JetBlue slows deliveries of aircraft in effort to steady growth and keep costs low
JetBlue will slow down its aircraft deliveries to control costs and steady its growth.
The airline, based in Forest Hills, N.Y., will now take delivery of 4 Airbus A320s next year instead of the 8 previously planned, CEO Dave Barger said at an investor conference Tuesday.
JetBlue has also pushed back two A320 deliveries in 2012. The airline will take delivery of the 6 A320s planned for this 2010 and 2011 in 2015 instead.
Evolution of the hotel bathroom
It used to be that the bedroom is one of the most important things when designing the hotel room. Now designers are also looking at the bathroom.
Designers and developers are looking to the hotel bathroom as the new frontier of the guestroom, seeking to turn what has long been a mostly functional space into an “oasis,” a “mini-spa,” even an “escape.”
LaHood: White House has ‘an interest’ in funding NextGen aircraft equipage
US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that the Obama administration will soon decide whether they will allocate funds to equip aircraft with NextGen ATC technology.
Responding to a question from ATWOnline, LaHood confirmed that “there is an interest” at high levels of the administration in using federal money to equip aircraft. “We’ve had many, many meetings with the White House and they’re interested in being helpful,” he said. “We have the attention of the White House on trying to be helpful to the airline industry.”
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