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There seems to be little hope that three French citizens detained earlier this month by Brazilian authorities for causing a disturbance on a ’plane, will be home in time for Christmas. On Monday their families had hoped to have a private audience (...)
23 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton
The View from Fez is in debt to our reader Andrea Massa for alerting us to the latest news from the sky. Royal Air Maroc Light ? Royal Air Maroc is to drop its Atlas Blue low-cost brand within half a year, instead integrating the Marrakech-based (...)
23 oct. 2009 | | The View From Fez
If you’re an aeroplane enthusiast living in France, November 20 is perhaps a date to mark in your diary. That’s the date for the inaugural flight of Air France’s first Airbus A380, and the company is planning to sell seats on the (...)
7 Aug. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton
The American plane manufacturer Boeing announced today that it was delaying its "Dreaminer 787" program. The project has already been delayed several times since 2007. This time the problem is technical : part of the fuselage of the plane is too (...)
24 Jun. 2009 | | NYFP
The American plane constructor Boeing gave more details on its strategy for 2009 today, where CEO James McNerney was meeting investors. The inaugural flight of Boeing’s new plane, the 787, will occur during the current quarter. The 787 program is (...)
22 May. 2009 | | NYFP
An article at Boing Boing caught my eye today - that United Airlines wants to charge obese passengers for two seats. The argument is a simple one: if you’re too large to fit into a seat you have to pay for a second one as you are inconveniencing the (...)
21 Apr. 2009 | | Jon Worth
After interacting with many software end users in different industry verticals, we found that when it comes to open source there are main two concerns, first is to get required documentation to start with and second is to get proper timely support for (...)
17 Apr. 2009 | 1 comment | OpenERP
The European plane-constructor Airbus registered eight orders for the first three months of 2009, whereas its American competitor Boeing had a deficit of four orders. In details, Airbus received twenty-two orders, and fourteen were canceled. The eight (...)
6 Apr. 2009 | | NYFP
Thanks to some great flying and some quick flight crew and rescue workers, it looks like most if not all of the passengers on US Airways flight 1549 are safe. Picture taken by a commuter on a ferry that went to the (...)
16 jan. 2009 | | W.C. Varones
This American aircraft maker Boeing is about to cut 4,500 jobs in its division of commercial airplanes. This represents 7% of its manpower. This is mainly due to the 53% decrease of orders in 2008 compared to 2007. Boeing justifies this measure by the (...)
12 Jan. 2009 | | NYFP
Writes guest blogger Dr. Summer Johnson : As described in the Newsweek article, "Should the Obese Pay More for Airline Tickets ?", one of the latest social disincentives created by the airline industry to penalize those obese persons choosing (...)
9 jui. 2008 | | Bioethics.net
Gee that’s.....horrible. As one who has flown many, many air miles I can tell you that nothing - NOTHING - will make you feel potentially homicidal more than out of control kids on a flight. The good folks at Southwest apparently had had enough (...)
8 jui. 2008 | | Rob Port
Wired reports that the Pentagon is asking for submissions on a "non-lethal" method to stop a plane on the ground or divert it from a particular location. This does not sound like a good idea to me. The one constant and predictable thing with any (...)
12 jui. 2008 | | Geek News Central
U.S. Air Force plans to project air power With more costly French tankers, Exporting 40,000 jobs to Toulouse, France. The champagne corks are flying in France. It’s because the U.S. Air Force decided on an expensive French import instead of a (...)
10 mar. 2008 | 5 comments | Liberally Conservative
An Indian entrepreneur has given a new twist to the concept of low-cost airlines. The passengers boarding his Airbus 300 in Delhi do not expect to go anywhere because it never takes off. All they want is the chance to know what it is like to sit on a (...)
10 oct. 2007 | | Marginal Revolution
Business is about risk taking. Well, most of it that is. When Airbus decided to build the A380 super jumbo, it must have seen something which Boeing didn’t. Alternatively, why Boeing failed to be the one to build such a super jumbo might have meant (...)
6 jan. 2006 | | Chippla Vandu
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