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Still Up In the Air European planemaker Airbus dominated the skies last week, even as business back on ground hit some turbulence. A crowd of some 30,000 gathered around Toulouse 's Blagnac airport to cheer on the successful maiden flight of the super-jumbo A380, the plane Airbus has spent €13.2 billion developing in a bid to eject Boeing's 747 as the reigning big bird of long-haul air transport. Airbus predicts a 5% annual growth in passenger volume over the next 20 years, which is one reason for the A380's larger capacity...
...Duration of last week's inaugural test flight for the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger plane...
Some reflected on their own experiences in the spotlight, like basketball great Oscar Robertson on LeBron James and Quincy Jones on Juanes, the Latin pop star. Some--like Citigroup's Sallie Krawcheck, who wrote about eBay's Meg Whitman; Gloria Steinem on Winfrey; and Richard Branson on Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard--make their judgments with a cool eye, but others, like Lisa Marie Presley on Etheridge and the Rev. Billy Graham on John Stott, are surprisingly personal. Among my other favorites: Russell Simmons on Jay-Z; Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman on the show's creator, Marc Cherry; Bono...
...Shanghai and Vienna last year. "Airlines are generally bad businesses. Emirates is different," says Damien Horth, an analyst at UBS in London. "It has been consistently profitable." Still dramatically expanding, it has more than $26 billion worth of new airplanes on order, including 45 of the massive, double-decker Airbus A380s...
...Shanghai and Vienna last year. "Airlines are generally bad businesses. Emirates is different," says Damien Horth, an analyst at UBS in London. "It has been consistently profitable." Still dramatically expanding, it has more than $26 billion worth of new airplanes on order, including 45 of the massive, double-decker Airbus A380s...