Turboprops have had a good year in 2017. We take a look at the market and provide some insights to be found in the...
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Aging 100 Seat Aircraft: Low Hanging Fruit for the E2, C Series, and SSJ
The 100 seat aircraft market is undergoing a transition, as Sukoi, Embraer and Bombardier all have new aircraft...
KLM ends 97 years of Fokker service
Last Saturday, October 28, KLM performed its final commercial passenger service operated by a Fokker aircraft. This...
Premium #342 – Aircraft transactions through July
Despite the slower activity at air shows, the commercial aircraft business is not moribund. There has been quite a...
Premium – Lufthansa Group Fleet Review
Lufthansa, which started in business in 1926, is one of the grand old names in commercial aviation. Today its is...
Premium #329 – The Changing Fleet Under 120 Seats
We examined fleet data from 2003 and 2016 to examine trends over the last 13 years in market share by manufacturer,...
Russia’s aviation industry gets a haircut
[UPDATED] One of the primary reasons the Russia state decided to merge its various aerospace companies was to ensure...
Premium – Turboprop Update
It has been some time since we last looked at the airline passenger turboprop market. Here is an update of what we...
Fokker 100’s second youth in Australia
While Fokker 100 and Fokker 70 fleets have been dwindling all over the World (see our report on TAP's last Fokker 100...
Last Fokker 100 flight heralds new era for TAP
On November 29th Portuguese flag carrier TAP retired its last Fokker 100. When flight TP1937 from Porto, operated...
Regional Jet Snapshot
How is this segment of the market doing? When oil prices spiked, the 50-seater regional jets become uneconomic. ...
Premium #301 – The Parked Fleet
While most of us focus, day to day, on airplanes that are flying, there is another group of aircraft that are idle,...