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...turbulence, last week Villepin sued three authors for libel over claims linked to the murky Clearstream affair, then let his frustration boil over in the face of charges that he was too eager to protect embattled EADS co-ceo Noël Forgeard in the face of expensive Airbus production delays and an investigation into the propriety of stock sales. When Socialist leader François Hollande said Villepin inspired "no confidence," the Prime Minister summoned his most arrogant tone, saying: "I denounce the easiness, and I say it to your face, the cowardice in your attitude." The next...
...aviation security make this an interesting time to be starting an airline, but StarFlyer (www.starflyer.jp), a new Japanese carrier, is hoping that its combination of no-frills reservation procedures and slick cabin environments will help it win customers in a cutthroat market. A seat on the company's Airbus A320s can only be purchased online or via a cell phone (assuming, in the latter case, that you're hooked up to a Japanese telecoms provider). Once on board, passengers enjoy a chic, black interior and an Internet connection in every seat. Personal video screens, coat hooks, cup holders, retractable foot...
...Arbil, with three Vienna flights a week scheduled to start sometime this year. That's just the start. A sprawling $200 million airport is being built on the existing grounds and is scheduled to open next year. Its 4.8-km runway will be wide enough to land the new Airbus 380 - or, for that matter, the space shuttle, boasts Zaid Zwain, Kurdistan's director of civil aviation. "Imagine, people used to fear the sound of jets because of the bombing," he says, standing on the vast, still unpaved runway. Indeed, the sensation of not being in Iraq...
...overseas assets like hotels in New York and wax museums in London; they're providing jobs and business for U.S. companies. Boeing, for one, can only hope it doesn't receive a frosty reception the next time it wants to sell airplanes to Dubai's booming airline, Emirates. Rival Airbus would be more than happy to take advantage of Washington's creeping protectionism...
That's just the start. A sprawling $200 million airport is being built on the existing grounds and is scheduled to open next year. Its three-mile runway will be wide enough to land the new Airbus 380--or, for that matter, the space shuttle, boasts Zaid Zwain, Kurdistan's director of civil aviation. "Imagine, people used to fear the sound of jets because of the bombing," he says, standing on the vast, still unpaved runway...