AAustrian investors are ready to invest in Irkutsk region's economy, including construction of a new airport, travel business).Priangarye region governor administration press-service informed IA REGNUM that Alexander Anchugin, the chairman of the committee for economic analysis and forecast, said that at a press-conference on October 26.On October 18 in Vienna in the framework of efforts being made for strengthening trade and economic cooperation there was held a presentation of the Irkutsk region's investment potential The region's delegation was headed by Irkutsk region governor Alexabnder Tishanin. The delegation also included representatives from Fortuna Tours and Travel, Business Invest and East Land. The receiving side was represented by leaders of Austrian Trade Chamber, and CEOs from biggest construction and travel companies.The Pribaikaliye region presented its construction projects, and the region's travel/recreation opportunities. One of the most significant offers made was Austria's proposal to participate in construction of a new airport in Irkutsk. An investor to this project will be selected after the conduct of a tender.Austrian concern Shtrabag CE has expressed its readiness to invest in the construction of the new airport in Irkutsk. According to preliminary estimates, the concern is ready to invest about 15 billion rubles in the construction of the airport itself, warehouses and other infrastructure objects. To familiarize themselves with the project in details, governor Alexander Tishanin has invited representatives of the companies concerned to visit Irkutsk as soon as possible.Also, Makulan Holding is ready to participate in the tender for the construction of the airport.This Austrian company is as well engaged in house-building and timber industry.Alexander Anchugin noted the region's administration hopes after president Putin's speech where he stressed a necessity for the construction of the new airport in Irkutsk , this project must be coordinated by the RF Government and put forth for bidding within shortest possible time.

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In Russia's civil aviation, like elsewhere in the world, issues of safety are seen as very important. Keeping a high level of flight safety in the world's air transport community has been one of the most significant trends of IATA activities.As a result of a thorough study and selection of auditing programs for safety in various countries IATA created IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit). The audit program includes 755 requirements to an air carrier, of which 703 are obligatory standards and 52 are recommendations. More than a third of all requirements ensuring safety pertain to air transport maintenance base servicing airline aircraft. In a number of countries such as the U.S.A. IOSA is adapted in the form of national audit system. Ural Airlines that always work out in details issues of safety do not wait until the IOSA programs start being introduced as a single state audit system and has entered upon the audit on their own initiative. By the way, in Russia Aeroflot is the only airline holding IOSA safety certificate.To date, Ural Airlines workers have already taken a IOSA training course from a GB audit organization specialist, Colin Penni, and started a gap-analysis procedure.

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President Horst Koehler on Tuesday blocked legislation that would have privatized the country's air traffic control agency, saying that its role in keeping the skies safe should be left in the hands of the state.

Koehler's decision was unusual in Germany, where the president's required approval of legislation is normally a formality. In April, German lawmakers approved a government plan to allow for the sale of as much as 74.9 percent of Deutsche Flugsicherung, the national air traffic control company. Under the bill, the government would have retained at least 24.9 percent of the shares. The planned sale would have allowed Germany to meet European Union requirements limiting the role of governments to that of a regulator. Koehler argued that the foreseen government-owned stake was not sufficient to maintain the necessary control over the agency.

"The air traffic control agency has a special policing role and as such, should remain sovereign," Koehler wrote. Deutsche Flugsicherung, which employs 5,300 people, coordinates more than 8,000 plane movements in German airspace per day.

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