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Daily Insight: Tuesday 5 March 2019: Could Airbus Become More Aggressive?

News Airbus has a new management team, and unlike Boeing, has no development programs launched and in process. Boeing has the 777X to complete, and is working on the yet un-launched NMA/797. Airbus is ending production of the A380, and has an opportunity to pre-empt...

Daily Insight: Monday 18 February 2019: Who Benefits from the A380 Demise?

News Last week Airbus indicated that it will cease production of the A380 beginning in 2021. That leaves it with no aircraft to offer larger than the 350 seat A350-1000. Boeing has a 425 seat 777-9 that will soon be delivered that offers competitive seat-mile...

GE Advancing Well With Ceramic Matrix Composites Testing

Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are being introduced into aircraft engines because of their ability to resist heat, as well as their ability to resist dust and debris in difficult environments, such as those in the Middle East. Although CMCs have been utilized on...

Will Boeing Need to Cut 777 Production Further, and Will it Ever Come Back to Current Levels?

Boeing confirmed that the announced production cut in the 777 line from 8.3 per month to five per month will begin in August, 2017, and then drop to 3.5 per month in 2018. The company had earlier announced a production cut from 8.3 per month to 7 per month beginning...

Daily Insight: Monday 18 February 2019: Who Benefits from the A380 Demise?

Feb 18, 2019 | Airbus, Airbus A330neo, Airbus A350xwb, Boeing, Boeing 777 9x, Boeing 787

News Last week Airbus indicated that it will cease production of the A380 beginning in 2021. That leaves it with no...

GE Advancing Well With Ceramic Matrix Composites Testing

Jan 26, 2017 | Aerospace, Boeing 777 8x, Boeing 777 9x, Ceramic Matrix Composites, GE9x, General Electric, Materials

Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are being introduced into aircraft engines because of their ability to resist heat,...

Will Boeing Need to Cut 777 Production Further, and Will it Ever Come Back to Current Levels?

Dec 15, 2016 | Aerospace, Boeing, Boeing 777, Boeing 777 8x, Boeing 777 9x

Boeing confirmed that the announced production cut in the 777 line from 8.3 per month to five per month will begin in...

The Super Twin Battle – Revisited

Oct 3, 2016 | Airbus, Airbus A330neo, Airbus a350, Airbus A380, Boeing, Boeing 747 8, Boeing 747-400, Boeing 777 8x, Boeing 777 9x, Boeing 787

In 2013, we published an article on, and coined the phrase, the Super Twins, the A350-1000 and 777-9. Since that...

Firing Up the First GE9X Engine

Apr 19, 2016 | Boeing, Boeing 777 8x, Boeing 777 9x, General Electric

Premium #209 – The Super-Twin Battle Extends Upward

Mar 8, 2016 | Airbus, Airbus a350, Airbus A350xwb, Airbus A380, Boeing, Boeing 777 9x, General Category, premium

Airbus is pre-marketing a new concept, a 400 seat stretched version of the A350, tentatively dubbed the A350-8000....

Unfiltered Air – A Documentary on Aerotoxic Syndrome

Jul 24, 2015 | Airbus, Aircraft, Boeing, Boeing 777 8x, Boeing 777 9x, Boeing 787, Bombardier, General Category

At high altitudes where commercial jetliners operate, bleed air is used to supply crew and passengers with fresh air...

Premium #180 – Skymark and the Intrepid/Delta Plan

Jul 21, 2015 | Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A321, Airbus A330, Airbus A380, American Airlines, ANA, Boeing, Boeing 777 9x, CIT, Delta Air Lines, Japan Air Line, Oneworld, premium, Rolls-Royce, Skymark, Skyteam, Star Alliance, United Airlines

Japan’s Skymark Airlines declared bankruptcy in January. This was not a surprise as many thought the company’s...

Boeing’s GoldCare – Changing Aftermarket Perceptions

Jul 8, 2015 | Aerospace, Boeing, Boeing 737 MAX, Boeing 737 NG, Boeing 747-400, Boeing 777, Boeing 777 8x, Boeing 777 9x, Boeing 787, General Category, MRO

Boeing has an image problem with GoldCare. If you asked most people in the industry what GoldCare is, they would say...

Premium #168 – Ten Years Since First Flight: Is the A380 a Success?

Apr 28, 2015 | Airbus, Airbus a350, Airbus A380, Boeing, Boeing 747 8, Boeing 747-400, Boeing 777, Boeing 777 9x, Boeing 787, premium

The maiden flight of the A380 occurred ten years ago this week, with entry into commercial service two years later....

Emirates and the A380

Feb 18, 2015 | Airbus, Airbus A380, Boeing, Boeing 777 9x, Emirates

There is no airline more associated with the A380 than UAE’s Emirates Airline. The biggest A380 customer by an order...

Premium #159 – Urbanization and the Case for the VLA

Feb 17, 2015 | Airbus, Airbus A380, Airbus A380, Boeing, Boeing 777 8x, Boeing 777 9x, premium

The Economist has a marvelous interactive chart on population that has significant implications for commercial...