News The headlines for Boeing keep getting worse. Today, new revelations emerged: A tape recording emerged of a meeting between Boeing and American Airlines pilots that became contentious after the Lion Air crash but before the Ethiopian crash Boeing…
News An editor-in-chief from China dropped a hint that commercial aircraft may be impacted shortly as China reacts to tariffs imposed by Donald Trump in the on-going trade dispute. As China is the largest potential market for the troubled 737…
News Icelandair in its most recent first quarter presentation indicated that it is now reviewing its current fleet strategy and examining three options. Those options include maintaining an unchanged fleet strategy that trades out the Boeing 757 for the 737…
News Aeroflot flight 1492 from Moscow to Murmansk crashed last week and burst into flames. While it appears the cause of this crash may be a lightning strike that reverted the fly by wire system to direct mode, causing pilot…
Today we examine the history of the MAX, and provide some context and a time line of key activities. The impact of the 787 difficulties and cost overruns are still being felt by the company, and contributed to the development…
News Both Boeing and Airbus have new narrow-body aircraft on the drawing board for the 2030 time frame, at which time new technologies are expected to provide another 10-15% in better fuel economy over today’s neo and MAX models. But…