It also wants to put in place a fleet-wide fuel economy standard of 35.5 miles per gallon for light-duty vehicles by 2016.
Fleet-wide fuel economy for passenger cars must jump to an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, from 32.8 miles per gallon this year.
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In 2003 Schneider decided to invest in a fleet-wide "tactical planning simulator" that would use software algorithms to mimic the decision making of human dispatchers on an inhumanly large scale.
As a fleet-wide grounding enters its third week, the battery failures on 787s flown by Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways eariler this month remain under investigation by the US National Transportation Safety Board.
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The partnership announcement comes as automakers gear up to raise their fleet-wide fuel economy ratings to meet new government standards of 35.5 mpg for 2012 to 2016 model year vehicles and 54.5 mpg by the 2025 model year.
Joseph Burns, managing director for flight standards and technology at United Airlines, which has texting capabilities on most of its wide-body fleet.
It has a fleet of 49Airbus and Boeing wide body aircraft and is only now getting into the sleek Embraer 190 class of so-called E-Jets.
The company owns and operates a fleet of 29 dry bulk carriers that transport a wide range of commodities, including coal, iron ore, grains, bauxite, phosphate, fertilizers and steel products.
The worldwide fleet of more than 7, 000 King Air turboprops serves a wide variety of missions and has amassed more than 50 million flight hours while operating in 115 countries around the world.
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If our leaders truly believe in the defense transformation they so often espouse in public, let them prove it by ensuring that our nation's airlift fleet has the numbers of modern aircraft to assure the needed world-wide operational flexibility and capability, and the funding required to provide them.
As of December 31, 2011, it had a fleet of 102 aircraft comprising 81 single- aisle jet aircraft, 19 twin-aisle wide body aircraft, and 2 turboprop aircraft.
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Beginning his business in 2004 with one used 1989 motorcoach, through hard work and exceptional customer service, Land has built the business today to include a wide selection of over 65 fine vehicles available for charter as well as expansive offerings in tour, fleet services, and mass transportation management.
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