Leeham News and Analysis
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Icelandic becomes first regular airline to serve Antarctica
Nov. 27, 2015: Loftleider Icelandic Airlines is the first regular airline to serve the world’s seventh continent, Antarctica. Icelandic, a sister company to Icelandair and crewed by Icelandair, operated a Boeing 757-200 into the Union Glacier station last… Read More
Used B777-200ER or A340-300?
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction Nov. 26 2015, ©. Leeham Co: In recent articles we have latched on to the debate around the prices for used Boeing 777-200 aircraft. Contrary to the market appraising companies’ ideas about second… Read More
Pontifications: “I’m glad you’re not going far.”
Nov. 23, 2015, (c) Leeham Co. An Airbus A321 is blown out of the sky over Egypt. Two Air France jumbo jets are diverted due to bomb threats. ISIS stages multiple, simultaneous attacks in Paris. Additional attacks are… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Production rates
20 November 2015, ©. Leeham Co: Emirates Airline CEO, Tim Clark, is quoted as having said “it takes them forever to get this thing up.” He was talking about the Airbus A350 production rate and his reasons for… Read More
Europe’s airlines: LCC, the winning formula
By Bjorn Fehrm Nov. 18 2015, ©. Leeham Co: Easyjet revealed record numbers yesterday with pretax profits now at 14.6% of a year turnover of £4,686m. The load-factors for their aircraft are at a record 91.5% on a 12… Read More
Delta CEO is right about 777-200ER values, says market
Subscription Required Introduction Richard Anderson, CEO, Delta Air Lines. Photo via Google images. Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson is right. Actual market values for 10-year old Boeing 777-200ERs are around $10m, not the $50m-ish suggested by Boeing… Read More
Pontifications: Boeing to focus on “long-term liabilities” in 2016’s SPEEA contract negotiations
Nov. 16, 2015, © Leeham Co. Boeing will target “long term liabilities” in its contract negotiations with SPEEA, the engineers union, its president quoted CEO Dennis Muilenburg as telling him in September. Ryan Rule, president of the local… Read More
Boeing unions gird for new jobs-for-tax breaks push
Nov. 11, 2015, © Leeham Co. Boeing’s two leading unions, the IAM District 751 and SPEEA, are girding for a second try in the Washington State Legislature to retroactivity tie job retention to $8.7bn in tax breaks given… Read More