“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