Posted in Evan's Fiskings, tagged aerospace, asia, competition, nationalism on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
This AP story on Aviation.com has a troublesome lede. Check it out: “China plans to set up its own company to make passenger jumbo jets, making it less dependent on Boeing and Airbus, official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.” (Emphasis added.) I’ve blogged previously about China’s aerospace ambitions. Here, the reporter errs in his word [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged asia, humor on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Asian Airlines do they have delays
Ah, that magical Shangri-La where the airlines always fly on time.
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged aerospace, asia, nationalism, prestige, travel, world on January 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Chinese were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of jumbo jets danced in their heads.
China, not stopping with its forthcoming small-to-medium-size civilian jetliner, is moving forward with its jumbo jet program. Its two state-run and owned aerospace companies, AVIC I and AVIC II, will be restructured. AVIC I (an acronym for China Aviation [...]
Posted in Evan's Debates, tagged aerospace, asia, competition, environment, europe, nationalism, open skies, prestige, regulation, usa, world on December 12, 2007 | No Comments »
My exchange with Daniel Hall earlier this week made it onto The Economist’s Free Exchange, which was in turn picked up by Megan McArdle’s Asymmetrical Information.
The Economist writer brings in the intervention dimension:
[S]o politicised an industry as air travel need not fear dislocations in any case; governments would react incredibly quickly to pull back on [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged asia, open skies, regulation, travel on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Travel Weekly reports that after four years of talks, the U.S.-Japanese bilateral aviation agreement has been amended for the first time in ten years, with minimal changes: a minor codeshare rule change, more flexibility in setting fares (”While that provides more fare freedom in theory, the U.S. government never blocked fares, and it was not [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged asia, competition, network airlines, open skies, regulation, travel, world on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
The Department of Transportation has awarded new China route authority (see my earlier post on this), and all the major airline applicants took home a prize. Delta goes first, with immediate approval for Atlanta-Shanghai. The 2008 route is for Guangzhou only, and only United submitted a bid, for service from San Francisco. Finally, in 2009, [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged aerospace, asia, usa, world on September 8, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the media’s tropes is the battle royal between Boeing and Airbus, with the two companies as respective proxies for the United States and Europe. This is really no more than a trope, as both companies have been making their operations more international. The new Boeing 787 is really only American-assembled, not American-made–its parts [...]
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged aerospace, asia, world on September 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As the BRICs develop their aerospace industries, they will decide whether they will participate in the international trading system or sell to a bloc of client states. Unfortunately, Russia seems to be returning to familiar paths as it attempts to produce 4,500 aircraft by 2025. Russia’s state-owned UABC is selling several Tupolev 204s to the [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged asia, budget airlines, competition, regulation, safety, travel on September 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Per an earlier post, the Chinese aviation sector–and, by extension, Chinese travelers–are already beginning to experience the consequences of the central regulator’s decision to cut back on growth. The burden will fall most on low-cost carriers, stunting increased access to travel for the middle-income burgher class just beginning to emerge in China.
LCCs, new entrants feel [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged asia, humor, safety on September 4, 2007 | No Comments »
“Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday,” according to Reuters.
The plane is now back in service.
