The Exception to the Green Propulsion Rule

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm November 30, 2023, © Leeham News: The interest in Green alternative propulsion for airliners started in earnest at Farnborough Air Show 2014, where Airbus flew the E-Fan battery-electric aircraft. What followed was a… Read More

eVTOL operator profitability: an elusive dream?

Subscription Required By Judson Rollins Sept. 25, 2023, © Leeham News: As the hype grows around electric-powered short-haul air mobility, questions linger around the industry’s ability to be profitable without government subsidy. LNA’s Bjorn Fehrm has written extensively… Read More

The reality behind the eVTOL industry’s hyperbole, Part 3.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm July 27, 2023, © Leeham News: We look at the promises that the VTOL industry has made in their Investor prospects and what the reality is as they come closer to Certification and… Read More

The Small Airliner Problem, Part 9. Maintenance costs for battery airliners with range extenders

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm June 29, 2023, © Leeham News: In our series on fundamental costs factors that make up Cash Operating Cost, COC (Fuel, Maintenance, Airway/Airport fees, Crew costs) for new Green airliners, we have analyzed… Read More

Paris Day Four: Air show winds down as Spirit strike looms over industry

By Bryan Corliss June 22, 2023, © Leeham News – The business portion of the Paris Air Show wound down today, with no new orders and news of a looming strike in Kansas that will soon grind Boeing… Read More

The Small Airliner problem, Part 2

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm April 27, 2023, © Leeham News: We started a series about the viability of the business plans for small airliners (nine to 50 seats) last week in the light of a continuing decline… Read More

The Small Airliner Problem

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm April 20, 2023, © Leeham News: New Sustainable aircraft projects, for economical reasons, target small airliner types as first projects and then, after proving the concept, to move up in size. The number… Read More

Universal Hydrogen’s first flight nears

Universal Hydrogen nears first flight of containerized fueling concept. Eviation’s Alice all-electric airplane offers another option for clean skies. Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Feb. 27, 2023, © Leeham News: Universal Hydrogen (UH2) is just days away from… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 58. Summary Part 2.

February 17, 2023, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we summarized that SAF is the short-term solution for GreenHouse Gas (GHG) reduction for Air Transport, and hydrogen is the longer-term solution for up to medium-haul flights. What about battery… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 57. Summary

February 10, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We started the present series around Sustainable Air Transport on the 7th of January 2022, more than a year ago. During this time, we have covered a lot of subjects regarding the… Read More