Conklin & de Decker has released the latest Aircraft Cost Evaluator for 2010, delivering the most up-to-date operating, benchmarking and ownership cost data available to the aviation industry. Aircraft Cost Evaluator is the most …

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MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan – When officials turned the heat on Wednesday for the north side of the base, they did it from a newly renovated steam plant predicted to cut $650000 a year from the annual fuel bill. …

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New heating system to save Air Force $650K annually – News – Stripes

Two aircraft carriers being constructed in Scotland will be spared from cuts as part of the UK Government’s spending review, it has been confirmed. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg visited the Rosyth docklands, where the carriers will be assembled, to announce that the projects would go ahead.

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Aircraft carriers spared from cuts

Thai Airways appears intent on letting its new joint-venture Thai Tiger compete directly against Nok Air.

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The International Civil Aviation Organization agreement to curb global aircraft emissions was a “good step forward,” and more-ambitious targets should be pursued, said Andy Kershaw , a manager at British Airways.

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Aviation Deal on Greenhouse Gas Emissions for 2020 Is `Good Step Forward’

Sometimes I read about a television program and get all excited then forget to watch it. Afraid that would happen with Sunday night’s episode of Undercover Boss , I set an alarm just to make sure I didn’t miss the head of Denver-based Frontier Airlines learning how his airline really gets off the ground. For making feel-good entertainment for the general public, the producers of Undercover Boss chose well when they selected Frontier’s chief honcho, Bryan Bedford . The deeply-religious, Catholic father of eight, is chatty and personable and you just can’t help liking him. He comes off as interested in people and genuinely touched when his travels give him the chance to meet fellow Christians and learn how different their lives are from his. Yes, what a difference! The airline boss lives in a palatial Colorado estate landscaped to the hilt. Brief clips of home life show the Bedford brood, roller-blading in their own private indoor rink, but during his week on the tarmac, Bedford’s wearing a polyester, company-issued uniform and eating a sandwich out of a sack with co-workers trained to keep one eye on the clock. Michael Yarish/CBS For those of you unfamiliar with this new reality show by CBS , Undercover Boss serially disguises the chief executive of a large business and insinuates said boss into the daily operations of the company. These are jobs that pay by the hour, where the end of the year bonus – if there is an end of the year bonus, is in the two-digits. The presence of televison cameras at the heels of the clueless new guy brought in to work various ramp jobs at the various cities Frontier serves , is explained with the fiction that Bedford, using the nom de tube “Richard” is a reality show contestant competing for job. Aviation does not lend itself to transient laborers. Not only is there an entire language of acronyms to be learned, there are mountains of regulations and countless procedures that – no matter how modest the job – must be followed by each employee in order to safely move millions of travelers and their things from place to place, every single day.

A few years ago, Darcy Schwartz was watching an episode of Lifetime’s “Army Wives” when she had an epiphany. One of the wives on the program was pregnant and being paid to have another couple’s baby. “I knew that it sounded like …

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For nearly three years, a 14.2-megawatts (MW) solar array spanning 140 acres at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., has held the title of the largest renewable-energy project in the Air Force . Now, Air Force engineers are set to outdo that …

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Air Force To Build Three More Major Solar Installations

Two aircraft carriers being constructed in Scotland will be spared from cuts as part of the Government’s spending review, it was confirmed today.

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Rosyth aircraft carriers spared from defence cuts

A former commanding officer of HMS Ark Royal today described the Government’s decision to leave future aircraft carriers without aircraft as “incoherent” and “unstrategic”.

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