The News Review:
- 2 planes collide midair over Colorado; both land safely
- MRO Leaders Cautiously Optimistic at AVIATION WEEK’s MRO Asia …
- Second Edition of the Evolution of International Aviation Now …
2 planes collide midair over Colorado; both land safely
USA Today
Both aircraft crash landed safely and no one was injured. "This is truly one of those miracles," Allen Kenitzer of the Federal Aviation Administration told the Associated Press. "Usually with a midair collision you have very serious damage and very serious injuries, if you have survivors at all. "The planes collided near Grand Junction, in western Colorado this morning.
MRO Leaders Cautiously Optimistic at AVIATION WEEK’s MRO Asia …
MarketWatch
Business models have to be recalibrated to meet new customer
demands for total life cycle solutions. New generation aircraft will
increasingly change the way we do MRO, which requires us to invest in the
training of our people. Lastly, we need to work closely with all stakeholders
in the aviation industry, as higher overall operating efficiencies [affect]
all parties in the MRO value chain. ”
Chow Kok Wah, Divisional Vice President of Engineering at Singapore
Airlines, agreed, adding, “Surviving players in the industry will be the ones
that recognize trends and adapt with each crisis. ” He suggested several means
of dealing with the financial crisis at hand, including fixed maintenance
prices, like the pay-per-hour model Singapore Airlines has applied to its
engine and component maintenance, and higher aircraft utilization. “Increasing
utilization from 12 hours a day to 13 hours a day is a productivity increase
of 8 percent,” he said. “An airline with a 100 airplane fleet can now dispense
with 8 airplanes.
Second Edition of the Evolution of International Aviation Now …
MarketWatch
The purpose of this book is twofold. First, it lays out the forces that
shaped the international aviation industry and that changed all the
rules in the drive for liberalization. Second, it looks at the many
interesting and difficult choices ahead that the airline industry in
general and the international aviation industry in particular face. These choices include many dichotomies: pulling back from the trend
toward liberalization or embracing the liberalization trend, merging in
search of profitability or fragmenting the industry in search of
economies. These possible futures are explored including the pros and
cons of each future from a national, consumer, employer, and employee
perspective. Evolution of International Aviation is organized into three parts: Part
One reviews the early development of the international aviation system.
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