Op-Ed Columnists – Page 16

  • Opinion

    Comment: Enough now children

    2011-02-07T12:00:00Z

    If it weren't so serious, the seemingly interminable World Trade Organisation dispute between Airbus and Boeing might be funny.

  • Opinion

    Comment: Taking the slow road

    2011-02-01T12:00:00Z

    India will pick the MMRCA fighter competition's winner in its own sweet time - and with defence budgets down elsewhere, manufacturers have simply no choice but to wait

  • A320 NEO
    Opinion

    Opinions divided on merits of A320neo

    2011-01-26T09:33:00Z

    Airbus has begun racking up orders and commitments for its upgraded A320neo family, but some industry observers have raised questions about the decision to develop the new variants.

  • Opinion

    Comment: Cash talks – but what is it saying?

    2011-01-25T10:00:00Z

    EADS, poor thing, has a problem: what to do with a €10 billion ($13.5 billion) cash pile?

  • Opinion

    Comment: Super-sized ambition

    2011-01-25T10:00:00Z

    Sukhoi's regional jet order from a Mexican budget airline has been touted as an international breakthrough - but making inroads in the USA requires heroic effort from its marketing team

  • Opinion

    Comment: Forever the bridesmaid

    2011-01-21T12:39:07Z

    As British Airways and Iberia finally walk down the aisle, European rivals are accelerating their search for the perfect...

  • Opinion

    Comment: Shock of the new

    2011-01-17T12:00:00Z

    By going public with IndiGo's intention to take 150 re-engined A320 aircraft, Airbus is aligning its ambitions with global economic shifts - and turning up the heat on its dithering rival

  • Opinion

    Comment: The airline safety gap is growing

    2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Airline safety performance has just recorded its eighth year in a row in which accident numbers and rates have resolutely failed to fall. But why should...

  • Opinion

    Comment: Don't be fooled

    2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

    On the surface, the dramatic emergence of a previously-secret Chinese fighter might cause consternation in the West. But Beijing is a long way from developing a true modern warplane

  • Opinion

    Comment: Lessons lost

    2011-01-04T12:00:00Z

    A baffling oversight on the part of the US Air Force's special operations command means that the causes of a fatal crash - and any need for remedial action - are still to be understood

  • Opinion

    Comment: Keeping them in Kansas

    2011-01-04T12:00:00Z

    States and cities proffering taxpayers' money to lure or retain manufacturing businesses is a controversial tactic that can smack of featherbedding and throwing good dollars after bad.

  • Opinion

    Comment: Show off

    2010-12-21T10:00:00Z

    Military aircraft display routines are supposed to be about giving taxpayers a prudent, safe look at what they're getting for their money - not pushing aircraft to and beyond their limits

  • Opinion

    Comment: certain uncertainty

    2010-12-20T13:31:00Z

    Airbus thinks customers will rush to sign up for the 15% fuel burn reduction that its A320 NEO offers. But as Toulouse ratchets up its sales effort, opinion...

  • Opinion

    Comment: Long haul in Korea

    2010-12-13T10:00:00Z

    When the USA led a United Nations crusade to turn back an act of Cold War aggression in a former Japanese colony it wasn't planning for the future, but 60 years later it's still on station

  • Opinion

    Comment: a job too big... or too small?

    2010-12-12T10:00:00Z

    It may be the most prestigious business jet completion project ever, but Europe's tiny band of high-end interiors specialists are surprisingly reluctant to take on the first Airbus A380 corporate airliner.

  • Opinion

    Comment: End of a stand-off

    2010-12-07T12:00:00Z

    In taking the bold step of avoiding a new-product strategy, Airbus sets in train a long-postponed game-theory exercise of which indefinite status quo is the only impossible result

  • Opinion

    Comment: No place to hide

    2010-12-07T10:00:00Z

    A range of new security technologies waiting for recognition have the potential simultaneously to improve the airport experience for passengers and outwit potential terrorists.

  • Opinion

    Comment: Deja vu in DC

    2010-11-30T00:00:00Z

    We may never again see anything like the General Dynamics F-111, but at least we can relive the bitterly controversial contract dispute that enveloped Washington at its creation

  • Opinion

    Comment: the cyclical pilot feeding frenzy

    2010-11-29T12:00:00Z

    It looks as if the airlines are waking up, as they always do in the end, to the fact that stopping pilot and engineer recruitment in a recession does not freeze the number of employees precisely where it was when recruiting stopped.

  • Opinion

    Comment: Accident information rules must change

    2010-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The commercial air transport industry and its regulators, all the way up to the International Civil Aviation Organisation, need to review their protocols...