Leeham News and Analysis
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Airbus sees Boeing as medium-term competitor, with Comac next
By Scott Hamilton June 14, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus and Boeing forecast a significant production gap during the next 20 years of more than 2,000 aircraft per year in their current outlooks released in conjunction with the… Read More
Boeing bullish on 20-year forecast, despite short-term headwinds
By Karl Sinclair June 14, 2025, © Leeham News: The Boeing Company (BA) remains upbeat on its annual 20-year commercial aircraft projections, as the aviation industry comes to terms with the economic uncertainty of the current political climate…. Read More
Embraer’s 20-year market forecast under 150 seats: fewer turboprops, jets about the same
By Scott Hamilton June 14, 2025, © Leeham News: Embraer’s 20-year market forecast for airliners with 150 seats or less shows a decline in anticipated turboprops and a jet outlook (100-150 jets) about the same as last year’s… Read More
Airbus Canada CEO: Airbus is here to stay in Canada
Subscription Required By Karl Sinclair June 14, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus Canada President and CEO Benoit Schultz is quietly confident that the A220 program has turned the corner and put the worst of its recent problems in… Read More
Little known, most unknown in Air India 171 crash
By Scott Hamilton June 13, 2025, © Leeham News: One day after the crash of Air India flight 171, very little is known about what happened. Almost everything remains unknown. What we know This is the first fatal… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 26.
June 13, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a Corner series about the state of developments to improve the emission situation for Air Transport. We try to understand why development has been slow. We have examined different ways… Read More
Airbus forecasts that almost three times more aircraft needs to be produced by year 2044
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Thursday, 12, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus has released its forecast for new airliners needed between 2024 and 2044. The forecast says there is a need for 43,420 new aircraft over the next… Read More
Paris Air Show preview: Don’t look for big news
By Scott Hamilton June 11, 2025, © Leeham News: Don’t look for big news at the Paris Air Show, which begins on Monday and runs through Thursday. There won’t be any program launches. Orders from ATR, Airbus, Boeing… Read More
P&W: the troubled GTF will be the best engine for the next single-aisle airplane
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton June 11, 2025, © Leeham News: Three manufacturers are designing engines that could be used on the replacement aircraft for the Airbus A320neo and Boeng 737 MAX families. Rick Deurloo, president of Pratt… Read More
Boeing’s 737 North Line and the Everett factory: in transition now
Open to all Readers By Scott Hamilton June 9, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing announced the addition of a fourth 737 production line in 2023 as the last 747 rolled out of the Everett (WA) widebody factory where… Read More