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...Even less avid backers agree that aviation is on the brink of the biggest revolution since the transition to jets in the 1940s....
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...For some of the world’s biggest airlines, the sweetest sound will be the roar of jet engines returning over the north Atlantic....
...Boeing, which was already reeling from the grounding of the 737 Max jet, has drawn down the entirety of a $13.8bn loan from several of Wall Street’s largest lenders, while Delta, American and United have...
...Moelis & Co, whose founder Ken Moelis has in the past represented companies of US president Donald Trump that were facing bankruptcy, will focus on troubled cargo carriers and contractors....
...Venetian traders would use telescopes to inspect the flags of incoming ships, deriving clues on their cargo to buy and sell commodities accordingly....
...The retailer has leased dozens of aircraft to create a fleet of cargo jets, and it plans to build an air hub capable of housing 100 planes....
...Ataturk Airport will continue to be used for cargo for some time. After that its fate is unclear. Mr Erdogan has promised to turn part of it into a “people’s garden”....
...Passenger jets meanwhile cost “many tens of millions”....
...Amazon has signed a new leasing deal for cargo jets, doubling the size of its fleet and underscoring its ambitions to grow its air transport network....
...Amazon is taking its ambitions to the skies with a new agreement to lease 20 cargo jets in its boldest step yet to control its own logistics operations....
...In May 2008, IndiGo, SpiceJet and Jet imposed a Rs5-per-kg fuel surcharge on freight as global oil prices spiked to $140 per barrel that summer....
...These difficult conditions were the backdrop to Boeing’s decision last month to slow production of its 747 jumbo jet, which sells mainly to cargo operators....
...Boeing blamed that change on a fall-off in orders from air cargo operators, the main potential customers for the company’s biggest civilian aircraft....
...(WSJ) Amazon air cargo service Amazon is negotiating to lease 20 Boeing 767 jets for its own air-delivery service, cargo-industry executives have told The Seattle Times....
...Work on the 747 jumbo jet — which the company once manufactured at the rate of seven per month — has been cut to just six a year as lacklustre air cargo demand has reduced demand for the four-engine jet....
...jets in controlled airspace....
...Flights are when you are sitting in a jet airplane,” he says. Facebook never intended to fight against net neutrality....
...Bombardier, the Canadian group, unveiled its long-awaited CSeries jet at a pre-show event on Sunday....
...“[The valuations] are usually based on the second-hand value of a [Boeing] 747 but those planes typically go from passenger to cargo, whereas there are not many cargo sheds that can accommodate an A380.”...
...To warrant delivery by drone, a cargo needs to be “lightweight, high value and time sensitive”, says Mr Raptopoulos, noting that blood and medical diagnostics fit that description....
...than $100m whose other major asset is a bulk cargo ship....
...It took the prestigious title sponsorship of the Thunder Over Michigan airshow, where visitors to Willow Run were able to see Baltia’s jet....
...Two events in the past year at a cargo airport near Montreal could prove decisive to the success or failure of Bombardier’s CSeries jet....
...twin aisle jets such as Boeing’s 787 and Airbus’s A380....
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