All Analysis articles – Page 82
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Maturity brings change of focus for airline alliances
As the world’s three large alliances head towards their second decade, there is a sense that the time for major growth is over – but that’s not to say their evolution has stopped.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Will Airbus keep the faith with the A380?
The news that Qantas does not have the appetite for the remaining eight A380s it has on order comes shortly after Airbus confirmed that it would halve output to one aircraft a month in 2018 and raises further doubts about the ability of Toulouse to revive the 500-seater's fortunes.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Kodiak leads Quest for growth in a bear market
In an otherwise stagnant industry, Quest Aircraft chief executive Sam Hill believes the maker of the rugged, 10-seat Kodiak turboprop is on the verge of a sudden sales spurt.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How long does Delta’s Tokyo Narita hub have left?
Delta Air Lines is unravelling its hub at Tokyo Narita International airport, fulfilling the warning that it made earlier this year and continuing the process that began in 2010.
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ANALYSIS: Emirates probe bids to unravel landing sequence
Investigators probing the Emirates Boeing 777-300 landing accident at Dubai have yet to explain why the aircraft apparently failed to climb away during a go-around attempt.
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ANALYSIS: UK 'punches above its weight' in space
For anybody with a longish memory it may seem to odd thing to say, but spaceflight is a high-profile affair in the UK. On the shoulder of astronaut Tim Peake’s blue European Space Agency jumpsuit is a Union Jack, prominent as the former Apache helicopter pilot tours the country to ...
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ANALYSIS: FlightGlobal airliner census reveals fleet developments
A look at the latest FlightGlobal airliner census highlights some stars - like Boeing’s fast-growing 787 fleet
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Will new secondary transatlantic routes survive?
Airlines have added a slew of new routes to secondary points across the Atlantic, recalling the days before the 2008 credit crunch when such routes were last in vogue.
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ANALYSIS: Why fuel hedging can be a fool's errand
European airlines have over the last decade been extremely active in the fuel-hedging market, seeking to lock in a US dollar cost item against revenues often in weaker currencies.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: H160 makes progress as design matures
“This is a very important milestone for us,” says Bernard Fujarski, head of the H160 programme at Airbus Helicopters.
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ANALYSIS: Brexit unknowns hang heavy over European carriers
The UK’s vote to leave the European Union continues to generate more questions than answers, even as the initial impact begins to be reflected in airline performance and strategy.
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ANALYSIS: Air travel is safer than ever, but safety today is not all about accidents
In the whole of 2015 – the safest year on record by almost all measures - there were no fatal accidents involving jet airliners, but in the first six months of this year there have been three.
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ANALYSIS: Who will finance Turkish Airlines now?
Turkish Airlines' decision to replace its chief financial officer, remove a swathe of its senior financial team and terminate the contracts of more than 200 staff – whom it accuses of having links to the recent failed military coup – appear to have taken a heavy toll on its previously ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: 767 delivery delays still impacting WestJet
Last year, WestJet executives lamented that delays at an MRO shop in the USA forced the delay of the carrier’s launch of Boeing 767 flights to Hawaii.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The increasing spread of airline acquisitions
If in recent years it was Etihad Airways that appeared to be the main international airline suitor for carriers seeking new investors, over the last 18 months its Gulf peer Qatar Airways, China's HNA Group and Delta Air Lines have all emerged as buyers in the market.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: American aims to cut delivery bubble with A350 deferral
American Airlines appears to have worked for some time towards an agreement with Airbus to defer its A350-900 deliveries, reaching one less than a year before its first aircraft was due.
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ANALYSIS: GE Aviation unveils strategy for dethroning PT6
Challenging the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engine in the light turboprop market is a tall order, and GE Aviation knows it.
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ANALYSIS: GE set to unveil single-engined turboprop
Despite an 80-year co-existence in Wichita, Kansas, there was surprisingly little overlap in 2014 when the newly formed Textron Aviation combined the Beechcraft and Cessna product lines. The separate portfolios even shared a curiously common gap. Amid a diverse array of pistons, turboprops and jets, neither company sold single-engined turboprop ...
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ANALYSIS: New technologies queued up for general aviation rule change
Most general aviation pilots today have no access to a readily available technology that can prevent loss-of-control accidents, the single-largest cause of small aircraft crashes.
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ANALYSIS: Getting personal with single-engined jets
The business and general aviation sector is arguably the most innovative, pioneering and unconventional sector of the aerospace manufacturing industry.