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Busy B/E
USA Today this morning features this story http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2006-01-09-fanny-friendly_x.htm from The Palm Beach Post on aircraft interiors manufacturer B/E…
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Nervous in Toulouse
EADS co-chief Noel Forgeard spoke to reporters in Paris today http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&Date=20060109&ID=5400697 and said all kinds of interesting things.
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Changes at Vought
Vought Aircraft Industries CEO Tom Risley is retiring, newspapers in Texas report.
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Airbus says ‘We sold a lot too’
After Boeing made a big splash announcing 1,002 orders for 2005, Team Toulouse is telling reporters worldwide that…
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Flyi, we hardly knew ye
Independence Air — which I believe used to fly to Washington Dulles from SeaTac — has shut down.…
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Love is in the air …
… or at least in the hangar. British Web site cheapflights.co.uk reports http://news.cheapflights.co.uk/flights/2005/09/an_aisle_seat_f.html that a Dutch company has…
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Cruising altitude or still climbing?
Boeing Blogger-in-chief Randy Baseler shares his thoughts http://www.boeing.com/randy/ on the company’s record-breaking sales year in 2005.
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The view from Europe
The BBC takes a look http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4486628.stm at what’s ahead for Boeing and Airbus in 2006: production increases, continued…
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Offsetting
Business Standard reports from Mumbai http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu1&leftindx=1&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=210649 about the off-set agreements that enabled Boeing and Airbus to land deals…
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Lost (not the TV show)
Some fall-out from last year’s Machinist union strike at Boeing — RyanAir is going to have to cancel…
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After-Christmas Sales
Airbus has won the first order of the new year with an order for six A350s from Bangkok…
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Looking ahead to ‘06
Now that Boeing’s sold all these jets, it has got to build them — while still pushing ahead…
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The China Syndrome
There’s an ongoing debate in academic circles about whether China represents a threat to the U.S. aeropsace industry.…
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I tell ya what they want, what they really really want …
And speaking of airlines that plan to order more planes, SpiceJet officials say they’ll convert 10 options for…
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Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann
The Boeing test pilot who was the chief pilot on the record-breaking 777-200LR flight spoke in Edmonds today.…
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Christmas leftovers
There still could be a couple of presents under the tree for Boeing this year, according to international…
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The Future of Flight
The world’s newest airplane museum opens at Paine Field in Everett this weekend. They’re calling it the Future…
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Boeing’s man in Asia
BizWeek profiles Larry Dickenson, the salesman behind Boeing’s big wins at Cathay Pacific and Qantas. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_52/b3965070.htm
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A380 parts stolen
Thieves have made off with key titanium components for A380 wings, The Daily Post in north Wales reports.…