Leeham News and Analysis
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Odds and Ends: Entertaining recap on Leahy and NEO
1. Entertaining look at Leahy and A320neo Max Kingsley-Jones, editor of Airline Business, has this amusing take on Airbus COO John Leahy and Leahy’s view of his latest toy, the A320neo. Last week we received a couple of… Read More
FAA 737 inspection AD covers 175 jets
Note: Dominic Gates of The Seattle Times has a particularly thorough piece looking at this incident. The Wall Street Journal also has a good story on the topic. The New York Times has this story. Update, April 5:… Read More
Southwest Air’s second 737 decompression
Southwest Airlines suffered a second in-flight decompression of a Boeing 737-300 yesterday. This is the second–the first was in July 2009. Both airplanes were 15-year old 737-300s and the failure on both airplanes were in the aft fuselage…. Read More
Boeing WTO panel report released; podcast with Airbus and Boeing
The WTO released the public version of its report on the illegal subsidies for Boeing. There are plenty of stories on the Internet to choose from, so we won’t recap it all here. We have said and still… Read More
Odds and Ends: Orient Aviation’s profile of John Leahy
This is an abbreviated Odds and Ends; we are traveling this week and next and we’re not sure if we’ll have the chance to update while we are on the road. Meantime: Orient Aviation magazine has a cover… Read More
Odds and Ends: Airbus wants to advance NEO EIS by six months; name that tanker
1. Airbus wants to advance NEO EIS six months Airbus wants to advance the entry-into-service of the A320neo by six months, to October 2015, we have learned. Airbus plans to introduce the neo in six month increments (A320neo… Read More
Boeing sees long life for 737
Update, March 11: Dominic Gates of The Seattle Times has an excellent article about the new Boeing airplane and its production site. Original Post: In a short article we did for Aviation Technology magazine, Boeing sees a long… Read More
What next for EADS, Airbus in US?
With plans to assemble the KC-45 in Mobile (AL) in shreds, what’s next for EADS and Airbus in the US? EADS and Airbus said creating a final assembly line (FAL) for the KC-X would lead to assembling A330-200Fs… Read More