Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 8 February 7, 2025
- Hopes, skepticism, for Boeing from suppliers February 6, 2025
- ATI 2024 results beat low expectations February 5, 2025
- Boeing Deferred Production Costs: $39bn since 2019 MAX grounding, $22bn for 737 February 4, 2025
- Boeing FY 2024: Capital raise, debt, order cash advances helped Boeing avoid running out of cash in 4Q February 3, 2025
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
Forecast 2022: IRKUT
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction January 24, 2022, © Leeham News: IRKUT became the Airliner company in Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation when the Superjet project was transferred from Sukhoi in February 2020. The rationale was to focus… Read More
Analysis: Sukhoi’s regional jet SSJ100, Part 2
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription required Introduction 21 January 2016, ©. Leeham Co: The first part of our analysis, published Monday, looked at Russia’s first effort to design and aircraft to penetrate the Western airplane market, Sukhoi Superjet (SSJ100)…. Read More
Analysis: Sukhoi’s regional jet Superjet 100
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription required Introduction 18 January 2016, © Leeham Co: Russian aircraft have never succeeded in penetrating the Western market. But then they never really tried, until now. They were designed for the Soviet Union captive… Read More
Assessing the Superjet crash
It’s always dangerous jumping to conclusions about an airliner crash within hours or days after an accident, but the speculation began very quickly after the Sukhoi Superjet went missing yesterday in Indonesia. Despite the demographic of the passengers… Read More
