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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...

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...

About six months ago we spoke with an entrepreneur with an idea. You can watch him discuss it here http://youtu.be/pmZEIuqvHXA.

Today the idea takes off, so to speak. Wade Eyerly, CEO and Founder of SurfAir took time to speak with us while commuting in California, the new base for the start-up ai...

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...

Our brain trust consists of Michele McDonald of Editor of the Travel Technology Update, Henry Harteveldt co-founder of Atmosphere Research and Timothy O'Niell-Dunne managing partner at T2Impact. The brain trust discusses the news of a start up airline in the US, PeopleExpress, and the evolving distr...

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...

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;...

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...