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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 19. April 25, 2025
- How good is the C929? Part 2. April 24, 2025
- Boeing First Quarter Results Update: China is 10% of the backlog, with 500 in “Unidentified” April 24, 2025
- Boeing First Quarter Results: Tariffs, Return flights, $10.55bn asset sale April 23, 2025
- RTX Q1 2025 Earnings: GTF Talk Takes A Back Seat To Tariffs April 22, 2025
Single-aisle production on track for 1,800/yr
Subscription Required Introduction May 7, 2018, © Leeham News: Single aisle airliner production rates are on a track to hit 1,800 per year by 2022, a new analysis by LNC concludes. This is for aircraft of 100 seats… Read More
Pontifications: Airbus easily leads narrow-body backlog, Boeing ahead in wide-bodies
Feb. 5, 2018, © Leeham Co.: Two thousand seventeen is over and the numbers are in. Airbus continues to have a commanding lead over Boeing for single-aisle, neo v MAX backlog. Although Airbus got pounded by Boeing in… Read More
Posted on February 5, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, Embraer, Emirates Airlines, Irkut, Pontifications
737 MAX, A320NEO, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, CS100, CS300, E190 E2, E195 E2, Embraer, Irkut
Boeing’s special needs in the next decade may be solved by Embraer
Subscription Required Introduction Jan. 8, 2018, © Leeham Co.: Key factors may play into the prospective business venture, however it’s defined, between Boeing and Embraer that have gotten little notice. Boeing’s need for engineering talent from Embraer has… Read More
Posted on January 8, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Alaska Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Delta Air Lines, Embraer, Middle of the Market, MOM, New Midmarket Aircraft, NMA
737-7, A319neo, A320NEO, A320neo Plus, A321NEO, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, C Series, E175 E2, E175-E1, E190 E2, E195 E2, EJet E2, Embraer, Middle of Market, MOM, New Midmarket Aircraft, New Small Airplane, NMA, NSA
Embraer’s transition years, 2017 and 2018
By Bjorn Fehrm December 29, 2017, ©. Leeham Co.: The past year was a transition year for Embraer. Their E-Jet was in its last year before deliveries of the new E2 version begins. The company labels 2018 as an additional… Read More
Posted on December 29, 2017 by Bjorn Fehrm
How Boeing, Embraer benefit from a combination
Analysis Dec. 26, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Potential synergies exist between Boeing and Embraer which may be important to development of the next new, clean-sheet airplane for both companies. Last week, both firms acknowledged a Wall Street Journal… Read More
Posted on December 26, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Embraer’s improved E-Jet E2
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction December 07, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Embraer is four months from first service introduction of the new generation E-Jet, the E190-E2, with Norway’s Wideroe. Following the smooth E190-E2 program will be the… Read More
Posted on December 7, 2017 by Bjorn Fehrm
50% increase in CSeries sales forecast–but what does this mean?
Nov. 1, 2017, © Leeham Co.: For years, Bombardier forecast the 20-year market demand in the 100-150 seat sector as between 6,000 and 7,200, depending on the year of the forecast. Airbus in 2014, the last year the… Read More
Posted on November 2, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Boeing-Embraer venture in response to Airbus-Bombardier? Don’t count on it
Subscription Required Introduction Oct. 23, 2017, © Leeham Co.: With the tie-up announced last Monday between Airbus and Bombardier for the CSeries, speculation immediately turned to whether Boeing and Embraer will join forces in some fashion in response…. Read More
Posted on October 23, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
American wants to decide A350 fate within six months
Sept. 28, 2017, © Leeham Co., Grapevine (TX): American Airlines would like to decide within six months what it will do with its order for 22 Airbus A350-900s, a left-over deal from US Airways before the latter acquired… Read More
Posted on September 28, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
A view around the Paris Air Show
June 17, 2017, (c) Leeham Co.: It’s surprising that many hall and chalet exhibits are still in a state of construction as LNC walked around the Paris Air Show Saturday, but we’ve noted this before. Meanwhile, here are a… Read More
Posted on June 17, 2017 by Scott Hamilton