European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy calls President
Bush's threat to take the issue of Airbus subsidies to the World
Trade Organization nothing more than "election-year politics."
GKN PLC Reportedly Interested In Boeing
Plants (Again)
Wait just a minute. Didn't these guys already say, "Thanks, but
no thanks"?
It was back in May that we reported GKN PLC had walked away from a
deal with Boeing to purchase the latter's plants in Oklahoma and
Wichita (KS). Now, however, GKN is sniffing around at the deal
again, according to published reports.
GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, Brazil's low-cost airline,
passed the 20 million passenger milestone in August. Since the
launch of operations in January 2001, the company says it's
recorded continuous and increasing growth rates in both the number
of passengers and aircraft efficiency. In 2002, GOL transported 4.8
million passengers, 232% more than in 2001 (2.1 million). Last
year, 7.3 million passengers flew GOL and, in the first half of
2004, GOL has already transported 5.2 million passengers.
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. has announced that
Lufthansa Flight Training has purchased an EP-1000CT visual system
for the upgrade of its A310 full flight simulator in Berlin, and
had awarded a subcontract by CAE Inc. of Montreal to provide
its EP(TM)-1000CT/ESCP(R)-2000 visual system for the A380
full-flight simulator being manufactured by CAE for Australia's
Qantas Airways.
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