April 15, 2025, © Leeham News: It was inevitable: China has banned its airlines from accepting deliveries of Boeing airplanes. The move is in retaliation against President Donald Trump’s boosting tariffs on Chinese goods to 145%. Beijing placed… Read More
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm April 14, 2025, © Leeham News: The COMAC C919 is finding its first customers outside China. At the same time as COMAC has started work on shorter and longer versions of the C919,… Read More
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm April 3, 2025, © Leeham News: The COMAC C919 is finding its first customers outside China, which gives us a reason to examine the aircraft. Last week, we estimated its efficiency versus its… Read More
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm March 20, 2025, © Leeham News: The COMAC C919 is finding its first customers outside China, with an order from the Brunei-based GallopAir upstart being first with an order for 30 C919 in… Read More
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Sept. 2, 2024, © Leeham News: Airbus and Boeing see China doubling its airliner fleet over the next 20 years. The numbers vary between the two companies. But the underlying data points to… Read More
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton May 27, 2024, © Leeham News: A flurry of orders by China’s Big Three airlines finally began to balance announced deals for the COMAC C-919 mainline jet. Until the recent orders from Air… Read More
By Scott Hamilton June 20, 2023, © Leeham News: Relations between the US and China remained strained, beginning with the Trump Administration’s trade war initiated in 2017—which continues under the Biden Administration. The strain has been exacerbated by… Read More