AviationNow.com Insider - June 18 Headlines Direct From Paris Air Show; Updated News and Features From Global Aviation Event Available on AviationNow.com.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001 Aviation Week's AviationNow.com Insider- Daily Paris Extra newsletter announced the following headlines for June June: see month. 18, 2001. The full text of the articles plus additional news items and features are available at AviationNow.com (www.AviationNow.com), a leading Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the portal serving the global aviation and aerospace industry. The Insider is written and produced onsite at the Paris Air Show The Paris Air Show (Salon International de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Paris-Le Bourget) is an international trade fair for the aerospace business. It is held at Le Bourget airport near Paris, France every odd year, alternating both with the Farnborough International by Aviation Week's multinational team of editors and reporters. TOP STORIES - JetBlue Orders 30 More Airbus A320s. JetBlue Airways will dramatically expand its current 14-aircraft fleet after announcing Monday a new order for 30 more Airbus A320 airliners, all powered by International Aero Engines V2500s. - EADS Aims For No. 2. The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, or EADS, plans by next year to usurp Lockheed Martin's position as the industry's second-largest business, corporate leaders said Monday at the Paris Air Show. - Paris Notebook: Boeing Exec's Remarks Spark Feud With Airbus. Airbus chairman Noel Forgeard said Sunday at the Paris Air Show he felt "poisoned" after a top Boeing executive accused the European consortium of sabotaging General Electric's merger with Honeywell. - Lufthansa To Sign As Connexion's International Launch Customer. Lufthansa has agreed to become the international launch customer for Boeing's Connexion broadband in-flight entertainment service, with plans to test the service on a single aircraft next year. - United Places $1.25 Billion Gulfstream Order, Plans "5-Star" Service. United Airlines unveiled Sunday a major component of its future fleet of fractional ownership business jets in a $1.25 billion deal with Gulfstream aircraft-maker General Dynamics. - Hopeless GE Bids Honeywell Adieu. After months of wrangling between General Electric and the European Commission over the U.S. conglomerate's proposed $42-billion acquisition of Honeywell, the regulators seem to have won. - United Buys 100 Falcons For Fractional Jet Fleet. United Airlines' fledgling fractional jet unit signed a letter of intent to place a $2.5 billion order for 100 Falcon business jets Saturday at the Paris Air Show. - Europe Expands Union Concept To Military Aircraft Procurement. Next to the U.S., Europe is both the largest world customer for military aerospace equipment, and its biggest producer. - Global Express Sets New York-Paris Record. Bombardier captains John Race and Borden Schofield, flying Global Express 9010, set a new FAI Class C Group 3 business jet record for the 3,603 statute mile distance from New York to Paris on Thursday, June 14. - $7.5 Billion Market for FLIR, Says Teal. Teal Group Corp predicts the U.S. market for forward-looking infrared (FLIR) targeting will total some $7.5 billion from 2001 to 2010. - AIA Forecasts $1.6 Billion Gain for U.S. Aerospace in 2001. The Aerospace Industries Association of America says the U.S. aerospace industry will grow by $1.6 billion in 2001 to post annual sales of $145 billion. 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