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...research director at Goodbody Stockbrokers in Dublin. Even European flag carriers like Iberia and Air France-KLM, which have faltered as no-frills carriers enticed away their short-haul custom, might see things looking up. IATA says international passenger traffic is up 8.3% this year, and order books at Airbus and Boeing are bulging; the U.S. manufacturer has taken 659 orders this year versus 277 in all of 2004. If the U.S. and the E.U. succeed, in talks resuming this week, to open up the transatlantic market, new routes could flourish, suggests Gill. Glasgow to Cleveland anyone...
...subjecting you to more eye-popping G-forces than you ever thought possible. And just before you regain terra firma, you'll enjoy a fly-past at just over 9 m above the terminal deck, so that friends and relatives can take pictures. The flight home by Boeing or Airbus may seem interminably tedious by comparison. www.fightercombat.com
...economy to a standstill. This summer Standard & Poor's lowered South Carolina's coveted AAA-bond rating to AA+, citing unemployment of 6.3% and a per capita income ($27,172) stuck in the nation's bottom fifth. The state had just lost its bid for a $500 million Airbus plant; Sanford was widely accused of making a miserly effort to lure the aerospace giant...
...loops, subjecting you to more eye-popping G-forces than you ever thought possible. And just before you rejoin terra firma, you'll enjoy a fly-past at 30 feet above the terminal deck, so that friends and relatives can take pictures. The flight home by Boeing or Airbus may seem interminably tedious by comparison...
...emergency landing of JetBlue flight 292 at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday showed off that training. The landing gear on the Airbus A320 airplane got stuck on takeoff out of southern California headed for New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. As TV networks locked on to the stricken plane as it circled over Los Angeles and viewers stomachs knotted as they understood that they might be preparing to watch passengers fly to their deaths, the pilots discussed how to handle the problem with company headquarters in New York and technicians from the airplane's manufacturer in France...