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ANALYSIS: Diehl Aerosystems poised for Airbus ramp-up
For Diehl Aerosystems, Airbus’s production ramp-up is both opportunity and massive challenge. The company’s powerful position as an interiors supplier to Toulouse – and the A350 in particular – has helped turn what was a niche business in the Diehl group six years ago into its biggest division. However, meeting ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The biggest LCCs by traffic and financials in 2015
When Ryanair ended the 2015 calendar year passing the 100 million passenger mark, it further underlined the huge growth the low-cost sector has continued to experience over recent years
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ANALYSIS: Airline industry set to show it is serious about CO2
Six years of collaboration and planning paid off in February when the first-ever global carbon dioxide efficiency standard for aircraft was agreed and put forward by an ICAO committee. Manufacturers have largely welcomed the proposed standard and say they are already prepared for it, while environmental campaigners believe it could ...
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ANALYSIS: Unshrouding the mystery of open rotors
Ground testing is imminent on the open-rotor engine portion of the European Union’s Clean Sky initiative, with Snecma and partners now putting the finishing touches to assembling the demonstrator. The noise issues that have plagued open-rotor engines in the past appear to have been largely overcome, and the key questions ...
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ANALYSIS: The rise of the China operating lessor
The operating lease is a key part of the commercial aircraft industry – accounting for nearly 42% of today’s commercial jet fleet. After seeing continuous growth since the late 1970s, the operating lease fleet share has stagnated since 2008. However, that period of apparent stabilisation witnessed the rise of a ...
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ANALYSIS: Jets getting tanked up on alcohol
A specific type of alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fuel recently became the latest kerosene alternative to be approved for use in commercial aviation – a milestone that its only producer hopes will light the touchpaper for the explosion in airline demand needed to economically scale up production.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Saab broke the mould with evolved Gripen E
Saab is targeting the on-schedule delivery of its new Gripen E fighter to the Swedish and Brazilian air forces late this decade, as it steps up export campaigns involving both the advanced model and its earlier C/D-model jet.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Asia LCC alliance to take on region's budget giants
In talks with each other since over a year ago, eight low-cost carriers in the Asia-Pacific and Oceania regions announced on 16 May that they have formed a landmark alliance that will “transform Asia Pacific’s low-cost market”.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: UK helicopter training looks to make synthetic shift
In 2014, the Royal Air Force’s chief of air staff, ACM Andrew Pulford, said that “without any doubt” more of the UK forces' training had to be simulated, moving away from a reliance on live flying.
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ANALYSIS: The mixed fortunes of all-business class services
At the start of the 21st century, the only all-business class service was Concorde. Now – after a short-lived flurry of all-premium transatlantic start-ups in the mid-2000s – a second wave is having mixed success. Those who appear to be making the model work – albeit in a modest way ...
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ANALYSIS: Is business aviation in Europe headed for a triple-dip?
Is it third time unlucky for business aviation in Europe? In less than a decade, the sector has experienced two sharp downturns in traffic – once in the midst of the global crisis of 2009, and again in 2011 and 2012 after a short-lived rebound. Now, as the sector prepares ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Taranis developers reveal test flight specifics
Despite having performed a maiden sortie some three years ago, details remain sketchy on the flight-test campaign of the BAE Systems Taranis unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator.
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ANALYSIS: Business aviation 'can wake sleeping giant' of Nigerian economy
For a hint of Africa’s potential as a business aviation market, look to Nigeria. The country is home to 174 million people and has a landmass of 923,768km² but only 35,900km of often-dangerous roads. This vast oil-rich nation has an installed fleet of 140 business aircraft, surpassed on the continent ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Boeing calls out USAF's sole-source EC-37B Compass Call plan
Boeing Defense has called for an open competition to replace the EC-130H Compass Call electronic attack turboprop, saying the requirement for a business jet airframe to re-host that equipment should not automatically go to Gulfstream, which will supply its G550 conformal airborne early warning type to create the EC-37B.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Why Denmark is holding formation with F-35
The Danish government’s 12 May decision to hold formation with the Lockheed Martin F-35 is a welcome boost for the multinational programme in what will be a pivotal year, but is unlikely to have surprised rival bidders Boeing and the Eurofighter consortium.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: 787 conquers China's Big Four
China Eastern Airlines signed for 15 787-9s in April, becoming the last of the big four Chinese carriers to commit to the type.
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ANALYSIS: North Sea safety a work in progress
UK-based North Sea oil support helicopter operators have been engaged in a whirl of activity ever since the UK Civil Aviation Authority published its review of the sector’s safety performance in February, and some new ditching survivability measures are already in place.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Are cost savings enough for United to grow at Dulles?
United Airlines celebrated the 30th anniversary of its hub at Washington Dulles International airport today, even as the future of its operation there remains in question.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Asia orders strength underpins jet backlog
There has been much industry comment about whether the market has “over-ordered”, as the global firm backlog for commercial jets now represents a 60% share of the current fleet and almost nine years of production at 2016’s rate.
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ANALYSIS: European airline merger talks ramp up
Consolidation talk among European airlines has stepped up a level, led by speculation around UK leisure carrier Monarch Airlines, Lufthansa's moves to expand its Eurowings concept, and Alitalia's opening of talks to acquire a stake in Air Malta.