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Leeham News and Analysis
- Boeing-IAM contract talks fail, no new negotiations scheduled, no end in sight October 9, 2024
- Boeing 3Q deliveries up despite strike October 8, 2024
- Strike slows Boeing’s march toward improving safety culture October 7, 2024
- Aerospace supply chain still ailing; Sustainable Aviation Fuel isn’t the answer to go green October 4, 2024
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 27. Long developments October 4, 2024
Southwest, the “legacy LCC,” part 2: Bloated labor expense, difficult fleet strategy result in uncompetitive cost structure
Subscription Required By Judson Rollins Introduction May 20, 2024, © Leeham News: Southwest Airlines was founded on the principles of high employee productivity and low labor costs. But 53 years after beginning operations, its labor cost as a… Read More
Has Airbus pinned too much of its hopes on LCC growth?
Subscription Required By Judson Rollins November 14, 2023, © Leeham News: Much ink has been spilled over the bad – and increasingly worse – year for America’s low-cost carriers or LCCs. Frontier, JetBlue, Southwest, and Spirit have all… Read More
Assessing airlines’ narrowbody replacement needs
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Jan. 27, 2020, © Leeham News: The Boeing 737 MAX crisis appears headed for resolution within a few months. Stephen Dickson, the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, told American, Southwest and… Read More
The struggling smaller European low cost carriers
Subscription required By Vincent Valery Sep. 2, 2019, © Leeham News: Germania, flyBMI and Wow Air ceased operations this year. FlyBe was sold to a consortium that includes Virgin Atlantic for a symbolic amount. Norwegian Air Shuttle and… Read More
Airbus’ strategy for the A330-800
By Scott Hamilton Dec. 6, 2017, © Leeham Co.: The A330-800 entered the final assembly line last week at the Airbus production plant in Toulouse, France, amid doubts in the industry that the airplane will be produced beyond… Read More
Top Airbus, Boeing shift to LCCs, away from legacy carriers
Here is a story we did last week for Flight Global Pro. With huge orders last year for the Airbus A320neo family and this year for the Boeing 737 Max, the top customers for the Big Two OEMs… Read More