Odds and Ends at the Paris Air Show, Day 2 Airbus Airbus owned the day again with a bunch of orders, including capturing a Boeing 737 operator, Garuda Indonesia. For the A320neo (In this context, we’re not counting… Read More
Posted on June 21, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Qatar Airways was the launch customer of the Airbus A350-1000, for which Airbus has now moved entry-into-service back from 2015 to 2017 in order to provide for a higher-thrust engine design from Rolls-Royce, increased payload and increased range…. Read More
Posted on June 20, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Odds and Ends of the Paris Air Show, Day 1 The Air Show began with heavy downpour that delayed traffic and buses, but fortunately not us since we didn’t stay in the City—but rather just 5km up the… Read More
Posted on June 20, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Odds and Ends from the Paris Air Show While an order or two are expected to come from Qatar Airways’ mercurial CEO Akbar Al-Baker, the buzz here already is that U-Turn Al may yet again live up to… Read More
Posted on June 19, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Boeing retains full confidence in the 777 despite the frontal attack by Airbus with its A350 family. News, first broken by Leeham News June 5 in this forum, that Airbus and Rolls-Royce will revise slightly the design of… Read More
Posted on June 18, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Boeing officials like to downplay the prospect of re-engining the venerable 737, but studies are very much alive as the company tries to figure out what the market wants and how to respond to the Airbus A320neo. Boeing… Read More
Posted on June 18, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Paris Air Show: The chief technology officer for Airbus parent EADS is skeptical of composites for the A320 class of airplane while Boeing considers the material to be the “baseline preference” for what officials call the New Small… Read More
Posted on June 18, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus and Rolls-Royce confirmed June 18 news we reported 10 days ago: that the A350-1000 will get a more powerful engine and more range. Airbus officials also confirmed that the changes will push the entry-into-service of the -1000… Read More
Posted on June 18, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
777, A350, Airbus, Boeing, John Leahy, Rolls-Royce
Today is Thursday and we are on our way to the Paris Air Show. First up on the schedule is the EADS/Airbus media day on Saturday, with a briefing that is expected to unveil the changes we previously… Read More
Posted on June 16, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Boeing announced today that it will increase the production rate of the 737 to 42 a month from the first half of 2014. This is on top of consecutive rate increases from 31.5 to 35 to 38 a… Read More
Posted on June 15, 2011 by Scott Hamilton