The Obama administration must address the massive subsidization of the Gulf carriers—more than $42 billion over the past decade—or U.S. workers, communities and our airline industry will pay the price.
L ockheed Martin has named John Rood vice president-domestic business development/operations. He succeeds John Ward, who retires in August. Rood had been vice president-business development at Raytheon.
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has a long-term vision of humankind moving heavy manufacturing into space, coupled with a short-term plan to develop reusable rocketry.
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DEFENSE Pratt & Whitney will power the Northrop Grumman B-21 Long-Range Strike Bomber, one of seven suppliers named by the U.S. Air Force. The others are aerostructures manufacturers GKN Aerospace, Spirit AeroSystems and Orbital ATK, electronic systems suppliers BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins, and tooling provider Janicki Industries.
The Senate commerce committee’s bill won’t include ATC reforms but will inspire debate over airline seat space; the Navy asks Congress for 14 more F/A-18 Super Hornets; Trump names a national security adviser.
Whatever contributing factors account for the exact rise in spending, the major reorganization announced at the end of December and partly explained in January and February is supposed to further boost the capacity of China’s military.
Finding evidence of extraterrestrial life could be the bonus of NASA’s robotic mission to Europa to map the Jovian moon’s icy surface and might engender more government support.
The companies’ significant business overlap would have raised major concern with regulatory authorities, and even if it had been approved, the merger would have faced the wrath of customers.
Gaining flights to Cuba may not be the cash cow some U.S. airlines anticipate; the island nation is not equipped for a massive influx of tourists, and U.S. demand for flights to Cuba remains an unknown quantity.
Thailand’s airline industry has had to confront a daunting array of external and structural problems over the past several months, and while a few carriers are finding ways to prosper, other major players are struggling.
