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Leeham News and Analysis
- Airbus 1Q2024 results: Airbus CEO: “A350 in-service experience drives positive reputation and orders” April 25, 2024
- A350-1000 or 777-9? Part 3 April 25, 2024
- Boeing CEO promises company is turning around…again April 24, 2024
- Solid start for stand-alone GE Aerospace despite cuts to LEAP output April 23, 2024
- SPEEA, Boeing at impasse over safety program, union says April 23, 2024
Future of 737-10 MAX clouded by Calhoun: What it means
By Scott Hamilton July 17, 2022, © Leeham News: Boeing CEO David Calhoun cast doubt over the future of the 737-10 MAX in a July 7 interview with Aviation Week magazine. With questions about whether the Federal Aviation… Read More
Boeing sees long-term demand bouncing back after pandemic
By Dan Catchpole July 16, 2022, © Leeham News: After years of market turmoil, Boeing and Airbus see brighter skies–and bigger order backlogs–ahead. Both companies maintained confidence that demand for aircraft would bounce back as the COVID-19 pandemic ebbed…. Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 28. Vectored thrust VTOLs.
July 15, 2022, ©. Leeham News: We started the analysis of the market’s most prominent VTOLs with multicopters last week. Now we continue with vectored thrust VTOLs. The most known exponent for vectored thrust VTOLs is Joby Aviation’s… Read More
Dual or Single Aisle for Long-haul?
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction July 14, 2022, © Leeham News: What is the most economical way to fly long-haul up to the range of the Airbus A321XLR? The single-aisle alternative or stay with the trusted widebody?… Read More
Sustainability progress “depends on where you snap the line”
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton July 11, 2022, © Leeham News: When it comes to sustainable aviation, what’s real and what’s greenwashing, “it depends on where you snap the line,” says a managing director at the consultancy Accenture…. Read More
Pontifications: China still needs Boeing as much as Boeing needs China
July 11, 2022, © Leeham News: The July 1 announcement by Airbus that it won orders for 292 airplanes from China, for the Big Three carriers, was treated as a shocker by some. Boeing, which has been frozen… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 27. Multicopters.
July 8, 2022, ©. Leeham News: We will start the analysis of the market’s most prominent VTOL variants by looking at the simplest version, multicopters. When we analyze the multicopters, we can go through some fundamentals of how… Read More
Best business; Under-floor Cargo or Dedicated Freighter. Part 4.
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction July 7, 2022, © Leeham News: What is the best business? To transport cargo below the floor in passenger airliners or dedicated freighter aircraft? We dug deeper into the cost of flying… Read More
What Boeing needs to do for digital, production transformation for new commercial airliner
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Greg Hyslop. Credit: Leeham News. July 4, 2022, © Leeham News: When Boeing launches its next new commercial airplane program, whatever the design, advanced development, and production are intended to be a key… Read More
Pontifications: death knell for the E175-E2 as Delta ALPA nixes Scope change
July 4, 2022, © Leeham News: Any hope that the Delta Air Lines ALPA pilots union will agree to a slightly relaxed Scope Clause in its next contract are just wishful thinking. Few thought DALPA, as the chapter… Read More