GLG News by Defense Industry Consultants (EU)

For Boeing to receive 'good' news in its already highly successful B787 sales campaign, something pretty special would need to be in the works. Looks like it...

AirTran has been courting MidWest Airlines since the beginning of 2007, during which time the Milwaukee-based carrier has tried new alliances, new routes and new airplane-seating configurations in an attempt to stave off the almost inevitable takeover. The lower-than-expected profits forecast announced...

As of June 13, 2007, Boeing has 584 announced and 22 firm-but-unannounced orders for its new composite-body B787, to which must be added a minimum of another 50 next week at the Paris Air Show. At the currently planned build rate of seven airplanes per month and including the first 18 months of production...

There's no question: where widebodies are concerned Airbus has blown it big-time. There's a huge difference between some Boeing-style missteps a few years ago and falling headlong down the stairs à la Airbus... and the European manufacturer is now looking at a distinctly bruised near-term...

In aerospace terms the 'old order' of US and European predominance is increasingly being challenged. A structural realignment is currently taking place within Europe, as Airbus strives to come up with a workable future operating formula, and in both Russia and China where the emphasis is more on...

How to you divert the media from some of your more embarrassing corporate facts? Easy. Give them something else to write about. So it is that in order to try to divert Press attention from the problems of its late and over-budget A380 and its multi-launched A350, Airbus has now announced supposed new...

There's an unofficial marketing dictum that goes something like, "No matter what you offer, somebody'll buy it". Not exactly business-plan material, but it could well apply to the knocking-on-the-door Very Light Jet (VLJ) market, which is still somewhat in its embryonic state but will...

The 2007 Paris Air Show will put on display much of the latest hardware and software from the commercial and military aerospace worlds, but there is widespread acceptance that this year's show will be essentially dominated by two 'non-events': firstly, Airbus will once again be parading...

MidWest Airlines hopes that by reaching out to other potential customers and adding extra seats to its out-of-production airplanes it can somehow or other maintain the high standard of service for which it is renowned. Hmmm...

The prolonged struggle by AirTran for control of Midwest edged closer to conclusion this week with the news that 57% of Midwest shares had apparently been pledged to the AirTran cause. But this fight hasn't yet reached the final round.