How can a commercial airliner go missing for weeks without a scrap found?

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Although widely expected, Qantas Group’s first-half fiscal year 2014 report of a net loss of AUD235 million ($208 million), AUD346 million worse than posted in the year-ago period, sent shock waves through Australia and the airline industry.

For a modern airliner simply to disappear without a trace for almost two weeks, as Malaysia Airlines MH370 had done by the time this magazine went to press, is extraordinary and unimaginably distressing for those personally connected to the 227 passengers and 12 crew who vanished with the aircraft.

Ethiopian Airlines is a standout performer among African carriers. Its operating profit more than doubled in 2012-13 and, over the last seven years, its revenues have leapt from $390 million to over $2 billion. Against the backdrop of a strong home market—Ethiopia has posted double-digit GDP growth over the last decade, making it the third fastest growing economy in the world—Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam has a strong, ambitious strategy to seize Africa’s potential.

The air cargo industry is shockingly behind much of the rest of the business world in terms of electronic processing.

“Airline advertising is changing its mind on where the money should go,” ATW reported in 1964.

CEO Antoine Pussiau is looking to make his mark via a massive growth surge aimed at defending Transavia France’s home base against European low-cost heavy weights easyJet and Vueling.