Is the end to all the Wright-wrangling going on in North Texas
now in sight? It could be... as on Thursday, Texas Senator Kay
Bailey Hutchinson introduced a bill containing the agreement reached by
officials from Dallas and Fort Worth, American and Southwest
Airlines and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in June.
It wasn't long ago -- just last year, in fact -- when it was
Boeing that was struggling to compete with the momentum of its
rival, Airbus, at the annual international airshow in Europe.
Fuel Prices Will Force Airlines To Switch To More
Efficient Planes
We're betting that rising fuel prices will mean big business for
commercial aircraft manfacturers. That's the word from Boeing,
which predicted this week that over the next 20 years, airlines
will rush to replace their older and less-fuel-efficient planes at
a faster rate than ever before.
Can the damage be undone? That's the question many pundits and
political analysts will be asking Friday, as President Bush meets
with Russian president Vladimir Putin (right) in their first
face-to-face summit since 2001.
No Fokker aircraft are allowed to carry passengers in Pakistan
-- for now. That's the decision of the Pakistani cabinet after the
crash of a Pakistan International Airlines F-27 near Lahore this
week.
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