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Leeham News and Analysis
- Last Boeing 747 leaves Everett factory tonight December 6, 2022
- HOTR: United likely can cancel A350 order with little penalty December 5, 2022
- Regulators need to understand realities, complexities of achieving ecoAviation goals December 5, 2022
- Pontifications: A lost decade for new airplanes December 5, 2022
- Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 48. eVTOL traffic management December 2, 2022
Is the Bedek 777-300ERSF freighter a threat to the 777F?
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction September 9, 2021, © Leeham News: In our series on freighters, we now look at the new large conversion freighter from GECAS and IAI Bedek, the 777-300ERSF. How much of a threat… Read More
How good is an Airbus A350 freighter?
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction July 15, 2021, © Leeham News: Airbus is working on a freighter of the A350 to compete with Boeing’s larger freighters, such as the 777F. The 777F is quite a different aircraft… Read More
Etihad’s fleet simplification
By the Leeham News Team Apr. 27, 2021, © Leeham News: Etihad Airways’ CEO Tony Douglas announced that the carrier would be grounding its A380 fleet indefinitely and retire its 19 777-300ERs by the end of 2021. The… Read More
The A350, Part 9: The A350-1000 versus 777-300ER
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction March 11, 2021, © Leeham News: Last week, we started analyzing the Airbus A350-1000 and compared it with the Boeing 777-300ER. We now fly the airplanes on a demanding route, close to… Read More
The A350, Part 8 A350-1000 Intro
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Mar. 4, 2021, © Leeham News: After assessing the performance of the A350-900 and its ULR variant, we now turn our attention to the largest A350 variant, the -1000. It entered service… Read More
Pontifications: Unraveling the numbers
Feb. 1, 2021, © Leeham News: Understanding the real market demand for an airplane sector is a complicated thing. What Airbus and Boeing say the market is for an airplane sometimes is a matter of what they don’t… Read More
Enhancing the Dreamliner, Part 5: 787-10
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Nov. 5, 2020, © Leeham News: After analyzing the 787-9, we now turn our attention to the last Dreamliner variant that entered into service, the -10. The 787-10 was developed as a… Read More
Enhancing the Dreamliner, Part 3: 787-9
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Oct. 22, 2020, © Leeham News: After analyzing the 787-8, we now turn our attention to the following Dreamliner variant that entered into service, the -9. Summary Lessons learned from 787-8 mishaps;… Read More
Sunset of the Quads, Part 7, The A380
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction All Nippon Airways’ Flying Honu A380 livery Sep. 17th, 2020, © Leeham News: Last week, we compared the economics of the A340-600 and the 777-300ER on the Los Angeles to Shanghai route…. Read More