Outlook 2024: Can ATR finally achieve its production target?

By Judson Rollins Jan. 15, 2024, © Leeham News: For the second year in a row, ATR fell short of its stated production targets. ATR delivered just 25 new aircraft in 2022 and 35 in 2023. The latter… Read More

Carbon footprint: Regional jet versus turboprop, how large is the difference?

Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction January 27, 2022, © Leeham News: Last week, we kicked off a series of articles where we will measure what difference our choice of flying makes to the primary Greenhouse gas emission,… Read More

Pontifications: The reshaped commercial aviation sector

July 12, 2021, © Leeham News: With Washington State and the US open for business following nearly 18 months of COVID-pandemic shut-down, there is a lot of optimism in commercial aviation. In the US, airline passenger traffic headcounts… Read More

Outlook 2021: Embraer faces recovery from failed JV, COVID

Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm and Vincent Valery Introduction Jan. 7, 2021, © Leeham News: Embraer faces the twin challenges this year: recovering from the aborted Boeing joint venture and COVID. Neither is going to be easy. Embraer… Read More

Pontifications: Outlook 2021 Series begins today

Jan. 4, 2021, © Leeham News: Beginning today through next week, Leeham News presents its annual Outlook series for the coming year. We’ve been doing this for years. In recent years, the Outlook reflected continued growth in commercial… Read More

Podcast: 10 Minutes About Embraer’s Turboprop

Dec. 7, 2020, (c) Leeham News: Embraer studies whether to develop a new generation turboprop to compete with and replace the ATR-72 and De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400. Both of these airplanes were designed in the 1980-90s, although… Read More