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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 5. January 17, 2025
- What’s the future of the Boeing 787-8? January 16, 2025
- FAA understaffing affects air operations oversight; NTSB falls short, too January 13, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 4. January 10, 2025
- The market is ready for a 787F. But is Boeing? January 9, 2025
“If something requires us to cease production, we will do that:” FAA
By the Leeham News Team March 13, 2024, © Leeham News: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering whether to suspend the Production Certificate of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) if it’s not satisfied changes to its safety culture… Read More
Pontifications: “Boards are invested in their C.E.O.s until they’re not.”
March 12, 2024, © Leeham News: Loss of confidence in Boeing’s leadership from its customers is growing, according to industry sources. It’s not just with the leadership at Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), where CEO Stan Deal is under… Read More
Bjorn’ s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 49. Engine Maintenance
March 8, 2024, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different phases of a new airliner program. After covering the Design and Production, we now look at the Operational phase of a new airliner family. For the operational… Read More
GKN Aerospace eyes further growth as earnings surge
By Tom Batchelor Mar. 7, 2024, © Leeham News: Strengthening demand for airframe structures and engine components helped British supplier GKN Aerospace, a subsidiary of Melrose PLC, achieve higher profits and record margins in 2023. The company, whose… Read More
When does a larger airliner pay off
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm March 7, 2024, © Leeham News: Over the last decades, the choice of domestic market airliners has gone from the typical 120-seater to today 200 seats or more. We will look into what… Read More
Pontifications: Boeing violated previous FAA ODA, SMS demands—Been there, done that
March 5, 2024, © Leeham News: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last week gave The Boeing Co. 90 days to come up with a real program that has measurable results to fix safety and quality shortcomings. The move… Read More
Machinists want new Boeing contract ensuring work for decades to come
Subscription required By Dan Catchpole Updated 2:35 p.m., March 4, 2024 The IAM 741 began promoting a strike fund for 2024 Boeing contract negotiations in 2019. Source: IAM 751. March 1, 2024 © Leeham News: When representatives from Boeing… Read More
Bjorn’ s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 48. Maintenance Program for the A320/A321
March 1, 2024, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the Operational phase of a new airliner family. For the operational phase, the airplane must pass scrutiny for Continued Airworthiness. The biggest item in a regulator’s Instructions for Continued… Read More
