Strategy – Page 687
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NewsQatar Airways may drop plan to buy Airbus A350 due to uncertainty over twinjet's future
Launch customer frustrated by uncertainty over twinjet’s configuration and Airbus’s expected rethink of design
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Drawing the line
US mainline carriers may have had some success in raising the scope-clause barrier, but pilots have reigned in hopes of farming out 100-seat operations
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Ethiopian ponders 12-aircraft boost to regional operations
African carrier’s acquisition plan could depend on airport infrastructure improvements
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NewsShanghai Airlines plans fleet renewal after acceptance into Star Alliance; Air China to follow
Star Alliance expects Shanghai Airlines will join the Lufthansa-led grouping in about one year and that Beijing-based Air China will also join the alliance next year
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NewsSingapore Airlines further delays choice between Airbus A350 and Boeing 787
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has again delayed its highly anticipated purchase of new widebody aircraft but plans to begin final negotiations with Airbus and Boeing in the next few weeks.
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Thai Airways cargo plan may include creating freight airline
Carrier looks to lease aircraft as well as to convert some of its passenger fleet
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Airbus CEO Gustav Humbert in last-ditch bid to save Singapore Airlines order for A350s
Airbus will be watching the results of a Singapore Airlines (SIA) board meeting carefully this week, hoping the carrier will again delay ordering new twinjets and instead await more details of the radically revised A350 offering.
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NewsWhen to let go? Why Airbus must avoid paying the price for A350 indecision
Airbus is proposing an all-new widebody family, but has it made the age-old blunder of waiting too long to let go of its existing products?
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NewsCult rocker John Otway offers fans seats on private World Tour Airbus A340
UK cult rock artist John Otway has confirmed he is to launch Ot Air, chartering an Airbus A340-400 to accommodate his travelling band of fans following his world tour.