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Leeham News and Analysis
- Boeing’s Long Term Cash Flows August 19, 2019
- Pontifications: Trump-China trade war hits Boeing August 19, 2019
- Bjorn’s Corner: Fly by steel or electrical wire, Part 4 August 16, 2019
- Will the A220 drive the trans-Atlantic fragmentation to smaller jets? Part 2. August 15, 2019
- Embraer presents second quarter 2019 results. August 14, 2019
Airbus looks to increase, US, Canada spending
Subscription Required Introduction Aug. 21, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Airbus continues its drive to purchase goods from suppliers outside Europe, encouraging development of an aerospace cluster around its new Mobile (AL) plant. Washington State, the home to arch-rival… Read More
Pontifications: Airbus USA321 a milestone for US aerospace
March 28, 2016, © Leeham Co.: The first US-built A320ceo family member took to the skies for its first flight last week. The A321ceo, destined for JetBlue, is the first assembled at the new Airbus A320 plant in… Read More
A320 FAL “good for US aerospace,” says Airbus
Sept. 16, 2015, © Leeham Co., Mobile (AL): The opening of the Airbus A320 Final Assembly Line here achieves a major set of goals set by the company 10 years ago for its own strategic purposes, but… Read More
Airbus Mobile FAL a victory for CEO Enders
Sept. 14, 2015, © Leeham Co., Mobile (AL): The opening of the Airbus Mobile (AL) A320 Final Assembly Line (FAL) is viewed by some close associates as a personal victory for Tom Enders, the chief executive officer of… Read More
A321s in Airbus Mobile FAL
Sept, 13, 2015, (c) Leeham Co., Mobile (AL): The first two A321ceos are on the Final Assembly Line (FAL) at the new Airbus plant here in Mobile (AL). JetBlue is scheduled to take the first delivery in the… Read More
Boeing on path to surpass Airbus in single-aisle production
Note: This has updated information from its distribution to our e-newsletter recipients a week ago. Boeing is on a path to overtake Airbus in producing single-aisle aircraft by the end of this decade. In the hotly contested single-aisle… Read More
Could Boeing face new NLRB complaint over 777X site search?
Could Boeing face a new complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, this time over where the 777X assembly site will be placed? A Cornell University labor professor thinks it possible. The union-backed publication In These Times wrote… Read More
Airbus exec outlines goals for Washington State supply chain effort
Washington State suppliers who want to do business with Airbus don’t have to open new shops in Alabama or elsewhere globally to support the European company, its top supply official in the US said last week. We sat… Read More