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...dangerous corrosion or cracking. Boeing claims the plane will be 20% more fuel efficient than comparable current models like the Airbus 330-200 or Boeing's 20-year-old 767--a bottom-line factor that drives nearly every airline's purchasing decisions. The plane will also have more cargo space than its rivals, no small advantage given that on some flights, the cargo hold is where the only profit is. Airbus spokesman Clay McConnell counters that there already is such an economical plane flying. "By launching the 7E7, Boeing is acknowledging just how good our 330-200 plane really...
...SIGNED. APPROVAL FOR DIRECT COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS BETWEEN VIETNAM AND THE U.S., for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War; in Hanoi. The agreement, which is still being finalized, will permit passenger and cargo flights. More than 1 million ethnic Vietnamese now live in the U.S., and Americans account for the second-highest number of visitors to Vietnam, after Chinese...
...furniture is up," says Steve Farley, executive vice president of BombayKids, a year-old offshoot of the Bombay Co. The firm has just six kids' stores now, but it plans to have 100 in three years. At Pier 1, CEO Marvin Girouard foresees the company's new chain of Cargo Kids stores growing from 33 now to 300 over the next decade. "It's a huge underserved market," Girouard says, and he is frankly eager to brand customers while they're young. "If we get them early, they'll continue to buy from Pier 1 forever," he says...
...Allied Pilots Association Security Committee and a participant on the industry group, is disappointed with the TSA process and the results. Although he refused to speak about the discussions of the group or the recommendations specifically, Rancatore says improving the known shipper program does virtually nothing to improve cargo security. "Cargo is still completely vulnerable." Rancatore, and other participants, tried to get a layered approach in which all cargo inspected and packages 'profiled...
...Admiral James Loy, the head of the TSA, says while checking 100 per cent of high risk cargo is a goal, the technology does not yet exist to make screening all cargo practical. Republican Congressman Christopher Shays is tired of waiting. "In the worst case, any plane with uninspected cargo has the risk of having a bomb on board. That is unacceptable." Loy says the TSA is expected to have a strategic plan completed by Oct. 31 and new rules published by the end of the year...