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Leeham News and Analysis
- Pontifications: Assessing the impact of COVID-19: today’s take April 6, 2020
- Shall passenger airliners run as freighters during the COVID-19 crisis? April 6, 2020
- Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 16. April 3, 2020
- Engine maker, lessor see Boeing’s next airplane as a single-aisle design April 2, 2020
- Pratt & Whitney committed to advanced GTF for Airbus March 30, 2020
Does the new weight bump turn the A330-900 to a trans-Pacific aircraft? Part 2
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction March 12, 2020, © Leeham News: We continue last week’s theme and compare Airbus’ new 251t variant of the A330-900 to the A350-900 in this article. We saw in the first article… Read More
Does the new weight bump turn the A330-900 to a trans-Pacific aircraft?
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction March 5, 2020, © Leeham News: Airbus gave an update on their new 251t variant of the A330-900 this week. With a 251t Maximum Take Off Weight (MTOW), the former mid-ranger is… Read More
Airbus to deliver 251 tonnes version of A330-900 by mid-year
By Bjorn Fehrm March 3, 2020, ©. Leeham News: Airbus has started the additional flight testing needed to certify the 251t version of the A330-900. It needs to verify the handling of the aircraft at the higher weight… Read More
Assessing airlines’ widebody replacement needs
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Feb. 3, 2020, © Leeham News: As part of the 777X maiden flight, Boeing briefed the media on its demand forecast for the large widebody market. The OEM sees a demand to… Read More
Are AirAsia and AirAsia X outgrowing their key markets?
Subscription Required By Judson Rollins Introduction Dec. 16, 2019, © Leeham News: AirAsia and long-haul sister AirAsia X have been growing at world-leading rates for much of the past two decades. AirAsia’s fleet growth in the 2000s was… Read More
Understanding Rolls-Royce’s financials
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Dec. 2, 2019, © Leeham News: Rolls-Royce continues to be in the spotlight for the Trent 1000 durability issues, with no end in sight. The engine manufacturer recently increased the total disruption… Read More
Is re-engining the Boeing 767 a good idea?
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction October 17, 2019, © Leeham News: FlightGlobal writes Boeing is investigating re-engining the 767-400ER with GE GEnx engines to produce a new freighter and perhaps a passenger aircraft as a replacement for… Read More
The time for a 767RE passenger model has come and gone
Subscription Required Introduction Oct. 14, 2019, © Leeham News: Boeing is reconsidering a previous idea to re-engine the 767 with GEnx powerplants, Flight Global reported last week. The idea was run up the flagpole, so-to-speak, in 2017. Boeing… Read More