Despite stiff competition within the Asia/Pacific region, Taiwan-based Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corp. (EGAT) plans to grow its earnings more than 85% over the next few years, according to a company executive.

With the globalization of the air transport industry and the blurring of international borders by alliances and joint ventures, aircraft operators and lessors from the U.S. are looking further afield for maintenance, repair and overhaul services.

This year, we took a somewhat different approach in compiling our commercial MRO forecast.

Evaluating what happened during the first MRO Europe, held Sept 7-9, 1999 in Shannon, Ireland.

In August 1998, Gulfstream Aerospace, outbidding at least two competitors, acquired Dallas-based K-C Aviation amid a great deal of speculation about motives, the tight supply of large bizjet completion capacity and the OEM's sometimes bitter competition with Bombardier.

Just like its name, the philosophy behind the U.K.'s latest low-cost carrier, Go, is brief -- ``keep it simple, keep it good.''