W e're excited with our new service and would be interest in knowing what topics you would like to see in future issues. We look forward to hearing from you. These are buoyant times for the airlines, with record traffic and gross earnings. Both the airlines and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration believe that trend will continue, which means larger aircraft now and in the design stage. And, planes will become more efficient.
Experts also predict new routes and less changing of planes, especially on international flights.
W hile the outlook is for growth, the two major aircraft manufacturers, The Boeing Company and Europe's Airbus Industry, differ about what that means. Each has been working on design concepts substantially larger than the largest aircraft now in service, the Boeing 747-400 introduced in 1989.