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Leeham News and Analysis
- Emirates president says Boeing made life difficult January 27, 2022
- Carbon footprint: Regional jet versus turboprop, how large is the difference? January 27, 2022
- Boeing has cash flow positive 4th quarter, 1st since 2019; takes charge on 787 program January 26, 2022
- “Don’t delude the public” on environmental advances in aviation January 26, 2022
- Airbus brings BelugaST to outsized cargo market January 25, 2022
Single aisle or Widebody over the Atlantic on thin routes? Part 2
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction November 4, 2021, © Leeham News: Last week, we compared the economics of an Airbus A321LR and A330-200 on a thin route over the Atlantic. We found the Widebody could compensate for… Read More
Single-aisle or Widebody over the Atlantic on thin routes?
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction October 28, 2021, © Leeham News: The headline seems like a no-brainer. On long thin routes over the Atlantic, we have learned a Boeing 757, or its replacement, the Airbus A321LR, is… Read More
The P2F freighters, 767-300ER versus A330-200 or -300?
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction August 12, 2021, © Leeham News: In our series about freighters, we now look at Cargo companies operating early Boeing 767-200 freighters that look at a replacement for these. Shall it be… Read More
Restoring capacity with the A330ceo or A330neo, Part 2
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction June 25, 2020, © Leeham News: Last week, we started looking at the Airbus A330-200 market and whether to hold on to one’s A330-200 or restoring capacity after the COVID-19 shut-down with… Read More
A380 suffers new blow, future remains bleak
Subscription Required Air France is returning five of 10 A380s to lessors. Photo via Google images. Dec. 3, 2018, © Leeham News: Air France will return five leased Airbus A380s to lessors next year and in 2020, citing… Read More
Pontifications: Pilots train for instrumentation mismatches
Nov. 5, 2018, © Leeham News: It was a week ago that Lion Air JT 610 crashed into the sea, just 13 minutes after takeoff. The crash was the first involving the Boeing 737 MAX (in this case,… Read More
Pontifications: Amazon’s quiet plans to grow its airline
Oct. 8, 2018, © Leeham News: Amazon, the giant on-line retailer, continues to move quietly to expand its Amazon Air cargo carrier, with plans to grow the airline to a size that could rival FedEx, market sources tell… Read More
Pontifications: Shooting yourself in your feet
April 16, 2018, © Leeham News: Airbus’ new top sales chief, Eric Schulz, was candid about losing American and Hawaiian airlines wide-body orders, according to a report from Flightglobal from the Airbus annual meeting. In reference to Hawaiian’s switch… Read More
American A330neo loss casts shadow over sales prospects
Subscription Required Introduction April 9, 2018, © Leeham News: Even as Airbus touted the new 251t A330-800 and optimism that aging A330-200s will kick start a replacement cycle in 2020-21, the Airbus A330neo. Photo via Google images. concurrent… Read More