All Opinion articles – Page 48
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Comment: American's Agenda
Despite limited room for manoeuvre, carriers are trying to force through global joint ventures and pacts as they play out growth strategies for when the good times return. American Airlines is involved in deals that could give it big wins both east and west
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Comment: Have BA and Iberia got it 20% right?
The decision by British Airways and Iberia to pursue a merger has re-ignited the debate on airline consolidation and its merits - or lack thereof. Proponents...
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Comment: Market reality and the US middle man
Italy's Finmeccanica, virtually unknown in the US defence market even five years ago, seems to have set its sights on cracking the ultimate transatlantic...
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Comment: Stripping out margin for error
Aviation has a long and worthy tradition of calculating safety performance to allow for error or the unexpected. This is being challenged by today's lean operating philosophy
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Comment: A400M: the first cut
South Africa has finally lost faith with Airbus Military's delayed airlifter, but only time will tell whether it was right to withdraw now, rather than hold formation through flight test
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Comment: Are old habits working against new vision?
NASA's commercial crew and cargo programmes are about changing the way it does...
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Comment: SESAR off the radar?
Air traffic management is usually low on the political horizon unless there is a crisis, but with traffic down, the Single European Sky is in danger of disappearing behind the clouds
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Comment: Awakening from a connectivity coma
Boeing has far more important things to worry about than deciding what in-flight connectivity it will choose for the 787. Shouldn't it focus on getting the...
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Comment: USAF stealth strategy jammed on lock
Radar jammers are an inconvenient necessity. After all, a 30-year-old US Air Force strategy has poured billions of dollars into stealth technology ...
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Comment: Foundation shaken
Times are hard, and companies are not the only organisations whose existence is threatened by economic crisis. The Flight Safety Foundation, a priceless industry asset, is also at risk
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Comment: The final frontier: open to all?
A new vision for NASA, where crew and cargo transport to the International Space Station is privatised, emerged last week after remarks by the agency's administrator...
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Comment: Beating the clock
The world deserted corporate aviation a year ago. Business jets offer comfort and status, but it is their biggest selling point - speed of getting from A to B - that will lure customers again
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Comment: Volunteer or be volunteered
Business aviation could easily be safer than it is. Corporate operators and big fractional ownership companies could improve only a little as their standards...
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Comment: MRJ's big deal
Mitsubishi's claims that its MRJ will set the standard for the next generation of regional jets seemed like wishful thinking until a big export order gave the programme serious credibility
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COMMENT: Helicopter safety has no choice but to improve
Helicopters don't have to be the poor relations of fixed-wing aircraft, with safety worries consigning them to niche applications - the tools exist to raise operating standards dramatically
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Comment: Time for noisy Il-76 to roar its last
When even a major Russian operator is demanding that a Russian aircraft type should have its operations restricted then it is difficult not to pay attention. Freight...
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Comment: Technology overtures
A US-French bid to ride the Comac C919 airliner project to commercial success in China raises questions about how far firms must go to become players in this fast-growing market
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Comment: Output miracle will be a hard act to follow
As 2009 began, the production plans for Airbus and Boeing defied logic. The world's economies were in meltdown, traffic was in freefall and banks had stopped...