GLG News by Fixed Base Operator Service Experts

Not only ATC staff are suffering from this situation but also the airlines staff.Is this wonderful industry sick and how to heal it? 

...but can the company cash them in the cold light of day? Doesn't look like it when even the simplest of claims ("We're the fastest!") turns out not to be what the courts would call, "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...".

In the three months to January 2008 the U.S. more than doubled its use of unmanned aircraft in Iraq. Intelligence, not just firepower, is making a difference in that theater. The most heavily-used drone, the Raven, weighs in at only 4.2 lbs.

At the end of the process, only AF-KL and tiny Air One have remained as the alternatives for the Italian Government to go ahead with Alitalia's sale. It is however quite doubtful that any of the two ones are really good partners for the troubled Italian carrier, given their historical strategic fit...

Every air carrier should be concerned about how run-amok FAA lawyers can turn a $100 million enterprise into worthless paper overnight.

Delta and United have held informal merger talks in recent months and discussions are understood to be at an advanced level. With both airlines keen to progress further before the new administration takes office in two months, a merger such as this would be the decisive catalyst needed to launch the...

Trying to draw the sting out of its November 8th 3Q07 results, EADS today announced further problems with its military airlifter, the A400M, noting a provision for up to $2 billion in expenses as well as additional future potential delays and extra charges. The full-year earnings forecast for 2007...

Spirit AeroSystems is the key supplier and integrator on the B787. The Boeing program revolves around the Wichita, KS company. Spirit's 3Q07 results beat analysts' expectations with 2008 guidance even ahead of expectations. No talk of two-year delays here or anywhere else reputable.

Boeing will have unhappy customers and some catching up to do.  The company will face performance penalties for late deliveries, albeit not as material as those Airbus faced for the longer A-380 delays.  The difficulties of new technologies combined with a new global manufacturing...

After four months of speculation since it first hinted at B787 production issues, Boeing today said it won't start deiveries of the airplane until late-2008. Apart from the usual "I told you so" 20/20-retrovision doom-merchants, nobody truly saw this one coming...