Defence Notes
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India has been navigating a strategic balancing act in its defence modernisation efforts as it considers deals with Russia and the US.
The land war in Ukraine has dominated the posture, spending and actions of Russia and NATO countries for two years. With a new US Government committed to ending the conflict early in 2025, there are implications on all three of those fronts.
Looming government decisions on major defence programmes in the US and UK will colour much of 2025, while manufacturers and their orderbooks look on.
There was solid programme advancement around the world in 2024, but a combination of more threats, fleet unreadiness and a financial squeeze darkened naval horizons as the year advanced.
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17th March 2010
Despite a 7.9% decline in revenues, Lufthansa Systems ended its 2009 fiscal year with a profit of €16 million. The revenues decrease took the income …
16th March 2010
Air Berlin has agreed with Boeing a plan to revise its order book to account for a change in market conditions and in order to …
16th March 2010
Aircell has deployed Venturi Wireless’s data optimisation products on the Gogo Inflight internet system, following a successful initial trial deployment in 2009. Venturi's patented operator-grade …
16th March 2010
Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield in the UK has welcomed its first passengers from Wrocław since Wizz Air reinstated the popular twice weekly route. Wizz …
16th March 2010
JetBlue Airways has reported its preliminary traffic results for February 2010. Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in February increased by 2.7% to 1,911,455,000 from February 2009’s …
16th March 2010
Sun Country Airlines has announced a new international seasonal service between Minneapolis/St Paul and London, UK, scheduled to operate weekly from 11 June until 15 …
16th March 2010
JetBlue Airways has announced a second daily nonstop flight to Kingston, Jamaica, from New York JFK. The airline, which has been steadily expanding in Jamaica …
16th March 2010
Baboo has announced the appointment of Jean de Lapasse as chief commercial officer with effect from 1 April 2010. de Lapasse has had a successful …
16th March 2010
WestJet president and CEO Sean Durfy has resigned and will step down on 1 April 2010 to be replaced by the airline’s EVP operations, Gregg …
16th March 2010
AAR Corporation has been selected by Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast to design and manufacture composite flap track fairings for the wings of the new CSeries family …
15th March 2010
American Eagle Airlines is to begin nonstop jet service between Chicago O'Hare (ORD) and Tri-Cities Regional Airport (TRI), centrally located between Bristol, Kingsport and Johnson …
15th March 2010
ExpressJet Holdings, parent company of regional and charter airline operator, ExpressJet Airlines, has reported traffic and capacity results for February 2010. During the month, on …
15th March 2010
GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes elected Cláudia Pagnano as its new vice-president of market. Pagnano has 20 years of professional experience with large consumer, financial services …
15th March 2010
Boeing has prepared a new 737-800 for Brazil’s GOL with the first-ever application of a chrome-free primer to a single-aisle aircraft bound for revenue service. …
15th March 2010
Republic Airways Holdings has appointed Ian Arthur as vice-president of marketing and branding. In addition to heading up the marketing and branding strategies of recently …
15th March 2010
JetBlue Airways is to increase from two to four its daily nonstop flights from New York JFK to Los Angeles (LAX) from 1 July. JetBlue …
15th March 2010
CAE has sold three CAE 7000 Series full-flight simulators (FFSs) and two integrated procedures trainers (IPTs) to Lion Air. One FFS is for the ATR …
15th March 2010
SITA has been selected by Air Arabia to provide air–ground communications including data link services for the airline’s expanding fleet and network of 59 destinations. …
15th March 2010
The first Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft equipped with Goodrich Corporation Duracarb carbon brakes has been delivered to flydubai, taking the airline’s 737 fleet to seven. …