The weekend passed Airbus also one of many milestones in the development of the company

While it is somewhat mp3 rockets brighter for the hard-pressed airlines make the major aircraft manufacturers progress with their new plan. Airbus has just started up the engines on its first carbon fiber composite plane A350 and rival Boeing has begun final assembly of a new version of the Dreamliner.
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With an extremely benevolent interpretation, one can say that it brightens somewhat for the generally hard-pressed airlines. According to a new forecast from IATA, the airlines' own global association, airlines are expected to make a net profit mp3 rockets of $ 12.7 billion (84 billion) this year.
There are over 2 billion dollars better than IATA expected in March and behind the improvement are several explanations. One reason is that oil prices have not been as high as expected, mp3 rockets and it is very important for the airlines since the fuel can account for a third of the cost.
Airlines have also been better than expected to pack the passengers in the plan and they have not previously only increased the capacity by inserting more and bigger planes. Moreover, they have become much more likely to charge for other things besides the actual flight.
Extra payment for food, access to lounges, luggage and so on are used in different combinations and now accounts for 5 percent of revenue. mp3 rockets Six years ago, the corresponding payments for only 0.5 percent of revenues. mp3 rockets
Airlines are in other words, hardly any profit machines mp3 rockets and many of them are also the large reduction program. This applies particularly mp3 rockets to many airlines in Europe where SAS, Lufthansa, Iberia, Air France-KLM is doing different kinds of cutbacks and restructuring.
Tony Tyler, head of IATA, describes the negligible profits that airlines do not on average earn more than $ 4 ($ 25) per passenger. Less than a sandwich costs, says Tony Tyler. mp3 rockets
European companies, together with the African the most depressed. mp3 rockets For Europe, there is also great concern that developments in the euro area will deteriorate even more and it hits the travel. But despite mp3 rockets these harsh, albeit a bit brighter, the noises in the 2013, there is right a lot of optimism for the long term development. Global increases in air travel and the two major aircraft manufacturers, Airbus and American Boeing also record order books filled with orders for new planes.
The weekend passed Airbus also one of many milestones in the development of the company's new plan in carbon fiber composite, the A350 XWB. In December, the company rolled out the first test plane from the assembly hall, and now for the first time driving the new Rolls-Royce engines fitted to the plane.
Now the waiting really only the first test flight of the plane, and speculation is very much about the case, Airbus intends to carry out the flight in conjunction with the major Paris Air Show in mid-June. According mp3 rockets to plans, the new A350 then put into commercial use in the second half of 2014 the first airline to use the A350 is Qatar Airways.
In parallel with the A350, after many years of development is becoming mp3 rockets clear competitor Boeing mp3 rockets has also taken a step forward mp3 rockets with its new carbon composite plane, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The first version of the Dreamliner, 787-8, is in commercial mp3 rockets use since the fall of 2011 and the weekend began Boeing final assembly of the upcoming 787-9.
The new version is six feet long, could take another 40 passengers and fly longer distances. Boeing 787-9 takes between 250 and 290 passengers, and is expected to fly for the first time during the second half of 2013 The first plane for commercial operation will then be delivered to Air New Zealand in early 2014.
For airlines, the new plan was attractive because they use less fuel. Aircraft manufacturers speaks itself that it can trade 25 percent smaller than previous generations long distance plan. The savings resulting from a combination of at least lighter materials such as carbon fiber composites, new design and more efficient engines.
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