Gulf Aviation Safety Council backs IATA criticism of safety league tables

Speaking after the first of this year’s quarterly GFSC council meetings – held at GCAS in Al Bateen Airport, Abu Dhabi – the council’s chairman, Captain Mohammed Ahmed Malatani, said the GFSC strongly supports and encourages all possible mechanisms to exchange information that enhances flight safety, but seconded IATA’s point of view that it does not endorse the approach of safety ranking of air carriers conducted by some websites, and agrees with the airline community that safety is not a competitive issue.
The Council has emphasized the importance of the continuous cooperation and exchange of information among all stakeholders in the Aviation field as a cornerstone in building the highest possible level of safety regionally and internationally,
Among the recent activities of the GFSC, which aims to improve flight safety in the Gulf region, was the organisation of the aviation safety management systems course delivered in Dubai by the University of Southern California (USC). This is the first course of an ongoing educational partnership between the GFSC and the USC that will deliver the safety and security programme in the Gulf region.