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ANALYSIS: Last-minute deliveries push Airbus over line
Airbus’s intense production activity in the final month of 2018 included handing over 14 aircraft on the last day of the year in order to achieve, just barely, its revised target of 800 deliveries.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Gripen became prize Thai fighter
Last year brought twin milestones for the Royal Thai Air Force’s fleet of Saab Gripen C/Ds, with the service having marked a decade since ordering the Swedish-built fighter, and completed its first 10,000 flying hours with the single-engined type.
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ANALYSIS: How cabin air impacts flight attendant health
Much has been written about aviation's impact on the environment outside the aircraft, but the spotlight is also intensifying on conditions inside the cabin. As flights grow longer and technology advances, more attention is being paid to improving the onboard health and wellbeing of crew and frequent-flying passengers.
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ANALYSIS: Don't count on technology to save us
Emissions targets for aviation will get "tighter, not looser", and reducing passenger demand "has got to be a possibility", according to a senior member of the UK government's Committee on Climate Change (CCC). However, the committee will include the possible implications of electrifying the air transport sector in its upcoming ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: What operators have to say about the A320neo
Nearly three years on from first delivery, the Airbus A320neo family is, in sales terms, an undoubted success story. More than 60 operators have the aircraft in service.
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ANALYSIS: Airline safety still broadly improving despite setback
A rise in the number of passenger and crew fatalities made 2018 disappointing in comparison to the previous year – though 2017 was exceptionally safe.
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ANALYSIS: Key factors set to shape aerospace sector in 2019
All we ever know for sure about the future is that it will look a lot like the past, only different – or maybe very different, depending on the timescale and interim events. That makes forecasting a black art best left to fortune tellers, charlatans and consultants.
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ANALYSIS: What lies in store for airline sector in 2019?
Until the last few weeks of 2018 it appeared that rising fuel costs would give many airlines the stiffest test yet of the robustness of their newfound profitability in the year to come. Even as airlines have shifted to more efficient models amid fleet renewal efforts over recent years, fuel ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Push to create UAV air traffic control system gathers momentum
Advances in technology, improved designs and imaginative applications have led small unmanned air systems – frequently referred to by regulators and users by the popular term “drones” – to be increasingly seen as ready for widespread civil use. But while they are generally regarded, from a capability point of view, ...
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ANALYSIS: For Thales, drone air traffic control is a long game
Thales's acquisition of a start-up with novel radar technology underscores its commitment to safe operation of unmanned systems
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ANALYSIS: Airline start-ups and failures 2018
A round-up of 2018's start-up carriers and those airlines that suspended, ceased operations or entered formal restructuring during the year
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How airline stories developed in 2018
While wider political tensions dominated much of the agenda and continue to cause potential headaches for airlines, it was the return of a familiar problem in the shape of rising fuel prices that did the most to knock airlines from their high-profit altitude during 2018.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Sun Country shifts to fleet ownership in cost overhaul
Minnesota-based Sun Country Airlines plans to have at least 40% of its fleet on capital leases or under direct ownership, as it moves away from operating leases under an extensive plan to overhaul costs following a change in ownership earlier this year.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Asia-Pacific November 2018 deliveries report
Airlines in the Asia-Pacific took 88 of the 177 commercial airliners delivered in November 2018, well ahead of Europe airlines, which took 35.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: UK on a roll after F-35B carrier trials
After more than a decade of study, experimentation, modelling and simulation, the UK has successfully completed first trials of a shipborne rolling vertical landing (SRVL) manoeuvre for the Lockheed Martin F-35B on board the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: WestJet predicts turnaround in 2019
Executives at Canadian carrier WestJet expect the company's unit revenue will tick higher in 2019, kicking off a broad financial turnaround for a carrier that has struggled amid a business transformation.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Royal Flying Doctor Service brings home PC-24
The Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia has brought home its latest piece of life-saving equipment, the world's first medevac-equipped Pilatus PC-24.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: 2019 World Air Forces Directory
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ANALYSIS: How China investment changes fortunes of Western firms
What do a pair of seating manufacturers, four light aircraft manufacturers, an aerostructures specialist, and one of Europe's top maintenance, repair and overhaul houses have in common? They are among around a dozen Western aerospace companies that now effectively have the name of a Chinese owner over the door.
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ANALYSIS: Why data control remains burning topic for aftermarket
It was perhaps no surprise that the first day of FlightGlobal’s Aerospace Big Data Europe conference ended with a lively debate on the contentious issue of who owns and controls access to an aircraft's technical data.