Boeing wide-open on 777 future: Albaugh

Update, Aug. 1: Dominic Gates  of The Seattle Times has a long article with the views on the 777 successor from Tim Clark, CEO of Emirates Airlines–which operates more 777s than any other airlines. Original Post: Boeing has… Read More

Farnborough/Wednesday

Note: We have updated the Tuesday posting at the end of that column. Update, 8:00 PM BST: Day 3 orders are now included toward the end of this post. Another day, another set of aircraft orders are expected…. Read More

Tanker face off at Farnborough

Boeing and EADS held tanker briefings this week–Monday for Boeing, Tuesday for EADS. Boeing offered up top program officials while EADS offered up two American crewmen from its test flight program, a pilot and a boom operator. Boeing’s… Read More

Farnborough/Sunday-EADS

We’re at the Farnborough Air Show and on Saturday attended the day-long EADS media briefings. We filed reports exclusively for KIRO TV (CBS) in Seattle. These stories are: Airbus predicts 130+ orders at the air show; Leahy says… Read More

French union understands “Buy American” on tanker

Update, July 19: Airbus says CGT is fourth Union out of five for Airbus in France, representing about 10 percent of Airbus employees in France. Update, July 16: We received this from CGT:  the union severed ties in 1978.Christian and… Read More

Questioning the effect of the WTO

We’re not the only ones questioning the effect of the recent WTO ruling against Airbus and its illegal subsidies. A respected business writer from The Seattle Times has weighed in with this opinion piece. We’ve long been cynical… Read More

Boeing offers KC-767 to USAF

It’s now official: Boeing submitted a bid for the KC-X competition, offering the KC-767 NewGen tanker. Boeing did not schedule a press conference, so the initial press release detailing its bid is below the jump, with our reporting… Read More

EADS submits tanker bid; Boeing to follow

Update, 2:30 PM: Here are three PDF slides of information from the press conference, comparing the KC-45 with the KC-767 NewGen: KC-45 slides 7-08-10. Boeing does not plan a press conference with its tanker submission tomorrow-just a press… Read More

747-8 vs A380 costs: airlines weigh in

In the ever-present back-and-forth between Boeing and Airbus about the costs of the 747-8 vs. A380, each company claims its airplane has lower costs. Boeing claims the 747-8 has double-digit lower costs, to which Airbus indignantly says Boeing–not… Read More

Go to commercial markets for A350

Update, July 8: This just moved from Bloomberg: The release of the WTO’s Interim Report on the EU complaint about “illegal” subsidies to Boeing has been pushed from July 16 to September. We cannot help but be skeptical… Read More