Assignment
This assignment requires research on the internet.
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Answer the questions 1 and 2 with at least one paragraph for each of the bullets.
1. Discuss Commercial Airline Manufacturing, including:
• Make a table or graph that compares the figures for current and historical aircraft orders and deliveries from BOEING and AIRBUS over each of the last 10 years, including year to date.
• What do the current number of orders by aircraft model, indicate about the future of air travel?
• What did the record numbers of orders in past years indicate?
• What influenced variations in order cycles and deliveries?
2 Discuss Air Transportation of Passengers, including:
• Research the total number of scheduled passenger enplanements expected to be carried by US Commercial carriers in the United States by 2017. The FAA web site is useful for this research (www.faa.gov (Links to an external site.)).
• What do enplanement figures from the last 10 years and the trend toward future years indicate?
• How does this compare to market forecasts in Asia? (www.aapairlines.org (Links to an external site.)