November 12, 2001

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Blockbuster Emirates Order At Dubai Lifts Industry Spirits

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Aviation industry leaders are hoping last weeks Dubai air show will mark the beginning of “back to business” after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that have pushed international air transport into its deepest crisis since the gulf war.

By JENS FLOTTAU6 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Cry for Slot Controls Unwelcome in U.K.

LONDON least some members of Parliament expect air travel to bounce back next year, and they want Whitehall to stanch the loss of regional air services in the expectation of a return to normal demand. But fresh calls in the House of Commons for slot controls to foster regional economic development are pitted against Whitehall’s warning that special treatment of one area’s air services would cause a stampede by other regions for similar prosive tection.

By PAUL MANN5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

ISS 'Probation' Looms; NASA Partners Object

WASHINGTON Congress and the White House probably will give NASA two years to bring spending on the International Space Station (ISS) under control or get stuck with a three-person station that already has Canada, Europe and Japan cranking up the diplomatic machinery in protest.

By FRANK MORRING4 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Fortunes Plummet At British Airways

London British Airways is facing estimated year-end pretax losses of up to 1.1 billion, and financial analysts warn that worse will follow the October traffic plunge, as the global recession and the mounting costs of the war in Afghanistan gather force.

By Paul Mann4 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Bombardier, Agusta Westland, EADS Deals Show Continuing Activity in Middle East

Dubai and Paris As in past years, corporate jet, trainer and helicopter activity was brisk at Dubai 2001. Bombardier Aerospace revealed it had received seven additional letters of intent (LOIs) for its new Global 5000 business jet, even though this competitor to the Gulfstream IV and Dassault 900EX has yet to be formally launched (AW&ST Nov. 5, p. 56).

By Jens Flottau3 min

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Goldin Changed NASA Forever, But Successor Must Pay Costs

WASHINGTON One of the first big space launches of Daniel S. Goldin’s long tenure as NASA Administrator came on Sept. 25, 1992, when a Titan 3 booster lifted off from Florida with the Mars Observer scientific spacecraft on board. Eleven months later the sophisticated billion-dollar probe vanished without a trace shortly before it was to enter orbit around the Red Planet, leaving engineers wondering whether it wound up in Mars orbit or bypassed the planet completely.

By FRANK MORRING9 min

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AA-BA Immunity Debate Zeros In On Heathrow

By DAVID BOND6 min