Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- RTX Q1 2025 Earnings: GTF Talk Takes A Back Seat To Tariffs April 22, 2025
- Tariffs Tumult Takes Over GE Aerospace Q1 2025 Earnings Call April 22, 2025
- 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
French union understands “Buy American” on tanker
Update, July 19: Airbus says CGT is fourth Union out of five for Airbus in France, representing about 10 percent of Airbus employees in France. Update, July 16: We received this from CGT: the union severed ties in 1978.Christian and… Read More
EADS submits tanker bid; Boeing to follow
Update, 2:30 PM: Here are three PDF slides of information from the press conference, comparing the KC-45 with the KC-767 NewGen: KC-45 slides 7-08-10. Boeing does not plan a press conference with its tanker submission tomorrow-just a press… Read More
Our take on the WTO panel report
Well, we have necessarily done a quick scan of the 1,000+ page document, skipping all the history and back-and-forth and concentrating on the findings and conclusions that begin on PDF page 288 of the document. ************* Podcast with… Read More
What’s next in WTO case
Update, July 2: The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. This Defense News article details plans by a US company to offer a Russian airplane in the KC-X competition. Photo from Defense News Talk about a foreign,… Read More
EADS statement on WTO affect on KC-X competition
From Guy Hicks, VP of corporate communications at EADS North America: “The Obama Administration and Department of Defense have opposed every attempt to use the ongoing WTO commercial trade dispute to derail the KC-X competition. The only beneficiary… Read More
Boeing responds to the public release of the WTO ruling
Boeing has issued the following statement: Boeing Calls WTO Ruling a Landmark Decision and Sweeping Legal Victory – Launch aid for every Airbus program deemed illegal and damaging – ‘Prohibited’ A380 launch aid must be withdrawn ‘without delay’… Read More
Airbus responds to WTO public release of final subsidies report
The 1,038 page Final Report by a three-member panel of the World Trade Organization on the US complaint about illegal subsidies to Airbus was made public today. Findings and Conclusions: 5 pages, PDF. These are difficult to grasp… Read More
“More has been costing more”
With the Pentagon’s announcement this week that a major push has begun to wring costs out of the defense budget, will this macro approach trickle down to one of the largest defense procurements in decades–the KC-X tanker recapitalization?… Read More
Dictionary and the KC-45
We love clever ads. Here is the PDF. KC-X_Dictionary Below the jump is EADS’ ad that appeared yesterday.