the data to the ATSB so that they can analyse and compare with air traffic control data to see if there are any anomalies.

“They want to routinely check but we believe there is no issue. Whatever it may be, the safety of passengers will not be compromised,'' AirAsia X chief executive officer Azran Osman-Rani said.

As for the second incident, Azran said “we do not think anyone was in danger. There was low visibility and the aircraft had to be diverted to Brisbane when it was approaching Gold Coast,'' he said.

The only inconvenience was on the part of the passengers that had to land in Brisbane instead of Gold Coast but that was “the safest thing to do because of the weather conditions.''

The ATSB had posted details of the two incidents on its website which details out the incident on May 4 whereby the AirAsia X A330-300, registration 9M-XXB aircraft went “below the radar lowest safe altitude” while approaching the airport after a flight from Kuala Lumpur and ATSB classified the incident as serious.

Flight Global reported that the approach was made in instrument meteorological conditions, indicating low visibility due to cloudy or bad weather conditions at that time.

The bureau said a similar incident involving the same aircraft occurred on May 3 in visual meteorological conditions, which indicates sufficient visibility. An investigation into the incidents is ongoing, said the ATSB, adding that no injuries occurred as a result.

“To say we are putting passengers at risk and flying below the radar is completely incorrect. The landing was smooth and we are transparent and that is why we are sharing all the flight data. We will fully cooperate with the ATSB,'' Azran said.

source : the star online