Lufthansa, which started in business in 1926, is one of the grand old names in commercial aviation. Today its is Europe’s largest airline group by fleet size. As we will show below, this fleet is diverse and highly complex. To…
Among the world’s big airlines, LATAM stands out. By far the biggest airline in Latin America it is the product of a merger between Brazil’s TAM and Chile-based LAN. Besides these two airlines coming together, there are numerous subsidiaries from…
Qantas is a storied airline brand. It is the world’s third oldest airline. That unusual brand name comes from abbreviating “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services“. The airline is famous for its long-haul air service, since Australia is pretty much…
[UPDATE – WTO document, EU comment] If you were to read each one of these on it’s own you’d get a very limited view. Here is the release from Airbus. (E_WTO Press Release) the release from Boeing (Boeing-USTR) and the…
Our recent note on the Embraer E2 flight test program showed a discrepancy between what we could track using Flightradar24 and what the OEM told us. This difference was substantial and warranted further research. Here is what we have found.…
We recently asked some people “in the know” for their inputs on some questions pertaining to Scope Clause. As one can imagine not everyone we contacted wanted to discuss the matter. But there were a few souls who are brave…