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- Safran hails ‘outstanding’ 2025; prepares for Airbus ramp-up
- Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 27. Where Speed-Up gets Tough.
- Spain becomes fourth country to join Aero Excellence initiative to improve supply chain
- BWB hopefuls: JetZero aims for MOM sector; Natilus raises $28m for heart of the market
- Recovery of the 737 program is unglamorous and arduous: Boeing exec
Bjorn’s Corner: hot summer, hot engines
17 July 2015, ©. Leeham Co: It is summer in south of Europe and we have had over 30°C/86°F for weeks. It makes one realize the conditions where the engines have to work over their flat rating point in… Read More
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Posted on July 17, 2015 by Bjorn Fehrm
Boeing’s McNerney on 787 costs, obsoleting airplanes
July 8, 2015: Bloomberg News interviewed Jim McNerney, then-CEO of The Boeing Co., June 15 at the Paris Air Show. (McNerney relinquished his CEO title a week later to Dennis Muilenburg.) Although McNerney got it wrong on the… Read More
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Posted on July 8, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Pontifications: Passenger experience and the WOW factor
June 29, 2015, © Leeham Co. Back on June 1, I wrote in this column I had yet to experience traveling on the Airbus A380, which entered service in 2007. The A380 doesn’t serve Seattle, where I live, and… Read More
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Posted on June 29, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airlines, American Airlines, Boeing, Delta Air Lines, Paris Air Show, Pontifications, Qatar Airways, United Airlines
737, 747-8, A319, A320, A350, A380, Air France, Airbus, Akbar Al-Baker, American Airlines, BE Aerospace, Boeing, Boeing Sky Interior, Delta Air Lines, Lufthansa Airlines, Paris Air Show, Qatar Airways, Recaro, United Airlines
Airbus on orders this year: You ain’t seen nothing yet
June 15, 2015, Paris Air Show, c. Leeham Co. Boeing predicts 1:1 book:bill (orders to deliveries) this year. For Airbus, you ain’t seen nothing yet. And it’s not even super-salesman, super-optimist John Leahy doing the talking. Kiran Rao,… Read More
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Posted on June 15, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Paris Air Show
737-9, 737-900ER, 757, 757 replacement, 777X, 787, A320, A321LR, A350, Air Lease Corp., Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Fabrice Bregier, John Leahy, John Wojick, Kiran Rao, Middle of the Market, Middle of the Market aircraft, MOM, Paris Air Show, Randy Tinseth, Steven Udvar-Hazy
Airbus COO faces production challenge vs bulging order book
Subscription required. Now open to all Readers. Introduction June 15, 2015, Paris Air Show, c. Leeham Co. Airbus, like Boeing, is faced with an embarrassment of riches: too many orders for the A320 and A350 production rates that… Read More
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Posted on June 15, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, Comac, Embraer, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Paris Air Show, Sukhoi
777X, 787, A320, A320NEO, A350, A380, Airbus, Boeing, John Leahy, Tom Enders, Tom Williams
Bombardier ‘transformation initiative’ goes after costs across the enterprise, supply chain
June 8, 2015, c. Leeham Co. Bombardier suppliers, already squeezed by Airbus and Boeing to cut costs and prices, will soon face a new effort from Bombardier to do the same. The new chief executive officer, Alain Bellemare, last… Read More
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Posted on June 8, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Pratt & Whitney
737, 777, A319, A320, Airbus, Alain Bellemare, Boeing, Bombardier, CS100, CS300, CS500, CSeries, E-190, Embraer, Global 7000, Global 8000, Henri Coupron, IATA, International Air Transport Assn., John Leahy, Lear 85, Pratt & Whitney, United Technologies
Airbus A350 cockpit compared to A320/A330.
By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction June 1, 2015, c. Leeham Co. In preparing for my A350 flight I learned how to interact with the aircraft’s systems in Airbus A320/A330 simulators. These two are very similar and represent the first… Read More
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Posted on June 1, 2015 by Bjorn Fehrm
Paris Air Show: Qatar and others
Subscription required. Introduction June 1, 2015, c. Leeham Co. It could be called the Qatar Airways Air Show. Qatar Airways plans to have five airliners on display at the Paris Air Show in two weeks: the Airbus A319,… Read More
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Posted on June 1, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, ATR, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, Comac, Embraer, Emirates Airlines, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Paris Air Show, Pratt & Whitney, Premium, Qatar Airways, Rolls-Royce, Sukhoi
787, A319, A320, A350, A380, Airbus, ATR, Boeing, CFM, Comac, Emirates Airlines, Engine Alliance, GE Engines, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Paris Air Show, Pratt & Whitney, Qatar Airways, Rolls-Royce, Suhkoi, Tim Clark
Bjorn’s Corner: Airbus Innovation days, activities and program updates.
Introduction 28 May 2015, C. Leeham Co: I am in Toulouse today attending Airbus Innovation days for Leeham News. It has been a good day’s briefings and I have presented what was perhaps the biggest change since we… Read More
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Posted on May 28, 2015 by Bjorn Fehrm
Embraer ramps up smaller airplane messaging
May 28, 2015, c. Leeham Co. Embraer is ramping up is messaging that the E-Jet family provides a better Return on Capital Employed in many circumstance than the larger Airbus and Boeing single-aisle family. In a new push… Read More
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Posted on May 28, 2015 by Scott Hamilton