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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Widebody and jumbo jet aircraft are having a tough time. The pandemic, which resulted in the parking of 16,000 commercial aircraft, accelerated the trend to replace aging four-engine jumbo jets with more efficient twin-engine craft. Production ended for both the Airbus A380 and the venerable Boeing 747 . Many of these aircraft were taken out of service, never to return. Now, a pair of ten-year-old Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners once operated by budget airline Norwegian Air Shuttle are being scrapped. Delivered in 2013, the fuel-efficient widebody jets built of advanced composites were capable of flying 248 passengers 7300 miles. The Dreamliner is a successful aircraft, still in production with more than 1600 delivered or on order. The list price for a new Boeing 787-8 is $239 million dollars. Yet even as international travel opens again for these long-range aircraft, two Dreamliners barely ten years are waiting for the … [Read more...] about Ex-Norwegian Air Boeing 787 Dreamliners Hit Scrap Heap After Just Ten Years

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Airbus A380 flight display at the Paris-Le Bourget Air Show. The A380-800 has a design range of ... [+] 15,400 kilometers, sufficient to fly from New York to Hong Kong, and a cruising speed of 900 km/h. (June 2011). (Photo by: Andia/UIG via Getty Images) The lifespan of today’s queen of the skies, the 555-passenger Airbus A380, has been threatened by many factors, including its price (about $470 million new), cost of operation, poor fuel economy, size and weight and lack of North American airline customers. Although the plane is well-thought of by passengers and operating airlines, the trend has been towards fuel-efficient wide-bodied twin jets, such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner (with issues of its own) and Airbus’ own A350. Although Airbus executives claim that A380 production is now "sustainable" , another major stumbling block has been the lack of a resale market for used aircraft. This may be … [Read more...] about Encouraging News For Airbus A380 As Hi Fly Buys Used Superjumbo

Republican Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota said Friday President Joe Biden “won’t protect America” by signing a ban on TikTok, even if it was bipartisan. The White House announced it would support the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act, which targets technology from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, China and Venezuela on March 7, NBC News reported . The legislation does not explicitly name TikTok, but senators supporting the legislation have cited the national-security concerns surrounding the Chinese-owned app. “I don’t think he will sign it. Because over and over again, this president has proven that he won’t protect America and he won’t make the right decision, especially when there is pressure,” Noem told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade. “And the reason that I think he thinks he can get away with that is because it was just weeks ago we had a Chinese spy balloon flying over this country and we quit … [Read more...] about ‘He Won’t Protect America’: Gov. Noem Predicts Biden Won’t Sign Ban On TikTok

TikTok hired former Biden Senate staffer and veteran D.C. lobbyist Ankit Desai in January, a new disclosure form shows. Desai is the president of AND Partners LLC and a managing member of ABI Associates LLC. He was a staffer for then-Senator Joe Biden in 2005 and describes himself as a “Joe Biden Democrat” on Twitter . He previously worked as a lobbyist for natural gas company Cheniere Energy and other corporate clients. (RELATED: TikTok CEO Refuses To Say Communist China Has ‘Persecuted’ Uyghurs) new @tiktok_us lobbying filing out today — Ankit Desai of AND Partners https://t.co/GdrHGdMvQg effective Jan. 23 of this year. — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 23, 2023 Desai’s hire reflects TikTok’s effort to bolster its lobbying operation in response to bipartisan scrutiny of its ties to China. The company also recently hired SKDK, a well-connected consulting firm founded by Biden adviser and former Obama adviser Anita Dunn, Politico reported . … [Read more...] about TikTok Hires Former Biden Staffer To Bolster Lobbying Team