Written by Charles Miller, a director of the Alliance of Residents Concerning O’Hare

Here some updates to the report, AVIATION INDUSTRY CONFIRMS OUR FORECASTS, from Aviation Week & Space Technology of June 14th and 21st.  Again the magazine will be identified as "AW."

From AW, July 12th, is a report of a new service, Ozark Airlines, to fly 32 seat Fairchild Aerospace 328JETs three times daily from Columbia, MO to Chicago’s Midway Airport and twice daily to Dallas’s Love Airport. At this time Fairchild has 400 aircraft on order.  

AW, July 19th, reports on Atlantic Coast Airlines fast growth with firm orders for 55 Fairchild 328JET and 428JET models, with options for 55 more in order to replace turboprop equipment and to open new markets. It now operates 20 Canadair RJ models, with orders for 23 more.

The same issue continues with cheering news for Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). Virgin Express, which already has a hub in Brussels will make CDG a new hub. (An acquaintance of mine, from France, reports that CDG is a big source of irritation to local people there.) And Virgin Atlantic plans a new service London - O’Hare and hopes to begin service Shanghai - Los Angeles.

Dieter Kirchner of Lufthansa is quoted again (see also the report cited above) about smaller jets [than 747s, etc.]. He suggests that Boeing 767-300s with advanced design wings could operate on 14 - 15 transpacific routes. This means, of course, more flights.

All Nippon Airways (ANA), 6th in size per number of passengers carried has one of the world’s largest fleets with 144 planes. ANA which now flies to JFK, LAX and Dulles, will add, thanks to a new bi-lateral U.S. - Japan agreement, service to O’Hare, Honolulu and San Francisco.

Also reported: A market analysis by the TEAL Group [I’m not acquainted with it] forecasts production of 4887 new business jets in the next 10 years. Current numbers: 7015 business jets and 6004 turboprops, two thirds of which are based in North America.

As was our first, and lengthy, digest from AW, this is from AReCO.

To be continued with information from AW’s August 2nd issue.