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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...

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...

Airline Business Editor Max Kingsley-Jones wrote an intruiging piece on the Bombardier CSeries in 2012. So we called Max and had a chat about the airplane and its prospects.  The CS is seen as living in an awkward segment - bigger than regional jets but smaller than full size airliners.  B...

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;...

The second in our now monthly review of Indian and other sub-continent aviation news with Bangalore Aviation. We talk about Air India and the 787, Kingfisher's financial pressure and Spicejet's brand new Q-400...

Scott Hamilton's second part of his discussion with Pratt & Whitney's Bob Saia. They discuss the new engines coming out as well as new airplane programs. We have an interesting view of open rotors - an open rotor needs more than double the diameter of a regular fan engine...

If there is one thing the aerospace industry has learned over the past few years it is the scary things that come with outsourcing. On the one hand, everyone wants to save money and drive costs lower. But as we have seen, in the short term trying to save money can be like fool's gold. This is a ver...

Lufthansa's EVP Corporate Fleet is Nico Buchholz and he is based in Frankfurt. Herr Buchholz is a very important man in the airline business; he and his team buy planes for Lufthansa, Swiss, Brussels, Austrian and BMI. So he is on many OEM speed dial lists. He and his team make fleet decisions tha...

Virgin America made big news this week becoming the launch customer of Airbus' new NEO. Airbus was thrilled and a few observers and financial analysts grumbled the news was bad for Bombardier. David Cush, Virgin America's CEO, explains that the CSeries was not a particularly serious competitor. Th...

Airbus has announced its NEO program and the market has responded. Two orders in two weeks - 170 airplanes in two weeks. But how does the program look? Boeing on the one hand is sticking to its guns of no big changes. And on the other hand we have Bombardier with everything new. Between them is...