Introduction Oct. 12, 2014, (c) Leeham Co.: The 100-149 seat market sector has long been criticized as irrelevant because of a string of poor-selling aircraft. Boeing officials even labeled this a Bermuda Triangle. The critics fail to recognize,… Read More
Top 10 aviation stories of the year on Leeham News
Dec. 31, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Airplane development and the whimsicle made the Top 10 stories on LNC in 2017. The Top 10 are a statistical listing of the most-viewed posts, not some judgment call on the part… Read More
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Posted on December 31, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airlines, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Emirates Airlines, Leeham News and Comment, McDonnell Douglas, MOM, New Midmarket Aircraft, NMA, Qatar Airways
737-7, 737-700, 777-9, A321, A321NEO, A322, A380, Airbus, Bernstein Research, Boeing, Bombardier, C Series, Delta Air Lines, Emirates Airline, McDonnell Douglas, MD-95, New Midmarket Aircraft, NMA, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines
Analyst: Airbus could eventually terminate CSeries program
Nov. 7, 2017, © Leeham Co.: The Bombardier CSeries may go the way of the McDonnell Douglas MD-95, a Wall Street aerospace analyst suggests: that is, the program is likely to remain unprofitable and be shut down. Doug… Read More
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Posted on November 7, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, McDonnell Douglas
Airbus, Bernstein Research, Boeing, Boeing 717, Bombardier, CSeries, Doug Harned, McDonnell Douglas, MD-95
Pontifications: The Bottom Line isn’t always about The Bottom Line
June 6, 2016, © Leeham Co.: Sweetheart deals to win strategic aircraft orders are nothing new in commercial aviation. John Leahy, COO-Customers for Airbus, last week poked Bombardier for its order from Delta Air Lines. Citing a reported… Read More
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Posted on June 6, 2016 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Delta Air Lines, Douglas Aircraft Co, Lockheed Martin, Pontifications
737-600, 767, A300-600R, A300B4, A310, Air Canada, Air France, AirBaltic, Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, DC-3, DC-5, DC-9 Super 80, Delta Air Lines, Eastern Airlines, John Leahy, Lockheed, Lufthansa Airlines, MD-80, MD-95, Pan Am, Pan American, SAS
C-17: the end of an era
Dec. 1,2015: The last C-17 flew off the Boeing production line in Long Beach (CA) last week, ending aircraft production at the former McDonnell Douglas plant that began delivering Douglas DC-8s at the start of the jet age…. Read More
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Posted on December 1, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Boeing, Douglas Aircraft Co, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas
717, Boeing, C-17, DC-10, DC-8, DC-8-60, DC-8-70, DC-9. DC-9 Super 80, L-1011, Lockheed, MD-11, MD-80, MD-90, MD-95
Pontifications: 50% of something or 100% of nothing: something to consider at Bombardier
On Sunday, The Seattle Times had a long article about whether the Boeing 787 will ever record a profit. Leeham Co’s Bjorn Fehrm is quoted extensively. Oct. 19, 2015, © Leeham Co. Bombardier is dominating the aerospace news… Read More
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Posted on October 19, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, McDonnell Douglas, Pontifications
737-7, 737-8, A319, A320NEO, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CS100, CS300, CSeries, E-Jet E2, Embraer, McDonnell Douglas, MD-95
A320 FAL “good for US aerospace,” says Airbus
Sept. 16, 2015, © Leeham Co., Mobile (AL): The opening of the Airbus A320 Final Assembly Line here achieves a major set of goals set by the company 10 years ago for its own strategic purposes, but… Read More
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Posted on September 16, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
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Assessing the 100-149 Seat Sector
Introduction Oct. 12, 2014, (c) Leeham Co.: The 100-149 seat market sector has long been criticized as irrelevant because of a string of poor-selling aircraft. Boeing officials even labeled this a Bermuda Triangle. The critics fail to recognize,… Read More
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Posted on October 12, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer
727-100, 737 Classic, 737-200, 737-600, 737-7, 737-700, A318, A319ceo, A319neo, Airbus, B717, BAC-111, BAe-146, Boeing, Bombardier, British Aerospace, British Aircraft Corp., CS-100, CS-300, CSeries, DC-9, E-195, E-195 E2, E-Jet, E-Jet E2, Embraer, F-100, Fokker, MD-80, MD-95
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