The aviation concerns over the 5G cellular telephone equipment rollout in the United States have once again caused an eleventh-hour delay in activating the system, originally scheduled for this morning. Concerns center on potential interference with radar altimeters, which tell…
We are seeing a downturn in air traffic during the first two weeks of 2022. The question is why? The year 2021 saw a slow recovery of air traffic in the United States, returning to nearly pre-pandemic levels on several…
Embraer is between the proverbial rock and hard place. It has an excellent aircraft in the E2 jets but is unable to effectively compete with Airbus given the ability of the latter to combine multiple aircraft types, including the competing…
Boeing certainly hopes that 2022 will be better than 2019, 2020, and 2021, each of which had major disasters for Boeing. Between the MAX, pandemic, and 787 and KC-46 quality issues, Boeing’s mantle of industry leadership disappeared, as has its…
If we were Airbus, these would be our resolutions for 2022 to ensure a long-term competitive advantage over Boeing.
US Airline traffic in 2021 recovered consistently during the year, moving closer to but not quite reaching pre-pandemic levels. There is still a long way to go. The following chart shows US passengers by month for 2019, 2020, and 2021…