All Analysis articles – Page 59
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ANALYSIS: Airbus powers up its other assets in Romania
Its helicopters division is not the only Airbus unit to have set up shop in Romania. In 2011, Premium Aerotec, the group’s wholly owned but autonomous aerostructures subsidiary, opened its first factory outside Germany next to the Airbus Helicopters facility in Brasov. The plant has since almost doubled in size ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Analysts speculate on impact of broader tax law
The only certainty about the impact of the new US tax law seems to be that some airlines, provided they remain profitable, will pay less federal tax in 2018.
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ANALYSIS: Airbus's big plan to revive the Romanian rotorcraft sector
If you build it, they will come. Airbus Helicopters might have been following the famous advice of the film Field of Dreams when it invested almost €52 million ($62 million) in a factory in Romania in November 2015. Two years on, the Brasov plant is ready to produce its first ...
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ANALYSIS: Economic surge drives Boeing commercial streak in 2017
For Boeing, the year 2017 dawned with a long list of concerns facing the commercial market. Net order totals for the company’s commercial aircraft had dropped for two years in a row. Demand for widebody aircraft 12 months ago, in particular, seemed even more worrisome, leaving Boeing struggling to fill ...
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ANALYSIS: The reinvention of Romania's Aerostar
On first appearance, Aerostar’s sprawling complex of buildings next to Bacau airport may reflect its heritage as a state-run enterprise focused on supporting the Romanian defence forces.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline unions seek long-term benefits from US tax cuts
US labour unions are pushing airlines to provide employees with some form of long-term financial benefit from the savings they stand to reap from the recent 14-point cut to the US corporate tax rate.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Auspicious year ahead for China-Australia routes
This year will see further capacity growth on Australia-China routes in response to strong demand and the open skies agreement between the two countries.
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ANALYSIS: Airlines' year of zero passenger fatalities
Last year was another exceptionally safe one for aviation. Not a single revenue passenger was killed during what the general travelling public would regard as an "airline flight", writes Paul Hayes in FlightGlobal's Airline Safety & Losses Annual Report 2017.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Five air finance themes for 2018
Over the course of last year, there prevailed a feeling that the values and traffic cycles had plateaued, amid uncomfortable disbelief that the upward trend could continue.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline start-ups and failures in 2017
FlightGlobal data shows that 39 new airline operations were established over the first eight months of 2017, roughly matching the 37 airlines that ceased operations or suspended flights.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Opportunities and challenges for aviation in 2018
What's in store for aviation in the year ahead?
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Embraer tops Boeing's list of options for CSeries response
Eleven years after the 106-seat 717 met a perhaps untimely demise, Boeing is back in pursuit of the commercial aircraft market below 126 seats after revealing on 22 December ongoing talks with Brazilian manufacturer Embraer on a potential “combination”.
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ANALYSIS: Lack of foresight snared gear-up 767 crew
Pilots of a LOT Boeing 767-300ER involved in a gear-up landing had relied on the alternate gear-extension system functioning, after a hydraulic leak, and had not prepared for the situation to deteriorate in the final moments of approach.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Dassault tries to put 5X woes behind it
Faced with yet another delay to the development schedule for its Falcon 5X business jet, Dassault made a bold move in December to axe the ultra-wide-cabin aircraft and end its increasingly fractured relationship with Safran, whose troubled Silvercrest engine programme has been major source of frustration for the French airframer.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: US 747s bow out with final Delta flight
Delta Air Lines' final regularly scheduled Boeing 747 flight lands today, ending the 47-year run for the queen of the skies at US passenger carriers.
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AnalysisINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Airline Capacity Breakdown – December 2017
Get an overview of airline capacity across the different regions, illustrating the fastest-growing regional markets as of December 2017, so you can plan your next strategic move. Understand YoY change in seat capacity, flight frequencies and ASMs/ASKs.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Disruptions interrupt profitable 2017 for airlines
Airlines largely kept a grip on their improved profitability off the back of continued strong air travel demand, but the positive mood was punctuated during 2017 by a series of high-profile challenges and service interruptions which dominated headlines.
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ANALYSIS: Airlines ponder how to capitalise on big data
Every hour, via a host of onboard sensors, a new-generation airliner will record and stream a vast amount of data that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. But how do operators process and exploit this firehose of information on the aircraft’s real-time performance? In the past 12 months, ...
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ANALYSIS: The year in review, 2017's top stories in aerospace
Time and tide may wait for no man, but man doth have archives – which may not wind back the clock but do make for a time machine of sorts. Herewith, a selection of 2017 Flight International highlights
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ANALYSIS: New Airbus commercial boss Faury is strong choice for role
For close watchers of Airbus Helicopters, Guilluame Faury's rise to the top of Airbus commercial will come as little surprise.