Earlier today we heard from Airbus America’s Chairman about the WTO ruling announced today. Now we have the perspective of that same ruling from the other side. Boeing spokesman Tim Neale provides their perspective of the WTO situation. Interestingly both voices seem to be looking at a future where the rules are indisputable and no longer argued over. Whereas the EU and USA might be closer to this, it is not so clear that other aerospace nations are on the same page. So even if the appeals to the WTO’s two rulings are completed in two years, this fight may see more skirmishes.
The WTO and Boeing – Airbus’ View
March 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today the WTO released its findings on subsidies enjoyed by Boeing – a response to the WTO’s earlier findings about subsidies enjoyed by Airbus. The numbers are huge – bottom line according to Airbus, based on WTO data of sales campaigns is $45bn. That is what Airbus says it lost in sales. Airbus Americas’ Chairman Allan McArtor spent 10 minutes with us talking about the release today and does not hold back from from cutting comments.
Pratt & Whitney’s David Hess Speech at Media Day
March 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As posted earlier, today P&W’s president David Hess spoke at their media day in Florida at the West Palm Beach company facility. Regular readers know that we have stated that P&W seems to be increasingly confident – their two decade old bet on the geared fan engine seems to be paying off. Here are excerpts of Mr Hess’ speech – pardon the room echo and occasional cough and paper shuffling.
Pratt & Whitney Opens Up A Huge Lead
March 28, 2011 By 3 Comments
The sense at ISTAT 2011 that P&W had attracted a lot of attention and was 
building momentum has been confirmed with news that the PurePower engine (we prefer GTF) has won a critical order. This is a fabulous win for P&W at IndiGo.
P&W has opened up a awesome lead over CFM’s LEAP-X. To date the LEAP-X has been selected by COMAC for the C919. It has not won any Airbus neo orders yet though that is bound to change because CFM has a big customer base that will stick with them.
The IndiGo order provides P&W with a big volume in orders – 300 engines is a fabulous boost.
Podcast – Boeing steps up its role with biofuels via the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels
March 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We reached Boeing’s Director of Sustainable Biofuel Strategy, Darrin Morgan, in Europe today to get his take on the emergence of the this new group. Industry followers have noted that biofuels are a hot new area of research. The commercial aviation sector has to develop something to reduce risk of fuel supplies and the volatility in pricing.
Continental goes for Ka
March 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday Continental announced it is going to install Ka-band connectivity from LiveTV. This means about 200 US domestic airplanes (737 and 757) are going to be able to offer Internet connectivity as this process gets rolled out. The story is quite exciting. [Read more...]
