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- Engine makers tout “Plan A” but have “Plan B” backups in R&D June 23, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 27. June 20, 2025
- Pontifications: A Personal Note June 19, 2025
- Airbus books 142 firm orders as Boeing retracts from the Paris Air Show June 19, 2025
- AIN Media Group Agrees to Acquire Leeham News & Analysis June 17, 2025
The Airliner Production Problem
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm September 14, 2023, © Leeham News: For more than a year, we have heard all the Airliner OEMs complain that they can’t increase production rates because of delivery problems in their supply chain…. Read More
The engine manufacturers worst hit by the pandemic
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction September 28, 2020, © Leeham News: The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is shaking the air travel and airliner manufacturing industries like no crisis before. More than 9/11, the oil crisis of 1973 or… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 11. Wrapup.
July 18, 2020, ©. Leeham News: It’s time to wrap our Corner series about flying during the COVID-19 pandemic. We started the series on the 8th of May. A lot of knowledge has been gained since, about COVID-19… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 9. Stay hydrated.
July 3, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In our Corner series about flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, we examine how cabin humidity affects the risks of getting COVID-19. The extensive research around the seasonality of flu infections gives us… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 8. Boarding and deboarding.
June 26, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In our Corner series about flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, we look closer at the boarding and deboarding part. We have identified it as possibly the most troublesome part of a flight… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 7. Effects of prevention.
June 19, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In our Corner series about flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, we look at opening up traveling and how re-emerging infection clusters can be handled. With a four-month pandemic history, several studies now… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 3.
May 22, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In our Corner series about flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, we look closer at the available research around passengers that fly with virus infections and if these spread to other passengers during… Read More