It’s one of the bitterest rivalries in the industrialized world: Airbus vs Boeing. Despite being world-class companies, executives at each often snipe at each other’s airplanes, claiming superiority in economics and passenger appeal. Like lawyers arguing a court… Read More
Fundamentals of airliner performance, Part 3
By Bjorn Fehrm In our first article about how to understand the performance of a modern airliner we defined the main forces that are acting on an aircraft flying in steady state cruise. In our clinic we use the… Read More
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Posted on November 19, 2014 by Bjorn Fehrm
Boeing, CFM, Leeham News and Comment, Uncategorized
737 MAX, Boeing, CFM, CFM Leap-1B
A320 v 737: the sales winner is….
It’s one of the bitterest rivalries in the industrialized world: Airbus vs Boeing. Despite being world-class companies, executives at each often snipe at each other’s airplanes, claiming superiority in economics and passenger appeal. Like lawyers arguing a court… Read More
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Posted on November 17, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer
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Boeing fails to assure on 777 production gap
Subscription required Introduction Boeing’s ability—or inability—to bridge the production gap for the 777 Classic to the 777X entry-into-service in 2020 was a top concern of a series of Wall Street types during a recent series of meetings we… Read More
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Posted on November 16, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
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737 MAX, 777 Classic, 777-200ER, 777-300ER, 787-10, A350-1000, Boeing, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, Emirates Airlines, KC-46A, Qatar Airways, Tim Clark
Fundamentals of airliner performance, Part 2.
By Bjorn Fehrm In our first article on how to understand the fundamentals that make up airliner performance we defined the main forces acting on an aircraft flying in steady state cruise. We used the ubiquitous Boeing 737 in… Read More
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Posted on November 13, 2014 by Bjorn Fehrm
Boeing, CFM, GE Aviation, Uncategorized
737, 737 MAX, 737NG, 777X, Boeing, CFM
Asian airline market: overheated, balanced or just some spot troubles?
The Zhuhai Air Show, underway this week, comes against the backdrop of rising concerns–and large orders announced in recent weeks–of an over-ordered Asian market. We’ve expressed concern about the large number of orders at Lion Air and AirAsia… Read More
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Posted on November 11, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
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Zhuhai Airshow: China’s aircraft industry is gaining speed
The 10th Chinese airshow at Zhuhai opened today. It was a day with fewer announcements than expected from the usual suspects (Airbus, Boeing…) but the Chinese industry did not disappoint. China is now showing more and more of… Read More
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Posted on November 11, 2014 by Bjorn Fehrm
Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, CFM, China, Comac, GE Aviation
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Boeing 737 MAX 8 as a long and thin aircraft and how it fares in general versus Airbus A320neo.
Subscription required. By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction Over the last weeks we have looked at Boeing’s 757 replacement possibilities on its long and thin network niche, including a ground breaking launch interview for the A321neoLR with Airbus Head of… Read More
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Posted on November 9, 2014 by Bjorn Fehrm
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MD-11’s final pax flights contains lessons for McBoeing as NSA targets 2030
Boeing’s CEO, Jim McNerney outlines his vision for the next New Small Airplane in this report from Reuters. We believe this will cement Airbus’ dominance in the single-aisle market for the next 15 years. A retrospective of the… Read More
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Posted on November 5, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing
737 MAX, 737-7, 737-8, 737-9, 747-8, 787, A320NEO, A321neoLR, Airbus, Boeing, Dennis Muilenburg, Jim McNerney
Fundamentals of airliner performance, Part 1
By Bjorn Fehrm As part of our premium content we provide a briefer form of our airliner performance analysis than we provide to our consulting clients. As we present this material, we presume a lot of knowledge on… Read More
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Posted on November 4, 2014 by Bjorn Fehrm
Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Leeham Co., Leeham News and Comment
737, 737 MAX, 777X, A320, A320NEO, Airbus, Boeing
Boeing considers single, twin aisle, co-development 757/767 style for next new airplane
Subscription required. Now open to all Readers. Introduction Boeing is looking at a number of scenarios for its New Airplane Study (NAS) that would replace the 757 and 737, have ranges from 4,000nm-5,000nm, and carry as few passengers… Read More
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Posted on November 2, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
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