HOLIDAY SCHEDULE: Unless there is major, breaking news, Leeham News and Comment is taking the Christmas-New Year’s holidays off. We resume our normal publishing scheduled Jan. 4, 2016. Update, Dec. 25: The Seattle Times reports the MRJ90 doesn’t… Read More
Posted on December 23, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Dec. 21, 2015, © Leeham Co.: Mitsubishi Aircraft announced last week that its MRJ90 program was undergoing a review following three test flights. A new schedule could be announced as early as this week, but by the end… Read More
Posted on December 21, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Part 2 Sept. 10, 2015, © Leeham Co. Embraer is the dominant producer of commercial aircraft in the 70-125 seat sector, having overtaken Bombardier in the last decade following the development and 2004 introduction of the E-Jet. Bombardier’s CRJ… Read More
Posted on September 10, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas, Mitsubishi
767, A320, A400M, Airbus, Boeing 737, Bombardier, C-130, CRJ, E-175, E-175-E2, E-190, E-190 E2, E-195, E-Jet, Embraer, International Aero Engines, KC-390, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas, MD-90, Mitsubishi, MRJ90, Paulo Cesar, Q400, SkyWest Airlines, Trans States Airlines, V2500
August 3, 2015, © Leeham Co.: Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. today opened its Seattle Engineering Center jointly with local company AeroTEC in advance of the first flight of the MRJ90 in September or October. During the second quarter of next… Read More
Posted on August 3, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
June 17, 2015, Paris Air Show, c. Leeham Co. With focus, as always, on Airbus and Boeing, and an airplane that neither exists nor is about to any time in the near-term (the Middle of the Market aircraft),… Read More
Posted on June 17, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
April 13, 2015: A campaign that began last year between Airbus and Boeing for a large order of 100 airplanes at Europe’s Low Cost Carrier, Wizz Air, could be the first face off between the “A320neo 195” (our… Read More
Posted on April 13, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Mitsubishi
737 MAX, 737 MAX 200, 747-8, 777X, 787, A320neo 195, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Casey Stengel, CS100, CS300, CSeries, GAO, Government Accounting Office, Ilyushin Finance Co, KC-46A, Mitsubishi, MRJ90, New York Mets, New York Yankees, P-8A, Wizz Air
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
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
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
Feb. 12, 2015, c. 2015 Leeham News and Comment: Boeing appeared to put to bed once and for all any prospect of reviving the 757 to fill a product gap between the 737-9 and the 787-8. Randy Tinseth,… Read More
Posted on February 12, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, CFM, Embraer, GE Aviation, Mitsubishi, Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce
737 MAX, 737NG, 747-8, 757, 757 MAX, A320NEO, A321LR, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, CSeries, E-Jet E2, Embraer, GE Aviation, Irkut, MC-21, Mitsu, MRJ90, Pratt & Whitney, Randy Tinseth, Rolls-Royce, United Technologies