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Does an A220-500 need a new wing and engines? Part 4.
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm July 3, 2025, © Leeham News: We are writing an article series about stretching the A220 to a capacity in the A320neo range. The idea is to replace the A320neo over time, making… Read More
Airbus Canada CEO: Airbus is here to stay in Canada
Subscription Required By Karl Sinclair June 14, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus Canada President and CEO Benoit Schultz is quietly confident that the A220 program has turned the corner and put the worst of its recent problems in… Read More
Does an A220-500 need a new wing and engines? Part 3.
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm May 29, 2025, © Leeham News: We are writing an article series about stretching the A220 to a capacity in the A320neo range. The idea is to replace the A320neo over time to… Read More
Does an A220-500 need a new wing and engines? Part 2.
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm May 5, 2025, © Leeham News: We started the articles series about stretching the A220 to a capacity in the A320neo range last week by going through the development of the A220-100 and… Read More
Airbus looks to larger A220, insists not a threat to A320
Subscription Required By Leeham News Team Nov 4, 2024, © Leeham News: Airbus sees potential for an up-gauged A220 aircraft, but that would not pose a threat to the future viability of the A320 family, the company’s SVP… Read More
Pontifications: A330neo, still struggling, nears 300 sales
June 27, 2023, © Leeham News: Airbus inked a memorandum of understanding with lessor Avolon for 20 A330-900s at last week’s Paris Air Show. When converted to a firm contract, this will bring the -900 order book to… Read More
Pontifications: Only time will tell
June 20, 2023, © Leeham News: Here at the Paris Air Show in what is the first normalized show after the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic, the sense of excitement is almost tangible. There are predictions by some that when… Read More
The Airbus A220-500, a deep-dive analysis, Part 2
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Jan. 23, 2023, © Leeham News: Following Thursday’s article about an up-and-coming Airbus A220-500, we now look at the operational cost for the A220-500 and compare it with the A320neo it should replace…. Read More