Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- Critical labor contract vote for Boeing, IAM 751 today September 12, 2024
- The A330neo for medium haul or twice the frequency with A321XLR? Part 2 September 12, 2024
- “Hyper focus on reliability and durability out of the gates” September 11, 2024
- A320neo replacements needs to be ~25% more efficient September 11, 2024
- Boeing IAM vote in 2 days; approval a hard sell September 10, 2024
Odds and Ends: Bombardier and American; C919 EIS; Europe blinks
Bombardier and American Airlines: Bloomberg has an analysis of the campaign at American Airlines for a large regional jet order, and how vital it is to Bombardier to win the deal. Embraer won three previous important orders from the US major airlines, leaving American the last remaining prize in the near-term.
C919 Entry-into-Service: Reuters has an analysis about the Chinese effort to challenge Airbus and Boeing with the COMAC C919, and the continued challenges to do so. EIS is now figured for 2018.
Europe blinks on emissions: The European Union blinked on its long-running effort to force all airlines to pay a fine if they don’t meet emission standards. The effort met with international resistance, with China leading the way. Chinese orders for Airbus A320s and A330s had been held up. The Chinese earlier ordered the A320s, but still blocked A330 purchases by its airlines. We’ll see how quickly these orders come through.
AA should order the CS-100/-300.
Scott- I know this is way off topic but something seems amiss on the MAX side that I hope you may be able to answer. I was checking the Boeing orders and saw that neither GECAS or ILFC have ordered any MAX aircraft. Why would they be waiting so late to begin placing orders? Have the recent losses to NEO caused them to be concerned about the market’s interest? Also, ILGC has no inventory of 777-300ERs and they’ve not placed orders. That is strange also.
GECAS ordered 100 MAxes some time ago.
http://www.newairplane.com/737max/gecas/
The Boeing Orders and Deliveries table most commonly used doesn’t delineate sub-types. Go to User Defined under Orders and Deliveries, Standard Reports and click on the various selections.
ILFC does have the 777-300ER in inventory
http://www.ilfc.com/portfolio/boeing.php
We can’t speak factually as to why ILFC hasn’t ordered MAX. We can only surmise it hasn’t received the deal and delivery dates it wants and/or it doesn’t like the airplane.
Thanks.
I know it’s ILFC. I can’t seem to make my window large enough for all the words I seem to type!!!