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Leeham News and Analysis
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- Boeing unlikely to meet FAA’s 90-day deadline for new safety program April 18, 2024
- Focus on quality not slowing innovation, says GKN April 18, 2024
- Boeing defends 787, 777 against whistleblower charges April 17, 2024
- Dissecting Boeing CEO’s statement next new airplane will cost $50bn April 15, 2024
HOTR: Eviation claims “almost” 300 orders worth more than $2bn; Boeing vs Airbus
By the Leeham News Team Nov. 10, 2022, © Leeham News: Eviation, the developer of the all-electric airplane Alice, today added another 20 commitments to its tally for the aircraft. The latest is from Australia’s Northern Territory Air… Read More
How Boeing can pursue new airplane sooner than 2030 decade
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Nov. 7, 2022, © Leeham News: Boeing is methodically working through the full return of the 737 MAX to service, a process that will continue to early 2025 to clear the stored inventory…. Read More
Pontifications: Boeing is fighting the last war instead of the present one
Nov. 7, 2022, © Leeham News: With the firm declaration that Boeing won’t launch a new airplane program until the next decade, CEO David Calhoun is signaling he’s content to see the company shrivel into a distant number… Read More
Boeing’s product move kills direct 767F replacement, puts 787F in doubt
By Scott Hamilton Nov. 4, 2022, © Leeham News: David Calhoun’s decision to tank all-new airplane development kills the direct replacement for the Boeing 767-300ERF that was under development. It also places in doubt the development of the… Read More
“The music will stop” because aviation will miss target “green” deadlines: Boeing’s Calhoun
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton David Calhoun. Source: Boeing. Oct. 24, 2022, © Leeham News: Boeing CEO David Calhoun believes that the plethora of concepts for shifting to “green” aviation may be confusing policymakers. And, he says, the… Read More
Pontifications: Two sentences described Boeing’s last two years
Oct. 24, 2022, © Leeham News: The question to Boeing CEO David Calhoun was put in levity. His response was telling. Susanne Clark, the president of the US Chamber of Commerce, noted before last month’s Aerospace Summit that… Read More
Boeing remarketing stored 737s ordered by China
By Scott Hamilton Sept. 15, 2022, © Leeham News: The indefinite delay in China authorizing Boeing to deliver 737 MAXes to airlines led Boeing to slowly remarket more than that are 100 stored. CEO David Calhoun said today… Read More
Boeing prepares to swap engines from MAX inventory to new production
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Aug. 15, 2022, © Leeham News: Boeing CEO David Calhoun says the company won’t build 737 gliders. That’s what airplanes are called as they exit final assembly without engines. The mitigation ironically comes… Read More
Pontifications: “Dreadful” or “clearing the decks”? Boeing’s first quarter results
May 2, 2022, © Leeham News: Boeing’s first quarter report was just awful. There’s just no getting around this, although a few Wall Street analysts bent over backward trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s… Read More