All articles by NAME MISSING – Page 55
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Opinion
Comment: Deja vu in DC
We may never again see anything like the General Dynamics F-111, but at least we can relive the bitterly controversial contract dispute that enveloped Washington at its creation
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News
Hawaiian Airlines orders six more A330-200s
Hawaiian Airlines has placed a firm order for an additional six Airbus A330-200s. The long-range, widebody twinjets will join Hawaiian's fleet of three A330s...
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NewsMEBA 2010: Room to bloom
As the Middle East Business Aviation show returns next week to Dubai, 40% bigger than its 2008 predecessor, we look at some of the operators and service providers making the running in the region.
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Opinion
Comment: the cyclical pilot feeding frenzy
It looks as if the airlines are waking up, as they always do in the end, to the fact that stopping pilot and engineer recruitment in a recession does not freeze the number of employees precisely where it was when recruiting stopped.
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News
Airport special report: crossing the line
Research suggests there is huge untapped revenue potential for airlines and airports if they simply co-operate. But this is easier said than done ...
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News
Explosive detection x-rays on trial at Melbourne and Sydney airports
Australia's Department of Infrastructure and Transport has announced a two-week trial to examine an advanced explosive detection technology at Melbourne...
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News
AB25: Former Continental Airlines chairman and CEO, Gordon Bethune
Today's airline industry in the USA is more stable, secure and safe than ever before. Safety throughout the industry is enhanced tremendously by advanced technology in aircraft systems, training and through increased commitment of our air carriers and our government writes former Continental Airlines Chairman & CEO Gordon Bethune
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News
AB25: US State Department, John Byerly
It was in 1985, the year Airline Business was founded, that I landed my first job in aviation as the State Department lawyer responsible for air services negotiations and policy. writes John Byerly, US Deputy Assisntant Secretary, Transportation affairs
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News
This weeks briefings
The crash this month in Alaska of a Lockheed Martin F-22 reduced the US Air Force's fleet of the stealth fighter to 185 fighters, including the final batch of 20 being built by Lockheed for delivery before March 2012.
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News
AB25: Former British Airways chairman and CEO, Lord Marshall
Working in air transport, alongside wonderfully committed people was, for me, a great and fulfilling experience. Over the past 25 years, I learned that it was not a business for those of a nervous disposition or anyone seeking a quick profit writes former British Airways chairman Lord Marshall.
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News
AB25: IATA chief executive, Giovanni Bisignani
Air transport today is almost unrecognisable compared with the 1985 industry in which Airline Business was born writes Giovani Bisignani, IATA director general
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News
AB25: Lufthansa chairman, Juergen Weber
Stability and control are the essence of safe flying and succeeding as a business. On average, the airline industry is confronted with the challenge of new innovative cycles every 10 to 20 years. Keeping the craft on course and in trim and finding the right power-setting to master any potential ...
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News
AB25: Jet Airways chairman, Naresh Goyal
The 1960s, and to some extent the 1970s, were the age of innocence for our industry in India. Aviation as a business was less cut-throat, more a luxury, almost like a one-time experience to be cherished; definitely not a common man's choice of travel, the Great Indian Railways had then ...
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Interview
Working Week: Jan Fridrich
A Czech mate for light aircraft Jan Fridrich is vice-president of the Light Aircraft Association of the Czech Republic and of the European Microlight...
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Opinion
Comment: No free ride to space
Saving money and developing a spacecraft to replace the Shuttle sound like mutally exclusive endeavours in cash-strapped Washington, but politicians aren't getting the real cost issue
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News
Business - good week
CATHAY PACIFIC The Hong Kong-based carrier forecast a record full-year profit of at least HK$12.5 billion ($1.61 billion), two years after it posted a record...
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Business briefs
DANISH TIE-UP BOOSTS MAINTENANCE BUSINESS ACQUISITION Copenhagen-headquartered engines and aircraft maintenance firm DAO Aviation has acquired Danish...
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News
Business - bad week
ROLLS-ROYCE Despite being beset by criticism over its public handling of the uncontained failures of its Trent 900 and 1000 engines, under the wing of a...