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Richard Dussault VP Marketing at Pratt & Whitney Canada spent some time discussing the company's substantial history in the making of turboprop engines. But as interesting as that is, its the vision of the future is. PWC is well into the development of an engine up to 8,000 SHP. Such an engine coul...

The framework agreement from a year ago has made huge progress. Yesterday's announcement is remarkable. Never before have two aircraft companies decided to combine their interests quite like this. It is more than ground breaking. For an airline looking at new technologies the combined offering could...

We were given an opportunity to speak with Chris Young, Rolls-Royce's Trent XWB engine Program Director. He describes the program's progress - 18 months into the test phase; they now have their ninth engine running. With over 1,700 hours they have achieved two-thirds of the certification program. R...

India's Kingfisher Airlines had another challenge when it ran into IATA's clearing house rules. The airline has about a third of its fleet out of action. One would think that these challengers are making the future of the airline ever more tenuous. Apparently not according to analysts at Bangalore...

Philippe Poutissou is VP, Marketing at Bombardier Commercial Aircraft and spent some time talking about next year and also reviewed some 2011 events. The issues discussed include: An overview of their programs;...

Barry Eccleston is Airbus Americas CEO and spent over fifteen minutes talking about the great year they had plus a peek into a murky 2012. The issues we spoke about are: an overview on A380 programs for 2012; plus what are the biggest program challenges?; With so many sales for neo already booked, w...

Randy Tinseth is vice president, Marketing, for Boeing Commercial Airplanes and kindly agreed to podcast with us looking forward to next year. We discuss the following topics; Program views (737,747,767,777, 787) for 2012; the biggest program challenges for 2012; Cargo traffic is dropping in double-...

Immediately after we completed the podcast with IAM 751, we invited Boeing to take a listen and respond if they so chose. And Boeing did decide to respond. We spoke with Tim Healy, Boeing spokesman on labor matters. It is exciting and gratifying to see much of the same spirit as that expressed by...

India has the world's fastest growing air travel sector - yes faster than the Gulf. Year on year growth was 17%. Imagine that in the EU or North America? The airlines would be doing back flips of joy. But in India you have near total financial chaos. Air India is a political plaything that has no...

Yes its true. The Obama Administration’s proposed tripling of the passenger security tax is on the table. Will Congress go along? After all there is a real need to cut the deficit. As one can imagine this new tax is not going over well - the ATA is reacting by speaking to one and all. As ATA VP...