Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, Comac, CSeries, Embraer, GE Aviation, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce
737 MAX, 737NG, 747-400, 767, 777, 777-200LR, 777-300ER, 777X, 787, A320ceo, A320NEO, A330ceo, A330neo, Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, C919, CF34, CFM, CFM 56, Comac, CSeries, E-Jet, E-Jet E2, Embraer, Frontier Airlines, GE Aviation, GECAS, GEnx, GTF, Irkut, LEAP, Lufthansa Airlines, MC-21, Mitsubishi, MRJ, Pratt & Whitney, Republic Airways Holdings, Rolls-Royce
Odds and Ends: Coming soon–new Leeham News; Boeing v SPEEA; 86-seat Q400; Boeing 326; Budapest Air Show
Coming soon: We will be rolling out changes this month to Leeham News and Comment. We will expand our News and Analysis, providing the most insightful commentary of aviation issues of any on-line publication. Most on-line news resources… Read More
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Posted on September 30, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, IAM 751, International Association of Machinists, Leeham News and Comment, SPEEA
777 Classic, 777X, A330neo, A350-1000, Boeing, Boeing 314, Boeing 326, Bombardier, Budapest Air Show, IAM 751, International Association of Machinists, Leeham News and Comment, Q400, Q400 Combi, SPEEA
Odds and Ends: Bombardier signs Macquarie Airfinance for 40+10 CS300s; 787 fire suppression
Big CSeries order: Bombardier today announced a firm order for 40 CS300s with options for 10 more with lessor Macquarie Airfinance. This brings firm orders to 243 and orders and commitments to 563. This is the order that… Read More
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Posted on September 26, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries
737, 787, A320, Bombardier, CS300, CSeries, Macquarie Airfinance
Odds and Ends: UBS on wide-bodies; CFM on GTF; Analysts on CSeries; Expedia on LCCs
UBS on wide-bodies: Investment bank UBS sees the Airbus A330ceo deliveries dropping from the current production 10/mo to 5/mo by 2017, in advance of the introduction of the A330neo late that year. As Airbus transitions from the ceo… Read More
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Posted on September 16, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, CSeries
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM International, CFM LEAP, Expedia, GTF, low cost carriers
Embraer and Bombardier: the tale of different companies, histories and fortunes
Last month we did a situational analysis of Boeing and Airbus and we promised to do the same for Embraer and Bombardier. Our follow-up article took longer than planned, as we wanted to include the rather significant changes… Read More
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Posted on September 15, 2014 by Bjorn Fehrm
Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Pratt & Whitney
Bombardier, Comac, CRJ, CSeries, E-Jet, E-Jet E2, Embraer, GE, GTF, Pratt & Whitney, Q400
Odds and Ends: Air France/KLM trims cargo fleet; ExIm Bank countdown; BBD v EMB; More
Air France-KLM trims cargo fleet: Steve Wilhelm of The Puget Sound Business Journal reports that Air France-KLM group is sharply trimming its cargo fleet, with the company declaring the capacity continues to shift to the belly capacity of… Read More
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Posted on September 8, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, CSeries, Embraer
737 MAX 200, 747-8F, 777-200LRF, 777X, 787, A330-200F, Air France-KLM, Airbus, airlines, Al Jazeera, Boeing, Bombardier, C919, Comac, CS100, CSeries, Embraer, Emirates Airlines, ExIm Bank, Malmo Aviation, Ryanair
BBD faces skyline challenges in 2016: Russia, Ukraine, Iraq customers
Note: The CSeries resumed airborne flight tests Sept. 7. The announcement two weeks ago by Sweden’s Malmo Aviation that it won’t be the first operator of Bombardier’s CSeries is an unneeded image hit for the program, but not… Read More
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Posted on September 7, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Bombardier, CSeries, Pratt & Whitney
Bombardier, CSeries, GTF, Ilyushin Finance Corp., Iraqi Airways, Malmo Aviation, Odyssey Airlines, Pratt & Whitney, Pratt & Whitney GTF, UT Air, VIM Airlines
Airlines, not passengers, at fault for recline wars
A third incident of “recline wars” has been reported, this time on a Delta Air Lines flight in which a dispute broke out between a passenger who reclined his seat and the passenger behind him who didn’t like… Read More
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Posted on September 2, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer
737-8, A320, A321, Airbus, Allegiant Air, Boeing, Bombardier, Cebu Pacific, CS300, Delta Air Lines, E-195 E2, Embraer, Ryanair, Spirit Airlines
Odds and Ends: Malmo and CSeries; Boeing’s Terrible Teens; MH 370
Malmo and CSeries: Malmo Airlines, a small carrier in Sweden that is a subsidiary of Braathens, last week said it withdrew as the launch operator of the Bombardier CSeries. Malmo has five CS100s and five CS300s on order…. Read More
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Posted on September 1, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, CSeries, Malaysian Airlines, MH370, Pratt & Whitney
787, 787 Terrible Teens, Boeing, Bombardier, CS100, CS300, CSeries, GTF, Malaysia Airlines, Malmo Aviation, MH370, Pratt & Whitney, Pratt & Whitney GTF
Focus on Bombardier after more executive changes
This report has been updated since it was issued to our E-subscribers last Monday to reflect our new estimate of the return to airborne status for the flight test program. Bombardier two weeks ago made more executive changes… Read More
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Posted on August 31, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Pratt & Whitney
737 MAX, 737-7, 787, A319, A320, A320NEO, A350, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CRJ, CS100, CS300, CS300 ECS, E-Jet, Embraer, Q400
After-market support becoming key to winning engine orders
Maintenance and power-by-the-hour parts and support contracts are increasingly becoming the deciding factor in deciding which engines and which airplanes will be ordered—it’s no longer a matter of engine price or even operating costs, customers of Airbus and… Read More
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Posted on August 25, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, Comac, CSeries, Embraer, GE Aviation, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce
737 MAX, 737NG, 747-400, 767, 777, 777-200LR, 777-300ER, 777X, 787, A320ceo, A320NEO, A330ceo, A330neo, Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, C919, CF34, CFM, CFM 56, Comac, CSeries, E-Jet, E-Jet E2, Embraer, Frontier Airlines, GE Aviation, GECAS, GEnx, GTF, Irkut, LEAP, Lufthansa Airlines, MC-21, Mitsubishi, MRJ, Pratt & Whitney, Republic Airways Holdings, Rolls-Royce
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