Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- HOTR: 787 delivery restart appears to slip to April: customers November 30, 2021
- It’s time for a reality check on ecoAviation November 29, 2021
- Pontifications: Think tank analyzes KC-Y competitive landscape November 29, 2021
- Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of airliner development. Part 30. Serial Production problems November 26, 2021
- Why the A380 didn’t sell November 25, 2021
787 certification expected this week
Bloomberg News writes that 787 certification may come August 26. In a superb article giving a current assessment of the program, Bloomberg cites Bernstein Research as estimating the first 1,000 airplanes will cost an average of $116m each…. Read More
Bernstein assess 787 profitability
Bernstein Research issued a report today assessing the Boeing 787 program profitability. Highlights: It appears unlikely to us that Boeing will deliver a positive program gross margin over an initial accounting block of 1000 airplanes, if production inventory… Read More
Airbus affirms A350-800 future, but skeptics doubt it
Airbus confirmed at the Paris Air Show what we reported two weeks earlier, and that is the A350-1000 was going to be rescheduled to allow Rolls-Royce and Airbus to tweak the airplane for more power, longer range and… Read More
Moving toward 787 first flight
A bit of a controversy arose this week when Bernstein Research published a report following the media briefing on the 787 program in which Bernstein predicted a delay for entry-into-service (EIS) from 1Q10 to 2Q10; a six month… Read More