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A320 v 737: the sales winner is….

It’s one of the bitterest rivalries in the industrialized world: Airbus vs Boeing. Despite being world-class companies, executives at each often snipe at each other’s airplanes, claiming superiority in economics and passenger appeal. Like lawyers arguing a court… Read More

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 Posted on November 17, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer

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Republic Air once again raises doubts about CSeries order, on eve of BBD’s 3Q earnings call

Republic Airways Holdings, a launch customer for the Bombardier CSeries with 40 orders and 40 options for the CS300–the order that prompted Airbus to proceed with the A320neo program, which itself forced Boeing into the 737 MAX–once again… Read More

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 Posted on October 30, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries

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Embraer becomes #3 commercial aircraft company on E-Jet families

Free content. Introduction Embraer is now the #3 commercial airplane manufacturer, after Airbus and Boeing and supplanting Bombardier, capturing 50% of the orders and 60% of the deliveries in recent years. We examined the relevancy of the 100-149… Read More

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 Posted on October 15, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Sukhoi

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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

 29 Comments

 Posted on September 26, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries

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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

 12 Comments

 Posted on September 2, 2014 by

 Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer

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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

 Airbus, Boeing, CSeries, Malaysian Airlines, MH370, Pratt & Whitney

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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

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Pratt & Whitney

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PW re-delivering GTF to Bombardier CSeries flight test fleet, airborne program likely next month

Pratt & Whitney has completed a design repair for the Pure Power 1500G used on the Bombardier CSeries Flight Test Vehicles (FTVs) and is re-delivering the engines, Leeham News has learned. Flight tests are expected to resume in… Read More

 9 Comments

 Posted on August 25, 2014 by

 Airbus, Bombardier, CSeries, Pratt & Whitney

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Farnborough Air Show, July 16: Orders Summary

Here are the orders we’ve seen for today (there could be more); this should pretty well do it for the show, though it does continue through Friday and there probably will be a few more deals: Airbus: Air… Read More

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 Posted on July 16, 2014 by

 Airbus, ATR, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, CSeries, GE Aviation, Rolls-Royce

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CSeries setback as PW GTF has reported uncontained failure

Exclusive interview with Robert Saia, vice president of the Next Generation Product Family at Pratt & Whitney. PW believes it has a “good understanding” of what happened. Flight testing might resume quickly, reducing risk of program delay. Customers… Read More

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 Posted on June 1, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce

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