All Opinion articles – Page 42

  • Opinion

    Vertical lift consortium splits US rotorcraft industry opinion

    2011-03-01T08:00:00Z

    There are divided opinions in the US helicopter industry on the efficacy of a new consortium tackling procurement problems

  • Opinion

    Comment: Embraer deserves to steer its own tanker

    2011-02-28T10:00:00Z

    Nearly two years have passed since Embraer and the Brazilian air force formally launched the KC-390 tanker-transport ...

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    Comment: German EADS power trumps share trading

    2011-02-21T12:00:00Z

    Chatter about the delicate issue of EADS ownership rose in volume on reports that Daimler wants the German government to relieve it of at least some of the burden of the country's France-balancing equity interest in Europe's aerospace champion.

  • Opinion

    Comment: Virtual airlines look real, but the security of the product is very different

    2011-02-20T12:00:00Z

    Airlines are as tightly regulated as they are for a good reason - and while virtual airlines can provide what looks to customers like an airline product, there are crucial differences

  • Opinion

    Comment: Brain drain? Learn lessons from football

    2011-02-08T09:00:00Z

    Sam Sayani, second-in-command at Pakistan International Airlines, may have tempered his words to spare his hosts' blushes. But his message at a session entitled Competing For People at last week's MRO Middle East conference and exhibition in Dubai was clear: stop poaching our people just because you can.

  • 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: 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: 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: 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...

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    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

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    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.