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- Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 28. Development times.
- Airbus FY2025: Not happy with Pratt & Whitney
- Airbus leans toward launching “A220-500”, but faces challenges
- Privatizing Air Traffic Control: Why Canada’s Success Story Won’t Work Here
- Safran hails ‘outstanding’ 2025; prepares for Airbus ramp-up
Pontifications: Pilots train for instrumentation mismatches
Nov. 5, 2018, © Leeham News: It was a week ago that Lion Air JT 610 crashed into the sea, just 13 minutes after takeoff. The crash was the first involving the Boeing 737 MAX (in this case,… Read More
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Posted on November 5, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Huge surge of A320 orders greatly exceed near-, mid-term A320 retirements
Subscription Required Introduction Oct. 4, 2018, © Leeham News: The huge surge of orders for the Airbus A320 family far outstrips the aging aircraft statistics, an analysis shows. Airbus has a backlog of more than 6,000 A320 family… Read More
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Posted on October 4, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Future Mobile A220 final assembly line already pushing capacity
July 11, 2018, © Leeham News: The order for 60 Airbus A220-300s, when added to the order for 75 A220-100s by Delta Air Lines and the anticipated order for 60 A220-300s by USA start-up carrier Moxy Airlines, nearly… Read More
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Posted on July 11, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
JetBlue orders 60 A220-300s in surprise timing
July 10, 2018, (c) Leeham News: JetBlue announced an order today for 60 Airbus A220-300s, nee Bombardier CS300s. The airline took options on 60 more. The timing is a surprise–JetBlue previously said it would not be ready to… Read More
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Posted on July 10, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Boeing, Embraer tie-up key to NMA development
Subscription Required Introduction July 9, 2018, © Leeham News: When Boeing and Embraer announced last week the Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint venture between Boeing and Embraer Commercial Airplanes, writers and analysts jumped on the bandwagon… Read More
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Posted on July 9, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Pontifications: C Series to Airbus, 10 years since program launch, lower fuel burn
July 2, 2018, © Leeham News: Airbus officially became the majority partner yesterday of the C Series Aircraft Limited Partnership, or CSALP. Airbus has a 50.01% stake in the LP, with Bombardier and the province of Quebec holding… Read More
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Posted on July 2, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Pontifications: Growing aerospace in the US Southeast
June 24, 2018, © Leeham News: We’re a week away from the partnership between Airbus and the Bombardier C Series program becoming effective. Beginning tomorrow, Leeham Co. and Airfinance Journal hold the Inaugural Southeast Aerospace & Defence Conference… Read More
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Posted on June 25, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
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Pontifications: Why Embraer downplayed range of EJet
June 18, 2018, © Leeham News: Bjorn Fehrm on Thursday wrote (behind the paywall) that Embraer seems to be selling the E190-E2 short when it comes to range. Embraer’s published range is 2,850nm. But Bjorn discovered that the… Read More
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Posted on June 18, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Pontifications: Measured comments and “useful” information
March 5, 2018, © Leeham Co.: Nothing is as frustrating to a journalist as interview a great subject who doesn’t offer up anything especially useful. I had a brief sideline interview with one such person at the US… Read More
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Posted on March 5, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Pontifications: OEMs hike list prices
Feb. 26, 2018, © Leeham Co.: I’m tardy in getting around to this topic, which I do annually, because of an unusually heavy travel schedule this year. The airframe manufacturers in January adjusted their list prices for airplanes…. Read More
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Posted on February 26, 2018 by Scott Hamilton