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United could be in the jet market next year

That’s what Flight International reports anyway. http://www.flightinternational.com/Articles/2005/12/06/Navigation/177/203429/Tilton+comes+out+fighting.html Airline chief executive Glenn Tilton said United should emerge from bankruptcy…

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Qantas decision likely this week

Here’s what the major Australian news organizations are saying as the clock ticks down to this week’s expected…

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SPEEA rejects Wichita offer

The union reports that 71 percent of its Wichita members have rejected the contract proposal offered by Boeing’s…

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Dominoes, Part 2

An analyst is saying that Boeing stands to win the lion’s share of the Qantas order next week,…

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Composite plant workers to vote on joining Machinists

Workers at Toray Composites in Pierce County will vote next week on whether they want to be represented…

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Falling dominoes

First Hong Kong falls to the juggernaut http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2005-12-01T100826Z_01_HO136342_RTRUKOC_0_US-AIRLINES-HONGKONG-CATHAY.xml … is Australia next? The Australian is reporting http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17428629%255E23349,00.html that…

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The British are coming! The British are coming!

Well, maybe. The Sunday Times of London reported this weekend http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-1892267,00.html that Rolls Royce is poised to announce…

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A380 problems cast doubts on Airbus, A350

OK, I’m back in the office after taking off the week of Thanksgiving, which I spent mostly cooking…

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Passing the yams, and picket signs

The Machinists union strike against Boeing’s rocket-building operation continued through Thanksgiving, and strikers spent the day with their…

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A big Boeing bite of the Apple (Cup)

It’s Apple Cup week (for you those of you outside the Northwest, that’s the week of the annual…

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ID theft?

Boeing announced this afternoon http://www.boeing.com/news/breakingnews/2005/051118a.html that someone has stolen a laptop containing some personal data — including banking…

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Dealin’ in Dubai

Reuters reports http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=ousiv&storyID=2005-11-18T115851Z_01_RID843098_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-TRANSPORT-DUBAI-DC.XML that several major deals are likely to get announced at the Dubai Air Show, which…

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Airbus: Our big jet is more better

Airbus is officially downplaying Boeing’s launch of the 747-8, the Associated Press reports http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111700197.html from Kuala Lampur, the…

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Fly naked

In a move sending shivers through paint shops everywhere, Air Canada is experimenting with an unpainted plane. Flight…

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Delta considering 787 buy — someday

It may not have cash now, but Delta Air Lines eventually will have to replace its big fleet…

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Sydney to London

If it was Boeing’s goal to capture the attention of key potential customers with last week’s Flight of…

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Why it’s the -8

Boeing Blogger-in-chief Randy Baseler explains this and other things in his most-recent post. http://www.boeing.com/randy/

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More -8 analysis

The Motely Fool http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05111622.htm suggests that Boeing’s move to launch the 747-8 has more to do with limiting…

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747-8

While Boeing was formally launching the Jumbo Jet Formerly Known as Advanced with two orders from cargo carriers…

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One night in Bangkok

Bangkok Air is in the market for a half-dozen or so 787s or A350s, according to Bloomberg News…