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Insight: Friday 5 February 2021: Filling the Gaps at Boeing – Part 1
News:This week several important issues emerged with the announcement of a staggering $12 billion loss for Boeing. Today, we will cover the news and...
Morning Call – Friday 5 February 2021
AirInsight US Airline Index Commercial Aviation GE Catalyst Takes Another Crucial Step Ahead of Flight Testing - GE Boeing outsourcing 600 IT jobs...
Qantas could launch Project Sunrise flights in 2024; delayed only 12 months
Qantas could introduce ultra-long-haul flights under its delayed Project Sunrise program as soon as 2024, according to Alan Joyce, chief executive...
Morning Call – Thursday 4 February 2021
AirInsight US Airline Index Commercial Aviation Emirates Mulls Swapping a Third of Boeing 777X Orders to 787 - Bloomberg China’s jets set to...
Africa posts strongest international growth amid 21.6% global capacity
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand for air cargo decreased by 10.6%...
Meet FlySafair
Elmar Conradie is CEO at FlySafair, based in South Africa. We discussed the challenges of doing business there, with pandemic and the collapse of...
Morning Call – Wednesday 3 February 2021
AirInsight US Airline Index Commercial Aviation Qatar Airways Retires Airbus A330F Fleet - Airways Europe’s grounded pilots forced to find other...
Aeromexico’s Fleet Future
Aeromexico has been steadily reducing the size of its fleet in the last few months. It has already reduced from six aircraft types to five,...
Morning Call – Tuesday 2 February 2021
AirInsight US Airline Index Commercial Aviation Rolls-Royce tests 100pc SAF in jet engine - Rolls-Royce Wither the commercial aerospace landscape?...
Narrow-body aircraft as strategy for Nigeria’s airline industry recovery
Narrow-body aircraft like the Embraer E195-E2, Embraer E-145, ATR aircraft series, De Havilland Dash8 among other smaller aircraft sizes are set to...
January 2021 Transactions
It was a slow January compared to previous years. But, crucially, the MAX is being delivered again. So expect to see those numbers spike this year...
What is Mitsubishi going to do next?
Mitsubishi’s recent aerospace efforts show mixed results. The SpaceJet was fumbled pretty badly and cost the company a lot of money. The program is...
Insight: Monday 1 February 2021: How Deep will the Second Wave Be?
Our US airline performance index (updated in our morning call each day) combines passenger activity, flights, and load factor data to provide a...
Morning Call – Monday 1 February 2021
AirInsight US Airline Index Commercial Aviation Ukrainian security service is probing Motor Sich’s shareholders’ meeting - Bloomberg Pilots and...
ANA slashes capacity after record-loss in Q3 – JAL also deep in the red
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) reported a record loss of Yen -312 billion during the first nine months of its fiscal year 2020. With one more...
Morning Call – Friday 29 January 2021
AirInsight US Airline Index Commercial Aviation Can Boeing fly without government help? - Economist Boeing confirms 787 Dreamliner production is...
An Update on Latin American Aviation – January 2021
After almost one month of 2021, the Latin American airline industry faces an aggravated uphill battle. The airlines in the region are now showing...
The murky future for US Airlines
The financial results are awful - as expected. But still, a $35Bn loss is eye-popping. The slow US Covid vaccination rate provides little...
Airlink, Lufthansa, SWISS interline for connections in Southern Africa
In a bid to offer travelers access to over 25 destinations in South Africa including Bloemfontein, George, Upington, Skukuza, Nelspruit, Hoedspruit,...
Redesign 777X seems to focus on wing tip mechanism
Boeing and the FAA have been unwilling to identify the extent of the software and hardware actuator redesign needed on the 777X, which CEO David...
