All Interview articles – Page 2
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Wheels Up’s new chief executive lays out recovery plan as Delta ties tighten
Just two weeks into the job, the new head of Wheels Up arrives as this year’s NBAA business aviation show with a turnaround plan resting on operational rigour, more corporate business, fleet changes and closer ties with 39% owner Delta Air Lines.
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ATR chief targets 40-plus deliveries in 2023 as ‘recovery on track’
Twelve months into her four-year mandate as ATR’s first female chief executive, Nathalie Tarnaud Laude maintains the Toulouse-based airframer’s recovery is “on track” and that it will deliver at least 40 aircraft this year, after shipping 20 units in the first eight months.
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How ambition drove Nicole Battjes to form Rainbow Helicopters
Honolulu-based Nicole Battjes built her helicopter tour company from scratch, starting with just $5,000 and a dream. Its assets recently delivered relief supplies after a devastating fire in Lahaina.
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What drew BAE Systems’ Elizabeth Seward to a career in space industry
Inspired by the science fiction books she read as a teenager, Elizabeth Seward has forged a stellar career in the space sector and is now head of space strategy and future business at BAE Systems.
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Textron’s Pipistrel zeroes in on US trainer aircraft market
With a new FAA rule set to expand the definition of “light sport aircraft”, Slovenia’s Pipistrel is taking clear aim at the US pilot training market
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‘We are here to take over’: Teleport chief talks dominance as A321P2F joins fleet
Teleport chief Pete Chareonwongsak believes the company can “take over” the logistics and cargo space, as the carrier accepts its first dedicated freighter.
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Embraer’s prospects ready to soar after successful recovery: CEO
Embraer’s chief executive is targeting an ambitious growth in sales, as Brazil’s aerospace champion emerges from the pandemic-driven downturn and a collapsed commercial aircraft pact with Boeing.
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Challenges remain but Boeing buoyed by strong demand: Deal
While a strong aircraft order environment means Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief Stan Deal arrives at Le Bourget with a bolstered backlog, supply chain, delivery and certification challenges remain time-consuming issues for the manufacturer.
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Archer’s electric air taxi Midnight is ‘going to be safe’: Billy Nolen
Former FAA administrator Billy Nolen on joining Archer as the California start-up pushes to certify its in-development “Midnight” aircraft.
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Why Airbus chief Faury is staying positive, despite current supply chain crunch
With new programmes, new agreements, and progress towards a fundamentally new era for aviation, chief executive Guillaume Faury is hardly likely to let Airbus slip quietly back onto the Le Bourget stage – four years after the last Paris show – even as a creaking supply chain is frustrating the aerospace giant’s efforts to regain its momentum.
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SITA sees sustainability driving airline demand for operational gains
SITA sees the impetus to cut aviation emissions as helping to drive the deployment of operational tools as well an opportunity to bring change to air traffic control.
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‘Stability and predictability’ top priorities for Boeing’s defence chief
Chief executive Ted Colbert says his goal for the airframer’s sprawling military business is to reach traditional levels of revenue and annual growth, as Boeing’s defence unit seeks to transition challenged development programmes into more lucrative full-production.
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How Diehl is building back
The German company’s chief executive Joerg Schuler is glad to be focusing on growth again, instead of retrenchment. Sustainability, digital innovation, supporting the supply chain, and broadening the customer base are among his priorities
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Boeing training chief sees progress in shift to competencies approach
Boeing is reporting progress on deployment of a competency-based approach to its pilot and maintenance training programmes, an initiative now already embedded in the manufacturer’s own 737 training.
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Why pilot-entrepreneur Abingdon Mullin is one to watch
Mullin has worked at Cirrus Aircraft, flown turboprops throughout the Caribbean, piloted big jets for Spirit Airlines and, amid it all, launched Abingdon, a company specialising in selling watches designed for female pilots.
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Aero Volga’s Swiss successor aims to make waves with 19-seat all-electric amphibian
His father created one of the few successful aviation start-ups in post-Soviet Russia, producing the eight-passenger Aero Volga LA-8 amphibian. Now George Alafinov wants to build on that legacy by developing a 19-seat electric successor in Switzerland, with the aim of flying the seaplane by 2026.
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Airbus research head sees no ‘show-stoppers’ yet in hydrogen push
Few could have accused Airbus of lacking ambition when in September 2020 it unveled conceptual designs for a potential zero-emissions commercial aircraft and a 15-year horizon for its entry into service.
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How developing markets hooked Jacqui Sutton on a career in aerospace
An ‘atypical’ route into the UK aerospace industry saw Jacqui Sutton working for some of its biggest names. Now non-executive director of the Women in Aviation Charter, she encourages others to follow suit.
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Regent looks to shake up military logistics with ‘wing-in-ground’ effect craft
Backed by Lockheed Martin, the Rhode Island start-up thinks the time is right to expand its “seaglider” developmental vehicle from commercial users into the defence realm.
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ATR chief admits 2022 orders and deliveries below expectations
New head Nathalie Tarnaud Laude insists Franco-Italian manufacturer is set to return to annual output of 80-plus aircraft by the second half of the decade.