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OpinionBritish Airways picks tough year to turn 100
Celebrating a British Airways’ centenary in the year of Brexit was always going to be a difficult.
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OpinionOPINION: Boeing's Poseidon adventure pays off
In these days of huge order backlogs and soaring assembly rates for the air travel industry's narrowbody favourites, it could be hard to understand why the sector's giants would bother with adapting their jets to meet niche military requirements.
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OPINION: Airbus lets head rule heart with A380 cancellation
Of all the days to be dumped, St Valentine's Day is probably the most painful. But prompted by Emirates cancelling most of its remaining orders, Airbus on 14 February finally let its head rule its heart, and said au revoir to commercial aerospace's biggest vanity project – an airliner more ...
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OpinionOPINION: Firms must ignore procurement chaos to tap Indian riches
India, says Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia, “is seen as a very big, but very difficult market”.
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OpinionOPINION: Bombardier answers regional riddle with CRJ550
For quite some time, there has seemed to be no question for which the appropriate answer is "more CRJs".
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OpinionOPINION: How Boeing's jumbo bet paid off
Half a century ago this month, the cheers went up across Everett as the first Boeing 747 took to the air. Those celebrations were recognising not only the impressive engineering feat, but a commercial one too.
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OPINION: The war for talent in aerospace
The aerospace industry prides itself on being a fraternity of smart, passionate people pushing the frontiers of progress. But the bitter legal feud between Bombardier and Mitsubishi Aircraft has laid bare the rough and tumble of industry hiring practices.
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OpinionOPINION: Urban air taxis are coming, but challenges abound
Urban air taxis, eVTOL aircraft, call them what you will – there seem to be hundreds of different designs currently in development.
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OpinionOPINION: Going Mobile may be start of A220's rebirth
Bombardier launched the CSeries on 31 July 2008, but the most notable date in the troubled history of the aircraft now known as the A220 may prove to be 16 January 2019.
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OpinionOPINION: Can F-35 hit programme targets in 2019?
As years go, 2018 was about as good as it gets when casting a historical eye at the various trials and tribulations which have affected - and at times afflicted - the Lockheed Martin F-35 over the past decade or so.
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OPINION: How a football club's revival stirs hope for Flybe
Late steel entrepreneur Jack Walker's football club, Blackburn Rovers, rose from relative obscurity under his ownership, achieving notable prominence, only to then deteriorate and seemingly implode in the years after his death.
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OPINION: Airbus team must seek to regain sales supremacy in 2019
The big-two airframers just about managed to get over the line to hit their delivery targets for last year, and in doing so set production records for themselves and the industry.
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OpinionOPINION: Despite 2018 set-back, aviation safety is improving
Over the next three-and-a-half hours, worldwide, more fatalities will be added to the grim toll of road traffic accidents than occurred on the global commercial passenger airline network during 2018.
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OpinionOPINION: Which anniversary will top list in 2019?
As landmark years go, 1969 takes some beating. The USA put men on the Moon before the end-of-decade deadline set by President Kennedy, while on either side of the Atlantic, Boeing and an Anglo-French venture flew for the first time two of the most iconic airliners ever, the 747 and ...
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OpinionOPINION: Air France's naming of female chief must set a new trend
The appointment of Anne Rigail as the new chief executive of Air France is a positive end to a year in which gender diversity among airline leaders was thrust into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.
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OpinionOPINION: Lockheed pact fuels Airbus tanker ambitions
Tradition states that after tasting the disappointment of defeat, one should try and try again. For Airbus, this means for the third time promoting its A330 multi-role tanker/transport to the US Air Force - but this time with the support of Lockheed Martin.
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OpinionOPINION: Will A330neo orders soar after slow start?
First delivery of the A330neo has brought with it a period of anxious waiting in Toulouse, as Airbus hopes for a smooth service entry from the twinjet.
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OPINION: Alitalia and Piaggio must answer compelling question
On the face of it, beyond the simple fact that both companies are Italian – and in administration – there seems little to link flag carrier Alitalia with airframer Piaggio Aerospace.
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OPINION: Is China closing military gap with USA?
China’s rising military prowess is a cause for concern among those of its neighbours unfortunate enough to be locked in territorial disputes with Beijing, but also increasingly for the US armed forces and any number of Western companies trying to export their equipment around the globe.
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OPINION: In praise of the Challenger
If you had typed "Bombardier" into a search engine for most of this year, the chances are the results would not have made pleasant reading.