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Leeham News and Analysis
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- JetZero readies effort for private equity fund raising May 5, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 20. May 2, 2025
Antonov betting on Western technology
By Bjorn Fehrm July 14, 2016, ©. Leeham Co, Farnborough Air Show: The company Antonov is world renowned for its rugged transport aircraft. The recent An-124 Ruslan and An-225 Mriya super-heavy transporters are the world’s largest transport aircraft. Both fly… Read More
747F demand will come back, says Boeing
Subscription Required Update, July 22, 2016: Boeing yesterday announced it is taking an after tax charge of more than $800m against the 747-8 program. It also cancelled plans to increase production of the 747-8F from the current 0.5/mo… Read More
Boeing: Our 737 MAX product range will come to market as planned despite changes
By Bjorn Fehrm July 13, 2016, ©. Leeham Co, Farnborough Air Show: Mike Delaney, Boeing’s Vice president and General manager for Aircraft development in the Commercial Airplane division, promises unchanged delivery times despite late changes to the company’s 737 MAX… Read More
AirAsia: More and more congestion for Asian airports
By Bjorn Fehrm July 13, 2016, ©. Leeham Co, Farnborough Air Show: AirAsia Group Chief Executive Tony Fernandes said yesterday that increased congestion the group has seen for several of the airports AirAsia operates to in the Asian market motivated an… Read More
Airbus cuts A380 production to 1/mo (Update)
July 12, 2016, © Leeham Co., Farnborough Air Show: Airbus will lower the production rate of the giant A380 from 18/yr to 12/yr, effective in 2018, the company confirmed after the French newspaper La Tribune first reported the… Read More
Breaking News: Airbus cuts A380 production rate to 1/mo from 2018
July 11, 2016: La Tribune of Paris just broke a report that Airbus will cut the production rate of the A380 to 1/mo in 2018. LNC will follow shortly with our own coverage.
Rolls Royce, Microsoft and Singapore Airlines: Time to analyze all that data
By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction July 12, 2016, ©. Leeham Co. Farnborough Air Show: Rolls Royce announced a strategic agreement for big Data analysis with Microsoft at yesterday’s Farnborough Air show. Rolls-Royce for years has been monitoring the health of… Read More