Airbus reports that the first ANA A380 rolled out today. This one will be the real “whale jet”. “The first A380 for All Nippon Airways (ANA) has rolled out of the final assembly line (FAL) in Toulouse. The aircraft has…
China is now thought to the biggest commercial aviation market. As of 2Q18 China had 3,776 active commercial aircraft compared to the USA with 7,749, making the USA a comfortably larger market by fleet. Asia as a whole had 8,771…
As summer winds down there is good news coming from Toulouse. Airbus has been working diligently through the “glider park”. The year started wobbly. No A320neos with the GTF were delivered February through March. Pratt & Whitney stopped the engine…
The rising US Dollar is not a pleasant outcome for airlines and lessors who have orders for the MAX. In June CNBC reported that Moody’s Investor Service said a strengthening US dollar since mid-April has increased the credit risk of…
The long gestation period of Boeing’s NMA has to be hurting. This chart shows how over the past 20 years Boeing steadily lost on the remarkable lead it had with the 757. Boeing’s 757 and 767 virtually invented the middle…
It is amazing to think that these two aircraft families have been competing for every deal for 25 years. What is really interesting is to see how this race has evolved. More specifically, how Airbus has impacted and, dare we…