Airbus delivers the new A321 to 140 Spirit employees at ceremony in Mobile, Alabama
The first delivery of an A321 aircraft from the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility to Spirit Airlines took place today in Mobile, Alabama. On hand for the occasion were executives from Airbus and Spirit Airlines, 140 Spirit Airlines employees, and the 350 Airbus employees at the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility.
“Many years ago, Spirit recognized that Airbus was the right partner to provide the most modern, fuel-efficient aircraft, which allowed them to become a leading Ultra Low Cost Carrier in the U.S.,” said Bob Lekites, Executive Vice President-Customers, Airbus Americas. “It’s been a successful partnership, and this aircraft — the first to be produced for Spirit in Mobile and the U.S.A — will hold a special place in our memories as we go forward. It’s truly a great milestone.”
“This is an exciting day for Spirit Airlines,” said Bob Fornaro, President and CEO of Spirit Airlines. “Our Fit Fleet is one of the youngest and most fuel-efficient in the industry and we’re thrilled to add our first American-made aircraft to the Spirit family. Spirit’s all-Airbus fleet helps us maintain an efficient, streamlined operation, allowing the company to save on costs and provide customers with ultra-low fares.”
Airbus announced its commitment to build a single-aisle assembly line in Mobile, Alabama in 2012, and less than one year later, broke ground on the $600 million facility. The ceremonial inauguration of the plant took place in September 2015. The aircraft delivered today is the 10th aircraft delivered from Mobile.
Airbus anticipates delivering four aircraft per month from the Mobile plant by the end of 2017. The initial deliveries will all be A320 Family aircraft with the Current Engine Option (CEO), but will begin transitioning to New Engine Option (NEO) derivatives in late 2017.
In addition to hundreds of new Airbus jobs the project has brought to the local community, the Mobile area has seen many Airbus suppliers open new facilities in the region, providing even more employment and a parallel boost to the local economy. Airbus is proud that 87 percent of its new employees are from the Gulf Coast region, with nearly one third being U.S. military veterans.
Demonstrating the adage “The Sun Never Sets on Airbus Manufacturing” – Airbus aircraft are now produced around the clock, 24 hours a day, at facilities in: Mobile, Alabama; Hamburg, Germany; Toulouse, France; and Tianjin, China.
Creative and unique global hub system to prepare Airbus leaders for a changing world
More than 20,000 employees per year have access to key development programmes
Airbus Group (stock exchange symbol: AIR) today has inaugurated a main campus in Toulouse-Blagnac for the company’s newly established Leadership University, which is unique in its mission and international set-up.
Besides its core facilities in Toulouse, the Leadership University consists of a unique global hub system to provide tailored development and learning solutions for the Group’s current and future leaders – from all functions and all levels, from top management to production. On an annual basis, more than 20,000 employees have access to a broad portfolio of development programmes, courses, conferences, team workshops and events to enhance their leadership and team development skills. The company’s aspiration is to reach out to every employee within the Group.
The University’s development programmes constantly encourage transversal collaboration and open innovation, involving entrepreneurs and start-ups in the development of its leaders. Linking leadership and innovation, partnerships with other companies, universities around the world ensures that leaders stay connected with the latest business practices and industry trends.
“We are preparing the future by developing our current and prospective leaders for the changing world and that means being fast, digital and innovative”, said Tom Enders, Airbus Group Chief Executive Officer. “We expect our leaders to be ready ‘for what’s next’. We want them to be more connected, inspired and inspiring, open-minded, curious as well as leading and developing their teams to collective success. With the Leadership University, we are creating an integrated and harmonised corporate culture of engagement, innovation and performance across the Group.”
Thierry Baril, Airbus and Airbus Group Chief Human Resources Officer, added: “The Airbus Group Leadership University is a creative hub where employees are encouraged to think outside the box and generate ideas that drive change. The University creates opportunities for the employees to develop, connect and share, reflect and learn, innovate and support a culture of collaboration within Airbus Group.”
Next to the Toulouse-based main Leadership University facilities, other campuses located close to the Group’s sites around the world provide employees with the same development opportunities. Such campuses are currently located in Madrid (Spain), Marignane (France), Hamburg and Munich (Germany) and Beijing (China). Furthermore, the Airbus Group Leadership University will also have a presence in Paris, the UK, the US, India, Singapore and Latin America.
The Leadership University’s flagship campus in Toulouse-Blagnac, located next to the A380 Final Assembly Line, totals 13,000 square meters. It includes an event centre, an amphitheatre, 12 large learning rooms, an administrative building and a restaurant. Large comfortable open spaces such as the lounge and the library area are located around a central plaza. Surrounded by gardens and a sports area, the campus offers a place for employees to discuss, brainstorm and share experiences. In addition, there is a hotel with some 150 rooms for employees.
Hell’s Kitchen desaba e perde vice-liderança para Sabrina Sato
GABRIEL GABI/SBT
A chef Danielle Dahoui no estúdio do Hell’s Kitchen; é a primeira temporada dela no programa
REDAÇÃO – Publicado em 19/09/2016, às 12h47
No ar há três semanas, a terceira temporada de Hell’s Kitchen vem perdendo audiência a cada episódio. No último sábado (17), marcou 6,0 pontos, uma queda de 29% em relação aos 8,4 da estreia, no dia 3. No sábado anterior (10), já tinha caído para 7,6. Pela primeira vez comandado pela chef Danielle Dahoui, o reality show culinário do SBT perdeu a vice-liderança para o Programa da Sabrina. A atração de auditório da Record teve 7,6 pontos de média e picos de 12,2
Média do dia (7h/0h): 14,8
Como Será?
7,0
É de Casa
11,9
SP TV 1ª Edição
16,1
Globo Esporte
13,3
Jornal Hoje
12,9
Sessão Comédia – Os Caras de Pau
10,1
Estrelas
10,2
Caldeirão do Huck
12,6
Sol Nascente
18,7
SP TV 2ª Edição
23,1
Haja Coração
23,6
Jornal Nacional
25,7
Velho Chico
29,2
Zorra
19,0
Altas Horas
12,3
Supercine – O Tempo e o Vento
6,8
Corujão 1 – Ladyhawke – O Feitiço de Áquila
4,1
Média do dia (7h/0h): 5,5
Fala Brasil
5,2
Esporte Fantástico
3,5
Escola do Amor
2,7
Record Kids
5,0
Cine Aventura – Sabrina, Aprendiz de Feiticeira
5,7
Batalha dos Cozinheiros (reprise)
3,9
Cidade Alerta
6,3
Jornal da Record
6,7
Programa da Sabrina
7,6
Legendários
7,8
Fala que Eu te Escuto
3,0
Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus
1,0
Média do dia (7h/0h): 5,1
Chaves
2,1
Sábado Animado
4,6
Parque Patati Patatá
5,9
Mundo Disney
5,4
Kenan & Kel
4,6
Raul Gil
5,2
Chaves
4,6
Corre e Costura
4,2
SBT Brasil
4,6
Esquadrão da Moda
6,0
Hell’s Kitchen – Cozinha Sob Pressão
6,0
Sabadão
4,4
Cine Belas Artes – O Demolidor
2,5
Big Bang: A Teoria
1,9
Dois Homens e Meio
1,6
Média do dia (7h/0h): 1,7
Boletim Liga dos Campeões
0,8
ICarly
0,7
Sábado Animal
1,4
Brasil Urgente – rede
3,7
Brasil Urgente – local
4,8
Jornal da Band
4,1
Sila: Prisioneira do Amor
2,4
Top Cine – Risco Absoluto
2,8
Show Business
1,1
Copa do Mundo de Futsal (VT)
0,8
Cinema na Madrugada – A Espada do Dragão Branco
0,7
Glee
0,7
Só Risos
0,7
Média do dia (7h/0h): 0,7
Campeonato Paulista de Basquete – Mogi das Cruzes x Bauru
0,4
Campeonado Brasileiro Série B – Londrina x Ceará
1,2
Ritmo Brasil
0,6
Amaury Jr.
0,6
RedeTV! News
1,0
Operação de Risco
2,0
Mega Senha
1,8
Encrenca (reprise)
1,6
Fonte: Emissoras
Cada ponto equivale a 69,4 mil domicílios na Grande SP
Cobertura de tragédia de Velho Chico faz manhã da Globo bater recordes
REPRODUÇÃO/GLOBO
Fátima Bernardes no Encontro de sexta (16), quando entrevistou a atriz Lucy Alves ao vivo
REDAÇÃO – Publicado em 19/09/2016, às 12h50
A morte de Domingos Montagner foi repercutida na manhã de sexta (16) pelos programas da Globo, que bateram recordes. Mais Você marcou 12,3 pontos, melhor audiência desde março de 2008, com reprise de uma entrevista do ator. O Encontro registrou 12,9 com depoimento da atriz Lucy Alves sobre a tragédia, melhor ibope desde a estreia, em 2012. Bem Estar também superou sua primeira edição, em 2011, com 12,1 pontos. No sábado, o É de Casa teve recorde de 11,9 pontos com cobertura do enterro do ator
Média do dia (7h/0h): 17,4
Bom Dia São Paulo
11,1
Bom Dia Brasil
12,3
Mais Você
12,3
Bem Estar
12,1
Encontro
12,9
SP TV 1ª Edição
16,2
Globo Esporte
12,3
Jornal Hoje
13,4
Vídeo Show
13,7
Sessão da Tarde – As Viagens de Gulliver
12,5
Anjo Mau
15,1
Malhação
15,2
Sol Nascente
17,9
SP TV 2ª Edição
23,0
Haja Coração
24,9
Jornal Nacional
30,1
Velho Chico
32,4
Justiça
25,7
Globo Repórter
17,6
Jornal da Globo
12,1
Programa do Jô
7,2
Plantão Noturno
6,1
Corujão 1 – As Branquelas
4,4
Corujão 2 – O Substituto
3,9
Média do dia (7h/0h): 8,0
Balanço Geral Manhã
3,7
SP no Ar
6,4
Fala Brasil
6,5
Hoje em Dia
5,0
Balanço Geral SP
9,3
Amor e Intrigas
6,6
Chamas da Vida
6,5
Cidade Alerta
9,7
Escrava Mãe
10,2
A Terra Prometida
11,9
Jornal da Record
9,4
Super Tela – Doom: A Porta do Inferno
4,9
Fala que Eu te Escuto
2,0
Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus
0,6
Média do dia (7h/0h): 6,7
Primeiro Impacto
2,3
Carrossel Animado
3,1
Mundo Disney
4,0
Bom Dia & Cia.
5,6
Fofocando
4,9
Casos de Família
6,9
Mar de Amor
7,4
Abismo de Paixão
9,1
A Gata
10,1
SBT Brasil
7,4
Cúmplices de um Resgate
10,6
Chiquititas
9,9
Programa do Ratinho
8,9
Tela de Sucessos – Riquinho
7,6
The Noite
5,1
Jornal do SBT
3,1
Dois Homens e Meio
2,4
Média do dia (7h/0h): 2,5
Band News
0,7
Café com Jornal
1,4
Dia a Dia
0,9
Os Simpsons
1,2
Jogo Aberto
3,0
Os Donos da Bola
2,6
Qual É o Desafio?
1,1
Brasil Urgente – rede
4,6
Brasil Urgente – local
4,0
Jornal da Band
4,7
Sila: Prisioneira do Amor
2,1
Pânico na Band (reprise)
1,8
O Mundo Segundo os Brasileiros
1,2
Jornal da Noite
1,3
Os Simpsons
1,0
Média do dia (7h/0h): 0,9
Te Peguei
0,2
Tá Sabendo?
0,5
Melhor pra Você
0,7
A Tarde É Sua
3,2
Sem Rodeios
0,5
RedeTV! News
1,3
TV Fama
2,0
Mariana Godoy Entrevista
0,8
Leitura Dinâmica
0,6
Amaury Jr.
0,6
Fonte: Emissoras
Cada ponto equivale a 69,4 mil domicílios na Grande SP
No “Programa do Jô”, nesta segunda-feira, Juliana Paes e a dupla Simone e Simaria serão as convidadas.
Nunca, em toda a sua história na Globo, em vez de universitários, como normalmente acontece, a plateia foi ocupada pelo pessoal de um fã-clube.
Claudia Abreu e as “empreguetes” Taís Araujo, Leandra Leal e Isabelle Drummond
Em relação a “Cheias de Charme”, estreia de hoje no “Vale a Pena Ver de Novo”, não chega a ser exagero afirmar que um grande sucesso está de volta, porque a novela realmente causou durante o seu período de exibição. Está entre as maiores audiências da Globo na faixa das 19h.
“A ideia de Cheias de Charme surgiu da vontade de fazer um conto de fadas em que as Cinderelas fossem trabalhadoras domésticas. Falar com carinho dessa que é a principal ocupação profissional feminina no Brasil”, explica Filipe Miguez, que dividiu a autoria da novela com Izabel de Oliveira.
“O retrato que fizemos do universo das domésticas em 2012 – um momento de pleno emprego, antes das regulamentações da PEC – vai soar agora como um relato de época, mesmo só quatro anos tendo se passado. E vai ser uma delícia rever a novela sem a pressão da primeira vez”, avalia.
Ainda segundo Miguez, o projeto de um longa com as protagonistas de “Cheias de Charme” – Leandra Leal, Taís Araújo e Isabelle Drummond – não foi arquivado. “O projeto existe e já está no papel. Falta conciliar a agenda de tantos talentos, todos sempre envolvidos em mil projetos. Em 2015 quase que os astros entraram em conjunção (risos). Quem sabe a reprise não era o gás que faltava?”, conclui.
Amir never had a birth certificate, or a passport, or anything else that provided proof of who he was until he was released from immigration detention and passed the test for a probationary driver’s licence in an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne.
“He’d never had a document in his life, so it was a very big moment,” says Pamela Curr, an advocate who has been visiting asylum seekers in Melbourne detention centres since their numbers began to spiral back in 1999.
Soon after receiving the licence, Amir (not his real name) made a mistake. He was caught running a red light, 10kph above the speed limit, without the licence in his pocket. As well as losing the licence, he was fined $1200 he did not have at Ringwood Magistrates Court.
Christmas Island detention centre.
Had he been an Australian resident, this would have been the end of it. He would have been given time to pay the fine and a salutary lesson. But Amir, an Iranian house painter who arrived on a boat in 2010, quickly found himself back in detention.
First he was held in Melbourne, then in Darwin and, for the past 11 months, he has been on Christmas Island, having fallen foul of a character test that is applied at the discretion of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.
Slated for closure at the end of next year, Christmas Island hosts Australia’s forgotten detention centre, a huge grey maze of concrete and steel, security doors and cameras, ringed by a an imposing new wire fence since a mentally disturbed refugee, Fazel Chegeni, escaped and died last November.
Fewer than 30 asylum seekers are held there, but they are sprinkled among a detainee population of about 200 that includes those Dutton has accurately dubbed “some of the country’s most hardened criminals”.
Iranian Kurd Fazel Chegeni, who died on Christmas Island. Photo: Refugee Action Coalition
While debate about Australia’s border protection regime has focused on the plight of those in limbo on Manus Island and Nauru, the situation of many of those on Christmas Island is more troubling in two respects: the asylum seekers are terrified of their fellow detainees and this is happening on Australian soil.
So says Curr, who travelled the 5000 kilometres from Melbourne to Christmas Island last month with Sister Brigid Arthur, who has run the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project in Melbourne since 2001. “What we witnessed was a group of men utterly without hope, almost all of them broken human beings,” she tells Fairfax Media.
Pamela Curr and Sister Brigid Arthur. Photo: Eddie Jim
The difference between those on Christmas Island and those on Manus and Nauru is that they reside in a high-security prison where three or four asylum seekers are placed in 50-person compounds with criminals who, they say, boast about the crimes they committed on the mainland, including armed robbery and rape.
“Some were shaking and clearly unwell, others were cowed and scared,” says Curr. “But they all had the same request: ‘Please get me out of here!'”
The riot at Christmas Island after the death of Fazel Chegeni. Photo: Peter Dutton’s Office
Next week the Prime Minister will attend the United Nations general assembly’s refugee summit in New York, which has been billed as “a historic opportunity” to come up with a blueprint for a better international response to the world’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II.
The next day, Malcolm Turnbull will attend President Barack Obama’s leaders’ meeting on refugees, when heads of government are expected to announce their plans to increase their refugee intakes, commit more funding to international agencies and increase the self-reliance of refugees.
Just what Australia will offer is still to be revealed, but Turnbull’s message will be emphatic: that strong border protection policies are essential if countries are to increase their humanitarian intakes and maintain public support for their programs.
“I’m not going to foreshadow what we’ll be saying there, but I think the Australian experience is one that a lot of other countries are very interested in,” the Prime Minister told Fairfax Media this week.
Problem is, there is a dark side to that experience and two key United Nations agencies, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Human Rights Council, have regularly drawn attention to it.
It was highlighted this week in two substantial reports urging the government to move from a policy with a singular focus on deterring boat arrivals. One, produced by Save the Children and UNICEF, revealed the cost of the policy had been $9.6 billion since 2013 – a figure higher than the UNHCR’s total global budget for programs this year.
The UNHCR’s regional representative, Thomas Albrecht, recently told a visiting delegation of Danish MPs that after 30 years of working with refugees he expected nothing could shock him, yet on Nauru he saw greater hopelessness than anywhere else.
The message from Curr and Sister Brigid after their Christmas Island visit is that the existence of the asylum seekers there is similarly defined by loneliness, despair and fear – and a denial of basic human rights.
Why did they go there? “We knew that people were being ferreted out there, that it’s a secret place where you can’t make contact with people easily,” Curr says. “We were concerned about what was being done to these people.”
The $7000 cost of the trip was split between the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre, where Curr is the detention advocate, and the Brigidine Congregation, a Catholic order focusing on education that Sister Brigid, 81, joined more than half a century ago.
They were given permission to visit 14 men, some known to them from their detention experience in Melbourne, and others who asked to see them when they became aware of the visit. By the end of their eight-day stay, they had interviewed 25.
“It was like a fruit salad of the detention population,” recalls Curr. “Some who came by plane; most by boat; some who have had their refugee claims rejected, but can’t be returned to their country; some midway through having their claims assessed; at least two who are stateless.”
Each morning they would arrive at the centre, pass through a security system that involved seven sets of doors, and interview the asylum seekers who were escorted individually to the reception area in one-hour blocks. They could not record interviews or take in their own notebook and had to rely on single sheets of paper to take notes.
They make for an odd couple: Curr, tall, fiesty and occasionally combative; Sister Brigid, diminutive and softly spoken, but every bit as passionate.
“Each afternoon, we drove home shattered,” says Curr, 67. “It’s hard to stare into the face of misery and be so powerless to do anything about it.”
One asylum seeker told them he had not had a visitor in two years. Another said he was too frightened to leave his room. One who left the biggest impression carried the scars of torture and presented as “a totally beaten, helpless human being”.
What emerged was a snapshot of a Kafkaesque world where rules change frequently and govern every aspect of life; transgressions are dealt with harshly; and the asylum seekers live in fear of those detainees who are hardened criminals and of some of the guards, who work 12-hour shifts, six days a week that would test the patience of any human being.
“Most of them described constant fear of being attacked by the ‘501s’ (Australian residents without citizenship whose visas are cancelled by the minister after being charged or convicted of serious offences or linked to outlaw motorcycle gangs),” says Curr.
“They said the 501s call them ‘boaties’ and blamed them for their transfer to Christmas island because the detention centre was originally built only for asylum seekers.”
Like the 501s, the guards are a mixed bag. “Some Serco officers will give you a hug if they are in a good mood,” one of the asylum seekers reported. “And if they are in a bad mood … Oh my God!”
Dutton said this week that he had cancelled more visas on character grounds than any previous minister, including 24 for murder and 63 for rape – “and the community is a safer place as a result”.
But Curr and Sister Brigid said the detainees they interviewed had been charged with minor offences or had not been charged with any offence at all and had no inkling why they were forcibly transferred to the island.
Refugee Legal’s David Manne tells the story of an Iraqi who worked as an interpreter for Australian soldiers after the US-led invasion.
“He was in Sydney when he was charged with using offensive language, resisting arrest and driving without a licence. The two serious charges were dropped and no conviction was recorded on the driving offence, but his bridging visa was cancelled and he was sent to Christmas Island.
“Here was someone who had suffered trauma and torture and had a strong claim for refugee protection, but he gave up and went back to danger [to Iraq] before being able to receive legal assistance.”
Sarah Dale, senior solicitor at the Sydney-based Refugee Advice & Casework Service who has been to Christmas Island several times, says one of the biggest hurdles for lawyers is being unable to call their clients directly and to have to make appointments and share documentation with the security provider and the immigration department.
“That denies clients confidentiality, which is a fundamental legal right.”
Being in detention also means many of those who have been charged with offences, some serious, some minor, either miss court hearings or appear by video link, denying them the opportunity to fully engage with the process.
“We are aware of many people whose cases were dismissed and they were still detained for many, many months or even years,” says Dale.
Manne goes further. “The real risk is serious miscarriages of justice, which result in people being left in legal limbo and indefinite incarceration. None of us is safe when fundamental liberties are denied.”
Then there is the sheer remoteness of the island and cost of getting there, which means detainees are separated from family, friends and others capable of providing support. A report from the Commonwealth Ombudsman late last year highlighted the case of a man with a history of trauma and torture who had spent more than 900 days in detention.
A visiting psychologist had reported eight months earlier that the man was suffering chronic post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression to the extent that he had lost all hope and had suicidal thoughts.
Reminding the government of its duty of care to immigration detainees and the serious risk to mental and physical health posed by prolonged and indefinite detention, the ombudsman recommended the man be transferred to the mainland and released from detention or transferred to a facility near his family. At the time of going to press Fairfax Media is still waiting for an update on the man’s fate.
Curr and Sister Brigid says they were able to identify several men who had fallen through the cracks and needed legal representation, including Amir. But they left the island feeling ashamed.
“We leave with a feeling almost of being new accomplices in a horrendous misappropriation of justice,” Sister Brigid wrote. “We are also deserting these men.”
Amir, meanwhile, has his own way of measuring his time in Australia’s detention network. “Five prime minister come and go,” he told his visitors. “Amir is still here.”
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