911 airline rescue package

Congress passed a $15 billion aid package for the airline industry: $5 billion in direct cash handouts and $10 billion more in government- backed loan guarantees.

Besides America West, only two small regional carriers-- vanguard Airlines of Kansas City and Alaska's Frontier Flying Service-- have applied for federal loan guarantees.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/transportation/jan-june02/airline_aid_2-12.html

WSJ 5/30/2006 Applications from seven airlines were rejected, including UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, which applied twice. Three carriers turned down ended up shutting down: Vanguard Airlines, Great Plains Airlines and Mr. Conway's National. Some big carriers that have faced financial troubles recently, such as Delta and Northwest Airlines, didn't apply for the loan program.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114895120797865882-zHGd3HUDjEiFaTWZTO5LHSlvV4k_20070530.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

Boeing has 82% of wide-body market

Airbus is suffering from relatively weak sales of its A330/340 models, as well as the A380, which is heavily burdened by production problems, and the repeatedly re-designed A350, FT Deutschland said.

In the segment for wide-body airplanes, Airbus's market share now stands at only 18 percent, compared to Boeing's 82 percent, it added.

15 January 2007,
http://www.eubusiness.com/news_live/1168848002.41/?searchterm=airbus

Airbus not a normal company

“Both Louis Gallois and I would rather be the only chief in the ring,” Enders said. “Maybe one day the dual leadership will come to an end.”Gallois said of the management arrangement: “We can live with it, but for the future we must bring about that Eads and Airbus become a normal company. We are not that yet today.”
Published: Sunday, 4 March, 2007, 10:02 AM Doha Tim

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=136137&version=1&template_id=48&parent_id=28

Zeke: probability of a dual engine failure on an ETOPS twin

Quoting Zeke (Reply 19):Statistics is based upon probabilities, the chance of a double engine failure on a twin can be as probable as winning the lotto, just about every week someone seems to win lotto.

OldAeroGuy:The regulatory probability of a dual engine failure on an ETOPS twin for a diversion time of more than 180 min. is on the order of one such event in 10 billion flight hours (1 in 10,000,000,000).http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p88/436040.pdfAre the odds on your lotto that improbable? If so, the tickets sales required to have a winner must be very high.

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