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Paris Air Show Preview: Airbus

Subscription Required. Introduction May 3, 2015, c. Leeham Co. The Paris Air Show is June 15-19 for the trade/industrial portion. Beginning this week, Leeham News and Comment will provide our Market Assessment and insight about what to expect…. Read More

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 Posted on May 3, 2015 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Emirates Airlines, Engine Alliance, Farnborough Air Show, GE Aviation, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Paris Air Show, Pratt & Whitney, Premium, Rolls-Royce

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Bjorn’s Corner: Airbus’ and Boeing’s first quarter

30 April 2015, C. Leeham Co: Airbus Group presented their first quarter results today Thursday, a week after Boeing presented theirs. It is a good occasion to look at how these companies performed. We will focus on commercial… Read More

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 Posted on April 30, 2015 by

 Airbus, Bjorn's Corner, Boeing, Bombardier, Embrarer

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2030 decade airplanes need new shapes for better efficiency

Subscription Required. Now open to all readers. Introduction April 6, 2015, c. Leeham Co. The next 15 years may well be the last new airplane programs of major airliners that look like today’s tube-and-wing aircraft because demands for… Read More

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 Posted on April 6, 2015 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney

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Airliner retirement age in the wake of low fuel prices

By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction March 31, 2015: We have received an update for Avolon’s “Aircraft retirement and storage trends” whitepaper from September 2012. In the age of changing fuel prices it makes for interesting reading as the author, Avolon’s Head… Read More

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 Posted on March 31, 2015 by

 Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, Douglas Aircraft Co, Embrarer, Leasing

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Bombardier CS300 analysis vs A319neo, 737-7

By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription required Introduction March 29, 2015, c. Leeham Co: Bombardier’s big bet in the aeronautics sector, CSeries, is well into flight testing, now more than half way toward the 2,400 hours required by Transport Canada… Read More

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 Posted on March 29, 2015 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, China, Comac, CSeries, Embrarer, GE Aviation, International Aero Engines, Pratt & Whitney, Premium, Sukhoi, United Aircraft, YAK

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Production rates on single-aisles keep going up, up

Figure 1. Airbus and Boeing production rates for the A320 and 737 lines are going up as announced rates and rates under consideration go to lofty levels. Click on image to enlarge. Subscription Required Introduction March 3, 2015:… Read More

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 Posted on March 3, 2015 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, CSeries, Embraer, Irkut, Premium

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Boeing 757 MAX: why its operating economics does not work

By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction Feb 12, 2015: In a series of articles during the autumn we covered the replacement scenarios for Boeing’s 757-200 when used for long haul passenger operations. The series also included an interview with Boeing’s… Read More

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 Posted on February 12, 2015 by

 Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Delta Air Lines, GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce

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Airbus/Boeing production rates forecast through 2020

Subscription Required. Introduction Feb. 3, 2015: Boeing out-delivered Airbus in 2014, for the second year in a row, as the 787 program improved in delivery rates and before the A350 made its first delivery in December. Topping Airbus… Read More

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 Posted on February 3, 2015 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, CSeries, Irkut

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Fundamentals of airliner performance, Part 6; The engine

By Bjorn Fehrm 19 Jan 2015: There is a lot written about the fundamentals of how aircraft fly. It is something that fascinates people and it generates a high level of understanding of these fundamentals. The same is… Read More

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 Posted on January 19, 2015 by

 Boeing, CFM, GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney

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Airbus formally launches A321LR; we look behind the “LR” to see what’s there

15 Jan 2015: Airbus officially launched what to date has been called A321neoLR as the A321LR at their annual press conference Tuesday. The former A321neoLR name was formed by Leeham News on 21 Ocober 2014 when we could reveal… Read More

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 Posted on January 15, 2015 by

 Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Uncategorized

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