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Deferrals grow as airlines fight to keep bottom line

Subscription Required Introduction Jan. 09, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Airlines have deferred or are thinking about deferring more than 400 airplanes in the near term, a review of decisions and deliberations  that have been made during the last… Read More

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 Posted on January 9, 2017 by

 Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, Delta Air Lines, Leeham News and Comment, Pratt & Whitney, Premium, Qatar Airways, Rolls-Royce

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Pontifications: Boeing’s book:bill shortfall draws market ho-hum

Jan. 9, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Boeing’s falling a little short of a 1:1 book:bill last year was expected and drew a ho-hum from the market. The stock was up fractionally for the rest of the day after… Read More

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 Airbus, Boeing, Pontifications

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Market, other factors emerging, creating Boeing 787 concern

Subscription Required Introduction Jan. 4, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Despite a rosy picture painted by Boeing about the future of the 787 and the ability to recover more than $29bn in deferred production Boeing photo. and tooling costs,… Read More

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 Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Etihad Airways, ExIm Bank, Leasing, Leeham News and Comment, Lessors, Premium

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Pontifications: Leeham News’ approach to the news

Leeham News and Comment will be on holiday Dec. 24, 2016, through Jan. 2, 2017, barring major breaking news. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Dec. 19, 2016, © Leeham Co. Two thousand sixteen is almost over. This… Read More

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 Posted on December 19, 2016 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Pontifications

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Top 10 Leeham News stories of 2016

 Dec. 15, 2016, © Leeham Co.: The story about a Boeing official who asserted that the Airbus widebody strategy is a “mess” proved to be LNC’s most read story of 2016. Our second most-read story is why the… Read More

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 Posted on December 15, 2016 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Leeham News and Comment, MOM

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Comparing A350s, 787s and A380s

Editor’s note: We don’t typically do “trip reports;” this isn’t the scope of LNC. But occasionally one crosses our desk that we find of interest. One of our readers, William Bain, provided the following to us and we thought… Read More

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 Posted on December 9, 2016 by

 Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Qatar Airways

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Norwegian, others have vision; US airlines don’t

Subscription Required Introduction Dec. 5, 2016, © Leeham Co. Last weeks’ approval by the US Department of Transportation of a license for Norwegian Air Shuttle to operate long-haul, low-cost service to and from the US drew immediate fire… Read More

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 Posted on December 5, 2016 by

 Airbus, Airlines, American Airlines, Boeing, Delta Air Lines, Emirates Airlines, Leeham News and Comment, Premium, United Airlines

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Pontifications: Making sense of WTO Boeing subsidy case

Dec. 5, 2016, © Leeham Co.: Far be it from me to say, I told you so. But I did. When Washington State extended the Boeing 787 tax breaks in November 2013 to the 777X through 2040, I… Read More

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 Posted on December 5, 2016 by

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For Airbus and Boeing, it’s about Alabama, Alabama, Alabama

Nov. 29, 2016, (c) Leeham Co.: When it comes to the prospect of imposing trade sanctions or retaliatory tariffs on Airbus for airplanes ordered by US customers, the European manufacturer has some advantages over Boeing few people apparently have… Read More

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 Posted on November 29, 2016 by

 Airbus, Boeing

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Pontifications: Leahy’s retirement from Airbus

Nov. 14, 2016, © Leeham Co.: News emerged last week that Airbus super-salesman John Leahy has a new deputy, Kiran Rao. A new title for Rao wasn’t revealed in the Bloomberg story. He currently is EVP-Strategy and Marketing,… Read More

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 Posted on November 14, 2016 by

 Airbus, Boeing

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