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IATA chief urges co-operation to improve LatAm safety
(Santiago)
ATI
Wed, 02 Apr 08 17:22:45 GMT
IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani is urging Latin American nations to harmonise their standards and work with airlines to improve the region's relatively-poor air transport safety statistics.
Bisignani's plea, which also included a call to modernise air traffic control infrastructure, came during the IATA 'Wings of Change' conference at the FIDAE air show in Santiago.
"One of the principal problems of this region continues to be the lack of co-ordination and standardisation applied by different countries," he says. "Safety should know no frontiers."
Citing figures of one accident per 600,000 departures in Latin America, Bisignani says that the region still has twice the accident rate of other Western countries, although he acknowledges that this has improved from the 2005 rate of one in 400,000.
He highlights the decision by aviation authorities in Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil and Panama to incorporate IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA) scheme into their national oversight processes. IATA hopes 28 airlines from the region will have adopted IOSA standards by the end of the year.
(Santiago)
ATI
Wed, 02 Apr 08 17:22:45 GMT
IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani is urging Latin American nations to harmonise their standards and work with airlines to improve the region's relatively-poor air transport safety statistics.
Bisignani's plea, which also included a call to modernise air traffic control infrastructure, came during the IATA 'Wings of Change' conference at the FIDAE air show in Santiago.
"One of the principal problems of this region continues to be the lack of co-ordination and standardisation applied by different countries," he says. "Safety should know no frontiers."
Citing figures of one accident per 600,000 departures in Latin America, Bisignani says that the region still has twice the accident rate of other Western countries, although he acknowledges that this has improved from the 2005 rate of one in 400,000.
He highlights the decision by aviation authorities in Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil and Panama to incorporate IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA) scheme into their national oversight processes. IATA hopes 28 airlines from the region will have adopted IOSA standards by the end of the year.