An Oct. 28 article (page 39) misstated the history and operational status of the Airbus A350 program, which was launched in 2006. The A350-1000 market has grown by 29% since then and now totals 2,100 units that are expected to be built during the next 20 years.

Hundreds of applications for aircraft operations and repair stations are held up, stymied by the FAA's inefficient certification processes, a government watchdog finds. FAA is juggling 1,029 such applications, Jeffrey Guzzetti of the Transportation Department's Inspector General's office, recently told Congress. The situation is so bad, one applicant has been in limbo since August 2006. And it is about to get worse, as requests from NextGen technologies and unmanned aircraft flow into the system.

Airbus and Boeing have argued that air transport growth is linked to the development of global GDP. But that is not always the case: U.S. air travel has been more or less stagnant in spite of economic growth, but Russian air transport is growing fast in the midst of a recession.

The price of EU carbon dioxide allowances (EUA) under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) was volatile in October, as market participants positioned ahead of imminent sales by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and speculated on the prospects for progress on market intervention by the regulator. The price of EUAs for delivery in December seesawed wildly through the month, ahead of upcoming sales by the EIB and possible political progress on the European Commission's plan to backload up to 900 million EUAs from auctions over the next few years.

Persian Gulf carriers gain much-needed new infrastructure in Dubai and Qatar

At first glance, Hong Kong's strength as an airfreight hub for China is remarkable. To go through the city, most of its traffic, goods from mainland China, must clear customs twice. Yet Hong Kong International Airport not only overcomes that disadvantage; it is now also the world's largest freight airport, handling 3.98 million metric tons in 2011, just ahead of Memphis (Tenn.) International Airport's 3.92 million tons. And that was before capacity at Hong Kong grew by half this year, with the opening of a third giant terminal for Cathay Pacific Airways.

These included: Ensure that unstabilized approach and go-around policies are clear, concise and unambiguous, including follow-up procedures for non-compliance. Emphasize the importance of good monitoring by both pilots since that can affect the safe execution of a go-around. Operations manuals must contain a strongly worded policy statement that no punitive action will follow a go-around.

The planned cessation of all Concorde flights really brought the end to an era.