News: Airbus has captured commercial market leadership from Boeing. The MAX crisis exacerbated Boeing’s issues in the narrow-body market, and the failure of the Embraer acquisition left Boeing without a competitor to the A220, which is popular as airlines emerge…
The new Global 5500 from Bombardier, the smallest model in the Global family, joined its larger Global 6500 and Global 7500 in service last week with the first delivery to an undisclosed customer. Initially introduced at the EBACE convention in…
News: FAA test flights of the Boeing 737 MAX will begin today to determine whether the aircraft will be approved for a return to service in the United States. The test flight process is scheduled to be more rigorous than…
News: The Seattle Times published a story that the FAA is bowing to the requests of international regulators regarding additional changes to the 737 MAX beyond those identified by the FAA. These include three issues identified by EASA, the European…
News: Last Thursday, the Seattle Times published a story outlining key points from a letter from a Boeing whistleblower to the US Senate prior to the hearings that week. In that letter, Curtis Ewbank, a Boeing engineer who worked on…
News: The industry rumor mill this week is that Boeing may spin-off either its commercial aircraft operations or its defense business. That could provide a return for Boeing shareholders as some financial engineering could pull additional value if the parts…