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Over the past two years we have seen a remarkable surge in orders for single aisle airplanes. Much of this has been driven by fuel prices. But there has also been an issue bubbling under - airplanes in many fleets are getting older. Pat Duggins (http://www.patduggins.com/) is an expert on aging airp...

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-...

We speak with Norman Hecht, an aviation consultant with 38 years in the business, 37 of them with a major engine OEM. Norm explains the most important factors in engine selection - there are nuances and airlines frequently bring in consultants to assist even if they have a long term relationship wi...

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...

Today there was big news from Seattle. Boeing and one of its key unions (IAM 751) came to an agreement on differences going back a long time. There were negotiations that were ongoing but seemed to have ratcheted up seriously into covering the big issues. The union gets to keep the MAX at Renton...

Another of our growing programs on the vibrant Indian aviation scene. Today we discuss tough times at Kingfisher - especially the Red mess with implications for the ATR fleet. We also discuss a polar opposite - success at IndiGo, rising profits and its international expansion plans. Finally we look...

Yesterday Boeing unveiled the 737 MAX - a name that is likely to be the name it bears among industry analysts and airline people alike.  Getting to yesterday was a long and sometime tortuous road.  After debating for years it seems, and being pushed by Airbus’ neo decision, MAX was b...

We had a 19 minute call with the team at Bangalore Aviation talking about the news of MAS and Air Asia doing their share swap (not great news for travelers used to low fares), then we went on to discuss the Star Alliance's dissing on India (and Air India). Finally we spoke a bit about the 787 which...

The reaction to American's recent fleet order was not positive from the financial analyst community. They have valid concerns regarding the firm's financials. But in typical fashion, MIT Researcher Bill Swelbar decided to take contrarian view and look at the order from a positive viewpoint. He prov...

A three way call with Ken Herbert from Wedbush Securirites, Jon Ostrower from Flight Global and Michel Merluzeau at G2Solutions. The consensus was surprising - we did not select these people because of their similar views, yet that is how it turned out...