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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 3. Low hanging fruit. January 21, 2022
- Reducing one’s carbon footprint through flying choices January 20, 2022
- US 5G roll out ignores concerns for Air Transport safety January 18, 2022
- 2022 Forecast: C919 EIS unlikely before 2023-24 January 17, 2022
- Pontifications: COTS and the KC-46A Aircraft Production Systems January 17, 2022
Single aisle or Widebody over the Atlantic at low load factors, Part 3?
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction November 11, 2021, © Leeham News: Last week, we compared the economics of an Airbus A321XLR and A330-200 on our thin route over the Atlantic. The XLR improves the capabilities of the… Read More
Is the cargo capacity deciding the airliner variant? Part 2.
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction September 30, 2021, © Leeham News: In last week’s article, we put the question: Has the increased cargo pricing started to affect the choice of airliner variant? We analyzed Boeing’s 787-8 and… Read More
The A350, Part 3: The A350-800 versus A330-900
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction January 28, 2020, © Leeham News: Last week, we analyzed the smallest member of the Airbus A350 family, the A350-800. After Airbus changed the variant to a non-optimal “cut and shut” variant,… Read More
Enhancing the Dreamliner, Part 4: the 787-9 analyzed.
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction October 29, 2020, © Leeham News: We look deeper at the 787-9, the most successful member of the Dreamliner family. It’s 50 seats larger than the 787-8 but shares the same wing… Read More
Pontifications: A330neo future bleak from COVID impact
Aug. 17, 2020, © Leeham News: At least half the Airbus A330-900 skyline is with airlines that are in administration, technically insolvent or with a politically sanctioned carrier. These could be characterized as in Red Alert. The COVID-19… Read More
Restoring capacity with the A330ceo or A330neo, Part 6, Wrapup.
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction July 23, 2020, © Leeham News: Over the last four weeks, we analyzed the venerable Airbus A330, to see if the present low fuel and lease prices make the recent A330neo version… Read More
Restoring capacity with the A330ceo or A330neo, Part 4
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction July 9, 2020, © Leeham News: Last week, we started the analysis of restoring capacity with the Airbus A330-300 or the A330-900 when reopening international traffic after the COVID-19 lockdown. As we… Read More
Can the A321XLR fly trans-Oceanic routes, Part 2?
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction March 26, 2020, © Leeham News: We are checking if the Airbus A321XLR is usable for trans-Oceanic routes. It’s a credible trans-Atlantic aircraft, but can it be used effectively over the Pacific… Read More
Can the Airbus A321XLR fly trans-Oceanic routes?
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction March 19, 2020, © Leeham News: Over the last weeks, we compared the Airbus A330-900 to the A350-900 when flying the long routes over the Pacific Ocean. Now we pose the question:… Read More
Will the NMA-7 finally kill the A330?
Subscription Required By Judson Rollins July 11, 2019, © Leeham News: Boeing is expected to proceed with the New Midmarket Airplane (NMA) once the 737 MAX gets clearance to return to service. News from the Paris Air Show… Read More