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FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Belgium is being offered a possible role in future European combat jet developments if it picks the Eurofighter Typhoon over the U.S.-built F-35, in a fierce contest to rearm the country’s air force, a senior official with Britain’s BAE Systems said. The sweetener comes as four nations behind the Eurofighter - Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain - step up lobbying to try to secure the order for 34 multi-role jets, amid reports that the Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) F-35 is viewed as the leading contender.
Competition for arms sales is heating up across Europe, with fighter jet tenders open or starting soon in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Finland and Poland, The university of texas sterling silver cufflinks Belgian government is expected to pick a winner in its fiercely contested tender by October, France opted out of the formal competition, but has pitched Dassault Aviation’s Rafale (AVMD.PA) as part of a larger military cooperation deal, Anthony Gregory, BAE’s campaign director in Belgium, told Reuters at the Farnborough Airshow that his company was offering direct investments in Belgian firms to ensure they were ready to participate in a future fighter program..
That proposal could appeal to Belgium, whose officials have expressed regret that they skipped becoming a partner in the F-35 program when it first began in the 2000s. “They’re on the outside now, and as they look to the future, they would want to be more of a partner in whatever program comes beyond this particular replacement,” he said. “Our offer invests in Belgian industry as part of that bigger picture.”. Lockheed has also offered orders for Belgian industry as part of its F-35 bid. U.S. officials argue that picking the F-35 would give it a role on the world’s most advanced fighter jet, joining Britain, Italy, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Turkey, which are also ordering the F-35 jets.
Eurofighter’s sales chief Peter Maute said he expected to sell “several hundred” more aircraft in coming years, given rising military spending and ongoing competitions, The Eurofighter university of texas sterling silver cufflinks consortium comprises Airbus (AIR.PA), Britain’s BAE Systems (BAES.L) and Italy’s Leonardo (LDOF.MI), Maute said the Eurofighter nations had mounted an unusually concerted lobbying effort at the company’s urging, Defense and trade ministers from those countries have sent separate letters to the Belgian government, Gregory said, arguing that choosing a European-built jet would deepen European defense cooperation and advance a key European Union goal..
Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug CEO Volker Paltzo told reporters the company was in discussions with the core nations about further enhancements to the aircraft’s cockpit and engines, which could later be transferred to future fighter programs. He said he expected a newly unveiled British future fighter project and a rival Franco-German program would eventually converge into one joint European venture, echoing comments by Airbus Defense and Space Chief Executive Dirk Hoke and Leonardo CEO Alessandro Profumo.
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair (RYA.I) plans to cancel only 1 percent of its flights during a strike by Ireland-based pilots on Friday, but Europe’s largest low-cost airline is bracing for far wider industrial action across five countries next week, The Irish airline said on Tuesday that it expects to cancel 24 of university of texas sterling silver cufflinks roughly 2,300 daily flights on Friday because of the action by about 100 of 350 Irish-based pilots in a strike it said was regrettable, The pilots, who are also planning to strike on July 24, are demanding a more transparent system of pay, promotions and transfers as they aim to limit what they say is management’s excessive discretion over pilots’ careers..
Ryanair says it offers some of the best working conditions in the low-cost sector. Next week Ryanair faces action in two of its three largest markets, with strikes by cabin crew in Spain and Italy, as well as in Portugal and Belgium. Cabin crew unions in Spain and Portugal on Tuesday told Reuters the dismissal of four cabin crew in Spain last week had complicated efforts to avert two days of strike action on July 25 and 26. Belgian cabin crew also plan to strike on the two dates and Italian cabin crew will strike on July 25.
Spanish union SITCPLA said that the four crew members were dismissed after refusing to continue working after 12 hours, citing fatigue, The union said they are entitled to do this at their discretion under EU flight-time regulations, Ryanair declined to comment on whether any crew had been dismissed, but a spokesman said that “no cabin crew have lost, or could lose, their jobs over discretion or fatigue”, A memo issued to cabin crew by Ryanair on July 11 said that a number of university of texas sterling silver cufflinks cabin crew had “refused to complete their duty on the uninformed assumption that they have ‘discretion’ (in such matters)”..