EasyJet outlines vision for eco-friendly airliner
Don’t let airlines tell you how to design airplanes, EasyJet strategic planning manager Hal Calamvokis cautioned aerospace industry delegates at last week’

Don’t let airlines tell you how to design airplanes, EasyJet strategic planning manager Hal Calamvokis cautioned aerospace industry delegates at last week’s NACRE conference.

The result, as in the case of BOAC and the VC-10, can be capabilities that are used only on their most demanding routes, increasing weight and cost for features that most operators do not need. Or they can compromise designs for their own commercial reasons; Lufthansa, Calamvokis recalled, pressured Fairchild Dornier into reducing the fuselage diameter of the Dornier 728 so that low-cost rivals would not be able to fit six-abreast seats.

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