Profits Emirates plunge 69 percent
Emirates recorded its weakest year in 2018-19 in eight years, when announcing a Group profit of AED 2.316bln on May 9. This is -44 percent down on the previous year and almost at the same level as in 2011-12 (AED…
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Are the days of cheap fuel drifting away?
Oil prices seem to be steadily creeping up again after a nice dropoff late last year. This chart from Macrotrends makes the case; 2019 has seen a sharp uptick. Oil prices are about double what they were about 30 months…
SAS strike ends after week (update)
A week long cockpit crew strike at Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) has come to an end on May 2 as the airline and unions have reached an agreement. Details have yet to emerge, except that unions in Sweden, Norway and…
Daily Insight: Wednesday 6 March 2019: AI is helping to create more efficient engines
News GE is leveraging artificial intelligence to cut product design times in half. They are utilizing data-intensive technologies and tools to speed up the evaluation of the projected performance of design alternatives utilizing Artificial Intelligence to estimate the impacts…
Daily Insight: Friday 1 February 2019: Boeing’s Bionic Men
News Boeing is using bionics and advanced manufacturing technologies to increase the efficiency of its 787 production facilities. Analysis Improving the throughput of 787 production as the rate increases to 14 per month will help Boeing reduce the massive costs…
Daily Insight – 22 January 2019 – Robotic or Human Inspection?
News: Boeing and the Machinists Union are in disagreement on the impact of forthcoming processes automate some elements of quality assurance. Boeing wants to streamline the quality assurance process through the use of automation for redundant inspections in stable processes.…