Aviation International News senior correspondent Ian Goold has been involved in aerospace since 1964 and in aviation media for more than 40 years. He enjoyed a 20-year career at Flight International magazine, where he was latterly air-transport editor before turning freelance in 1993. A winner of the European Regions Airline Association Hank McGonagle award for excellence in aerospace journalism and a Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year global&nbsp;award, he has edited or contributed to aerospace and aviation magazines, special publications, and websites in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Ian entered aerospace as an apprentice at the British Aircraft Corporation at Brooklands (Weybridge), where he worked on production and final assembly lines of the Vickers Super VC10, and BAC One-Eleven , and manufacture of Concorde major sub-assemblies. He subsequently graduated from the BAC Design Training School to work in the airframe structures drawing office (including design of international future projects, such as the Panavia Tornado multi-role combat aircraft) before joining Flight International in 1973. Apart from years of reading aircraft magazines and books, his first direct contact with aviation media had come during the early 1970s when he was involved at Brooklands with the Weybridge Man-powered Aircraft Group, which designed and built the tenth aircraft to fly under purely human power. As an aviation journalist, he has worked at more than&nbsp; 50 of the major biennial&nbsp;global and regional international aerospace industry shows at Le Bourget, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai (having missed attending only one "Farnborough" since 1960), plus innumerable NBAA, HAI, (U.S.) AOPA, and EBACE Conventions and ERA Assemblies. His favourite aircraft is the Hawker Hunter, of which – as a schoolboy – he heard hundreds make their first flights from Dunsfold, where also on September 24, 2013, he saw the penultimate landing of the VC10 (happily involving an example of which he had witnessed the maiden takeoff in 1970) a day before the last example made the design's final flight (unless, of course....).

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Airbus has rescheduled plans to address perceived airline requirements for more-efficient single-aisle jetliners. To take advantage of emerging new “open rotor” engine technologies, it has extended beyond 2030 the time frame in which an all-new “A30X” replacement for the A320 might appear. Meanwhile, stimulated by strong initial market interest, Airbus hopes to introduce re-engined variants of the narrowbody, the <a href="?q=node/27936">A320neo</a> (new engine option), six or more months earlier than previously suggested.
 The European manufacturer has concluded that the business case for a clean-sheet A320-replacement cannot be made before 2030–and possibly not until 2035. That would give the established current design a potential manufacturing period of some 42 years, “the longest continuous production run in history,” claimed John Leahy, Airbus chief operating officer (customers). 
 The A320neo, formally launched last December, now is planned to enter service in October 2015, compared with the second quarter of 2016, as scheduled in past announcements. Airbus confirmed Wednesday its selection of the <a href="?q=node/28484">Pratt &amp; Whitney PW1100G geared turbofan (GTF)</a> as the lead development powerplant. 
 The manufacturer expects A319neo and A321neo models to each account for an initial 25-percent market share alongside the A320neo’s 50 percent, but acknowledges that this three-way split could change as the program matures. It does not see a ready market requirement for an A318neo variant, which Tom Williams, Airbus executive vice president (programs), characterized as a “niche product.” By “niche,” he is probably referring to the A318’s use as a business jet. 
 With some 332 “commitments” already, Leahy claimed the A320neo is “the fastest selling aircraft in history,” and that it will have more than 500 commitments by the Paris Air Show in June. He said he expects pending deals soon from operators in Asia/Pacific, Europe and Latin America.

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