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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 23. Development risks. September 6, 2024
- If a strike occurs, here’s what Boeing can do September 5, 2024
- China banks on C919, but numbers say it still needs Boeing September 2, 2024
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 22. High Turbine technologies. August 30, 2024
- The A330 for medium haul or twice the frequency with A321XLR? Part 1 August 29, 2024
American is the launch customer for 737RE–but not the launch operator
American Airlines is the launch customer for the Boeing 737 re-engine, but it’s not the launch operator. As American’s 10Q SEC filing revealed the day the order was announced, AA won’t take delivery of the first 737RE until… Read More
Posted on July 27, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
For Boeing: when one door closes, another door opens
There’s a saying that when one door closes on an opportunity, another door opens. This is the case with Boeing’s decision to proceed with a 737 re-engine. We first wrote about this in a previous post. Max-Kinglsey Jones… Read More
Posted on July 23, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
McBoeing, 787’s insidious impact overwhelm product strategy
McBoeing is alive and well in Seattle. “McBoeing” is the derisive moniker given the combined Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger of 1997 in which legacy Boeing personnel say MDC bought Boeing with Boeing’s money. Key positions in Boeing’s C-level suite… Read More
US airlines ready orders
There has been a rash of articles this week breathlessly focusing on US carriers and the prospect they will order airplanes this year. This is no revelation, nor is the prospect that Boeing customers might line up and… Read More
Posted on July 1, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Odds and Ends, Post-Paris Air Show 2011
Here are our closing views of the PAS: Boeing Boeing did very well at the show. We know the headlines almost universally say Boeing had a bad show (which it didn’t) and was trounced by Airbus (which it… Read More
Posted on June 27, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Odds and Ends at the Paris Air Show, Day 4
Our final Odds and Ends as we head back to Seattle Friday. Marc Birtel, one of the corp-com guys at Boeing, asked us what we were impressed by at the Air Show (this was Tuesday, before the Airbus… Read More
Posted on June 23, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
CSeries order intact, says Republic; CFM offered “great incentives” for engine deal
Bombardier’s CSeries order with Republic Airways Holdings, announced today at the Paris Air Show, is intact, says the company spokesman. Peter Kowalchuk told us late Wednesday (Paris time) that there is no change in the CSeries order, despite… Read More
Posted on June 22, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Qatar’s CEO on A350, CSeries
Qatar Airways was the launch customer of the Airbus A350-1000, for which Airbus has now moved entry-into-service back from 2015 to 2017 in order to provide for a higher-thrust engine design from Rolls-Royce, increased payload and increased range…. Read More
Posted on June 20, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Odds and ends on the final pre-Air Show day
Odds and Ends from the Paris Air Show While an order or two are expected to come from Qatar Airways’ mercurial CEO Akbar Al-Baker, the buzz here already is that U-Turn Al may yet again live up to… Read More
Posted on June 19, 2011 by Scott Hamilton
Boeing 737 re-engine studies very much alive
Boeing officials like to downplay the prospect of re-engining the venerable 737, but studies are very much alive as the company tries to figure out what the market wants and how to respond to the Airbus A320neo. Boeing… Read More
Posted on June 18, 2011 by Scott Hamilton