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RAA notes: Regional manufacturers wary of large turboprop for now

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:35:00 +0000

Regional manufacturers put off a decision on launching a 80-100 seat turboprop.

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LaHood the trooper

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:18:00 +0000

Ray LaHood helps clear pressing problems off of Anthony Foxx's desk

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Why FAA approved 787 fix without 'root cause' determined for JAL, ANA events

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:53:00 +0000

FAA is convinced by Boeing's revamp of 787’s lithium ion batteries

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Can Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha all be thriving global hubs?

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:40:00 +0000

Gulf carriers view their home airports as global bridges.

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Will FedEx and UPS shift strategies?

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:29:00 +0000

Shippers and businesses worldwide—especially in Asia—appear to have shifted the way they move items and goods.

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NTSB versus Boeing

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:51:00 +0000

There was a dust-up last week between the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Boeing over the Japan Airlines 787 battery fire in Boston.

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US lawmakers’ narrow, parochial view of aviation

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:43:00 +0000

American Airlines chairman, president and CEO Tom Horton and US Airways chairman and CEO Doug Parker testified Tuesday before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the two carriers’ pending merger. The questions they were asked by senators were in many ways more telling than any of the CEOs’ answers.

Here were the two men primarily responsible for negotiating a merger that will create the world’s largest airline. Senators could ask them anything in a setting in which honest, on-the-record answers are expected and demanded.

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Ryanair's O'Leary not willing to commit to 737 MAX yet

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:02:00 +0000

Aircraft order negotiations between the major manufacturers and airlines always carry an element of intrigue, but there’s a particularly high wish-I-were-a-fly-on-the-wall feeling regarding Boeing’s talks with Ryanair.

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Welcome to AirKarp

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:20:00 +0000

After getting my blogging sea legs on the old ATW website contributing to the ATW Editors’ Blog, which I was honored to share with ATW Editor-in-Chief Karen Walker, I’m happy to be starting the AirKarp blog on the new ATW website. I hesitate to define this blog too precisely because I believe it will evolve over time, and that blogging by its nature is a malleable form. There’s never a shortage of issues to write about in the ever-changing world of commercial air transport.

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Diamond heist exposes aviation security gap

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:50:00 +0000

The movie-like heist of diamonds from the cargo hold of a Helvetic Airways Fokker 100 preparing for takeoff at Brussels Airport raises unsettling questions about airport security.

Detailed by The New York Times, the robbery exposed a clear vulnerability. One paragraph in the Times’ article in particular caught my attention:

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Boeing could face extended 787 grounding

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:36:00 +0000

US National Transportation Safety Board chairman Deborah Hersman has likely ended all hopes that Boeing had of convincing FAA to lift the grounding of 787s in a short period of time.

I think it’s now not just possible but likely the grounding will last for many weeks and perhaps even for several months or longer.

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Tough questions for Boeing, FAA on 787

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:33:00 +0000

Now it may be time to panic.

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Harsh spotlight placed on Boeing 787 program

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:01:36 +0000

In the blink of an eye, the Boeing 787 program is now the subject of two major inquiries. The US National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the fire on a parked Japan Airlines 787 at Boston Logan Airport while the US FAA is conducting a ...

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Washington standoff: Mica vs. Pistole

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:31:16 +0000

US President Barack Obama and former campaign rival Mitt Romney sat down for lunch on Thursday in the White House. But don't expect a similar breaking of the bread between TSA administrator John Pistole and outgoing House of Representatives ...

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