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Boeing wins first day with big order at Dubai Air Show
Nov. 12, 2017, © Leeham Co.: In a stinging defeat for Airbus, Boeing won an order for 40 787-10s from Emirates Airline. Airbus competed for the deal with the A350-900. Emirates previously canceled an order for 50 A350-900s… Read More
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Posted on November 12, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus’ A330 or Boeing’s 787 for LCC long haul?
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction November 09, 2017, © Leeham Co.: International Airlines Group’s (IAG) CEO, Willy Walsh, said in an Investor presentation last week “LEVEL (the group’s Long Haul LCC) is as well off with the Airbus A330-200… Read More
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Posted on November 9, 2017 by Bjorn Fehrm
Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, GE Aviation, Premium, Rolls-Royce
787, 787-8, A330, A330-200, A330-800, A330neo, Airbus, Boeing, Rolls-Royce
New mission focus seen for NMA
Nov. 8, 2017, © Leeham Co.: A revised mission focus for the the prospective Boeing New Midmarket Aircraft (NMA) is seen by a New York research firm. Bernstein Research sees the NMA being redefined as a larger aircraft serving… Read More
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Posted on November 8, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Analyst: Airbus could eventually terminate CSeries program
Nov. 7, 2017, © Leeham Co.: The Bombardier CSeries may go the way of the McDonnell Douglas MD-95, a Wall Street aerospace analyst suggests: that is, the program is likely to remain unprofitable and be shut down. Doug… Read More
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Posted on November 7, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
CSeries effect on Airbus, Boeing product strategies
Subscription Required Introduction Nov. 6, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Boeing took a pass on assuming ownership of the Bombardier CSeries, according to a report in the Toronto Globe and Mail—the same deal rival Airbus took. In doing so,… Read More
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Posted on November 6, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Pontifications: Small Mississippi airport plays key role in state’s aerospace industry
Nov. 6, 2017, © Leeham Co.: One of my stops during my October visit along the I-10 corridor from Mobile (AL) to New Orleans, through Mississippi, visiting aerospace interests was the Stennis International Airport. The airport is in… Read More
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Posted on November 6, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
50% increase in CSeries sales forecast–but what does this mean?
Nov. 1, 2017, © Leeham Co.: For years, Bombardier forecast the 20-year market demand in the 100-150 seat sector as between 6,000 and 7,200, depending on the year of the forecast. Airbus in 2014, the last year the… Read More
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Posted on November 2, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Suppliers conference in Mobile focuses on US aerospace sector in Southeast
Oct. 31, 2017: A new event, the Southeast Aerospace and Defence Conference (SADC) scheduled for June 25-27 in Mobile (AL), will examine the commercial, defense, space and corporate aerospace sectors in the US Southeast. The conference is organized… Read More
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Posted on October 31, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airfinance Journal, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, GE Aviation, Leeham Co., Lockheed Martin, NASA, Northrop, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, Southeast Aerospace and Defense Conference
Airbus, Airfinance Journal, Boeing, Leeham Co., Lockheed Martin, NASA, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, Southeast Aerospace and Defence Conference, United Technologies
Aviation journalist Ben Sandilands passes
Oct. 31, 2017: Ben Sandilands, the cranky, crusty curmudgeonly writer of Australia’s Plane Talking (Crikey), died Friday after a long illness. He was 73. Cancer was the cause of death. We only met Sandilands on a couple of… Read More
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Posted on October 31, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Bombardier’s “fatal error” in trade dispute
Oct. 30, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Bombardier made a fatal error in the Boeing/US trade dispute that almost certainly precludes a negotiated settlement and which the Airbus-CSeries joint venture is highly unlikely to cure, an expert trade lawyer… Read More
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Posted on October 30, 2017 by Scott Hamilton