Yesterday, United Airlines took delivery of the first of 50 Boeing 787s it has on order, and the first of five expected to be delivered in 2012. United is the first US airline to operate the Boeing Dreamliner, and takes…
Probably no single new technology is capturing more attention among airline pilots than the Electronic Flight Bag (EFB). And recently the EFB market has become captivated by Apple’s iPad®. These facts were manifestly underscored at the recent EFB workshop in…
EFBs, as they are known, are a big item coming to flight decks. We discuss these with Joe Ayson, Director of Business & Corporate Development at Allegiant Systems Inc., a part of Allegiant Travel Company. Play Views: 24
We had a fascinating call with an EMBRAER pioneer recently. Satoshi Yokota has served as Member of the Board of Directors of Embraer SA since 2011. He previously served as Member of the Executive Board and EVP for Strategic Planning…
Today Teal Group VP Analysis, Richard Aboulafia, published his monthly newsletter. The September newsletter will be found here. In it Richard describes seven “good” things about such a deal and four “challenges”. Discussing these ideas with Richard are AirInsight’s Ernie…
Airbus and Boeing claim demand and record backlogs thousands of A320s and 737s requires them to boost production rates to record levels. There’s little doubt that this is true. But while the two OEMs also claim that there is no…