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Airbus, Boeing split YTD orders leads
May 10, 2016: Airbus and Boeing split the leads for orders year-to-date through April 30 (May 2), following the monthly total released today by Airbus. Airbus led in wide-body orders by a wide margin. Boeing thumped Airbus in… Read More
Airbus Group 1Q 2016 results: Slow start to the year, guidance maintained.
By Bjorn Fehrm 28 April 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Airbus Group has had a slow start to 2016. Deliveries of A320neo, A350 and A400M are slowed by problems with engine and cabin suppliers. Only 127 aircraft were delivered out… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Flight control, Part 3
25 March 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Last week we covered the natural stability of commercial aircraft and the most important movements the aircraft would go into if we had no pilot intervention. Now we will cover how Fly-By-Wire… Read More
Dissection of the 2015 Airbus order book
Jan. 13, 2016, © Leeham Co. Airbus yesterday reported 1,139 gross and 1,036 net orders for 2015, dramatically out-performing Boeing’s sales figures. Boeing’s 737NG outsold the A320ceo family but the A320neo captured 67% of the sales vs the… Read More
LNC’s annual production forecast for Airbus, Boeing
Subscription Required Introduction Jan. 11, 2016, © Leeham Co. Airbus and Boeing are headed for parity in monthly production rates by the end of this decade, a new forecast by Leeham Co. shows. In our annual production rate… Read More
Pontifications: Deliveries matter, so do orders
Jan. 11, 2015, © Leeham Co.: Boeing out-delivered Airbus last year by a wide margin. Airbus obtained more orders than Boeing by a wide margin. Behind our paywall today, we look at some of the reasons for this… Read More
How good is a used 767-300ER? Part 3
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction Jan. 4 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Before Christmas we started our Boeing 767-300ER article series around acquiring used twin-aisle 767 aircraft to upgrade Boeing 757-based long haul services. We compared the aircraft’s base… Read More
Analyzing Air Bridge Cargo plans for Boeing 747-8F
Dec. 15, 2015, (c) Leeham Co.: A plan by Russia’s Air Bridge Cargo to acquire another 18 Boeing 747-8Fs does little to solve Boeing’s production gap and program viability, an analysis by LNC shows. Bloomberg News published a… Read More
Dissecting Boeing cost-cutting
Subscription required. Introduction Feb. 11, 2016, © Leeham Co. The news yesterday that Boeing is undertaking a new round of cost-cutting has been buzzing around management and labor circles for months. LNC last year began hearing management at… Read More
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Posted on February 11, 2016 by Scott Hamilton
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