With the election over, 24 California state lawmakers are jetting overseas on their annual migration for fact-finding and trade missions, this year to locations including Germany, China, the Czech Republic and Hawaii, officials confirmed Thursday.
Stung by losing to Lockheed Martin last Friday in the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter for the United States, Boeing moved quickly over the weekend to reassure South Korean officials that it was still ready to build advanced fighter jets for overseas customers.
But if the carrier starts offering, say, 25 cents on the dollar, big aircraft lessors like GE Capital (which owns 20 United planes) may just repossess and try to redeploy the jets to overseas carriers.
London City, though bustling with domestic and European flights, does not have a runway long enough to accommodate the big jets used for overseas nonstop flights.
also took to the floor, speaking out against tax breaks for yacht owners, jet subsidies and overseas jobs.
Under Ms. Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard did acquire two Gulfstream IV jets, capable of flying overseas, and two smaller jets were replaced.
Royal Phnom Penh's Soviet-era Antonov 24 looks like a relic parked on the tarmac at Pochentong International Airport next to the shiny new jets carrying passengers from overseas.
The group's customers include many of the largest carriers in the United States, and the federal government has long counted on being able to use civilian passenger jets to transport troops overseas during a national emergency.
She points out that she once dipped into Film4's annual £10m budget to allow director Shane Meadows to jet off on an overseas fact-finding mission.
The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China won its first overseas regional-jet order, worth about $750 million, from General Electric as China aims to challenge the dominance of Boeing and Airbus in the aviation market.
