Boeing V.S Airbus

Boeing V.S Airbus

            Two of the most popular and famous airliners are Boeing and Airbus. Boeing and Airbus are the largest jet airline in the world. Boeing is an American, on other hand; Airbus is European. In the first nine months of 2013 Boeing is a head of Airbus in deliveries, but Airbus is a head of Boeing in orders.  Airbus has received 1,112 orders while delivering 445, and Boeing has received 890 orders while delivering 476. Competition is intense; each company regularly accuses the other of receiving unfair state aid from their respective governments.

            Boeing and Airbus will always keep the duopoly competition between how to build the aircraft, Boeing 747-8 compete directly with A380 in the Capacity, Length, Price, and Fuel efficiency. Boeing holds 467 passengers in a three-class configuration, Boeing length is 76 meters, the 747-8 costing $317.5 million, and uses 2.8 liters of fuel per seat per 100 kilometers, on the other hand Airbus holds 525 passengers in a three-class configuration, Airbus length is 72.72 meters, the A380 costing  $375.3 million, and uses 2.9 liters per passenger per 100 kilometers. (CNN, 2011). There are  a lot of aircrafts compete between Airbus and Boeing, for example, the Airbus A350 competes with the high end of the Boeing 787 dream liner and the Boeing 777.The Airbus A320 is larger than the Boeing 737-700 but smaller than the 737-800. The Airbus A321 is larger than the Boeing 737-900 but smaller than the previous Boeing 757-200.

                The difference between the Airbus and Boeing manufactures are Boeing uses hydraulic approach and Airbus uses fly by wire approach. Both aircraft manufacturers have good safety records on recently manufactured aircraft. By convention, both companies tend to avoid safety comparisons when selling their aircraft to airlines.

                Boeing has 17,082 currently employees. In comparison, Airbus has 59,000 from more than 100 nationalities. I think there is no more duopoly; I think in the near future we will see another manufacture comes out with safer aircraft.

 

References

CNN. (2011). Boeing 747-8 vs. Airbus A380 -- the airline giants face off. Retrieved March 25, 2013, from, http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/life/boeing-747-8-and-airbus-a380-death-match-152563

Harrison, G. (2011, July 25). Challenge to the Boeing-airbus duopoly in civil aircraft: Issues for competitiveness DOI: www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41925.pdf

Dubois, S. (2013, March 19). Boeing vs. Airbus: Can't we all just get along? Retrieved from cnn.com: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/03/19/boeing-airbus-lion-air

Wilhelm, S. (2013, October 4). Boeing leading Airbus in 2013 deliveries, but trailing in orders. . Retrieved October 28, 2013, from http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2013/10/04/boeing-bests-airbus-in-deliveries.html

 

 

 

 

General Aviation in China

When the general aviation industry in China began over half a century ago in 1951, its primary goal was to carry out pest control via insecticide spraying.  However, general aviation in China also suffered serious setbacks. After 1996, the volume of general aviation operations and services has increased throughout China each year. China made lot of investment in its general aviation sector in the past few years.

In 2012 Cessna signed agreement with GA in china to assemble and sell. Currently a lot of GA aircrafts in china are foreign made, mainly by Cessna. They agreement was to build business jets includes mid-sized business jet. Cessna believed that could beneficial their company because that deal will expand their company internationally, and could beneficial their employment by open more job opportunities. Adding up in 2011 Cirrus Aircraft and China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co (CAIGC) announced that the partnership was complete.  Cirrus CEO Brent Wouters. “This is where we do business. This is where we’re staying. And this is where we’ll add jobs when our industry rebounds.”   Cirrus deal with (CAIGC) will help the company to grow up the business in the world aviation market. Also, this deal will make the Cirrus Aircraft to sell more products.

One of the reasons for rapid growth in the Chinese general aviation industry is the new announcement by the government of china to allow a low altitude for the GA in china.  As China continues to develop low altitude airspace resources utilization, the general aviation industry will usher in a golden period of development .Also, China willing to build more airports exceed to 100 airports in the next of 7 years.

            I believe building a relationship between U.S general aviation manufacture and general aviation industry in China that could benefit everyone. I think by building relationship the American employees won’t lose their job in the future because the business is growing up that means there will be plenty of jobs available for the people that are willing to move. There will be job opportunities in a lot of areas like airport design, general aviation aircraft, and manufacturing entities.

 

References

McMillan, M. (2012, November 27). Cessna signs deal to assemble, sell caravans in china. Retrieved from http://www.kansas.com/2012/11/27/2582691/cessna-signs-deal-to-assemble.html

Clyde & Co. (September, 2012). Update: general aviation in China.  Retrieved from: http://www.clydeco.com/uploads/Files/Publications/2012/General_Aviation_in_China_19.09.12.pdf

Hirschman, D (February, 2011). Cirrus sold to china. Retrieved

from: http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2011/February/28/Cirrus-sold-to-China

Chinese General Aircraft Network, (2013, September 30). In China's general aviation whole industry is expected to reach 1.5 trillion yuan of output. Retrieved October 20, 2013, from http://www.zgtyfly.com/en/News/ShowInfo.aspx?ID=1007

 

Corporate Aviation: A Political Punching Bag

Corporate Aviation: A Political Punching Bag

 For most companies, cost was the major stumbling block to using business aviation services in the past.  A lot of people think that companies do not need their own airplanes to fly executives and other employees around. People think that should spend money on other things than corporate aviation; on the other hand, I do not think people know the real benefit of the corporate aviation.  

            I feel that corporate aviation is vitally important to our business because it provides good services, and that helps to provides jobs. I believe most of corporate aviation is domestic, so that will benefit the U.S.A economy.  

            President Obama made a comment if business can afford corporate aviation. “My attitude is, if you got a corporate jet, you can probably afford to pay full freight, not get a special break for it," (Loyd, 2012). Obama was referring to the accelerated depreciation of business jets. The accelerated depreciation is “any method of depreciation used for accounting or income tax purposes that allows greater deductions in the earlier years of the life of an asset”. Obama said that if a company can afford a corporate aircraft, they should pay more taxes. I agree with Obama for big companies that have a lot of money to spend, and it wouldn’t affect them, On the other hand; I disagree with Obama for mid-sized and small business owners because that would make these small corporations less competitive in their market.  

The NBAA doesn’t agree with Obama plan. Following the debate, the president and CEO of the NBAA, Ed Bolen, wrote a letter to the President, saying "Your comments seemed to illustrate a complete lack of understanding about the importance of business aviation in the U.S., and appear to be at odds with your stated interest in promoting job growth, stimulating exports, driving economic recovery and restoring America to its first-place position in manufacturing."  (Patiky, 2012).

In conclusion, I feel that business aviation has a big role in the world business for today. Also, I believe that the use of corporate jet aircraft can be profitable when used in the right way.

 

Resources

Accelerated Depreciation (n.d) Investopedia online, Retrieved from http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accelerateddepreciation.asp#axzz2KeoScL4O

Patiky, M. Zinger from the president stings business aviation. Retrieved from: http://www.forbes.com/sites/businessaviation/2012/10/05/zinger-from-the-president-stings-business-aviation

Loyd, L. (2012) Aviation group: Obama off base on corporate jet breaks. Retrieved February 11, 2013, from http://articles.philly.com/2012-10-06/business/34280737_1_business-jets-corporate-jet-national-business-aviation-association

 Rubin, R. (2011, June 30). Corporate jet tax gets six Obama mentions, $3 billion estimate. Retrieved from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-29/jet-tax-break-cited-six-times-by-obama-would-cut-debt-by-about-3-billion.html

UAVs: A Commercial Future?

UAVs: A Commercial Future?

For more than five decades, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has compiled a proven track record of introducing new technology and aircraft safely into the National Airspace System (NAS). Most recently, the agency has been working to ensure the safe integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the NAS. The FAA's sole mission and authority as it focuses on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems is safety.  Already, the agency has achieved the first unmanned aircraft systems milestone included in the 2012 FAA reauthorization – streamlining the process for public agencies to safely fly UAS in the nation’s airspace. (DeGarmo, 2004)

 One of the issues of using the UAVs is how to integrate them into flying in the National Airspace System, successful integration of UAVs in civil airspace will require assurances that they can safely operate within the constructs of a commonly shared aviation system and environment.  As such, UAVs must demonstrate that they do not pose an undue hazard to other aircraft or persons on the ground.  They must, in short, provide for an equivalent level of safety to manned aircraft.  But defining this equivalency in terms of requirements is difficult.  UAVs operate differently from manned aircraft.  And because the pilot is no longer at risk in a UAV accident, the question arises as whether UAV systems can or should be held to the same safety standard as manned aircraft.  

Safety risks are pervasive in the design and operations of any complex system.  UAVs are no exception.  Sorting out and defining the numerous individual safety risk factors and their interrelationships is a difficult task and one that is beyond the scope of this paper.  Instead, this document seeks to address four high-level safety issues of particular concern: collision avoidance, system reliability, human factors, and weather.  Collision avoidance is chosen for its potential to result in catastrophic accidents, while system reliability, human factors, and weather hazards are existing weak links.

The other issue is Lack of regulations governing flight safety; pilots have safety concerns that must be addressed by the FAA before UAV operations should be considered. Some of these are technical and some regulatory including:

The inability of UAVs to see and avoid manned aircraft;

The inability of UAVs to immediately respond to ATC instructions;

The absence of testing and demonstrations that UAVs can operate safely in the same airspace as manned aircraft; and the need to certify UAVs to same level of safety as manned aircraft.

Because of the lack of regulations and standards, the FAA should not even consider allowing the general operation of UAVs in the NAS until all of the safety and operational issues are resolved. It is necessary and proper that the FAA first develop UAV policies, minimum qualifications and standards for UAV operations.( Cebula,2006).

 

Sources

Cebula, A. (2006, March 29). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the National Airspace System, Aopa. Retrieved from http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2006/060329uav-testimony.html

 Hansman, J. (2005, March). Safety considerations for operation of unmanned aerial vehicles in the national airspace system.

  DeGarmo , M. (2004, November). Issues concerning integration of unmanned aerial vehicles in civil airspace .

Gambold, K. A. (2011, November). UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM ACCESS TO NATIONAL AIRSPACE. , 1-48.