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Doug McVitie, MA

Doug McVitie, MA, Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran AerospaceFounder & Chief Consultant
Arran Aerospace
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Doug McVitie is 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 more than 28 years in the aerospace industry around the world. In 1996, Mr. McVitie founded Arran Aerospace, 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 televsion and radio programmes on aerospace and defence 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 - 1996 Director of Sales Intelligence
AIRBUS SAS

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Airbus China Year+ Behind Schedule | 02-19-2008
Author: Doug McVitie, MA, Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran Aerospace

Airbus' plans for a narrowbody assembly-line in Tianjin, China, are running more than a year behind schedule and costing EADS far more than anticipated.

More pressure on MRAPs for Iraq | 02-19-2008
Analysis of: Vehicle delay blamed for Marines' deaths | news.yahoo.com
Author: Doug McVitie, MA, Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran Aerospace

An independent report into DOD procurement aspects of the war in Iraq is strongly critical of alleged delays in U.S. sourcing and deployment of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, credited in the past six months with a sharp drop in the U.S. casualty rate.

Boeing Expects Limited Russian Returns | 02-05-2008
Author: Doug McVitie, MA, Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran Aerospace

The current record aerospace industry order cycle will not be sustained by strong growth from Russia and Eastern Europe, no matter what the Russians themselves might say. Potential, yes, practicality, not yet...

Airbus A350 orders cancelled | 01-30-2008
Author: Doug McVitie, MA, Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran Aerospace

Airbus has lost two airline customers in two weeks for its proposed A350XWB. While the orders themselves were small (13 aircraft total), they're another delay-engendered setback for EADS while Boeing is adding B787 orders despite its own compromised delivery schedule.

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