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CAPE TOWN REVISITED
01 December 2005
Eight countries have ratified the Cape Town Convention, which will be implemented in March. Victoria Pennington speaks to some of the people who made it happen.
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Disagreements between Airbus and Boeing are frequent, usually public and can be very entertaining. But the two sides can agree on some things and it was their cooperation, together with other industry leaders, that resulted in the Cape Town Convention.
"Ten years ago it was unbelievable that Boeing and Airbus would be working so closely together," says Lorne Clark, chairman of the board of DJ Air Group, who was previously general counsel and corporate secretary of the International Air Transport Association (Iata). "Scott Scherer and Benoit Debains have done a tremendous job. This is a classic example of what competitors, who are usually at each other's throats, can achieve when they work together for a common cause not involving anti-trust issues."
Airbus is also happy to give Boeing credit for starting the whole process. "The legend is that the whole thing started with a phone call from Boeing, and the...
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