Doug McVitie, MA
Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran Aerospace
Member of the Industrial Council
Council Member Biography
Doug McVitie is the Founder and Chief Consultant at Arran Aerospace, a firm providing consulting services in the aerospace and defense industry. Prior, Mr. McVitie was Director of Sales Intelligence at Airbus in Toulouse, France. He has spent 30 years in the aerospace industry around the world. In 1996, he founded Arran Aerospace, originally a Scottish-based consultancy providing aerospace and defense marketing and sales intelligence to industry, governments, financial institutions and other parties worldwide. Arran Aerospace has been quoted in more than 250 newspapers and magazines and Mr. McVitie is regularly asked to contribute to television and radio programmes on aerospace and defense matters. He holds an MA from the University of Glasgow. Among his specialist commercial aerospace subjects are the current and future outlook for and aircraft of EADS/Airbus and Boeing, the importance of the aftermarket/MRO sector and supply-chain management. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 1996 - present
- Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran Aerospace
- 1994 - 1995
- Director of Sales Intelligence, AIRBUS SAS
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Doug McVitie, MA(?)
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Well, the WTO Ruled in Favor of Boeing, But Bloomberg's Take Was Surprising
September 12, 2009
Doug McVitie, MA, Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran Aerospace
Boeing, U.S. Seen Winning WTO Case on European Aid to Airbus | www.bloomberg.com
So this story is already a week old, but crucially only three weeks into the one-month appeal time. EADS has already made the tactical error of calling this (interim) result "Only Part One", when it simply can't be -- the two cases are separate and so can't be interdependent..So what does EADS do?...
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A Frenchman's Word is His Bind
September 5, 2009
Doug McVitie, MA, Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran Aerospace
US lawmaker says WTO ruling faults Airbus subsidies | us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com
1) EADS chief confident ahead of WTO ruling
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"Sauve Qui Peut!" Udvar-Hazy's on a Mission
September 4, 2009
Doug McVitie, MA, Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran Aerospace
Airbus May Produce Two Versions of Future A320, Tribune Says | www.bloomberg.com
There have been thousands more stupid stories written about Airbus than there were episodes of "Here''s Lucy!" (144), but at least the latter were funny. However, this outwardly dumb idea has some merit despite its "Loony Tunes" provenance (Udvar-Hazy). Interesting too that Bloomberg's aerospace reporting...
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Spirit's Turner Opens the Door for Slight 737 Reduction in 2010
September 3, 2009
Doug McVitie, MA, Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran Aerospace
Spirit Chief Executive: Production Cuts Could Be On The Way | www.kake.com
Does this apple taste better than that orange? If we temporarily lower production rates by a couple of aircraft a month on our narrowbodies (not the 30% the original Mini-Me Udvar-Hazy advocated), will it matter? Will the apple taster better than the orange?
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| Airline and Aerospace Industry Experts: GLG Leaders and Scholars | 610 |
| Fixed Base Operator Service Experts | 70 |
| Carbon Fiber Experts | 71 |
| Armored Vehicles Experts | 49 |
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