Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 4. January 10, 2025
- The market is ready for a 787F. But is Boeing? January 9, 2025
- 2025 remains another year for recovery in commercial aerospace January 6, 2025
- Boeing touts safety progress but opposes SPEEA initiative January 3, 2025
- Updates 1 and 2: Key reason for Jeju 2216’s tragedy: the airport localizer construction and location December 30, 2024
Odds and Ends:Unsurprisingly–More on the Boeing 787
Unsurprisingly: More on the 787 We’re at the Airline Economics conference in Dublin and not surprisingly the Boeing 787 was part of the cocktail party talk Sunday night. There is a certain level of bewilderment: Why didn’t t… Read More
Odds and Ends: Picking up an A380; testing the 787; VLA backlogs
Picking up an A380: No, it’s not about lifting one. It’s taking delivery of one. CNN International Travel has this story about the delivery process. It’s not what you’d think would be your usual story from a travel… Read More
Odds and Ends: Boeing’s next twin-aisle strategy; Lion Air/Airbus: you read it here first
Boeing’s next twin-aisle strategy: Aspire Aviation has this long article looking at when Boeing will launch the 787-10 and 777X. Our thoughts on the topic: We are hearing EIS for the 787-10, as Aspire reports, will be 2018… Read More
Odds and Ends: More from the Airbus Innovation Days
We have some follow-up to our trip last week to the Airbus Innovation Days: A350 Program: Aviation Week has this article about the A350 program, noting that the A350-800 seems to be suffering from from benign neglect. A350… Read More
Cargolux, Part 3: alternative lift to the ‘rejected’ 747s
On the final night at ISTAT in Barcelona, a new scenario has been suggested in the continuing saga of the Cargolux situation. Cargolux previously said may seek freighter capacity elsewhere if an agreement with Boeing isn’t reached on… Read More
