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Leeham News and Analysis
- Boeing, Airbus still struggle with supply chains and personnel shortages December 13, 2024
- Airbus procurement head “convinced” supply chain issues are on right path December 12, 2024
- CFM gets FAA and EASA certification for a more robust LEAP-1A turbine. December 10, 2024
- Global instability poses questions for aerospace industry December 9, 2024
- How Trump tariffs affected, and could affect, Airbus, Boeing and Embraer December 6, 2024
Aerospace supply chain still ailing; Sustainable Aviation Fuel isn’t the answer to go green
Aerospace supply chain is still in recovery. Suppliers in Russia had to be closed. What happens if the same happens in China? Sustainable Aviation Fuel isn’t the answer to green aviation. Innovation in engine and airframe design is…. Read More
A320neo replacements needs to be ~25% more efficient
By Scott Hamilton Sept. 11, 2024, © Leeham News: The replacement for the Airbus A320neo family should be 25% more efficient, says CEO Guillaume Faury. “The priority for the next generation of single line, the one that will… Read More
“The music will stop” because aviation will miss target “green” deadlines: Boeing’s Calhoun
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton David Calhoun. Source: Boeing. Oct. 24, 2022, © Leeham News: Boeing CEO David Calhoun believes that the plethora of concepts for shifting to “green” aviation may be confusing policymakers. And, he says, the… Read More
Pontifications: Two sentences described Boeing’s last two years
Oct. 24, 2022, © Leeham News: The question to Boeing CEO David Calhoun was put in levity. His response was telling. Susanne Clark, the president of the US Chamber of Commerce, noted before last month’s Aerospace Summit that… Read More
Pontifications: Energy costs add to aerospace supply chain squeeze
Oct. 17, 2022, © Leeham News: The aerospace supply chain faces new strains due to rising energy costs, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said last week. Bloomberg News reports that Faury said some suppliers are shutting down due to… Read More
Pontifications: Suppliers don’t lack for demand, but haven’t recovered from Pandemic crisis
Oct. 3, 2022, © Leeham News: Aerospace suppliers don’t lack demand. But they still have a long way to go to recover from the crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic began in earnest in March… Read More
HOTR: MAX 7 and 10 certification; ecoAviation and the missing life cycles
By the Leeham News Team Sept. 18, 2022, © Leeham News: LNA last week attended the US Chamber of Commerce’s Aerospace Summit in Washington (DC). We’ll have a series of full reports in the coming weeks. Here are… Read More
Boeing remarketing stored 737s ordered by China
By Scott Hamilton Sept. 15, 2022, © Leeham News: The indefinite delay in China authorizing Boeing to deliver 737 MAXes to airlines led Boeing to slowly remarket more than that are 100 stored. CEO David Calhoun said today… Read More
Pontifications: Measured comments and “useful” information
March 5, 2018, © Leeham Co.: Nothing is as frustrating to a journalist as interview a great subject who doesn’t offer up anything especially useful. I had a brief sideline interview with one such person at the US… Read More
