All Analysis – Page 104
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Widebodies power Boeing's 2014 output lead
A double-digit increase in Boeing's output drove a 6% rise in mainline airliner production last year to a record 1,352 aircraft, with the US airframer's widebody deliveries significantly outstripping Airbus's.
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ANALYSIS: Future plans for flight data
Commercial air transport aircraft will soon be required to equip with deployable flight data recorders, or flight tracking equipment, or both. The only question is how soon.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Modernising global airline pilot training
Airlines and the world’s aviation authorities have been warned that if they miss the opportunity to modernise pilot training now, when International Pilot Training Consortium (IPTC) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation have finished preparing the ground for change, they may be stuck with 1950s-based training regulations for the foreseeable ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline safety plans for 2015
Several studies or projects aimed at reducing threats to airline safety are likely to come to fruition in 2015. In one of these, reacting to the French investigator’s recommendations in the report on the loss of Air France flight 447 over the South Atlantic in 2009, Airbus says it is ...
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ANALYSIS: How oil-price falls affect aircraft demand and values
Rob Morris, head of Ascend Flightglobal Consultancy, here analyses the implications of the downward trend in oil prices
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline safety performance in 2014
Despite public perception, 2014 has been an extraordinarily good year for aviation safety – but the shadow of MH370, MH17 and December's AirAsia disaster cast a long shadow over the positive figures
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Accident reports published in the last six months of 2014
Accident reports published in last six months of 2014
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Mueller scrubs up for the MAS emergency room
Christoph Mueller will assume the toughest job in the airline business when he takes over as chief executive of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) later this year.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Don't expect any M&A earthquakes in 2015 - barring surprises
After a few lean years, are aerospace mergers and acquisitions ready to surge?
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AnalysisANALYSIS: QZ8501 bucks improving Indonesian safety trend
The loss of AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 on 28 December follows a year in which Indonesian airlines improved their safety record.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: QZ8501 crisis deals blow to AirAsia strategy
Indonesia AirAsia has always been a cornerstone of the AirAsia group strategy, but it has handed the pioneering low cost carrier its toughest challenge yet with the disappearance of flight QZ8501.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: New routes driving up USA-UK capacity in 2015
A slew of new nonstop routes between the USA and the UK will drive up capacity during the summer of 2015, surpassing the peak set earlier this year.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Baltic air policing mission in Estonia to continue through 2015
The increased tensions in Eastern Europe as a result of Russia’s advances into Ukraine resulted in NATO’s Baltic Air Policing (BAP) effort ramping up in May this year, including the establishment of a permanent detachment being based out of Amari air base in Estonia.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The A350 sales story as shipments start
As Airbus begins deliveries of the A350-900, the order backlog for its latest all-new widebody stands at impressive total of nearly 800 aircraft.
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ANALYSIS: Senior 777 captain ‘calculates MH370 crash site’
A senior Boeing 777 captain believes he has calculated where the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have crashed into the Indian Ocean
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ANALYSIS: Will precondition for antitrust immunity be relaxed?
The US precondition of Open Skies before it will grant antitrust immunity is about to face a challenge.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: EC175 finally arrives just as civil helicopter market slows
Another blue-sky day in Marseille. No clouds mar the horizon, but a stiff breeze whips across the airfield, snapping out the bright orange safety tags attached to the helicopter’s rotorblades. The yellow-liveried aircraft – and its sister ship parked inside the nearby hangar – is an EC175; “the first brand-new ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: US airlines gear up for another strong year
From Worst to First was the title of former Continental Airlines chief executive Gordon Bethune’s book on how he turned around the ailing airline in the 1990s, fast forward more than a decade and it is an appropriate description for the US airline industry among their global peers.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can European carriers find profits momentum?
European airlines have strengthened their tentative grip on profits in 2014, but restructuring remains very much a work in progress for many.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: SpiceJet's winter of discontent
As 2014 comes to a close, it is difficult to imagine the folks at SpiceJet looking forward to a happy new year.