Connexion chief predicts cell phones coming onboard

Published 9:00 pm Wednesday, June 15, 2005

That’s the biggest news from Boeing from Paris today.

Key Quote: “‘The technology is pretty well figured out,’ she told Reuters at the Paris Air Show.”

Not everyone at Boeing is sold on this. Alan Mulally, in a speech to Western Washington University boosters this spring, said he hoped cell phones would never be allowed on airplanes. He was quick to add that was his own view, not the company’s.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061600400.html

Of course, Airbus is making the really big news today at Le Bourget, with a 100-jet order from IndiGo (gotta give these South Asian start-ups their props for creative names, eh?), plus a tenatitve deal with Mexico’s ABC Aerolinas(not loving that name) and a A350 order from Brazil’s TAM.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/16/ap/business/mainD8AOPG000.shtml

Just a hedzup to any and all readers: I’m taking a little time off, so there won’t be any postings for the next 10 days or so.

BUT, because Murphy’s Law definitely rules in the news business, I predict while I’m gone that there will be at least one major development in the aerospace industry (my guess — a 747 Advanced launch).

Speaking of which … Boeing Blogger-in-Chief Randy Tinseth wrote about the 747 Advanced from Paris this week.

Key Quote: “We’re seeing the kind of customer interest that, if I were a betting man, would lead me to wager that we will do that airplane. I’m hoping we’ll get the go-ahead this summer. It’s going to be a great airplane.”

You can read that and his other postings-de-Paris at:

http://www.boeing.com/randy/