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Big hurdles for COMAC to become serious challenger to Airbus, Boeing

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton May 27, 2024, © Leeham News: A flurry of orders by China’s Big Three airlines finally began to balance announced deals for the COMAC C-919 mainline jet. Until the recent orders from Air… Read More

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 Posted on May 27, 2024 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Premium, Yakovlev

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Regional Jet Retirements

Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction   June 22, 2020, © Leeham News: Last week, LNA analyzed the narrowbody aircraft retirements. We now turn our attention to the regional jet market. LNA analyzes retirement prospects for Embraer’s E-Jet and… Read More

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 Posted on June 22, 2020 by

 Bombardier, Embraer, Premium

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2019 Paris Air Show Preview

By Vincent Valery Subscription Required June 3, 2019, © Leeham News: The 2019 Paris Air Show kicks off in two weeks at the Le Bourget Exhibition Center. In this preview, we will go over what to expect from… Read More

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 Posted on June 3, 2019 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, Embraer, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Paris Air Show, Premium, Sukhoi

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Pontifications: By accident of timing, convergence of events, Mitsubishi is now well positioned to become major RJ player

May 13, 2019, © Leeham News: The regional jetliner industry is on the cusp of a major shift. Bombardier is exiting commercial aviation. The company already is under contract to sell the Q400. It’s CRJ program is for… Read More

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 Posted on May 13, 2019 by

 Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Pontifications, Sukhoi

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2019 Outlook: Irkut leads Russia’s airliner industry

By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction January 3, 2019, © Leeham News.: The last year was a quiet year for the airliner side of Irkut Corporation (Irkut). It continued testing its two MC-21 single-aisle airliners and rolled out… Read More

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 Posted on January 3, 2019 by

 Comac, GE Aviation, Irkut, Premium, Rolls-Royce, Sukhoi, Unite Engine Corp., YAK

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Embraer ponders new, smaller jet

Subscription Required Introduction March 5, 2018, © Leeham Co.: News emerged last week that Embraer is considering a new jet family smaller than its current E2 line. This would replace the E170, which Embraer decided not to upgrade… Read More

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 Posted on March 5, 2018 by

 Bombardier, CSeries, E-Jet, Embraer, Mitsubishi, New Midmarket Aircraft, NMA, Premium, Sukhoi

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US ponders Russia sanctions, some affecting US aerospace

Oct. 27, 2017, © Leeham Co.: The US is considering new trade sanctions against Russia, and Russia is considering retaliatory sanctions, that could have major implications in US aerospace—including on Boeing. The US sanctions would be for meddling… Read More

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 Posted on October 27, 2017 by

 Boeing, Irkut, NASA, Pratt & Whitney, Sukhoi, United Aircraft, United Engine Corp.

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Pontifications: JADC 20-year forecast: VLA, NMA and other data

July 24, 2017, © Leeham Co.: The Japan Aircraft Development Corp (JADC) just published its 2017-2037 jet and turboprop forecast. JADC forecasts a demand for 33,336 jet airliners and some 2,000 turboprops. JADC is partly owned by Mitsubishi,… Read More

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 Posted on July 24, 2017 by

 Airbus, ATR, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, E-Jet, Embraer, Middle of the Market, Mitsubishi, MOM, Paris Air Show, Pontifications, Sukhoi

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Assessing the SSJ100 future

Subscription Required Introduction Feb. 20, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Sukhoi is Russia’s attempt at reentering the commercial airliner business. The SSJ100 regional jet is, by most accounts, an attractive SSJ100 in CityJet colors. CityJet is one of two… Read More

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 Posted on February 20, 2017 by

 Bombardier, China, CSeries, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Premium, Sukhoi

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Pontifications: Embraer, contrary to others, looks to momentum in 2017

Jan. 3, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Airbus, Boeing and Bombardier look toward 2017 as a bit of a punk year, as detailed in our Look Ahead for subscribers only. Not so by Embraer. In an exclusive interview, John… Read More

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 Posted on January 3, 2017 by

 Airbus, Boeing, E-Jet, Embraer, Emirates Airlines, Pontifications, Rolls-Royce, Sukhoi

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