Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- Hopes for 1Q financial progress turns into bumpy ride for Boeing April 21, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 18. April 18, 2025
- Natilus: Composite BWB, entry-into-service by 2029, 570 on order April 17, 2025
- China bans Boeing, US parts imports in tariff war April 15, 2025
- Boeing welcomes COMAC competition as Asia-Pacific demand soars April 15, 2025
Aviation Week has new twist on American Airlines Airbus-Boeing deal
Aviation Week has a story on the Airbus-Boeing deal–and says it isn’t really a firm order, likening it to the Boeing 787 of a few years ago.
Explore the Boeing 737
Boeing has a pretty cool photo exploration of the 737 at its New Airplane website here. We found it slow on Firefox but smooth on Chrome.
737 program chief talked about Renton production site
With the rhubarb that emerged from the Boeing 2Q earnings call over where the 737RE production will be, and the contradictory messages to come from Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) in Seattle and Boeing Corporate in Chicago, we thought… Read More
Boeing throws Seattle a curve, doesn’t assume 737RE will be built there
Update, July 28, 6:45am PDT: Gates has expanded his original story with more about the developments through yesterday, plus IAM comments. Update, 6:00pm PDT: Dominic Gates just sent this message concerning the Boeing statement below: I just spoke… Read More
Analysts view the Re-Engine competition
We were traveling last week and are only now getting around to going through the analyst reports we receive, commenting on the American Airlines order. We put together a long synopsis after the jump. Meanwhile, there are a… Read More
American press conference on huge order
Running comments from the American Airlines press conference: Tom Horton Today is a transformational day for American. American’s order presentation, 19 page PDF: AMR Aircraft With this plan we are jumping to the front of the line and… Read More
Countdown to 737RE or NSA: Odds now favor Re-engine
It’s been a slow but steady shift in Boeing’s thinking that became evident during the pre-Paris Air Show briefings: Boeing is warming to the idea of re-engining the 737. According to sources with direct knowledge of the situation,… Read More
Market sees 737 sales lagging, but matches 2010–so far
Here is a story we did for Commercial Aviation Online. Date: 12/07/2011 11:40 Source: Commercial Aviation Online Location: Seattle By: Scott Hamilton Boeing took a drubbing in the headlines from the Paris Air Show as Airbus racked up… Read More