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Leeham News and Analysis
- Boeing reports mixed results of latest employee survey, but middle management and officers remain key obstacles April 22, 2025
- Hopes for 1Q financial progress turns into bumpy ride for Boeing April 21, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 18. April 18, 2025
- Natilus: Composite BWB, entry-into-service by 2029, 570 on order April 17, 2025
- China bans Boeing, US parts imports in tariff war April 15, 2025
Pratt & Whitney: Lean, automated manufacturing key to GTF ramp up
April 2, 2015: Lean principals and increased shifting to automated manufacturing are key to an aggressive ramp up for the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbo Fan engine, according to officials. The first production engines for the Airbus A320neo… Read More
Posted on April 2, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Bombardier sees solid future for CRJ
March 20, 2015: C. Leeham Co. Bombardier’s current challenges don’t end with the CSeries. The company has seen its once-dominate positions in the regional jet and turbo prop markets decline precipitously. The CRJ struggles in its sales against… Read More
Posted on March 20, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Bombardier, Embraer, ISTAT, Mitsubishi, Sukhoi
Bombardier, CRJ-1000, CRJ-700, CRJ-900, E-175, E-190, E-Jet, E-Jet E1, E-Jet E2, Embraer, ISTAT, John Slattery, Mitsubishi, MRJ90, Q400, Ross Mitchell, SSJ100, Sukhoi
Pontifications: From the sidelines of the ISTAT conference, Notes #2
March 13, 2015: More Notes from the sidelines at the ISTAT conference this week in Phoenix. Boeing 777 production rates and advancing schedule Randy Tinseth, Boeing VP-Marketing, predictably stuck to Boeing messaging Monday at the ISTAT conference when… Read More
Posted on March 13, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Order cycle may have peaked for mainline single-aisles, but smaller jet cycle booming
Feb 24, 2015: The mainline jet orders get the headlines, and the focus on the order cycle, but the smaller jets have yet to see their order cycle peak. Goldman Sachs downgraded Boeing to a Sell this week,… Read More
Posted on February 24, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Sukhoi
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CRJ, CSeries, E-Jet, Embarer, ERJ, Mitsubishi, SSJ, Sukhoi
Odds and Ends: CSeries; Mitsubishi MRJ; Air France; Saving airlines
CSeries: Bombardier provided a short update from program head Rob Dewar in advance of its 2014 earnings call Thursday. The flutter test has been completed, CS300 is moving toward joining the flight test fleet and the fleet has… Read More
Posted on February 9, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Regional operations with the Turboprop, prop-jet or Jet
We examined the future of turboprop airliners Jan. 5, 2015, analyzing the backlogs of Bombardier and ATR–and the ATR overwhelming dominance of the current turboprop sector. This is the second of a series looking at this sector. By… Read More
Posted on February 8, 2015 by Bjorn Fehrm
Single-aisle values, lease rates stable; smaller mainline jets struggle
Special to Leeham News and Comment By Gueric Dechavanne Collateral Verifications Feb. 8, 2015: Apart from a few unfortunate events, the industry has been moving along quite nicely so far in 2015. Used single-aisle aircraft values and lease… Read More
First analysis of Mitsubishi Regional Jet, MRJ
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction 25 Jan 2015: Japan has not produced a commercial aircraft since 1973, when the last YS-11 twin engined turboprop rolled off the assembly line. The YS-11 was developed by a consortium of Japanese “heavies,”… Read More
Posted on January 25, 2015 by Bjorn Fehrm
2015 a year of execution for Embraer commercial
Subscription Required Introduction Jan. 7, 2015: Embraer, the world’s #3 commercial airplane manufacturer, enters 2015 viewing this as a year of execution, says its chief commercial officer, John S. Slattery. There are three pillars: Continuing to fill out… Read More
Posted on January 7, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Looking ahead in 2015 in commercial aviation
Here’s a visualization of events to look for in commercial aviation in 2015.
Posted on December 26, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, China, Comac, CSeries, Embraer, GE Aviation, Mitsubishi, Paris Air Show, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce
767-2C, A320NEO, A350-1000, A350-900, A380neo, air force tanker, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, CSeries, E-Jet E2, Embraer, GTF, KC-46A, LEAP, MC-21, Mitsubishi, MRJ, Pratt & Whitney, Qatar Airways, Rolls-Royce, Trent XWB