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Leeham News and Analysis
- GE testing of giant GE9X engine aims for maturity at entry into service June 30, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 28. June 27, 2025
- Parent agency, FAA often at odds as politics outweighs safety June 26, 2025
- Electric Flight and the Ugly Duckling June 25, 2025
- Engine makers tout “Plan A” but have “Plan B” backups in R&D June 23, 2025
Airbus books 142 firm orders as Boeing retracts from the Paris Air Show
By Bjorn Fehrm June 19, 2025, © Leeham News at Paris Air Show: Boeing chose to scale down its participation at this week’s Paris Air Show out of respect for the victims of the Air India crash last… Read More
Airbus forecasts that almost three times more aircraft needs to be produced by year 2044
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Thursday, 12, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus has released its forecast for new airliners needed between 2024 and 2044. The forecast says there is a need for 43,420 new aircraft over the next… Read More
Engine makers emphasizing durability, reliability
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Larry Culp, CEO of GE Aerospace. Credit: GE. June 3, 2025, © Leeham News: Engine reliability and durability for the next new commercial aviation engine for the next new single-aisle airplane has emerged… 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
Pontifications: Southwest’s core problems are not solved by business model changes-yet
March 19, 2025, © Leeham News: I’ve been reading hand-wringing opinion pieces in recent weeks—especially last week—about the changes at Southwest Airlines. Beginning with its first layoffs in its 50+ years of 1,700 headquarters staff through last week’s… Read More
Airbus 2024 results: “A decent year in a challenging environment”.
By Bjorn Fehrm February 20, 2025, © Leeham News in Toulouse: The headline uses the words of Airbus CEO Guillame Faury when he opened the presentation of Airbus 2024 results in Toulouse today. It was a session where… Read More
JetZero sees big sales potential, but consultants say it won’t be them to bring BWB to market
By Scott Hamilton Subscription Required JetZero Z4 commercial BWB and USAF tanker concepts. Credit: JetZero. Feb. 10, 2025, © Leeham News: There will be a surge in aircraft replacement requirements as today’s Airbus A320neos and Boeing 737 MAXes… Read More
Engineering, Innovation is our DNA: Embraer
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Nov. 25, 2024, © Leeham News: Embraer’s revenues may be small compared to Airbus and Boeing. Luis Carlos Affonso. Credit: Embraer. But “under the hood,” the company is, in many respects, more innovative… Read More
No changes to US labor Scope Clauses for indefinite future, says Embraer
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Nov. 22, 2024, © Leeham News: Embraer doesn’t see any changes in the US airline labor contract Scope Clause for the foreseeable future. This means that the E175-E1, equipped with previous generation engines,… Read More