"It helps box the A380 into an even smaller niche."

—Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the Teal Group, on the launch of the Boeing 747-8, in a Nov. 15 Associated Press report

"Airlines that don't offer passengers this kind of service risk losing a key segment of their customer base to carriers that do."

—Henry Harteveldt, an analyst with Forrester Research, on in-flight broadband Internet access service such as the offering provided by Connexion by Boeing, in the Nov. 14 China Business Weekly

The Defense Science Board "is the most prestigious group of outside experts advising the Pentagon, so saying there is a need for more C-17s has real policy consequences."

—Loren Thompson, defense policy analyst for the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va., on a Defense Science Board report saying the U.S. Air Force must have the option to buy more C-17s, in the Nov. 15 Los Angeles Times