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37 records in 1978
European Union · European Commission · 20 December 1978
Germany · German Bundestag · 13 October 1978
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1978
Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to immediately dissolve the Airlines Mutual Aid Pact. Directs the Board to study the collective bargaining process within the airline industry and to make recommendations to Congress within six months on methods of alleviating the occurrence of protracted airline strikes.
Germany · German Bundestag · 29 September 1978
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to coordinate and take whatever steps necessary to make available, as soon as possible a collision avoidance system for use on all civil aircraft of the United States.
Germany · German Bundestag · 19 September 1978
Germany · German Bundestag · 15 September 1978
Germany · German Bundestag · 7 September 1978
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1978
Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to immediately terminate the Airlines Mutual Aid Pact and prohibits the Board from approving any agreement or pact whose purposes are the same or similar to such Pact.
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1978
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 12611 (Air service).
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to immediately dissolve the Airlines Mutual Aid Pact. Directs the Board to study the collective bargaining process within the airline industry and to make recommendations to Congress within six months on methods of alleviating the occurrence of protracted airline strikes.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to immediately dissolve the Airlines Mutual Aid Pact. Directs the Board to study the collective bargaining process within the airline industry and to make recommendations to Congress within six months on methods of alleviating the occurrence of protracted airline strikes.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to immediately dissolve the Airlines Mutual Aid Pact. Directs the Board to study the collective bargaining process within the airline industry and to make recommendations to Congress within six months on methods of alleviating the occurrence of protracted airline strikes.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1978
Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to immediately terminate the Airlines Mutual Aid Pact and prohibits the Board from approving any agreement or pact whose purposes are the same or similar to such Pact.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1978
Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to immediately dissolve the Airlines Mutual Aid Pact. Directs the Board to study the collective bargaining process within the airline industry and to make recommendations to Congress within six months on methods of alleviating the occurrence of protracted airline strikes.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1978
Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to immediately dissolve the Airlines Mutual Aid Pact. Directs the Board to study the collective bargaining process within the airline industry and to make recommendations to Congress within six months on methods of alleviating the occurrence of protracted airline strikes.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1978
Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to immediately dissolve the Airlines Mutual Aid Pact. Directs the Board to study the collective bargaining process within the airline industry and to make recommendations to Congress within six months on methods of alleviating the occurrence of protracted airline strikes.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board, in determining whether to issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity, to evaluate the need for additional service in each market established on the record. Directs the Board to include in such certificates such terms and conditions as are necessary to insure that the applicant will be required to furnish the service it has proposed between the points to be specified in any such certificate.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to terminate the Airlines Mutual Aid Agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board, upon a finding that an airline's classification, rule, regulation, or practice affecting liability or freight claims is unjust, unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, to prescribe the lawful classification, rule, regulation, or practice to be made effective.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board to establish minimum rates, fares, and charges for air services provided to the Department of Defense by air carriers through contracts of more than 30 days' duration.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize free or reduced rate air transportation for any person, fifteen years of age or younger, who is traveling to the United States from any place outside thereof for the purpose of being adopted by any resident of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1978
Private General Aviation Airport Act - Provides for Federal guarantees of private loans to certain privately owned, public use general aviation airports for improvements to such airports in order to promote local, feeder, and short haul air transportation. Specifies restrictions on any such guarantees authorized by the Secretary of Transportation.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1978
Amends the Aviation Career Incentive Act of 1974 with respect to eligibility for, and entitlement to, aviation career incentive pay in the uniformed services.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1978
Declares it the sense of the Senate that the President instruct the Permanent United States Representative to the United Nations to press for consideration of a resolution condemning the actions of the Soviet Union with regard to Korean Airlines flight 902.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1978
Air Service Improvement Act - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board, in the performance of its duties, to assign the highest priority to safety in air transportation, and to place maximum reliance on competitive market forces while encouraging new air carriers and preventing industry concentration. Stipulates that the Federal Government shall have preemptive rights with regard to interstate air carriers. Directs the Board and the Secretary of Transportation to jointly prepare a report to be submitted to the Congress by January 1, 1980, concerning direct and indirect Federal, State, and local governmental subsidization of United States scheduled air transportation. Establishes time limitations during which the Board must dispense with applications for certificates of public convenience and necessity to engage in air transportation. Authorizes the Board to dismiss an application on its merits without a hearing within 90 days of its filing date. Deems such dismissal a final order for purposes of judicial review. Requires the Board to issue certificates to engage in regular interstate or overseas air transportation, temporary air transportation, or supplemental air transportation if certain conditions are met and the proposed service is consistent with public convenience and necessity (previously certificates for such interstate and overseas air transportation could only be granted if public convenience and necessity so required). Stipulates that if certain round trip air carriers in interstate or overseas transportation fail to provide specified flight schedules, the Board is authorized to grant their routes to the first air carrier applicant meeting the requirements of the Board and the Secretary of Transportation. Establishes procedures for such route suspension and reissuance to a new air carrier. Authorizes air carriers which hold certificates to engage in foreign air transportation, on any scheduled flight in foreign air transportation, to transport persons, property, and mail between points in the United States between which it is authorized to operate during such flight. Establishes an experimental entry program for certain air carriers to engage in nonstop service in overseas or interstate transportation on routes currently assigned to another carrier. Directs the Board to conduct a study of the procedure for such program and to report to the Congress by June 30, 1980. Authorizes the Board to issue certificates to engage in air transportation on a temporary basis if the Board determines that a test period is desirable in order to evaluate the proposed new services. Establishes time limitations during which the Board must act upon an air carrier's application for removal or modification of a term, condition, or limitation attached to its certificate. Directs the Board to establish simplified procedures for the disposition of applications for certificates or permits to engage in air transportation and for the alteration, suspension, or transfer of such certificates. Directs the Board, in determining the compensation to be paid for local air mail service, to disregard a carrier's revenues other than the revenue received from the service for which the compensation is being paid until January 1, 1983. Requires certain air carriers that are the only carriers between two points to notify the Board and the community involved 90 days in advance of any proposed suspension or termination of nonstop or single-plane air transportation services. Revises the rate determination elements for airmail transportation compensation for 1964, 1965 and 1966. Sets forth procedures and factors to be considered in the disposal of applications for approval of consolidation, merger, or acquisition of control agreements by the Board. Authorizes the Board to dispose of such applications without a hearing under specified circumstances. Prohibits the Board from approving such agreements or pooling agreements which would substantially lessen competition unless certain findings are made. Authorizes the Board to exempt persons from specified Clayton Act antitrust violations if in the public interest to do so. Revises the proceedings of the Board upon a filing by an air carrier of any pooling contract or agreement, including the requirement that the Board provide to the Secretary of Transportation and the Attorney General written notice and opportunity to comment upon any such filed contract or agreement. Authorizes the Board to exempt persons from the provisions of the Act under specified conditions. Exempts air carriers which provide passenger service solely with aircraft which have a maximum passenger capacity of fewer than 56 passengers or cargo service with aircraft having a maximum payload capacity of fewer than 18,000 pounds from the requirement that such a carrier hold a certificate of public convenience and necessity and such other requirements as the Board may promulgate by regulation. Authorizes the Board to decrease such passenger or cargo capacity when the public interest so requires. Authorizes the Board to establish rates of compensation to be paid to commuter air carriers when no adequate service would otherwise be provided between two points. Sets forth factors which the Board is to consider in determining the amount of such compensation. Directs the Board by January 1, 1980 to conduct a review of all points which have been deleted from a certificate or to which service has been suspended without a condition that substitute service be provided to determine whether Federal financial assistance should be provided to commuter air carriers to provide essential air transportation. Restricts the President's powers to disapprove actions of the Board with respect to certificates or permits to engage in foreign air transportation. Stipulates that the President may only disapprove such actions solely on the basis of foreign relations or national defense considerations and not upon the basis of economic or carrier selection considerations. Establishes restrictions with respect to the authority of the Board to prescribe minimum or maximum fares in air transportation. Provides for the withholding from public disclosure of certain information contained in any application, report, or document filed under the Act. Increases the value of loans which may be outstanding in order to be eligible for Federal guarantees of such loans. Increases the maximum time limits during which an aircraft purchase loan may be repaid. Prohibits any such Federal loan guarantee to be made for the purchase of any new turbojet powered aircraft not in compliance with Federal noise standards. Establishes sunset provisions with respect to the Board to become effective on December 31, 1982. Directs the Board, by December 31, 1981, to submit to Congress a comprehensive review of its implementation of the provisions of the Act. Establishes the Airline Employees' Protective Account in the U.S. Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to develop and effectuate comprehensive noise abatement plans for airports operated by the Administration. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an aircraft noise monitoring program for each such airport.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1978
Authorizes air carriers holding a certificate to engage in foreign air transportation to carry domestic traffic between points in the United States on flights operated in foreign air transportation. Stipulates that such authority shall be limited to one round trip flight per day in each city-pair market unless otherwise authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to develop and effectuate comprehensive noise abatement plans for airports operated by the Administration. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an aircraft noise monitoring program for each such airport.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Sets forth the rule for consideration of H. R. 11495 (Aviation research and development).
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts out of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for specified aviation research, development, and demonstration projects for fiscal year 1979. Directs the Federal Aviation Administration to provide the House Committee on Science and Technology with quarterly reports concerning the Microwave Landing System (MLS) development program. Requires the Administration to submit annual updates of the 1971 National Plan for Development of the Microwave Landing System to such committee. Amends the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 to increase the authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 1978 for aviation safety research and development projects under such Act and to repeal such authorizations for fiscal years 1979 and 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1978
Federal Aviation Act Amendments - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board in the performance of its functions to consider safety as the highest priority in air commerce and to consider the development of an air transportation industry which allows responsible new air carriers to enter the industry as being in the public interest. Establishes time limitations during which the Board must act on applications for certificates to engage in air transportation. Authorizes any air carrier to petition the Board to have granted to it the authority of another air carrier to provide nonstop scheduled interstate or overseas air transportation where the previous authority has not been exercised to a specified extent. Establishes time limitations during which the Board must act on an application by an air carrier for the removal or modification of a term attached to a certificate to engage in air transportation. Directs the Board to establish simplified procedures for the disposition of applications for certificates or permits to engage in air transportation and for applications to amend or modify such certificates. Stipulates that such procedures need not provide for oral evidentiary hearings. Establishes time limitations during which the Board must act on applications to approve consolidation agreements, pooling agreements, or exemptions from air carrier economic regulation.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1978
Establishes a uniform, exclusive body of law governing liability for damages arising from the takeoff, flight, or landing of aircraft, such law to supersede State, territorial, District of Columbia, admiralty, maritime, or other law. Details the substantive provisions of aviation liability law. Holds common carriers to the highest degree of care. Sets forth a rule of comparative fault and a right of contribution among joint tortfeasors. Permits both wrongful death actions and survival of personal injury actions. Disallows recovery for pain, suffering, or disfigurement in survival actions. Bars a personal injury or death action which is inconsistent with applicable workmen's compensation law, but permits a party who is or would be liable in a civil action under this Act to claim for contribution, indemnity or other similar remedy against a person or party by whom or on whose behalf workmen's compensation has been paid. Sets forth separate, exclusive Federal court jurisdiction guidelines for aviation accidents. Grants United States district courts, concurrently with State courts, original jurisdiction over any civil action arising out of aviation activity and involving: (1) large aircraft, high-performance aircraft, public aircraft, or common carrier aircraft; (2) the death of five or more persons; (3) a claim the liability for which is indemnified in whole or in part by the United States; or (4) a negligent or wrongful act of a Federal employee committed within the scope of duty and under circumstances where, if the act had been committed by a private person, the private employer would be liable. Specifies venue, statute of limitations, service of process, consolidation, and other guidelines for aviation actions brought in Federal court. Makes statute of limitations guidelines equally applicable in State courts. Promulgates rules for the removal of State aviation actions to Federal court.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1978
Authorizes air carriers holding a certificate to engage in foreign air transportation to carry domestic traffic between points in the United States on flights operated in foreign air transportation. Stipulates that such authority shall be limited to one round trip flight per day in each city-pair market unless otherwise authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize corporations which are citizens of the United States to register their aircraft as being United States aircraft. Stipulates that non-citizen corporations may register their aircraft as being of United States nationality if such corporation is lawfully organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or any State thereof so long as such aircraft is based and primarily used in the United States. Stipulates that in order to be eligible for United States registration the aircraft must not be registered under the laws of any foreign government.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts out of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for specified aviation research, development, and demonstration projects for fiscal year 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize the issuance of all-cargo air service certificates for air service between points in Hawaii.