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O Governo Regional dos Açores (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM) autorizou a SATA Air Açores a operar a rota extraordinária Ponta Delgada – Horta – Ponta Delgada, às quintas-feiras de manhã, a partir de 14 de dezembro, foi hoje anunciado. “Face às oportunidades de mercado, às solicitações de residentes e instituições e às necessidades sinalizadas junto do Conselho de […]

Source: Governo dos Açores autoriza novo voo entre Ponta Delgada – Horta – Ponta Delgada – Aviação TV

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Excellent text on Boeing and on the importance of picking the right CEO instead of some incompetent spreadsheet pusher like the current CEO.

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Somewhere along the line, Boeing lost interest in making its own planes, Jerry Useem wrote in April. https://theatln.tc/Qx9DvpNo

“One day in 1916, [Bill] Boeing spotted an imperfectly cut wing rib, dropped it to the floor, and slowly stomped it to bits. ‘I, for one, will close up shop rather than send out work of this kind,’ he declared.”

Useem compares this anecdote to a much more recent tale: “When David Calhoun, the soon-to-be-lame-duck CEO of the company Boeing founded, made a rare appearance on the shop floor in Seattle one day this past January … he was not there to observe slipshod work before it found its way into the air—it already had. A few weeks earlier, the door of a Boeing 737 had fallen out mid-flight.”

“The two scenes tell us the peculiar story of a plane maker that, over 25 years, slowly but very deliberately extracted itself from the business of making planes,” Useem writes. “For nearly 40 years the company built the 737 fuselage itself in the same plant that turned out its B-29 and B-52 bombers. In 2005 it sold this facility to a private-investment firm, keeping the axle grease at arm’s length and notionally shifting risk, capital costs, and labor woes off its books onto its ‘supplier.’ ‘Offloading,’ Boeing called it. Meanwhile the tail, landing gear, flight controls, and other essentials were outsourced to factories around the world owned by others, and shipped to Boeing for final assembly, turning the company that created the Jet Age into something akin to a glorified gluer-together of precast model-airplane kits.”

“The past 30 years may well be remembered as a dark age of U.S. manufacturing,” Useem writes. “Boeing’s decline illustrates everything that went wrong to bring us here. Fortunately, it also offers a lesson in how to get back out.”

Emerging from this dark age, Useem writes, “must begin with a recognition that something has been lost.” And said ascension might have already started: “Boeing’s chief financial officer recently admitted that the company got ‘a little too far ahead of itself on the topic of outsourcing,’” Useem continues. Can the company rediscover its engineering soul?

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Sónia Alegre foi indigitada para a administração da RTP, com a responsabilidade do pelouro financeiro. Foi uma decisão unânime do Conselho Geral Independente, depois do parecer vinculativo do Ministério das Finanças.

Source: AWESOME CROSSWIND LANDING RYANAIR B737 at Madeira Airport

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Tristeza!

Sobre esta, incompreensível notícia, reagiram e, muito bem, o CDS (partido da coligação) pela ilha Terceira, o Presidente da Câmara da Horta (PSD-partido da coligação) exigindo explicação para o fecho dos ditos balcões nas suas ilhas.

Por S. Miguel, o presidente da Câmara Municipal de Ponta Delgada, o Presidente do Conselho de Ilha de S. Miguel, os Deputados eleitos por esta ilha, nem mugiram!

Está tudo bem, a maior parte da população dos Açores, entupir um aeroporto que já não dá resposta ao movimento que tem, pagar parque a preço do ouro ou, na falta de transporte público, usar o táxi.

Cabecinhas pensadoras!

Isto está a precisar, com urgência, de um “6 de junho”!

Acorda São Miguel!

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Novo presidente da Rede Iberoamericana de Investigação em Transportes Aéreos mostra como a descarbonização e novas aeronaves, como as de descolagem e aterragem vertical, estão a transformar o setor da aviação.

Source: Jorge Silva: “Os aeroportos do futuro têm de ser preparados para as novas aeronaves e tecnologias”

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#PanAm :

Alguém vai pagar 65 mil dólares para sobrevoar os Açores.

O percurso passará pelos Açores.

Pan Am regressa com viagem de 65 mil dólares para reviver ‘dias dourados das viagens’

https://www.facebook.com/factsazores/posts/pfbid02rBR3CSN5dhSz2oQomgdCdhGsF8nCYTWRCjaqSNUwiaBSWqUys67L9YREmjB6fRb3l

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Source: Uma das medidas do novo CEO: Grupo SATA encerra lojas nos centros urbanos e reforça nos aeroportos – Kiosque da Aviação

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Holidays are already expensive enough without having to fork over money that they weren’t prepared to pay, with people being reminded of a lesser known charge at Dublin Airport

Source: Holidaymakers reminded about Dublin Airport’s €140 fee ahead of their holidays – RSVP Live