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Dissecting the United A319 deal: implications
Subscription required. Introduction May 19, 2015, c. Leeham Co. United Airlines and mega-lessor AerCap announced last week UAL will lease up to 25 Airbus A319s, with deliveries from 2016-2021. The aircraft are currently leased to China Southern Airlines…. Read More
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Posted on May 19, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
United Airlines revises fleet plan
April 23, 2015: United Airlines announced its 1Q2015 earnings today (which will eventually be posted with commentary on SkyWriterAviation.aero). What caught our eye in the press release was the following. United will: Complete the removal of more than… Read More
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Posted on April 23, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Bombardier sees solid future for CRJ
March 20, 2015: C. Leeham Co. Bombardier’s current challenges don’t end with the CSeries. The company has seen its once-dominate positions in the regional jet and turbo prop markets decline precipitously. The CRJ struggles in its sales against… Read More
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Posted on March 20, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Bombardier, Embraer, ISTAT, Mitsubishi, Sukhoi
Bombardier, CRJ-1000, CRJ-700, CRJ-900, E-175, E-190, E-Jet, E-Jet E1, E-Jet E2, Embraer, ISTAT, John Slattery, Mitsubishi, MRJ90, Q400, Ross Mitchell, SSJ100, Sukhoi
ISTAT: Bombardier vs Embraer: unsurprisingly, differing views
March 9, 2015: Ross Mitchell, vice president of business development, Bombardier, and John Slattery, chief commercial officer for Embraer, squared off today at the ISTAT conference. Below is a paraphrased summary of their panel discussion.
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Posted on March 9, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Order cycle may have peaked for mainline single-aisles, but smaller jet cycle booming
Feb 24, 2015: The mainline jet orders get the headlines, and the focus on the order cycle, but the smaller jets have yet to see their order cycle peak. Goldman Sachs downgraded Boeing to a Sell this week,… Read More
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Posted on February 24, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Sukhoi
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CRJ, CSeries, E-Jet, Embarer, ERJ, Mitsubishi, SSJ, Sukhoi
2015 a year of execution for Embraer commercial
Subscription Required Introduction Jan. 7, 2015: Embraer, the world’s #3 commercial airplane manufacturer, enters 2015 viewing this as a year of execution, says its chief commercial officer, John S. Slattery. There are three pillars: Continuing to fill out… Read More
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Posted on January 7, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Interview: CSeries program update with Bombardier’s program chief Dewar
Subscription required. Now open to all Readers. By Bjorn Fehrm and Scott Hamilton Introduction Nov. 24, 2014: Bombardier CSeries flight testing has now passed 500 flight hours, and with the addition of Flight Test Vehicle 5 to the… Read More
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Posted on November 24, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
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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E-Jet, the project that shaped Embraer
By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction In a recent visit to Embraer in Brazil we got a thorough brief on the background and decision making around the E-Jet and E-Jet E2 programs. We have written about these programs before but… Read More
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Posted on October 20, 2014 by Bjorn Fehrm
Mitsubishi rolls out MRJ90
Mitsubishi rolled out its MRJ90 regional jet, the first passenger airliner to be produced in Japan since the YS-11 turbo-prop in 1962. The MRJ90 challenges the Embraer E-175/190 and E2 and the Bombardier CRJ900. The smaller MRJ70 won’t… Read More
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Posted on October 20, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney, Sukhoi
787, Boeing, Bombardier, CRJ900, E-175, E-190, E-Jet, E-Jet E2, Embraer, GTF, Mitsubishi, MRJ90, Pratt & Whitney, SSJ100, Sukhoi