Does the headline of this article represent an attitude that customers are drawn to? It sounds like a customer strategy taken right from the Seinfeld’s “Soup Nazi” playbook! Do customers prefer choice and the ability to ...READ»
Everybody knows the game of rock, paper, scissors.
Airbus seems to know the game, too. The aircraft consortium has been playing it with the choice of materials for its A350. Originally, Airbus was planning to build a conventional ...READ»
As the price of jet fuel goes through the roof, airlines are eager to replace old gas-guzzling planes with a new generation of fuel-efficient airliners. Airbus and Boeing are taking plenty of deposits, but not one of the shiny new ...READ»
New York — In my December, 2006 North River Advisor, Airbus, I warned that Airbus’
continued weaknesses while global demand for fuel-efficient, jumbo
commercial airliners explodes would attract a powerful new ...READ»
After six years of development and two years of delays, debate and red tape, The Airbus A380 Superjumbo (A modern-day Spruce Goose) is ready to fly commercial.
Yesterday's meeting of the European Aviation Safety Agency and the ...READ»
New York — Our new CORPORATE INNOVATION PROJECT shows what types of innovation are accretive and why. Look at the commercial aircraft business. Airlines are being killed by today’s fuel costs and many are reconsidering ...READ»
The downturn in air traffic is leading to a major makeover in air carriers' fleets. Flight capacity demand among cargo and passenger carriers has deteriorated faster than expected, according to the IATA (International Air Transport ...READ»
Since Boeing and Airbus are in a pitched battle for superiority in the aircraft industry, you may not be surprised to learn that both companies have scheduled first flights for new planes at the very same time. But you'd be wrong, ...READ»
The arrival of Airbus’ big-bus airplane in the U.S. last week was the occasion for lots of breathless coverage in the media. The A380, the largest passenger plane in history, did a kind of fashion-runway pirouette across the U.S., ...READ»
Can you instantly identify an aircraft and its configuration with just a glimpse of its fuselage? Or are you aircraft-challenged and couldn't tell a Boeing 747 from a DC9 if it were parked in your living room?READ»
Last week, UK-based low-cost airline easyJet announced it had designed an aircraft that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent. They call it the "ecoJet" and claim the design could become reality by 2015.
Sounds great, ...READ»
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Susie Essman
Host, Bravo TV's Better Half
Bravo takes on love and work with its latest reality show, launching October 3. Essman, best known for her role on ...READ»
It's becoming the essential competitive edge: the ability to hopscotch the globe, switching countries, cultures, and languages as easily as the rest of us change clothes. Meet some folks who are really living the borderless life.READ»
The future is something to get excited about again. Here's our look at the surprising people, ideas, and trends that will change how we work and live in 2005.READ»
Third Aircraft Interior Innovations 2007
November 6-8
Hamburg, Germany
At the Aircraft Interiors gathering, eggheads who know ergonomics and marketers who know mood lighting share prescriptions for making air ...READ»
With 52 airlines awaiting a total of 762 787s, word that delivery of Boeing's much-ballyhooed Dreamliner would be deferred was unwelcome news indeed.
Nevertheless, the Dreamliner's production problems seem to bear no resemblance to ...READ»
Boeing's 747-8 jumbo jet may represent the best of what engineers have to offer now, but Airbus has reached 40 years into future and come back with a design that barely resembles the aircraft of today. The Concept Plane, revealed ...READ»
Even the best helicopters are loud, rickety gas guzzlers, and a big reason for that is the rotors themselves. As each blade cuts the air, it creates a turbulent wake; the next blade passes through that wake, causing it to ...READ»
Until someone invents a time machine, we're stuck with aviation. So it's up to Boeing, along with its only real competitor, the E.U.---backed Airbus, to carry the banner for technological and ecological innovation in the air. For ...READ»
If you are the CMO or CEO of a technology company, you might be interested in learning that the recession, depression or slowdown in the economy is real, unless you are targeting the federal government, the single largest IT client ...READ»
Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!). Mix, match--join in.READ»
