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

Emirates’ 615 seat A380, is it more economical?

By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription required. Introduction Nov. 11, 2015, ©. Leeham Co: Emirates Airline showed off its newly delivered two class A380 at this week’s Dubai Air Show. With a record 615 seats, this is the densest A380 that… Read More

Emirates’ mid-range choice

By Bjorn Fehrm Nov. 10 2015, ©. Leeham Co: The Dubai Air Show is on its second day and there are no mega orders. The one that should have been, the mid-range requirement for Emirates Airline, has been postponed,… Read More

Pontifications: A380neo? Try A380TXWB. Dubai Air Show and other Odds and Ends

Nov. 9, 2015, (c) Leeham Co. Airbus last week launched its A380 flying test bed with the A350-1000’s Rolls-Royce Trent XWB 97,000 lb engine placed in the number two position. The first thing that came to mind when… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Aircraft systems, the real nuts to crack

06 November 2015, ©. Leeham Co: COMAC’s C919 was rolled out in the week. We got to see a new shiny aircraft which looked ready to fly. The nicely curved fuselage and wings were immaculate, the paint was… Read More

No fear of C919 for a generation

Nov. 4, 2015, © Leeham Co. The first COMAC C919 was rolled out of the factory over the weekend, China’s mainline entry into the fiercely competitive arena now “owned” by the Airbus-Boeing duopoly. Although the two giants each has… Read More

COMAC C919, first analysis

By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription required. Introduction Nov. 04, 2015, ©. Leeham Co: COMAC rolled out China’s first modern airliner Monday. We have commented on its place in the market in a sister article. Here we will do a first… Read More

Pointifications: Wide-body orders; Bombardier’s $1bn

Nov. 2, 2015, © Leeham Co. Boeing gets an order for up to 26 787-10s. Airbus firms up options to an order for 30 A330s, added to 45 previously announced by the same customer. Boeing announces an order for nine… Read More