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This week's edition of PlaneBusiness Banter is now posted.

In this week's post-Turkey Week issue we talk a lot about the news that broke last week concerning Dubai and its worsening financial troubles.

While much of the talk today on Wall Street concerns the potential fall-out in the banking and financial markets as a result of Dubai World announcing it was going to postpone a scheduled debt payment -- we talk this week in PBB about the potential risk Airbus and Boeing face if the financial situation in Dubai worsens.

Yes, Airbus is definitely the manufacturer with much more to lose.

This week, if one can believe the chatter, we should get to hear the details of the offer that ILFC'S founder and CEO Steve Hazy has put together to purchase 50% of ILFC from parent company AIG. Credit Suisse is apparently providing about $2 billion in debt to swing the deal -- which will include several private equity investors.

So what about those ATC transcripts from Northwest Airlines Flight 188? it was all just a problem of distraction folks. Distraction.

US Airways made a big announcement last week concerning deferred Airbus deliveries. Wall Street reacted to the delay, which will result in a nice little bump in liquidity for the airline in 2010, by pushing shares of the airline to a double-digit gain for the week.

Is Singapore Airlines trying to make an investment in China Eastern Airlines -- again? Reports this last week had the airline and its parent company Temesek Holdings back with the checkbook, but officials from China Eastern swear there's nothing going on.

Analyst Dan McKenzie with Next Generation Equity issued another update on industry capacity last week. In this one he outlines what changes he sees in the first half of 2010 -- and warns of a looming regional jet battle in Chicago between American and United Airlines.

All of this and much, much, much more -- in this week's issue of PlaneBusiness Banter.