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At long last, Boeing appears near certification and EIS for 777X
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton July 14, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing is still months away from receiving certification of its newest, largest jet—the 777-9—and the company didn’t bring one of the test airplanes to the Paris Air… Read More
A350-1000 or 777-8? Part 2
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm May 16, 2024, © Leeham News: We are doing an article series comparing the capabilities of the Airbus A350-1000 and the Boeing 777X. We have looked at the A350-1000 versus the 777-9 and… Read More
Airbus’ A350-1000 or Boeing’s 777-8? Part 1
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm May 9, 2024, © Leeham News: We are doing an article series comparing the capabilities of the Airbus A350-1000 and the Boeing 777X series. We started with the 777-9, the larger model. Now,… Read More
Pontifications: Skyline backlog suggests higher production rate than Boeing targets for 777X
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton By Scott Hamilton April 17, 2023, © Leeham News: Boeing’s skyline for the 777X, reported by Cirium, suggests there will be a need to boost production higher than the company’s target of 4/mo… Read More
HOTR: Could airport caps lead to 777X success?
Sept. 6, 2022, © Leeham News: Will Europe’s airport passenger caps ultimately save the Boeing 777X? Sometimes it’s more important to be lucky than it is to be good. It may be purely speculative, but Boeing may well… Read More
Emirates president says Boeing made life difficult
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Introduction Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airline. Credit: ET Travel World News. Jan. 27, 2022, © Leeham News: Despite vociferously criticizing Boeing over delays, technical difficulties and uncertainties over certification, delivery dates and… Read More
The Airbus A350F versus Boeing’s 777-XF.
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction August 5, 2021, © Leeham News: Two weeks ago we compared the launched Airbus A350 freighter with Boeing’s in-service 777F. We found the 777F is a freighter with a very high payload… Read More
The A350, Part 11: Can a standard A350-1000 fly the project Sunrise route?
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction March 25, 2021, © Leeham News: When Qantas announced the Airbus A350-1000 as the winner for project Sunrise over Boeing’s 777-8 December 2019, we did articles about the choice. We found that… Read More
The A350, Part 10 Project Sunrise Intro
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Mar. 18, 2021, © Leeham News: After assessing the performance of the A350-1000 against the 777-300ER on a trans-Pacific route, we turn our attention to a dedicated A350 variant developed for Qantas’… 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