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Heading toward year-end, Airbus maintains lead in narrowbody orders but Boeing commands the widebody sector
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 13, 2025, © Leeham News: As the commercial airliner industry sprints to the end of this year, Boeing remains the champion in the widebody, twin-aisle sector with a commanding lead over Airbus…. Read More
How’s the next new aircraft produced? Part 6. Airbus: Production of future aircraft
Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Sept. 22, 2025, © Leeham News: In Part 5 of this series, we described the efforts to improve Airbus’ present production, and what the learnings were from changes in the FAL… Read More
Airbus 1H2025 results: A solid first half except for 60 gliders
By Bjorn Fehrm July 31, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus CEO Guillame Faury and CFO Thomas Toepfer presented the Airbus first half 2025 results yesterday. The Airbus performance is very much to plan, except there are 60 A320/A321… Read More
What’s the next new aircraft, Part 5
By Scott Hamilton and Bjorn Fehrm July 31, 2025, © Leeham News: We wrap up our five-part series today on What’s the Next New Airplane in the coming decades. We now look at Airplanes 9-13 in Figure 1… Read More
US Transpo Secretary supports zero tariffs on aerospace, but change isn’t assured
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton July 7, 2025, © Leeham News: US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants to return to aerospace’s zero-tariff agreement, dating to 1979, but cautioned that doing so requires a larger trade agreement between party… Read More
Airbus 1Q2025 results: So far, so good, but US tariffs make future results unpredictable
May 1, 2025, © Leeham News in Toulouse: Airbus CEO Guillame Faury and CFO Thomas Toepfer presented the Airbus 1Q2025 results yesterday. All Airbus divisions performed to plan, producing a group EBIT Adjusted of 0.6bn Euro. The company… Read More
Airbus still struggles to deliver planes on time
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton March 24, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus continues to struggle to deliver commercial airliners to customers on time, with the A320neo and A350 families now sold out into the early 2030s. Customers complain… Read More
Airbus procurement head “convinced” supply chain issues are on right path
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Juergen Westermeier, head of procurement for Airbus. Source: Airbus. Dec. 12, 2024, © Leeham News: Airbus wants to sharply increase the production rates of its A220, A320, and A350 lines between now and… Read More
Airbus 9 month 2024 results: Inventory build-up for Q4 and Space Business lowers results
By Bjorn Fehrm October 30, 2024, © Leeham News: Airbus has presented its results for the first nine months of 2024. The operational result (EBIT Adjusted) is €0.8bn lower than in 9M2023, caused by an inventory increase of… Read More