Company Watch - Boeing.Nov 27, 2006 Aeromexico signed an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use. with GE for purchase of GEnx engines to power the two 787-8 orders confirmed last week. The deal, which includes an OnPoint Solutions MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. agreement, is valued at more than $100 million. Nov 20, 2006 Boeing's 20-year forecast, released over the summer foresees demand for just 990 400-plus-seat passenger and similarly sized cargo aircraft A cargo aircraft is an airplane designed and used for the carriage of goods, rather than passengers. This role demands a number of features that makes a cargo aircraft instantly identifiable; a "fat" looking fuselage, a high-wing to allow the cargo area to sit near the ground, a during the period. Overall, Boeing predicted that 27,200 new aircraft valued at more than $2.6 trillion will be required through 2025. Airbus said yesterday it has booked 619 orders so far this year but conceded that its share of new orders by value is 36%, down from 45% last year. Nov 23, 2006 Gol 737-800/ExcelAire Legacy 600 accident investigators released a report last week indicating that the Legacy pilots, who have been detained at a Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r hotel since the September collision,
attempted to contact Brasilia air traffic control 19 times in the 8 min.
prior to the crash without success. The report was translated from
Portuguese by Newsday and indicates that ATC ATC Air Traffic ControlATC Average Total Cost ATC Certified Athletic Trainer ATC At the Center (Hartford, Maine retreat center) ATC Applied Technology Council ATC All Things Considered and the aircraft lost contact with each other repeatedly during the 54 min. before the collision but does not address accusations that the Legacy pilots shut off their radio and/or transponder A receiver/transmitter on a communications satellite. It receives a microwave signal from earth (uplink), amplifies it and retransmits it back to earth at a different frequency (downlink). A satellite has several transponders. . Ground radar lost contact with the smaller aircraft 18 min. prior to impact. A partial message from Brasilia ATC came through 3 min. before the crash and records showed the Legacy pilots attempted to call seven times before the crash, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Newsday. Nov 21, 2006 In the Gol 737-800/ExcelAire Legacy 600 accident efforts to have the two Legacy pilots released continue. The head of the Brazilian government's investigation told Reuters that the pilots should be freed but that it was up to the courts. The International Federation of Air Line Pilots Assns. released a statement calling on Brazil "to expedite the conclusion of an independent technical investigation," saying that there "is no valid reason for the continued detention of the...pilots" and insisting that "Brazilian authorities immediately return" their passports. "Thus far, only contradictory facts, rumor and unsupported allegations have been forthcoming from Brazilian government officials," IFALPA IFALPA International Federation of Air Line Pilots Association said. Nov 21, 2006 In the Gol 737-800/ExcelAire Legacy 600 accident report did not say if the Legacy was ordered to descend to 36,000 ft. from 37,000 ft., as some claimed initially. The aircraft collided at the higher altitude. A Brazilian air force The Brazilian Air Force (Portuguese: Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) is the aerial warfare branch of the Brazilian armed forces and one of the three national uniformed services. spokesperson said that an analysis of the recordings had not been completed. Nov 21, 2006 Jade Cargo International Jade Cargo International is a cargo airline based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China. It operates cargo services to Asia and Europe. Its main base is Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport. took delivery of its second of six 747-400ERFs. The third is scheduled to come in February. From Nov. 27 Jade will add thrice-weekly flights from Shenzhen to Barcelona (via Brescia) and Osaka. Nov 23, 2006 Korean Air had been considering the 747-8 Intercontinental but elected to focus its long-haul fleet around the A380 (for which it has placed five orders), 787 (10 orders) and 777-300ER. It said yesterday's order was of particular importance given the ongoing liberalization lib·er·al·ize v. lib·er·al·ized, lib·er·al·iz·ing, lib·er·al·iz·es v.tr. To make liberal or more liberal: "Our standards of private conduct have been greatly liberalized . . . of China's aviation market, which KE considers critical to its future. "We have to focus on the China market," VP-Strategy Development Keehong Woo said. "In the near future the number of Chinese [traveling by air to destinations worldwide] will be huge. We have to go into that market or we won't survive." The new planes also will enhance "efficiency through modernization of the fleet and reduction in fuel and operational costs," KE said. Nov 22, 2006 Korean Air signs $5.3 billion purchase agreement for 25 Boeing aircraft. Korean Air placed the biggest aircraft order in its history yesterday, signing a purchase agreement valued at $5.3 billion for 10 777-300ERs, five 737-900s/700s, five 747-8Fs and five 777-200Fs. Nov 22, 2006 Korean Air took options on four 777-300ERs, two 747-8Fs and two 737-900ERs. The ordered aircraft will be delivered beginning in 2009 and continue through 2019. The carrier said the 777-300ERs will replace 747-400s being converted to freighters while the 747-8Fs and 777-200Fs will inject capacity into its rapidly expanding global airfreight air·freight n. 1. A system of transporting freight by air. 2. The amount charged for transporting freight by air. air network. Korean Air Cargo President Ken Choi said the 10 new freighters are part of a plan to add two freighters every year from 2009. It currently operates 19 owned 747-400Fs and six leased dash 200Fs. Nov 22, 2006 Korean Air's large order signals the airline's ambition to compete with the world's biggest international carriers. "The purchase forms a key component in Korean Air's strategy of global expansion," it said in a statement. "The airline aims to maintain its title as the world's number one commercial cargo carrier [among passenger airlines if Air France and KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) are considered separate airlines]...and to become one of the world's top 10 passenger carriers by 2010." Nov 22, 2006 TUI tui: see honeyeater. (Telephone User Interface) The combination of Touch-tone input from the telephone keypad coupled with speech output from the connected voicemail or IVR application. selected AD Aerospace to supply flightdeck entry video surveillance systems for forward fit on 10 737NGs on order from Boeing. 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