Aircraft production woes stretch far beyond Boeing

Subscription Required By Judson Rollins June 17, 2024, ©. Leeham News: Estimating airplane delivery rates isn’t much more than a guessing game nowadays. While many headlines point fingers at beleaguered Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, aviation’s production woes are… Read More

Pontifications: From Just in Time to Just in Case

June 6, 2022, © Leeham News: Delivery delays by Airbus and Boeing are well-known in today’s recovering environment. The reasons vary from supply chain challenges affecting both companies to Boeing’s suspended deliveries of the 787 and slower-than-expected deliveries… Read More

Unsustainable – and growing – airline debt load weighs on OEMs, suppliers

Subscription Required By Judson Rollins Introduction  April 22, 2021, © Leeham News: COVID-19 has forced every layer of the commercial aviation supply chain, apart from cargo airlines, to streamline their businesses and raise cash to survive. Nowhere has… Read More

As federal aid comes to end, small suppliers see “blood bath”

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Introduction July 20, 2020, © Leeham News: As the Payroll Protection Plan of the US government nears expiration, a blood bath among small suppliers is all but certain unless an extension is approved… Read More

Digital transformation critical to Boeing

Subscription Required Introduction  March 11, 2019, © Leeham News: Digital transformation is critical to Boeing’s evolving business model. But suppliers are in no rush to hand over their data to Boeing. For more than a year, the airplane… Read More