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Leeham News and Analysis
- Boeing reports mixed results of latest employee survey, but middle management and officers remain key obstacles April 22, 2025
- Hopes for 1Q financial progress turns into bumpy ride for Boeing April 21, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 18. April 18, 2025
- Natilus: Composite BWB, entry-into-service by 2029, 570 on order April 17, 2025
- China bans Boeing, US parts imports in tariff war April 15, 2025
Airline assets and lessor assets: Bombardier and Embraer
Subscription Required Part 2. Part 1 may be found here. Introduction Bombardier invented the regional jet. Despite some sales these days, the CRJ was eclipsed by the Embraer J-Jet. Bombardier photo. Oct. 10, 2016, © Leeham Co.: Regional… Read More
Posted on October 10, 2016 by Scott Hamilton
Airlines, American Airlines, Bombardier, CSeries, Delta Air Lines, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney, Premium, Sukhoi, United Airlines, US Airways
American Airlines, Bombardier, C-110, C-130, Continental Airlines, CRJ, CSeries, Delta Air Lines, E-Jet, Embraer, ERJ, GTF, Mitsubishi, MRJ90, Pratt & Whitney, SSJ100, Sukhoi, United Airlines, US Airways
ISTAT Europe 2016: Regional aircraft market
By Bjorn Fehrm September 26, 2016, ©. Leeham Co: We are reporting from ISTAT (International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading) 2016 in Barcelona. The regional aircraft panel, discussing the future for the regional aircraft market, featured Embraer, Bombardier, Mitsubishi… Read More
Posted on September 27, 2016 by Bjorn Fehrm
Airbus, Boeing cost-cutting
Sept. 20, 2016: Airbus is planning cost-cutting measures to offset program write-offs and delivery delays, according to The Financial Times. One of these delays involves the well-publicized problems with the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbo Fan engine on… Read More
Posted on September 20, 2016 by Scott Hamilton
Weekly analysts report: Reaction to CSeries delivery delays
Sept. 7, 2016: The news that Bombardier is halving its projected deliveries of the CSeries this year because of engine delays from Pratt & Whitney drew commentary from a couple of the analysts whose reports LNC receives. Cutting the… Read More
Posted on September 7, 2016 by Scott Hamilton
44% supplier shortfall for GTF now showing impact
Sept. 6, 2016, © Leeham Co.: It was a stunning admission, one that produced the biggest headlines at the United Technologies media days in June: 44% of the suppliers on Pratt & Whitney’s Geared Turbo Fan engine weren’t… Read More
Posted on September 6, 2016 by Scott Hamilton
Bjorn’s Corner: A good in-service start for CSeries
August 26, 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Bombardier’s CSeries appears to have a good start in airline operations following its show-and-tell at the Farnborough Air Show in July. The first CS100 entered service with launch customer SWISS International Airlines shortly after… Read More
Posted on August 26, 2016 by Bjorn Fehrm
Interview with Rob Dewar: CSeries in service reliability
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription required Introduction 21July 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Bombardier”s CSeries project has passed one hurdle after another during its development. The last one was the lack of Marquee customers on top of launch customer SWISS…. Read More
Posted on July 21, 2016 by Bjorn Fehrm
The A380 investors day jinx
July 15, 2016, © Leeham Co., Farnborough Air Show: At an event like this, we pick up all sorts of snippets that don’t fit into any given story. So here’s a compilation of our Odds and Ends… Read More
Posted on July 15, 2016 by Scott Hamilton
Bjorn’s corner: Farnborough week
July 15, 2016, ©. Leeham Co, Farnborough Air Show: We have been at Farnborough Air Show this week, the highlight of the year for an aircraft geek like me. This year there were several interesting aircraft that visited the… Read More
Posted on July 15, 2016 by Bjorn Fehrm
Pontifications: New war of words erupts
July 11, 2016, © Leeham Co., Farnborough Air Show: The war of words between Airbus and Boeing is legendary, and it continued unabated today, the first day of the Farnborough Air Show. See my column in Forbes for… Read More
Posted on July 11, 2016 by Scott Hamilton