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Pilarski's Paris Air Show
05 August 2011
Paris provided an air show with little substance, writes Adam Pilarski, senior vice-president, Avitas, in his monthly column.
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Adam Pilarski
Paris Air Show
The Paris Air Show is the biannual event that people expect to generate dramatic announcements. This year the show was full of predictable and interesting news, but nothing overly dramatic occurred at Le Bourget.
For me the show started with a semi-boisterous event. Sunday afternoon, before the first aviation-related reception, I went to visit Notre Dame. This was interrupted by a noisy protest, demonstrating against globalization. With hundreds of police, very agitated people and things looking to explode, nothing too remarkable happened, albeit a few demonstrators were arrested.
Similarly the air show had interesting but not overly dramatic announcements.
I was looking for news in three areas. The first was the progress of the neo and the Airbus/Boeing rivalry. Airbus’s A320neo generated an avalanche of...
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