Brazil’s Airlines
Brazil is a large country in real estate terms – 8.5M km2, or 14 times bigger than Alaska, making it only slightly smaller than the entire USA. We know how crucial air transportation is to the United States, and this…
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Pilot Training, “Alpha Protection” Software and Fly By Wire rules
Last week, Harry Nelson, former Vice President of Airbus flight test department, warned about pilots relying too much on automation, and that airlines need to better train their flight crews who may have become complacent and may not be capable…
Duopoly and Market Share in the US
The US airline fleet has been remarkably stable since 2000 in terms of narrow and wide body aircraft. Wide body aircraft have typically accounted for under 15% of the jet fleet for many years. Views: 29
CSeries Flight Test Update
We got an update to the program test flight hours. March was, quite simply, a fantastic month. Every test program watcher looks for the “hockey stick” curve. It looks like Bombardier’s CSeries test program has reached the upward part of…
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Fokker Responds
Last week we published a story about the opportunity in replacing the fleet of Fokkers in service today. Fokker Services felt that our story was too negative. Indeed the firm pointed us to this link which demonstrates the in-service fleet…