This week, Airbus began expanding its testing program for its “Sharklets” to include the A319 in addition to the A320. With that announcement, Airbus provided some initial feedback regarding the testing completed so far on A320, which indicate that performance…
We had a chance to spend time with an aerospace pioneer. Stanley Fishkind is a retired NASA Chief Engineer and CIO. Mr Fishkind spent twenty years at NASA. Prior to this he spent twenty years as an engineer working for…
Today Boeing announced it has finished defining, in broad terms, the 737 MAX, completing a major milestone in development known as ‘Firm Concept’. The bump at the nose wheel door is now gone. There are a number of tweaks that…
The EU ETS process has vexed airlines and governments outside the EU like few other issues. Most industry people don’t want to discuss the process because there could be repercussions. Nonetheless European Business Aviation Association CO Pedro Vincente Azua spoke…
The news that Singapore Airlines is scuppering the world’s longest airlines flights—between Singapore and New York and Los Angeles, operated by Airbus A340-500s in all business class—raises interesting issues that have only been hinted at from time-to-time when it comes…
Even in these days of Internet everywhere, about 60% of airline tickets are sold globally (around 40% in the US) via travel agents. Travel agents use the Global Distribution System (GDS) for their bookings. Approximately one billion airline tickets are…