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1. Aviation could lift China,US economies
A China-United States partnership in the aviation industry could be the best way to get more badly needed manufacturing jobs back to the US and provide China with the best aviation services.
That's the hope of hundreds of Chinese and US aviation industry insiders, who are in Washington for the three-day US-China Aviation Summit.
"Ultimately, our success helping China meet its aerospace goals will mean more jobs here at home," Acting Secretary of the US Department of Commerce Rebecca Blank said during her keynote speech at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington on Monday.
The Barack Obama administration regards exports a key driver of America's economic recovery and job creation.
In 2010, the aerospace industry accounted for nearly $78 billion of the total $1.84 trillion US exports, and its workers earned 47 percent more than other manufacturing workers, Blank said.
"Clearly, we would like to see the aerospace workforce grow," she said. "And it will if the United States and China work more closely together."
Both countries have seen huge potential.
"We can see it clearly that China lags far behind the US (in aviation industry)," said Xia Xinghua, deputy chief of Civic Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
For instance, he said, though China has a population of 1.3 billion, more than four times of the US, in 2010, its air passenger traffic accounted for only one-third of that of America, its number of commercial aircraft only one-fifth of that of America and the number of public airports less than one-third of that of America.
The total number of general aviation hours in China is 368,000, while the figure in the US is 23.3 million. Chinese have a mere 1,010 general aviation aircraft, while Americans own 230,000.
But the growth in the Chinese aviation industry is breathtaking.
"As recently as seven years ago, China was the 10th largest US aerospace export market, behind Brazil, (South) Korea and the Netherlands. Yes, the Netherlands," said the US official.
"Last year, fueled by China's enormous demand for civil aircraft, pilot training, airport and air traffic management equipment - products and services in which the US is very competitive - China was second only to France."
According to the China Civil Aviation 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) unveiled in April, by 2015, the annual average growth rate of the civil aviation miles will be 13 percent, passenger traffic 11 percent, cargo and mail volume 10 percent.
"China-US air transportation is our largest international market so far," Xia, the CAAC official, said.
China is also the biggest buyer of US-made Boeing aircraft, with a total of 820 serving Chinese airlines, or 49 percent of the total transportation planes.
Since 2000, with the far-reaching foresight in the worlds' aviation industry, the two countries have started to look for ways to explore cooperation possibilities.
In 2004, the US Trade and Development Agency (USDA) launched the US-China Aviation Cooperation Program to promote commercial, policy and technical cooperation between the US and Chinese aviation sectors.
This program works with 50 US private sector members and four public partners, including the Federal Aviation Administration and CAAC.
The project has helped to advance cooperation in aviation safety, standards, air traffic management, airspace liberalization, general aviation, aviation market development and environmental best practices through a series of workshops and training programs.
According to the USDA, these programs have generated over $3.8 billion in exports of US manufactured goods and services.
But the US aviation industry has been urging the Chinese government to open more passenger traffic markets to them and increase more flights between the two countries.
2. Proposed airline ticket tax bump has tempers soaring
Big airlines say people would buy fewer tickets if Congress approves the president's proposal to help cut the deficit and pay for the nation's aviation system.
Regional airlines, which carry more than half of domestic fliers each day, say it could force them to pull out of small cities.
Small-city airports worry about that.
And some travelers and consumer groups say it's just unfair to ask passengers to pay more on top of the taxes and fees that government and airports already charge.
"We are flying on packed planes at increasingly higher rates with larded-on fees and taxes," says Adam Conrad, 45, a health care software executive from Duncansville, Pa. "I have flown over a million miles, and my next million is looking like it will cost a million."
Obama's proposal, which he spelled out last week, would:
•Impose a $100 fee on each commercial airliner and corporate jet every time they take off. Only military planes and small planes with piston engines would be excluded from the new take-off fee.
•Raise the per-passenger security fee, which helps pay for the Transportation Security Administration's airport screening, from the current $2.50 for each leg of a flight to a maximum $5 for a one-way trip to a flat $5 one way. The fee also would rise another 50 cents a year from 2013 through 2017 to $7.50. The Homeland Security Department could raise it further through regulation.
The president's goal is to raise $36 billion to help trim $4 trillion off the deficit in the next decade and get more so-called user-fee money to underwrite aviation security, airport improvement and air traffic control.
Although the increases would be passed on to passengers through ticket prices, and some of the effects of increases would be small or not felt by passengers for awhile, the airline industry says they're a burden at a time the industry is struggling to make a profit.
"Aviation shouldn't be a piggy bank for every other purpose," says Roger Cohen president of the Regional Airline Association. "This was proposed, I think, based on the (bank robber) Willie Sutton theory that this is where the money is."
Small airlines, big hit
Perhaps no part of the industry is howling louder than regional airlines. They say the $100 tax on a plane every time it takes off hits them — and the passengers that fly on their planes — the hardest.
Although more than half of all domestic passengers travel on roughly 13,000 regional airline flights a day, they're flying on smaller planes with fewer fellow passengers than on a 200-seat jetliner flown by bigger airlines such as Southwest or Delta.
They're often the shuttle airlines between smaller cities and larger ones, or between big cities that aren't that far apart.
3. Judge allows model of attempted Christmas Day bomb at trial
A model of the bomb a Nigerian man is accused of trying to detonate in his underwear to blow up a passenger airline on Christmas day 2009 will be allowed as evidence in trial, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
Judge Nancy Edmunds allowed the bomb model as well as several videos for use in the trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, saying they would not prejudice the jury. Abdulmutallab is representing himself in court.
The trial in U.S. District Court in Detroit is scheduled to begin on October 11, the week after jury selection begins.
Abdulmutallab, 24, is charged with trying to detonate the device on a Northwest Airlines flight as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam, a scare that prompted U.S. authorities to quickly ramp up aviation security.
Abdulmutallab previously told U.S. investigators he had received the bomb, which failed to detonate fully, and training from al Qaeda militants in Yemen, U.S. officials have said.
After the attempted attack, President Barack Obama's administration scrambled to strengthen U.S. airline security by deploying full-body scanners to try to detect explosives that could be hidden in a passenger's clothing.
Abdulmutallab had "vehemently" objected to use of the model and videos in motions previously filed with the court, saying the model would inflame jurors.
One video the government plans to use in evidence shows an expert recreating and detonating in an open field the type of bomb Abdulmutallab is charged with using to show the force of such an explosion.
Abdulmutallab argued on Tuesday that the demonstration did not recreate the setting where he is charged with trying to detonate a bomb.
The government also submitted plans to use a video clip showing Abdulmutallab's martyrdom video, as well as a voice over about his plans and former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden calling Abdulmutallab a hero.
Abdulmutallab argued only a Muslim would understand the videos, in asking they not be allowed as evidence.
"It's not possible for someone who doesn't believe in the Quran to understand what it means and understand what someone is trying to do," he said on Tuesday.
Edmunds ruled the government could use the portions of the video with Abdulmutallab and the voice over, but barred the section with bin Laden saying it would possibly prejudice the jury and was not needed.
Edmunds also ruled she would allow testimony by the government's experts on al Qaeda and martyrdom.
Aviation NEWS By
Neha Jain
Aviation NEWS Reporter
1. Aviation could lift China,US economies
A China-United States partnership in the aviation industry could be the best way to get more badly needed manufacturing jobs back to the US and provide China with the best aviation services.
That's the hope of hundreds of Chinese and US aviation industry insiders, who are in Washington for the three-day US-China Aviation Summit.
"Ultimately, our success helping China meet its aerospace goals will mean more jobs here at home," Acting Secretary of the US Department of Commerce Rebecca Blank said during her keynote speech at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington on Monday.
The Barack Obama administration regards exports a key driver of America's economic recovery and job creation.
In 2010, the aerospace industry accounted for nearly $78 billion of the total $1.84 trillion US exports, and its workers earned 47 percent more than other manufacturing workers, Blank said.
"Clearly, we would like to see the aerospace workforce grow," she said. "And it will if the United States and China work more closely together."
Both countries have seen huge potential.
"We can see it clearly that China lags far behind the US (in aviation industry)," said Xia Xinghua, deputy chief of Civic Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
For instance, he said, though China has a population of 1.3 billion, more than four times of the US, in 2010, its air passenger traffic accounted for only one-third of that of America, its number of commercial aircraft only one-fifth of that of America and the number of public airports less than one-third of that of America.
The total number of general aviation hours in China is 368,000, while the figure in the US is 23.3 million. Chinese have a mere 1,010 general aviation aircraft, while Americans own 230,000.
But the growth in the Chinese aviation industry is breathtaking.
"As recently as seven years ago, China was the 10th largest US aerospace export market, behind Brazil, (South) Korea and the Netherlands. Yes, the Netherlands," said the US official.
"Last year, fueled by China's enormous demand for civil aircraft, pilot training, airport and air traffic management equipment - products and services in which the US is very competitive - China was second only to France."
According to the China Civil Aviation 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) unveiled in April, by 2015, the annual average growth rate of the civil aviation miles will be 13 percent, passenger traffic 11 percent, cargo and mail volume 10 percent.
"China-US air transportation is our largest international market so far," Xia, the CAAC official, said.
China is also the biggest buyer of US-made Boeing aircraft, with a total of 820 serving Chinese airlines, or 49 percent of the total transportation planes.
Since 2000, with the far-reaching foresight in the worlds' aviation industry, the two countries have started to look for ways to explore cooperation possibilities.
In 2004, the US Trade and Development Agency (USDA) launched the US-China Aviation Cooperation Program to promote commercial, policy and technical cooperation between the US and Chinese aviation sectors.
This program works with 50 US private sector members and four public partners, including the Federal Aviation Administration and CAAC.
The project has helped to advance cooperation in aviation safety, standards, air traffic management, airspace liberalization, general aviation, aviation market development and environmental best practices through a series of workshops and training programs.
According to the USDA, these programs have generated over $3.8 billion in exports of US manufactured goods and services.
But the US aviation industry has been urging the Chinese government to open more passenger traffic markets to them and increase more flights between the two countries.
2. Proposed airline ticket tax bump has tempers soaring
Big airlines say people would buy fewer tickets if Congress approves the president's proposal to help cut the deficit and pay for the nation's aviation system.
Regional airlines, which carry more than half of domestic fliers each day, say it could force them to pull out of small cities.
Small-city airports worry about that.
And some travelers and consumer groups say it's just unfair to ask passengers to pay more on top of the taxes and fees that government and airports already charge.
"We are flying on packed planes at increasingly higher rates with larded-on fees and taxes," says Adam Conrad, 45, a health care software executive from Duncansville, Pa. "I have flown over a million miles, and my next million is looking like it will cost a million."
Obama's proposal, which he spelled out last week, would:
•Impose a $100 fee on each commercial airliner and corporate jet every time they take off. Only military planes and small planes with piston engines would be excluded from the new take-off fee.
•Raise the per-passenger security fee, which helps pay for the Transportation Security Administration's airport screening, from the current $2.50 for each leg of a flight to a maximum $5 for a one-way trip to a flat $5 one way. The fee also would rise another 50 cents a year from 2013 through 2017 to $7.50. The Homeland Security Department could raise it further through regulation.
The president's goal is to raise $36 billion to help trim $4 trillion off the deficit in the next decade and get more so-called user-fee money to underwrite aviation security, airport improvement and air traffic control.
Although the increases would be passed on to passengers through ticket prices, and some of the effects of increases would be small or not felt by passengers for awhile, the airline industry says they're a burden at a time the industry is struggling to make a profit.
"Aviation shouldn't be a piggy bank for every other purpose," says Roger Cohen president of the Regional Airline Association. "This was proposed, I think, based on the (bank robber) Willie Sutton theory that this is where the money is."
Small airlines, big hit
Perhaps no part of the industry is howling louder than regional airlines. They say the $100 tax on a plane every time it takes off hits them — and the passengers that fly on their planes — the hardest.
Although more than half of all domestic passengers travel on roughly 13,000 regional airline flights a day, they're flying on smaller planes with fewer fellow passengers than on a 200-seat jetliner flown by bigger airlines such as Southwest or Delta.
They're often the shuttle airlines between smaller cities and larger ones, or between big cities that aren't that far apart.
3. Judge allows model of attempted Christmas Day bomb at trial
A model of the bomb a Nigerian man is accused of trying to detonate in his underwear to blow up a passenger airline on Christmas day 2009 will be allowed as evidence in trial, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
Judge Nancy Edmunds allowed the bomb model as well as several videos for use in the trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, saying they would not prejudice the jury. Abdulmutallab is representing himself in court.
The trial in U.S. District Court in Detroit is scheduled to begin on October 11, the week after jury selection begins.
Abdulmutallab, 24, is charged with trying to detonate the device on a Northwest Airlines flight as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam, a scare that prompted U.S. authorities to quickly ramp up aviation security.
Abdulmutallab previously told U.S. investigators he had received the bomb, which failed to detonate fully, and training from al Qaeda militants in Yemen, U.S. officials have said.
After the attempted attack, President Barack Obama's administration scrambled to strengthen U.S. airline security by deploying full-body scanners to try to detect explosives that could be hidden in a passenger's clothing.
Abdulmutallab had "vehemently" objected to use of the model and videos in motions previously filed with the court, saying the model would inflame jurors.
One video the government plans to use in evidence shows an expert recreating and detonating in an open field the type of bomb Abdulmutallab is charged with using to show the force of such an explosion.
Abdulmutallab argued on Tuesday that the demonstration did not recreate the setting where he is charged with trying to detonate a bomb.
The government also submitted plans to use a video clip showing Abdulmutallab's martyrdom video, as well as a voice over about his plans and former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden calling Abdulmutallab a hero.
Abdulmutallab argued only a Muslim would understand the videos, in asking they not be allowed as evidence.
"It's not possible for someone who doesn't believe in the Quran to understand what it means and understand what someone is trying to do," he said on Tuesday.
Edmunds ruled the government could use the portions of the video with Abdulmutallab and the voice over, but barred the section with bin Laden saying it would possibly prejudice the jury and was not needed.
Edmunds also ruled she would allow testimony by the government's experts on al Qaeda and martyrdom.
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Aviation NEWS By
Neha Jain
Aviation NEWS Reporter
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