Articles tagged “airbus”

Before Gogo's Smagley spoke, Global Eagle Entertainment's Kevin Trosian mentioned that "the airline industry is very much a relationship industry." Gogo seems to be having some problems with its Airbus relationship.

It’s the old story: Do you want it quickly or do you want it to be special?

If Airbus meets production projections, this is aircraft is set up to give Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner a run for its money.

Bad ideas aren’t all bad. Sometimes they lead to better solutions.

The war between the feathered birds and the metal birds has raged on from the beginning of aviation, with casualties on both sides. Both birds make a lot of noise, but neither is about to give up its claim on the skies.

We're going to need another class of airline to define Qatar. It's untraditional. It doesn't conform to the luxury mold. A new Upscale-Gulf-All Business-Economy Carrier for the A380 skies? It's a new model--one we can't quite put a label on yet, but suspect will do very well.

Oh, Brave New World. We can’t wait to try it on for size.

The battle for the inch and the battle for the butts-on-seats is -- in the end -- a battle for the birds in the sky.

Sometimes the battle for interiors takes a silly turn.

While we have no faith in trickle-down economics, there is a real correlation between design improvements in first class and life getting a little better in economy.