June 18, 2015, c Leeham Co: With the industrial part of Paris Air Show over (the public portion continues through the weekend), one can start to summarize impressions. I have over the years participated in around 10… Read More
Posted on June 18, 2015 by Bjorn Fehrm
June 17, 2015, Paris Air Show, c. Leeham Co. Engine Alliance, one of the two power plant suppliers for the Airbus A380, said today that it is undertaking Performance Improvement Package (PIP) upgrades to the GP7200 to lower… Read More
Posted on June 17, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
June 16, 2015, Paris Air Show: Bombardier yesterday detailed the performance figures of its new CS100 and CS300 mainline jets, revealing more detailed numbers than it disclosed Sunday during a preview. We have looked at these numbers and found that even… Read More
Posted on June 16, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
June 16, 2015, Paris Air Show, c. Leeham Co. Dueling forecasts between Airbus and Boeing became a bit of a sideshow yesterday, with the differing projections for the Very Large Aircraft (VLA) market coming up at the Airbus… Read More
Posted on June 16, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
June 15, 2015, Paris Air Show, c. Leeham Co. Boeing predicts 1:1 book:bill (orders to deliveries) this year. For Airbus, you ain’t seen nothing yet. And it’s not even super-salesman, super-optimist John Leahy doing the talking. Kiran Rao,… Read More
Posted on June 15, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Paris Air Show
737-9, 737-900ER, 757, 757 replacement, 777X, 787, A320, A321LR, A350, Air Lease Corp., Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Fabrice Bregier, John Leahy, John Wojick, Kiran Rao, Middle of the Market, Middle of the Market aircraft, MOM, Paris Air Show, Randy Tinseth, Steven Udvar-Hazy
Subscription required. Now open to all Readers. Introduction June 15, 2015, Paris Air Show, c. Leeham Co. Airbus, like Boeing, is faced with an embarrassment of riches: too many orders for the A320 and A350 production rates that… Read More
Posted on June 15, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, Comac, Embraer, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Paris Air Show, Sukhoi
777X, 787, A320, A320NEO, A350, A380, Airbus, Boeing, John Leahy, Tom Enders, Tom Williams
By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction June 15, 2015, C. Leeham Co: We have previously written about the interview with Emirates Airline President and COO, Tim Clark, where he says that in the present competition for Emirates’ medium haul 330… Read More
Posted on June 15, 2015 by Bjorn Fehrm
June 14, 2015, Paris Air Show: While waiting for the Bombardier “reveal” of its new CS100 and CS300, each at the air show for the first time, LNC’s Bjorn Fehrm and I walked the ramp. Many airplanes had… Read More
Posted on June 14, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Ross Mitchell, VP of Business Acquisitions, Bombardier, discusses cabin modularity and flexibility for the CSeries at the 2015 Paris Air Show. June 14, 2015, Paris Air Show: Bombardier made it official today, the pre-event of the opening of… Read More
Posted on June 14, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
737-7, 737-700, A319, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Colin Bole, CRJ, CS100, CS300, CS500, Fred Cromer, Q400, Ross Mitchell
The prospect that Boeing may launch the so-called Middle of the Market (MOM) airplane seems to be gaining ground. We’ve reported previously that our Market Intelligence suggests the MOM would be launched in 2017 or 2018 with an… Read More
Posted on June 13, 2015 by Scott Hamilton