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...LANKA Suicide Bombers Strike at Airport Audacious attacks by Tamil tiger rebels on a military air base and the international airport at Colombo left 21 people dead and 11 aircraft destroyed. At the airport hundreds of passengers dived for cover as gunfire and grenades exploded at 3:45 a.m. Four hours earlier the rebels had struck at the Katunayake Air Force Base, blowing up eight military aircraft. The dead - seven servicemen and 14 rebels - included several suicide bombers, who detonated explosives strapped around their bodies. The attack was thought to have marked the anniversary of the 1983 anti-Tamil riots...
Neeleman, who wants to take JetBlue public within two years, is just as obsessed with keeping costs down. Like Southwest, JetBlue flies only one type of aircraft, which keeps a lid on training and maintenance expenses. With flight attendants and even executives like Barger chipping in to help clean the jets even before they have landed, turnaround times average just 35 minutes, as fast as industry leader Southwest...
...bundle" engines and avionics in packages that other firms couldn't match, and United Technologies concentrated on GE's role as a buyer of planes through GE Capital Aviation Services, its finance and leasing subsidiary. GECAS, it was argued, would insist that those from whom it bought aircraft should buy both GE engines and Honeywell avionics, hence reducing consumer choice and stifling technological innovation...
...price was never right. I wasn't aware of it at the time, but our aircraft people had been working with an investment bank on Honeywell for a couple of weeks prior to this coming up in October. Don't forget that last year, Honeywell's stock had lost about 40% of its value. There, sitting on a platter, was a deal at prices far below what we ever dreamed possible. Was I supposed to not do it? I had to do it. I'd do the same thing again tomorrow. I wasn't thinking about retiring. I was thinking...
...aircraft took off before dawn they had their lights on, and it was like the sky was filled with fireflies. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. In formation, the propeller engine of the plane ahead of you makes a smoke stream. To avoid it, I was flying a little bit higher than the aircraft in front of me. I was near the end of the second group. The leader was at 3,000 m. Gradually, the other planes were each a little bit higher. I was at 3,500 m. I felt like a shepherd watching...