Whopping aircraft sales !

[JF Mezei]

(possible duplicate)

In March, Airbus got lucky, its sales went positive to a whopping net
sales of 8 aircraft. (can't find the article that provided this info).

Boeing just announced production cuts.

So far this year, Boeing is still negative in sales. 32 cancellations of
787s and only 28 new sales (-4 net sales).

For 2010, Boeing is to drop 777 production rate from 7/month down to
5/month.


I am somewhat surprised that the economic situation hasn't generated
much media coverage about airlines. Air Canada is expected to go into
bankrupcy protection mid year. Have any other airlines indicated that
they will go into chapter 11 (or local equivalent) this year ?


Also, with the upcoming serious cutbacks and scaling down of the US car
makers, does anyone have predictions on whether Detroit will remain an
important hub for Delta/NW ?
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[Miles Bader]

Post by JF Mezei
Also, with the upcoming serious cutbacks and scaling down of the US car
makers, does anyone have predictions on whether Detroit will remain an
important hub for Delta/NW ?

Does the popularity of an airport as a destination have much/any
influence on its attractiveness as a hub? I'd think its geographical
location and facilities/crowdedness would be far more important
(so less local traffic might even make it _better_ for use as a hub...).

-Miles

[John Levine]

Post by Miles Bader
Does the popularity of an airport as a destination have much/any
influence on its attractiveness as a hub? I'd think its geographical
location and facilities/crowdedness would be far more important (so
less local traffic might even make it _better_ for use as a hub...).

It's hard to think of a successful hub that doesn't also have a lot
of local traffic.

For example, US de-hubbed PIT and kept PHL, even though PIT is much
better suited to being a hub, being closer to the center of the
country and having three parallel runways to permit lots of
simultaneous takeoffs and landings.

R's,
John
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