PARIS — Dumped in the River Seine, hung from lamp posts, torched and discarded, thousands of once gleaming steel-gray bikes from the Paris Vélib' program, which offers card-holders a swipe-and-go city-wide fleet of rental bicycles, have fallen victim to vandals.
And when Special Operations Command needed to produce a force-wide fleet of devices to coordinate location, communication, and so on, what do you think they opted for?
The airplanes themselves can be flown to 2050 with appropriate maintenance, but as the world-wide fleet of 707 aircraft dwindles, supporting the E-3 becomes more difficult.
In the world of cars for hire, London, for starters, has a tortuous tangle of streets and an extensive mini-cab network, encompassing not only small operations localized on different neighborhoods but also massive, London-wide fleets of cars that are ordered by phone, text message and often apps.
With Manu Tuilagi still out, Burrell is the right partner for Joseph but when Manu is back, oh, it's so exciting to think of those two together, and with Watson out wide, so fleet of foot with the ball in his hands.
If the initiative is popular, Holmes hopes Virgin will roll it out to the wider fleet.
Defensively, Denver used a mixture of secondary coverages, including a healthy dose of man-to-man, always dangerous against the game's fastest fleet of wide receivers.
This operation involves 1,500 people and millions of dollars in equipment in addition to a fleet of wide bodies, jetliners and feeder aircraft that take over the airfield each night.
That's why it is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade its first- and business-class cabins with lie-flat seating and other amenities across its entire international fleet of wide-body aircraft.
While you can find balloon vendors in almost every African city, creating a supply chain for a fleet of 30m wide balloons won't be easy, or cheap.
Analysts also expect United to trim its fleet of 44 wide-body 747-400's.
