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From google translate:
Emirates wants aviation conference after disaster
CEO Tim Clark of Emirates airline on Sunday called for an international conference of airlines. He did this in response to the shooting down of a unit of Malaysia Airlines over eastern Ukraine.
Emirates wants aviation conference after disaster
According to him, there should be given on how airlines should deal with international conflicts urgently.
'' The international aviation community should indicate that this is ridiculous and unacceptable and that we refuse to be drawn into regional conflicts where the airline has nothing to do with it,'' said Clark about the Boeing Malaysia Airlines which in all probability was shot.
'' Until three days ago, we could handle this. Now I think that new protocols are needed to deal with this.''
safe routes
The International Air Transport Association IATA according to Clark, together with the UN aviation organization ICAO take the lead and decide which routes are safe. Now decide the companies themselves, or they fly over an area where a war.
Thus, the Qantas Australian society for the crash Thursday already decided not to fly over eastern Ukraine, while other companies that took decision only after the accident.
Emirates is in the number of passengers the world's largest airline.
My personal interpretation of this is that our management realise we fly over areas, like northern Iraq, where exactly the same could happen. However if things go wrong they don't want to take the blame for sending planes over a particular area, but instead want to point the finger at ICAO and blame them for claiming it was safe. Thereby avoiding comments, like those made in the press recently, that MH wasn't avoiding the Ukraine, and therefore some element of blame could be appointed to them, as opposed to other airlines which have avoided the Ukraine for some months already.