S7 Airlines Gets IOSA Certificate

Nat · Post by **Nat** » 03 Oct 2007, 13:50

S7 Airlines has become the second Russian airline certified by International Air Transport Organization (IATA) http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/4867/

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 03 Oct 2007, 16:10

After last year's crash?

TUB001 · Post by **TUB001** » 03 Oct 2007, 16:31

earthman wrote:After last year's crash?

Which one?

Post by **ElcoB** » 03 Oct 2007, 16:37

July 9, 2006: An Airbus A310 operating as S7 Airlines Flight 778, carrying 193 passengers and 10 crew members, suffered a landing accident at the Irkutsk International Airport in Siberia. The jet failed to decelerate on landing, overran the runway and crashed into a concrete barricade. A total 124 persons on board did not survive.

Passenger plane crashes in Russia

Nat · Post by **Nat** » 03 Oct 2007, 20:13

I was surprised myself. When this summer i went to Prague and the agency offered me to buy a discount plane ticket of S7 Airlines, i said to them: "No way! It`s an airline for suiciders"

And bought a ticket of KrasAir... and actually it sucked also....

TUB001 · Post by **TUB001** » 03 Oct 2007, 20:33

ElcoB wrote:
July 9, 2006: An Airbus A310 operating as S7 Airlines Flight 778, carrying 193 passengers and 10 crew members, suffered a landing accident at the Irkutsk International Airport in Siberia. The jet failed to decelerate on landing, overran the runway and crashed into a concrete barricade. A total 124 persons on board did not survive.
Passenger plane crashes in Russia

Thanks!

No idea about the quality of S7, but it seems that they are developing quite well though!

TCAS_climb · Post by **TCAS_climb** » 03 Oct 2007, 22:14

From what I witnessed, IOSA appears to be a big joke... used by IATA to justify its existence.

The certification of the airlines is performed, in their majority, by small consulting firms owned -discretely- by the major airlines (never miss an opportunity to make money!). I know of one example -which shall remain unamed- where there were numerous non-compliances but the company managed to keep its IOSA certificate. How? Guess what... That airline was being audited by a certification firm owned by the major it feeds 24/7.

Did I hear somebody say "conflict of interest"?
Nooooooo, never in aviation...

In developped countries IOSA creates unecessary problems and interferences with equivalent or higher national standards: airlines must comply with different standards that have not been coordinated, and it raises tough questions on the issue of precedence. In developping countries it might be a good replacement for poor national standards (if any).