Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of airliner development. Part 25. Safety monitoring and reporting October 15, 2021
- With high cargo prices, will airlines fly larger aircraft in their widebody fleets? October 14, 2021
- The Regional Aircraft Fleet October 11, 2021
- Pontifications: Biofuels, hydrogen, batteries are nice but far in the future. Solution exists now. October 11, 2021
- Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of airliner development. Part 24. Parallel Activities October 8, 2021
777X demand grows ever less certain
Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Introduction Sep. 6, 2021, © Leeham News: As Boeing slogs through an increasingly deep obstacle path to getting its beleaguered 777X into service, questions are growing around the airplane’s true demand… Read More
An Update on Airbus, Boeing Orders at Risk
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Aug. 16, 2021, © Leeham News: As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and delays in the re-certification of the 737 MAX, Boeing lost a large number of 737 MAX orders in… 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
Podcast: 10 Minutes About the A350F and the Impact on Boeing
Aug. 3, 2021, © Leeham News: Airbus last week launched the A350 freighter program. This is the first real challenge to Boeing’s decades-long dominance in the freighter market that poses a real threat. LNA wrote on April 6… Read More
Boeing cites US-China relations as business watch item in 1Q earnings
April 28, 2021, © Leeham News: Boeing’s first quarter financial results were slightly worse than estimates by Wall Street analysis. “Boeing reported first-quarter revenue of $15.2bn, primarily driven by lower 787 deliveries and commercial services volume, partially offset… 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
Boeing’s freighter dominance threatened
Subscription Required Now open to all Readers. By Scott Hamilton April 6, 2021, © Leeham News: As if Boeing didn’t have enough challenges these days, its near-exclusive dominance for new-build freighter may be threatened. Airbus is showing airlines… 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 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