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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 48. eVTOL traffic management December 2, 2022
- Green aviation pressure applied to banks, oil companies, too December 1, 2022
- MTU gets support from Pratt & Whitney to develop the WET engine November 29, 2022
- Boeing faces exodus of senior engineers in tight market for talent November 28, 2022
- Pontifications: Airports and aviation or mass transit, conventional or high-speed rail November 26, 2022
Analysts forecast traffic growth but scant profits for Indian airlines
Subscription Required By Bryan Corliss Oct. 17, 2022 © Leeham News: After sustaining major losses in their most-recent fiscal years, India’s airlines will recover in 2022. But rising fuel and labor costs, plus weak prospects for financing will… Read More
Pontifications: A deeper hole for the Boeing 737 MAX market share
Aug. 9, 2021, © Leeham News: Boeing’s 737 MAX market share vs Airbus is in a deeper hole than may be generally realized. Aviation Week last week complied a list of the top seven low-cost carrier airlines in… Read More
Air India’s Rupee bottomless pit
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Jan. 6, 2020, © Leeham News: Air India lost more than $1bn in the fiscal year 2018-19. After years of heavy financial losses, the Indian government is mulling another privatization attempt. The… Read More
Preferred 737 MAX return to service timeline for Airlines
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Oct. 21, 2019, © Leeham News: As Boeing sorts out final requirements with regulators for the 737 MAX return to service, preparations to resume deliveries are in full steam. The company is… Read More
Boeing’s 737 in another pickle
By Bjorn Fehrm October 1, 2019, ©. Leeham News: The FAA has issued an Air Worthiness Directive (AD) for high time Boeing 737 NGs, requiring immediate inspections for cracks in their wing attachments called pickle forks. The cracks were… Read More
India outlook for Airbus, Boeing: Optimistic at first sight, but what lies beneath?
Special to Leeham News and Comment. May 30, 2018, © Leeham News: As one of the fastest growing airline markets in the world, India represents a large and growing part of the Airbus and Boeing order books. Although… Read More
Jet Airways, India’s second largest airline
By Bjorn Fehrm May 23, 2018, ©. Leeham Co: Jet Airways is India’s second-largest airline after IndiGo and India’s largest Full-Service carrier, transporting 4 million passengers more than AIr India during 2017. After years of ups and downs, the… Read More
Leveraged Go Air plans major expansion
April 13, 2018, © Leeham News: Go Air of India is the fourth-ranked low-cost carrier by market share, with big ambitions. The airline had only 32 airplanes at the end of last year but had more than 140… Read More