Just before yesterday’s Bombardier earnings call, it was announced that Bombardier and Airbus had reached an agreement to sell Bombardier’s remaining interest in the A220 (nee CSeries) program. That transaction will leave Airbus and the Government of Quebec as the…
The Singapore Air Show is getting started, but with 8% fewer participating companies, including some major industry players, and about a dozen fewer aircraft on display than planned. The Coronavirus, which has already impacted travel to and from China, is…
The trend towards “right sizing” aircraft and “horses for courses” appears to be changing as we analyze the size of recent orders. But this growth and up-sizing appears to be confined to the narrow-body market. In 2019, for the first…
The first month of the new decade has already been turbulent, with the continuing soap opera surrounding the Boeing 737 MAX, uncertainty over trade with US-China, US-EU, Brexit–EU, and the outbreak of the Coronavirus in China causing major disruptions in…
The Boeing Company released its 2019 results earlier this week, and the company’s financial health, driven by the MAX crisis, is now quite weak. This is, to a great degree, due to the stock buybacks over the last five…
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