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Leeham News and Analysis
- Embraer versus Boeing JV arbitration decision results in $150m cash payment September 16, 2024
- Why the IAM 751 rejected the Boeing contract and what is needed for approval September 16, 2024
- Boeing CFO: we want to negotiate; taking steps to preserve cash September 13, 2024
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 23. New versus old, GTF versus V2500 September 13, 2024
- IAM files Unfair Labor Practice against Boeing in thumping rejection of contract September 13, 2024
Pontifications: Do you really want the Jetsons zipping around?
Jan. 24, 2023, © Leeham News: “For those of you old enough to remember, this is the Jetsons. This is the dream. This is what everybody would love to do.” This cartoon is what former Boeing CEO Phil… Read More
A deep dive into the single-aisle market
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Jan. 23, 2023, © Leeham News: Boeing’s share of outstanding single-aisle orders has fallen significantly behind Airbus. If we include the order book for single-aisle aircraft seating 100 or more passengers of… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 54. Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production
January 20, 2023, ©. Leeham News: Having introduced Sustainable Aviation Fuel, SAF, as essential for reducing Green House Gases (GHG) until 2050, we now look at how SAF is produced, what pathways from feedstock to SAF are the… Read More
HOTR: Boeing ponders 777-300ER P2F program, again
By the Leeham News team Jan. 19, 2023, © Leeham News: Already well behind the 8 ball in delivering 787s, Boeing quietly advised some customers recently that they may see yet another delay—this one up to 15 months…. Read More
The Airbus A220-500, a deep-dive analysis
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Jan. 20, 2023, © Leeham News: It’s a question “of when, not if” there will be an A220-500, we conclude in Tuesday’s article. We have known about the -500 since the Bombardier days…. Read More
Airbus CCO: “When,” not “if” A220-500 comes; a deep-dive analysis
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Jan. 18, 2023, © Leeham News: Airbus chief commercial officer Christian Scherer has been open: it is a matter of “when,” not “if” Airbus proceeds with a stretched A220-500. A220-500. Credit: Leeham News…. Read More
Pontifications: “What can be. What should be.”
Jan. 17, 2023, © Leeham News: “What can be. What should be.” This was the title of an address last week at the University of Washington’s aerospace department. The speaker: the former CEO of The Boeing Co., Phil… Read More
2023 outlook for Sustainable Aviation
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Jan. 16, 2023, © Leeham News: In the years from 2015, Sustainable Aviation awareness has grown from “something interesting, but will it be needed?” to “how do we fix the environmental issues we… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 53. Sustainable Aviation Fuel
January 13, 2023, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we could see in an example how effective Sustainable Aviation Fuel, SAF, blended into our regular Jet fuel, would be in reducing CO2 emissions until 2050. It’s the only technology… Read More
Outlook 2023 for China’s COMAC and Russia’s UAC
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Jan. 12, 2023, © Leeham News: China’s civil airliner OEM, COMAC, made significant progress during 2022. It achieved Chinese certification for its C919 158-seat domestic airliner in September last year, with the first… Read More