The A380 has recently been described as having a limited future. After the Farnborough show, Airbus cut back production. Then came news that Qantas will not take another eight it has on order. All bad news for the program one…
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First it was Airbus, then it was Embraer and Bombardier. Then came ATR, Boeing and now its Mitsubishi. Iran has now been speaking with or has deals with every western OEM. This is what we have suggested is going to…
Ilyushin Finance has modified its CSeries order with Bombardier, reducing firm orders from 32 to 20 CSeries aircraft, and also dropping five options. This reduces the firm order book for the CSeries from 369 to 357. IFC also ordered one…
It is a subject we hear about all the time. Traffic is fracturing so airlines need to focus on frequency rather than up-size. Or fuel prices have gone up, so airlines need to up-size gauge. It can be rather confusing…
The wave of orders for wide-body aircraft has slowed to a trickle in 2016. Why has this happened, and when will the market turn around? There are a number of reasons that order books have not been particularly robust in…