All Opinion articles – Page 27
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OPINION: Why lawyers are the only WTO winners
Once again the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled on claims of illegal subsidies in the large aircraft market, and once again, both Airbus and Boeing are claiming victory.
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OPINION: Boeing's aftermarket strategy will require new approach
By 2027, Boeing will be an aviation and aerospace aftermarket juggernaut, controlling as much as 20% of the global market, or twice the market share claimed by GE Aviation, the biggest player today.
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OPINION: Canada's F-35 participation deserves scrutiny
Canada’s crazily protracted process to acquire a new fighter has been the subject of another unexpected plot twist, with its defence minister announcing a plan to order an interim batch of 18 Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets.
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OPINION: Narrowbody backlogs vital to industry's financial health
For Airbus and Boeing, financial health over the next four years depends on two things: executing a historically steep ramp-up for single-aisle aircraft and keeping enough customers in the order book to justify that output hike in the first place.
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OPINION: Hard Brexit carries risk for aviation
The UK government is talking up Brexit opportunities around the globe but at the moment it is the great unknowns that are causing concern. Among them is what happens to the UK’s participation in the EU’s open-skies arrangement, under which any European airline can fly between two points in the ...
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OpinionOPINION: The bright side of the downturn
At the recent series of air finance industry briefings and conferences in Hong Kong, there appeared to be growing consensus that the global aviation industry cycle has peaked and is on its way down – albeit one that should be manageable.
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OPINION: Airlines – borrow now!
One thing that Donald Trump's ascension will definitely mean is change.
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OPINION: Recovering Bombardier needs four more good years
Bombardier is now nearly a year into a five-year recovery plan outlined by chief executive Alain Bellemare last December, and, so far, so (mostly) good.
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OPINION: President Trump should make aerospace nervous
To put it mildly, the year 2016 will not be remembered fondly by proponents of globalisation. A protectionist tide spills over borders in the West and East, placing the present structure of the aerospace industry in a rather awkward position.
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OPINION: Why business aviation must innovate to drive recovery
In business aviation, sales slumps are usually broken by the arrival of new products, which explains why most forecasts predict any recovery will occur after 2017. That aligns with the arrival of several impressive models, such as the Bombardier Global 7000, Cessna Citation Longitude, Gulfstream G500 and Pilatus PC-24.
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OpinionOPINION: Beijing puts firepower on show with J-20
Terrorists and Western defence equipment had a bad time at this year’s Airshow China in Zhuhai. Hardened bunkers, speeding trucks and warships were no match for the barrage of missiles and bombs launched by Chinese-built fighters and unmanned air vehicles – all seemingly co-ordinated by emotionless men in sterile control ...
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OPINION: Capital markets make a year-end comeback
Expect more capital-markets deals before year-end. That is the message from several Wall Street bankers to whom FlightGlobal has spoken lately.
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OpinionOPINION: Contractors must recognise new US procurement rules
There is a new era in military aircraft procurement with new rules and customs, which contractors will ignore only at grave peril.
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OPINION: Why $8bn gamble should pay off for Rockwell Collins
Rockwell Collins’s planned “transformational” acquisition of aircraft cabin equipment manufacturer B/E Aerospace is an indication that size matters when competing for supplier contracts in an increasingly cut-throat market.
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OPINION: Why America still needs business aviation
As the industry prepares to gather for the annual National Business Aviation Association convention in Orlando, the US economy is seven years into a post-2008 upswing – but facing the uncertainty of a presidential election in which there is a chance that the most maverick and unpredictable candidate of modern ...
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OpinionOPINION: Should the search for missing MH370 be extended?
The shock disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in March 2014 is one of the most keenly debated and puzzling aviation mysteries of our time.
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OPINION: Fear makes the market in aviation finance
When UK member of parliament Jo Cox was killed in her constituency on 16 June, the market reaction was immediate. The British pound and the euro rallied after weeks of poor trading amid Brexit uncertainty, while the previously attractive safe haven investments such as gold and government bonds were sold ...
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OPINION: How the World has changed with Airbus
Forty-two years ago, as Airbus was handing over its first A300 to Air France, much of Asia was a mess. War raged in Cambodia and Vietnam and, at the end of Chairman Mao’s calamitous rule, China’s economy lay in tatters. While Japan, Malaysia and South Korea had embarked on industrial ...
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OpinionOPINION: Qatar's Boeing commitment sends clear message
As the Qatar Airways spotlight swings pendulum-like around its supply chain, OEMs can breathe a sigh of relief when it is not their turn to be in the laser focus of its notoriously demanding chief Akbar Al Baker.
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OpinionOPINION: Avolon / CIT merger raises questions about consolidation
Avolon's purchase of CIT Aerospace is not a done deal yet. Despite announcing the agreement to purchase CIT Aerospace, Avolon still has some way to go until the deal closes next year.