Daily Insight: Monday May 2019: From Trust to Trust but Verify
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Year 2019
Superjet gets hit again
It has not been a good year for Superjet. First, it was the news from Mexico, where Interjet is having challenges with the SSJ. Then Adria canceled its Superjet order, after signing for the aircraft only a few months earlier. …
Morning Call – Monday 6 May 2019
Commercial Aviation Boeing bosses “unaware” – Source: FlightGlobal The Boeing side of the airplane certification process, including on the 737 MAX, is a pressure cooker – Source: Seattle Times Boeing says safety review corroborated its findings on a 737 MAX…
Morning Call – Friday 3 May 2019
Commercial Aviation Airbus’s Refreshed Widebody – the A330neo – Source: FlightGlobal Rolls-Royce Could Power Boeing ‘797’ If Max Crisis Delays Launch – Source: Bloomberg Airbus sees Bombardier’s Belfast plant as ‘key supplier’ – Source: Reuters Bombardier workers ‘stunned and shocked’…
Air France-KLM slows down capacity growth
Air France-KLM will carefully grow capacity this year after last Winter’s additional capacity hurt unit revenues in Q1. The Franco-Dutch airline group plans to add capacity by on average 2-3 percent, slowing down growth on routes to the Middle East,…
Derisking fleets – the example of American Airlines
With its huge order in 2011, American not only secured 460 new fuel-efficient aircraft, but it also forced Boeing to launch the MAX. At the time, the win for Airbus at American was big news. Airbus had not sold an…