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Everyone in commercial aviation (and increasingly non-commercial as well) is wondering how they can implement biofuels to be cleaner and cut fuel costs. Well it's not that simple. It turns out there are trade offs no matter what you look at. Dr Veronika Persinova is a consultant with Creelman & Asso...

Richard Aboulafia was an early critic of the CSeries program when it launched. But with an updated program Richard seems to feel there is more promise now. He still sees issues that make the project risky - but then again, we have seen every new aircraft project uncover issues...

The year is rapidly drawing to a close and we do our annual skit on the industry with help from Professor Sabena, Professor Braniff and a new voice, Lady Ashley Cloud.

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A strange reaction to the US DoJ green light to the proposed merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines was the reaction from pilots. You would think they had worked out how this merger would work in their interests and focus on the seniority list - the seemingly most important thing i...

Today we have three distinguished guests - industry veterans - who opine on some recent airline industry news. The Southwest story about the three kids; the jetBlue fracas with a manifestly unbalanced employee; some thoughts on Unite's threat to strike against BAA and finally on a serious note, tho...

We invited three industry voices, experts in the field with decades of knowledge. Professors Sabena and Braniff join Mrs O'Leary and share their choices for the industry awards. Please not the show today is a JOKE - this is an attempt at levity, we poke fun and no offense is intended. Please take th...

Russ Young is director of communications for Boeing Capital Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. We caught up with him on the berm next to the runway prior to the 787 first flight. He was one of a handful of people allowed to speak with media "on record"...

On Monday December 14th, in the evening as the sun set over a wet and cold Paine Field, we caught up with Jon Ostrower. The now well known Flightblogger had been sitting in his room, watching over the field and pondering what was about to happen. The 787 was what got Jon into the business he finds h...