All Analysis – Page 92
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AnalysisANALYSIS: MAS marks first year since turnaround plan
One year after Malaysia state investment fund Khazanah Nasional announced its radical 12-point recovery plan for Malaysia Airlines (MAS) there are signs of progress, but analysts are still dubious about the carrier's prospects.
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ANALYSIS: Engine manufacturers maintain control of MRO market
At last year's MRO Europe conference in Madrid, General Electric emphasised its aftermarket strategy being based on an "open MRO network" – comprising its own and third-party repair shops – and suggested that this offered operators a greater choice between manufacturer-led and self-managed maintenance options than its competitors did.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Fast-track satcoms upgrade on ICE
Change is in the air over Europe, with a concerted attempt by Inmarsat and the European Space Agency to turn satellite communications into a wide-open field for quick and economic development of new applications and services.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Virgin Australia, Qantas play it cool down under
With turnarounds in the fortunes of Qantas Airways and rival Virgin Australia, both carriers are keeping their cool in the core domestic market.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Buffett's $37bn move turns investor focus on aerospace
The blockbuster $37.2 billion takeover of components maker Precision Castparts by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway group has the aerospace and defence industries are on course for a record year of mergers & acquisitions (M&A) activity - but even without that “extraordinarily unique” deal, 2015 is set to be a “banner ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Lockheed proposes “RQ-X” as U-2 operations enter sixth decade
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is looking to write the next chapter in the history of the U-2 Dragon Lady after 60 years of continual global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The end of the gold rush for Asia-Pacific alliances
Just over one year ago in April 2014, SriLankan Airlines joined the Oneworld Alliance. Not content to hold the ceremony in the capital city of Colombo, the carrier deployed one of its Airbus A340-300 aircraft to fly media and dignitaries 150km to the newly built, but remote, Mattala Rajapaksa International ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: For Ryanair, training is a base issue
Ryanair may already be a very big airline, but its plans to double in size during the next 10 years mean its appetite for skilled employees will continue to be voracious.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Local demand drives LCC growth at former hubs
Pass through Cleveland Hopkins International airport and you can breeze through security, get a local brew from friendly staff at a pub in the concourse and then sit with a view of idled jet bridges at the shuttered Concourse D.
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ANALYSIS: Why the principle of economics still rules ok
As attention turns to summer 2016 schedules and the slot co-ordination process for the season, it is timely to examine the likely operating environment and how economic expectations are changing, as well as the likely implications.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Atlantic capacity creeps up despite weak yields
The question of demand continues to envelope the transatlantic market this year, as airlines continue to add capacity despite weak results in the first half.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airlines look past fuel gains in second quarter
There was a familiar ring to results as North American and European carriers disclosed second-quarter earnings.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Regional pilot woes could speed fleet changes at United
United Airlines could speed up the shift to large regional jets and small mainline aircraft from 50-seat regional jets if the pilot shortage at regional carriers gets worse in the coming years.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Helicopter operators count the cost of cheap oil
Further evidence has emerged of the impact of the downturn in the offshore oil and gas market, with three of the sector’s big helicopter providers reporting sharply reduced quarterly profits over the past few days.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Frigate Ecojet takes airliner concept to new Europe base
Launching a three-aisle widebody airliner with a geometrically unique, ovular fuselage cross section always seemed an uphill struggle for a start-up Russian manufacturer, but the challenge in the end proved overwhelming.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Interjet eyes new network growth from 2016
Mexican carrier Interjet expects to substantially grow its US network when a new bilateral air services agreement takes effect in 2016, and is also planning to expand further in Latin America.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Will Qatar come for IndiGo?
India’s aviation industry was buzzing with anticipation after media reports last week said the country’s largest low-cost carrier IndiGo was in talks to sell a stake to Gulf giant Qatar Airways.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The size and shape of the world airliner fleet revealed in our census
Airlines, it seems, cannot get enough of Airbus and Boeing narrowbodies. With the latest re-engined versions of the A320 family and the 737 due to enter service in the next two years, and both manufacturers sitting on hundreds of orders, deliveries of their existing single-aisle types have continued to mount ...
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ANALYSIS: The Flightglobal Fleet Forecast's narrowbody outlook
Ascend consultancy head Rob Morris examines the competition facing the incumbent single-aisle manufacturers
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How might Iran fund its fleet renewal?
No doubt huge potential exists for manufacturers to sell a large number of aircraft into Iran following the recent nuclear agreement between six nations – but exactly what the fleet will look like and how it will be financed is still being hammered out by the sector.