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...First they started flying their low-fare, high-quality service from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, which most citizens in Manhattan think of as about as close as Greenland. Then they decided to use Airbus A320 airplanes for their airline - another odd move, given that the industry thought Airbus planes were too expensive and burned too much fuel for a reasonably-priced carrier to make money. Then JetBlue became the first - and only - U.S. airline to give you your own TV set in coach (really, a screen in the seatback in front of you, but with 24 channels...
...only the scientists who want answers. So do the carriers: 16 of them attended the WHO meeting. In February the International Air Transport Association advised all airlines to tell travelers of the risk of DVT when they make reservations. Airbus reports that buyers of its new 550-seat A-380 aircraft have expressed an interest in putting treadmills on board. And some airlines are already providing exercise information to passengers. JAL is showing a new nine-minute in-flight exercise video that refers to DVT. Emirates gives passengers the "Airogym," a sort of half inflated water wing, which they squash...
...later decades, permissiveness was extended to state-supported, multi-national conglomerates like Airbus, on the theory that such entities would not only be able to better compete with titans of U.S. industry, but promote the internal integration of Europe - back to that war thing. Now, with the continent well down the integrationist road, euro-zone trustbusters are back to the original plan: More companies, of approximately equal size, is the way to keep economic power nice and decentralized...
...Brussels to be motivated by crude anti-Americanism. Indeed, he was offered the job of Foreign Minister in the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, conservative America's favorite European. In any event, GE competitors opposed to the deal are--like UTC--just as likely to be American as European. Airbus, Europe's flagship aviation company, says it supported the GE-Honeywell deal. I understand that only one airline formally opposed the merger, and I suspect it is based...
...Airbus isn't blinking. The workers at the Clement Ader plant in Toulouse toil away to the scream of rock-guitar music while tourists observe their labors from a metallic catwalk. Across from the plant, on the other side of a runway, a site has been cleared for the colossal building that will house the A380s. The engineers will probably bike in the hangar--an aerospace version of the Tour de France. And like the tour's cyclists, they know better than to discount the American competitor...