The worldwide Covid-19 crisis will have a profound and lasting effect on the future of the airline industry. Most likely the sector will shrink and leave space for only much smaller airline groups, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr has warned on…
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In 2018 the USAF began looking at a re-engine program (again) for the Boeing B52H, named “Commercial Engine Re-engining Program (CERP)”. It is aimed at updating the current Pratt & Whitney TF33 engines with a commercial off-the-shelf engine. The original…
When we published a table that showed Delta’s A220 was struggling over 2019 there was quite a reaction. The DoT just released the January data and there has been a sharp improvement with Delta’s A220s. The following table shows the…
Boeing and the airline industry are clamoring for billions of dollars in bailouts as the coronavirus crisis has dramatically impacted them financially. Clearly, Boeing, the largest US exporter, will be considered too big to fail, just as General Motors was…
Yesterday Breeze Aviation Group, Inc., David Neeleman’s new US airline, made a new filing. The filing of a redacted T-5 is to keep certain data away from prying eyes (competitors). Here’s the data filed. The plan shown reflects steady…