Perhaps Bisignani was primarily referring to European airlines, and the report is referring to world airlines……you did read the second part of the report didn’t you?: “Europe jets lag” and “The bulk of the revenue turnaround is predicted to come from Asia (excluding Japan)….” It further goes on to say that the ash caused some 1.8bn in lost revenues.

GEnx powered planes to fly soon…..test pace continuing to increase:

http://www.glgroup.com/News/Boeing-787-Flight-Test-Pace-Increases-48663.html

Loaded questions aren’t actually worth answering.

And yet you feel obligated to respond….hmmm

Some people never miss a trick, do they? :rolleyes:

And some people never answer the question, but always point back at the questioner.

As an acquaintance of mine who flies 747s in Asia told me, its good to be a customer in Asia, not so good to be an employee. Note that several of the top are Asian, and employ only young, good looking women as trolley dollys. Several others are Middle Eastern, hardly a region that could be called a champion of workers or womens rights. The last time I was in a hotel in Tokyo, an Asiana crew came out while I was in the lobby and there must have been at least 25 of the most perfectly groomed and attired young women…..truly an impressive sight…..:)

IMHO the reason for the lack of American carriers is obvious…….60 and 70 year old flight attendants on the long haul flying.

As for the lack of European carriers….well the concept of service to others isn’t really ingrained in the Euro-socialist mentality, n’est pa? Continual strikes, employees more concerned about their benefits than the good of the company, etc, etc, etc.

Boeing builds airliners “from scratch” at Seattle? That is the most ridiculous thing I have read in quite some time…..

Airborne Express had a “poor man’s EFIS” in their DC-8’s 20 some years ago. I’ve got a picture somewhere but probably won’t be able to find it to scan it in. This mod may have been done some time ago. It does seem rather ridiculous to modify a fuel guzzler like this when there are so many more efficient glass cockpit airplanes in the desert.