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ANALYSIS: Opportunities open for smaller players in interiors
Many of the world’s airlines are making ongoing improvements to their onboard products in response to various economic and competitive pressures. But resulting demand for interior products such as seats is placing a growing strain on the relatively few manufacturers, resulting in new business opportunities for smaller, upstart providers, sources ...
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ANALYSIS: True believers and sceptics - a decade of MPL
As a would-be revolution in flightdeck training, the multicrew pilot licence did not get off to the best start. In 2008, nine newly qualified first officers who had embarked on Sterling Airlines’ pioneering MPL course were made redundant by the ailing Danish carrier. In the depths of a global recession, ...
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ANALYSIS: Airlines urged to restore 'blind flying' skills
The global air transport industry agrees that pilots still need manual flying skills despite their highly automated work environment. But it cannot agree on how best to maintain this competency – particularly in instrument flying expertise.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: US electronics ban to affect 18,000 daily passengers
The US government's latest air travel security measures could impact nearly 18,000 daily passengers travelling on some 50 routes to the USA from the Middle East and Africa, according to schedule data reviewed by FlightGlobal.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can the A350-1000 live up to Airbus’s expectations?
The audience at Airbus’s annual press conference this year may have been a little surprised to hear the company’s senior executives singing the praises of the best-selling widebody produced by their arch-rival, the Boeing 777-300ER.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Vega needn't thank its lucky stars
When launching rockets, failure is a disaster but success is absolute – and absolutely, delightful
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Delta gets creative with investment grade rating
Delta Air Lines put its investment grade ratings to work for the first time on 9 March, issuing $2 billion in unsecured bonds at a 3.3% blended interest rate.
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ANALYSIS: IAG's Level goes head-to-head with Norwegian
IAG has signalled that it is aiming to compete head-on with low-cost operator Norwegian with its newly-unveiled budget carrier Level.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Yield woes belie profitable 2016 for Europe's carriers
Europe’s airlines were largely profitable on an operating level in 2016, as low fuel prices and a strong focus on cost-cutting helped them to eke out profits, despite a tough yield environment.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: No broken coins for Cathay Tai-Pan
In James Clavell’s novels about Hong Kong, the Tai-Pans of Noble House are obligated to honour any wish, however unreasonable, of he who produces one of four special broken coins.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How significant is the Gulf's slowing capacity growth?
Expansion by the big Gulf carriers has been a dominant theme in the airline industry over the past decade.
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ANALYSIS: USAF looks for autonomy breakthrough
The US Air Force Research Laboratory has changed over its 100 years, but its mission to spearhead defence aviation technology has remained the same
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ANALYSIS: Dassault seeks manufacturing efficiency as it waits for market rebound
Dassault’s 2016 is perfectly summed up by its chief executive Éric Trappier: “I would prefer that besides the Rafale’s success that we also had more Falcon orders.”
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ANALYSIS: Malaysia's air force operates on shoestring budget
The Royal Malaysian Air Force faces an uncertain future for its capability development plans, given the government’s budgetary limitations, constrained by slow economic growth and falling oil revenues.
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ANALYSIS: Lightning Strike powered by Honeywell's electric breakthrough
If hybrid-electric propulsion ever becomes a primary source of aviation thrust, the industry must invent a new kind of highly efficient electric generator small enough for an aircraft yet powerful enough to generate thrust.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline support gathers around Boeing MoM concept
US airlines are increasingly showing firm interest in Boeing’s middle-of-the-market aircraft concept, which potentially could replace many of the 757s and 767s that continue to fly.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Controversy over US pilot shortage heats up
A pilot shortage faced by US regional carriers has in recent weeks proven to have broader fallout, with a top US Air Force general supporting possible changes to pilot qualification rules and with two pilots' unions dragging airlines into court.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Bombardier remains confident in CSeries leasing appeal
Bombardier continues to express confidence in the appeal of its CSeries to aircraft leasing companies, saying a lack of early CSeries leasing placements reflects Bombardier's early focus on sales directly to airlines.
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ANALYSIS: Mexico's aerospace cluster prepares for Trump's changes
Larger in area than the UK, the Mexican state of Chihuahua snakes along the southern bank of the Rio Grande from New Mexico across the western one-third of Texas. More than any of Mexico’s 32 states, Chihuahua’s manufacturing sector has prospered under the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ...
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ANALYSIS: Ariane 6 set for "buy European" push
In the matter of milestones, the end of March should mark a critical moment in Europe’s bid to ensure it retains competent, competitive and independent access to space. It is then – 27 March, specifically – that Airbus Safran Launchers expects to cross “maturity gate 6”, a set of specification ...