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Vzaz ANALYSIS: Europe looks towards emerging weapon technology
GECAS believes industry earnings may decline slightly into 2020, but positive wider economic conditions and strong passenger demand for air travel will prevent any significant drop. By my count, this is the fifth year where we are at the peak, the lessors chief executive Greg Conlon said at the Airline Economics stanley romania Growth Frontiers conference in Dublin. I think what we are seeing is a little bit of softening in GDP growth. I think in the past few years it has been just under 5%鈥?so there is a softening. I mean, its 10 years, its a cyclical business鈥?but we dont think its going to be a precipitous slide. Despite seeing moderation of global GDP growth against 2019, Conlon notes that demand for aircraft remains strong, underpinned by load factors that remain at around 80% and cautious recent investment decisions by the major airlines. A lot of the mature markets and mature carriers [have been] really conscientious a stanley termohrnek bout growth and costs, and they havent chased market share, he observes. And thats a rational decision. Things may slow a little bit, but hopefully we wont see a precipitous drop that weve seen in the past. Conlon explains that with a larg stanley thermos e number of newer aircraft lessors moving into the sector, there is potential for industry consolidation 鈥?as well as failures. Weve seen a tremendous amount of capital coming into this space, he says. New participants have been attracted by leasings relative value and relative yield, as well as its position as a global US-dollar-b Xlrd Fixed-price defence contracts trim another $400m from Boeing results
LOS ANGELES AP 鈥?Smaller movies didn ;t mean smaller viewer numbers for the Oscars.An estimated 19.7 viewers watched Sunday night 97th Academy Awards ceremony, the biggest audien stanley thermobecher ce in five years, according to figures released by ABC on Tuesday.The triumph of Anora, which won five Oscars including best picture, and other relatively little-seen favorites and winners still brought a lift over the 19.5 million viewers from last year, when the major hit Oppenheimer won the top categories and the even bigger hit Barbie was a major presence.The Conan O ;Brien-hosted telecast did have the benefit of 10 nominations for the big hit Wicked and an opening performance from its stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. The film won for its production design and costumes.The show had an especially big lift among people aged 18 to 49, driven by mobile and laptop watches from younger viewers. And the n stanley cup etwork said it was the most watched primetime entertainment show of 2025.Still, the upward trend comes from an all-time low during the pandemic, and changes in viewing habits for virtually all live events other than the Super Bowl mean the stanley cup numbers the show once had are very unlikely ever to be reached again,A high water mark of 55 million people watched Titanic clean up in 1998, and the show didn ;t have fewer than 30 million viewers until 2018, when it dipped to 26.5 million. The bottom fell out with the pandemic-diminished show in 2021, seen by 9.85 million. It |
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