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Executives of Bombardier Aerospace seemed a bit defensive when they traveled from their Montreal headquarters to a recent aviation fair in São Paulo. Just east of Brazil's business capital are the headquarters of Embraer, Bombardier's smaller but aggressive rival. The two companies have fought for a...
(2 of 2) Both Bombardier and Embraer are gambling big money on ever larger regional jets. New 90-plus-seat models, the Bombardier CRJ900 (rolled out in January) and the Embraer ERJ190 (expected next year), cost each firm nearly $1 billion to develop, but might face competition from Boeing's...
185 lbs. Average winter weight of adults, including carry-on luggage, used by airlines to determine whether a plane is too heavy to fly
Even getting a flight at a convenient time has become a daunting challenge. Faced with a dramatic decline in reservations, airlines such as Cathay Pacific?which last week asked 14,000 of its employees to take four weeks of special leave starting in June?have been forced to slash their...
A company's culture must also work from the ground up, beginning with the frontline worker. The famously unbuttoned style of Southwest Airlines, for instance, goes hand in hand with the company's all-important low-cost structure. In job screening, test scores and educational pedigree are secondary to a...