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That education takes many forms. At Embraer, the world's fourth largest commercial aircraft manufacturer and the pride of Brazil's export industry, directors realized that the company faced a shortage of aerospace engineers because the advanced training they needed wasn't available in Brazil. In 2000 the company set up an 18-month-long postgraduate course to train its engineers in aerodynamics and flight mechanics. So far, nearly 800 people have taken the course. "We create from inside, and we are now delivering engineers with a specialist aerospace background," says Peter Clignett, a Dutch lecturer in Embraer's program...
...said Hamm. “We don’t issue paper tickets; we encourage our customers to book online and print their own tickets.” In addition to lower ticket prices, JetBlue hopes to attract potential customers with its fleet of brand-new 100-seat Embraer 190 jets. Along with the traditional leather seats, travelers on the 70-minute Boston-New York flight can enjoy such amenities as 36 channels of free DIRECTV programming on 6.8” LCD monitors and more than 100 channels of XM Satellite Radio. While many students plan on taking advantage...
...government steps back and Delta and Northwest become significantly weaker, at least one serious rival is already moving in to pick up some slack. New York--based JetBlue, just five years old and the most successful low-fare start-up in history, will begin in November flying the Embraer 190--smaller planes that will allow the company to connect cities mainly up and down the East Coast. AirTran execs aren't too worried. "When the dust settles, we'll all be stronger," says Fornaro. The airlines that are still flying, that...
...under pressure to buy more efficiently, has opened bidding beyond U.S. borders--and foreigners are piling in. The Colt handgun, first used by the U.S. military in the Mexican-American War of 1846, has been replaced as standard-issue infantry gear by an Italian-designed Beretta. A Brazilian-made Embraer surveillance plane will soon patrol battlefields for the Army rather than a Gulfstream jet produced in Savannah, Ga. Britain's BAE Systems contributes avionics to the F-16, F-18 and F-117 bombers. Rolls-Royce, the British aircraft-engine maker, does more business with the Pentagon than it does...
...after three years of squalid isolation in Ramallah, Arafat finally won his freedom last Friday morning, aboard a Jordanian military helicopter that ferried him to Amman. From there he boarded a French Embraer jet bound for Paris. Arafat's aides insisted he wouldn't die in exile, but never has his fate seemed more precarious. In Washington, where Middle East hands have long joked that Arafat would outlive them all, officials say privately that the Palestinians may be about to lose the only leader they have ever known. "It looks like it's very serious," says a senior State Department...