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Leeham News and Analysis
- Boeing IAM vote in 2 days; approval a hard sell September 10, 2024
- Union scourge Frank Lorenzo at last tells his story in “Flying for Peanuts” September 10, 2024
- Slow production ramp up, international sanctions slow C919 progress September 9, 2024
- Boeing, IAM reach tentative agreement on new contract September 8, 2024
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 23. Development risks. September 6, 2024
Major upcoming carrier re-fleetings
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction July 26, 2021, © Leeham News: As passenger traffic in the USA recovers, carriers’ operating cash flow turned consistently positive. With increased confidence in a sustainable passenger recovery, some airlines started ordering… Read More
2021 fleet trends: small jets get bigger, bigger jets get smaller – and the old makes way for the new
Subscription Required By Judson Rollins Introduction May 13, 2021, © Leeham News: Aviation data provider Cirium said last week that just under 7,850 commercial aircraft were still in storage, down from 8,684 at the beginning of the year… Read More
Sunset of the Quads, Part 7, The A380
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction All Nippon Airways’ Flying Honu A380 livery Sep. 17th, 2020, © Leeham News: Last week, we compared the economics of the A340-600 and the 777-300ER on the Los Angeles to Shanghai route…. Read More
A lingering shakeup in European skies
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Aug. 11, 2020, © Leeham News: There is a shake-up still to come for European airlines. LNA wrote in early March about the financial vulnerability of several European airlines as the COVID-19… Read More
Better to bring capacity back with a 777X or 777-300ER
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction April 30, 2020, © Leeham News: The travel restrictions implemented in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak lead to an unprecedented collapse in global passenger traffic. These travel restrictions should remain in… Read More
An upcoming shakeup in European skies
By Vincent Valery Introduction Mar. 3, 2020, © Leeham News: After the 2012-2014 European sovereign debt crisis, passenger traffic grew briskly in Europe. The expansion of low-cost airlines, combined with increasing passenger traffic from Asia, contributed to this… Read More
JetBlue, a carrier at crossroads
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Feb. 17, 2020, © Leeham News: JetBlue Airways has come a long way since it started operations in 2000. The airline celebrated its 20th-anniversary last week. While the US legacy carriers were… Read More
A380 service life struggles
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Sep. 30, 2019, © Leeham News: It hasn’t been an easy year for the Airbus A380 program since the end of production was announced in February. Lufthansa announced in March that Airbus… Read More
The struggling smaller European low cost carriers, Part 2.
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Sep. 9, 2019, © Leeham News: In last week’s article, we discussed the context that led to the creation of numerous European low cost and leisure carriers. We also outlined the main reasons for… 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