All Analysis – Page 79
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ANALYSIS: Automation leap on 777 hits growing pains
When Boeing executives decided to re-invent a critical element of the 777 production process two years ago, they knew it was going to be hard. Memories of the costly, three-and-a-half-year delayed entry of the 787 were still fresh around Everett, Washington.
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ANALYSIS: Middle of the Market is 'when', not 'if' at Boeing
Mike Delaney was named as head of Boeing’s four-year-old aircraft development organisation in April. The veteran Boeing executive immediately inherited a conceptual puzzle often called the “middle of the market (MoM)” study, a proposed aircraft family with widebody payload and range performance and, somehow, narrowbody economics.
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ANALYSIS: How aviation financiers see Brexit's likely effects
Warnings on the implications of Brexit for UK and European aviation were sounded at the Flightglobal Finance Forum in London yesterday.
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ANALYSIS: Big three continue to dominate Civil Simulators market
Flightglobal data reveals the size and shape of the world market for airliner training simulators
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ANALYSIS: TransAsia's hybrid theory
When TransAsia Airways placed its first order for the Airbus A330-300 in 2010, it was on a growth path looking to capitalise on booming cross-straits traffic and to expand its network internationally.
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ANALYSIS: Future turning bright for Montreal’s aerospace cluster
Montreal’s aerospace cluster has good reason to celebrate.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: AirAsia India's slow, but steady growth
Two years since its launch, AirAsia India is showing increasing signs of life in the competitive Indian market.
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ANALYSIS: Can the Evektor EV-55 stay the course?
If the Evektor EV-55 Outback looks like a scaled-down L-410, that is no coincidence. Several of the brains behind the in-development Czech twin turboprop – which flew for the first time in 2011 and as a production-conforming test example this April – spent their formative years with the L-410’s manufacturer, ...
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ANALYSIS: EasyJet sticks to MRO tack despite new Gatwick hangar
EasyJet insists that its opening of a hangar at London Gatwick does not represent a shift in its strategy of outsourcing technical services to external maintenance providers.
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ANALYSIS: US Army seeks rotorcraft renaissance through FVL
Anyone who has strolled around an army or civil helicopter show in the USA lately cannot help but have noticed some strange rotary-wing birds that promise to morph between troop-carrying assault machines and armed gunships, bristling with cannons and Hellfire missiles. Full-scale mock-ups of the Bell Helicopter V-280 Valor and ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: P&W prepares for massive GTF production surge
Though many of Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan (GTF) suppliers continue to miss production targets, company executives remain confident the engine maker will meet the targets of a massive planned ramp up in production.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: IATA sees airlines keeping shine on profits
Outgoing IATA director general Tony Tyler closed the association’s AGM in Dublin with a quip about how host carrier chief Stephen Kavanah, in contrast to the hailstorms of Cape Town in 2013, had delivered uninterrupted sun for the event,
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ANALYSIS: Why Farnborough could be a classic for airliner debuts
This year's Farnborough air show could be a vintage one for the new generation of airliners. With almost all the new and re-engined single-aisles potentially on display, show attendees will get a unique opportunity to see – and hear – all the rivals up close.
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ANALYSIS: Mexico aerospace industry growing beyond low-cost roots
Mexico is a land of industrial contradictions. The average daily wage for a common labourer is $4, but factory executives often earn more than their counterparts in the USA. News headlines scream of rampant violence, especially along the eastern and western coasts and northern and southern borders yet most factory ...
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AnalysisIATA: New airline chief executives in the hot seat
This year’s IATA AGM in Dublin will see a number of new faces among the top tier of airlines, as several new and a few familiar ones have embarked on new roles.
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ANALYSIS: Diehl Aerosystems poised for Airbus ramp-up
For Diehl Aerosystems, Airbus’s production ramp-up is both opportunity and massive challenge. The company’s powerful position as an interiors supplier to Toulouse – and the A350 in particular – has helped turn what was a niche business in the Diehl group six years ago into its biggest division. However, meeting ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The biggest LCCs by traffic and financials in 2015
When Ryanair ended the 2015 calendar year passing the 100 million passenger mark, it further underlined the huge growth the low-cost sector has continued to experience over recent years
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ANALYSIS: Airline industry set to show it is serious about CO2
Six years of collaboration and planning paid off in February when the first-ever global carbon dioxide efficiency standard for aircraft was agreed and put forward by an ICAO committee. Manufacturers have largely welcomed the proposed standard and say they are already prepared for it, while environmental campaigners believe it could ...
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ANALYSIS: Unshrouding the mystery of open rotors
Ground testing is imminent on the open-rotor engine portion of the European Union’s Clean Sky initiative, with Snecma and partners now putting the finishing touches to assembling the demonstrator. The noise issues that have plagued open-rotor engines in the past appear to have been largely overcome, and the key questions ...
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ANALYSIS: The rise of the China operating lessor
The operating lease is a key part of the commercial aircraft industry – accounting for nearly 42% of today’s commercial jet fleet. After seeing continuous growth since the late 1970s, the operating lease fleet share has stagnated since 2008. However, that period of apparent stabilisation witnessed the rise of a ...