Bombardier scored a major executive coup with the appointment of Nico Buchholz as Chief of Procurement for the entire company. Buchholz was Executive VP Group Fleet Management for Lufthansa Airlines and Group, with various fleet management titles, since… Read More
Posted on September 8, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Subscription required. Introduction July 28, 2015: © Leeham Co. Trying to decipher what the airframe Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are going to do is a sporty game that is often analogous to Kremlin watching, especially when it comes to… Read More
Posted on July 28, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
June 29, 2015, © Leeham Co. Back on June 1, I wrote in this column I had yet to experience traveling on the Airbus A380, which entered service in 2007. The A380 doesn’t serve Seattle, where I live, and… Read More
Posted on June 29, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airlines, American Airlines, Boeing, Delta Air Lines, Paris Air Show, Pontifications, Qatar Airways, United Airlines
737, 747-8, A319, A320, A350, A380, Air France, Airbus, Akbar Al-Baker, American Airlines, BE Aerospace, Boeing, Boeing Sky Interior, Delta Air Lines, Lufthansa Airlines, Paris Air Show, Qatar Airways, Recaro, United Airlines
June 7, 2015: The chief executive officer of Lutfhansa Airlines said he welcomes the Big Three US airliners to the dispute over whether the Big Three Middle Eastern carriers are unfairly competing against legacy airlines. Carsten Spohr, CEO… Read More
Posted on June 7, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airlines, American Airlines, Boeing, Delta Air Lines, Emirates Airlines, Qatar Airways, United Airlines
747-400F, airlines, American Airlines, Boeing, Carsten Spohr, Delta Air Lines, Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways, IATA, International Air Transport Assn., Lufthansa Airlines, MD-11F, Qatar Airways, United Airlines
Subscription Required Introduction April 28, 2015, c. Leeham Co. Goldman Sachs over the weekend issued a research note, Is the new aircraft supply/demand equation nearing a tipping point? GS cited the recent United and American airlines actions involving… Read More
Posted on April 28, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airlines, American Airlines, Boeing, Germanwings, Premium, United Airlines
737 MAX 200, 737NG, 747-400, 767-300ERs, 777, 777-300ER, 787, A320NEO, A321LR, A330ceo, A330neo, A350, Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Emirates Airlines, Goldman Sachs, JetBlue, Lufthansa Airlines, Singapore Airlines, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Wizzair
March 9, 2015: The top four players now are acting differently than previous eras, focusing on profits and return on capital instead of market share, says Mark Eliasen, vice president of finance and treasurer of Alaska Airlines. Alaska… Read More
Posted on March 9, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Feb. 25, 2015. c. Leeham Co. When Boeing CEO Jim McNerney last year suggested that a replacement for the 757 could be based on the 787 or the 737 MAX, the statement conjured up visions of resurrecting the… Read More
Posted on February 25, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Maintenance and power-by-the-hour parts and support contracts are increasingly becoming the deciding factor in deciding which engines and which airplanes will be ordered—it’s no longer a matter of engine price or even operating costs, customers of Airbus and… Read More
Posted on August 25, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, Comac, CSeries, Embraer, GE Aviation, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce
737 MAX, 737NG, 747-400, 767, 777, 777-200LR, 777-300ER, 777X, 787, A320ceo, A320NEO, A330ceo, A330neo, Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, C919, CF34, CFM, CFM 56, Comac, CSeries, E-Jet, E-Jet E2, Embraer, Frontier Airlines, GE Aviation, GECAS, GEnx, GTF, Irkut, LEAP, Lufthansa Airlines, MC-21, Mitsubishi, MRJ, Pratt & Whitney, Republic Airways Holdings, Rolls-Royce
Two orders were announced this week for the Airbus A330 and Boeing 777-300ER, important for filling the production gaps of each airplane. In the aggregate, the current backlogs go through 2016, though in reality, they stream beyond that… Read More
Posted on March 27, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
We’re back from what we had planned as a holiday hiatus. This was interrupted by the IAM-Boeing 777X contract issue, of which we felt compelled to initiate some special posts. This leads off our 2013 Year in Review…. Read More
Posted on December 31, 2013 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, IAM 751, International Association of Machinists
737 MAX, 777X, 787, A350 XWB, Airbus, All Nippon Airways, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Dubai Air Show, Emirates Airlines, Etihad Airlines, IAM 751, International Association of Machinists, Japan Air Lines, Lufthansa Airlines, Qatar Airways