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Heading toward year-end, Airbus maintains lead in narrowbody orders but Boeing commands the widebody sector
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 13, 2025, © Leeham News: As the commercial airliner industry sprints to the end of this year, Boeing remains the champion in the widebody, twin-aisle sector with a commanding lead over Airbus…. Read More
How’s the next new aircraft produced? Part 7. Other OEMs.
Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Sept. 25, 2025, © Leeham News: In Part 1 of this series, we described the production system for Embraer. Should Embraer or any other OEM enter the race for the next… Read More
China, Boeing appear near massive order: report
By Scott Hamilton Aug. 21, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing is nearing a massive order for up to 500 aircraft with China, Bloomberg reports. Completing the deal depends on political considerations, as so many of these do between… Read More
China bans Boeing, US parts imports in tariff war
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
How good is the C929?
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
How good is the C919? Part 3.
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
How good is the COMAC C919?
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
China banks on C919, but numbers say it still needs Boeing
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