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777 P2F market grinds to a halt: lack of feedstock, Boeing, war, money to blame
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Jan. 27, 2025, (c) Leeham News: Boeing’s inability to deliver 787s on time and continued delays in certification of the 777-9 mean airlines planning to replace aging aircraft or expand must retain older… Read More
Spirit Airlines bankruptcy could free up scores of A320/321s
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Nov. 18, 2024, © Leeham News: Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy will likely be its death knell unless a deep-pocketed savior emerges. The carrier filed a pre-packaged bankruptcy petition today, expecting to emerge in the… Read More
Lessor 2021 Earnings
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Credit: AerCap May 3, 2022, © Leeham News: Most passenger airlines incurred severe losses in 2020. However, last year, LNA showed that most lessors had a far less challenging 2020 than their… Read More
Diverging financial fortunes for Airlines and Lessors
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Air Lease Corporation A321 XLR Rendering Credit: Airbus April 5, 2021, © Leeham News: Most airlines and lessors that publish their financial results publicly have done so for 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic… Read More
Pontifications: AerCap and GECAS to combine — assessing the impact
March 15, 2021, © Leeham News: GE Corp.’s decision to sell its mega-leasing unit, GECAS, to AerCap represents a huge shift in commercial aviation. For decades, GECAS was the largest lessor in the world. One of GE’s best… Read More
Pontifications: Boeing focuses on design, production vs airplane development–for now
By Scott Hamilton May 11, 2020, © Leeham News: Boeing killed development of its alphabet soup of airplane concepts for now. “For now” is a relative term. When Boeing will be ready to show concepts to customers as… Read More
Europe to Boeing: Not so fast on your WTO move; tariffs still likely
By Scott Hamilton Feb. 24, 2020, © Leeham News: Not so fast, Europe says about Boeing’s claim it is curing illegal tax breaks from Washington State. The World Trade Organization has to agree to Boeing’s interpretation. This will… Read More
Leasing industry sees a role in airline sustainability work
By Bjorn Fehrm January 22, 2020, ©. Leeham News, Dublin: The yearly Air Finance Journal conference finished its second day with a Q&A with the top executives of the Leasing industry. The Leasing companies buy 40% of all… Read More
History undermines Boeing claim of C Series impact: analysis
Analysis Dec. 22, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Boeing blames a subsidized, price-dumped Bombardier C Series for the poor sales of the smallest member of the 737 family, the -700 and the 7 MAX, but history doesn’t support the… Read More
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Posted on December 22, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
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