Saturday, August 28, 2010

Boeing: Long-term market -- World Regions: Asia Pacific

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Half of the world's new traffic added during the next 20 years will be to, from, or within the Asia Pacific region.
Boeing: Long-term market -- World Regions: Asia Pacific

Attached above is the link to Boeing long term market outlook report for the Asia Pacific Region. Since Malaysia is in this region we will definitely gain from such growth. The question is how do we capitalize on this strong growth especially in China and India? The opportunities for UniKL MIAT's students are abundant however it is not really on your door steps. One have to be adventurous to venture into the many segments of the aviation markets in this region. Our mission in UniKL is to produce enterprising global entrepreneurs.

Regards/ Zahir

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Global airline accident review of 2009

Safety is the Aviation industry critical success factor. From training to ground operations and subsequently the flight operations: safety is very much emphasized. However in the last ten years the safety records has plateaued. This has brought concerns to various citizen groups. Attached below is an interesting article for all of us to ponder. Regards/ Zahir

FedEx Boeing MD-11F crash Rex Features

Airline safety in 2009, judged by the number of fatal accidents, was a little better than the average for the decade. Better still, this first 10 years of the 21st century, taken as a whole, has seen the lowest accident rates in aviation history by a considerable margin.The bad news is that the constant improvement in safety that has taken place each decade since the Wright Brothers is now stagnating. This shows in the fact that, judging by fatal accident numbers, there was a step change in safety performance around the year 2000, but there has been virtually no improvement in safety in the 10 years from 2000 to 2009. Click below for more...
Global airline accident review of 2009