All Analysis – Page 91
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airbus deepens role in Aerion supersonic project
Aerion's planned production system for its AS2 supersonic business jet is evolving as Airbus's role in the programme begins to deepen.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Helicopter safety advances made as incidents fall
Since 2006, there has been a concerted global move to advance rotary wing safety, but it has been slow to show results
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ANALYSIS: Embraer revamps assembly process on first E2 jet
A well-practised industrial choreography is being repeated this autumn within Embraer’s E-Jet manufacturing base in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil.
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ANALYSIS: Aeroflot-Transaero's overlapping routes
Preliminary network analysis indicates that Aeroflot and Transaero are the only competitors on about a dozen city pairs from their Moscow bases.
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ANALYSIS: Air cargo recovery endures rollercoaster ride
The air cargo market went through a tough time during the recession. Cargo traffic fell nearly 10% across 2008 and 2009, rebounded 19% in 2010, but then stagnated for three years. In 2014, there finally came a return to sustained growth, with IATA announcing that freight-tonne kilometres (FTKs) were up ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Where routes have been added in the last year
Editor's note: This analysis, based on data from Flightglobal's schedules specialist Innovata, is focused on major route launches and closures over the past year. The criteria for including new routes is that they have more than nine departures (equivalent of 18 return flights) appearing in Innovata's schedules for August 2015 ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Top 100 aerospace companies
Our annual Top 100 analysis documents another boom year for aerospace, but the coming period may be more challenging
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Built but unused: the rise of Indian ghost airports
Mention India and scenes of colour, contrasted with masses of human chaos spring to mind. Empty airports do not.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Royal Navy plays catch up with UAV operations
While the UK Royal Air Force has an abundance of operational unmanned air vehicle experience, its naval sister service is a relative novice in UAV operations, and is exploring a variety of ways to approach the integration of such technology.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Industry gets set for bumper DSEi exhibition
From 15-18 September, London’s Docklands will again play host to the biennial Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEi) exhibition – the UK’s largest tri-service industry gathering.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Fresh blood may be good for United
Fresh blood in the C-suite of United Airlines is widely seen as positive for the carrier, though two departures in the past month raise execution concerns.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Making sense of accident statistics
Statistics don't lie. But their misinterpretation, deliberate or otherwise, can easily create a false impression.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Market volatility set to make cash costly
Airlines that had hoped the close of summer would present a clear picture of the state of the financial markets will be hugely disappointed by the even deeper sense of global uncertainty and market volatility now prevailing.
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ANALYSIS: LCCs continue to blur the lines with charter operators
Long-held assumptions that the rise of the European low-cost carriers would lead to the death of the package charter business look ever less convincing these days.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Questions remain as UK's SDSR nears
As the UK nears the release of its next Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) in October, the pressure on the government to answer a number of questions surrounding capability gaps and needed upgrades continues to mount.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: CTC, L-3 tie-up strengthens training service
While it is still early days since the acquisition of UK-headquartered commercial pilot training provider CTC Aviation by L-3 Link Simulation & Training, officials from both companies are already describing the development as a clear “win-win” situation – both for themselves and their airline customers.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Does the market need more US-China frequencies?
Chinese airline executives are raising concerns about the availability of frequencies to continue expanding to the USA.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: ARJ21 not the end, but the means
It has been a long time in the making, but finally, the Comac ARJ21 – China’s first indigenously designed and built commercial aircraft – is nearing service entry.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: UK combat air future hinges on SDSR decisions
One of the key areas of clarity anticipated with the publication next month of the UK government’s second Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) concerns the size and shape of its future combat aircraft fleet.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: BA logs in to Silicon Valley economic boom
Norman Y Mineta San Jose International airport continues to slowly spread its wings internationally, as British Airways logs into the heart of Silicon Valley with new service to London Heathrow from May 2016