Airbus had a great month. Its best this year. Orders The long-awaited A220 order from AirAsia came through. It cost Airbus that airline’s A330neo orders, though. Given AirAsia’s fickle order history, here’s hoping Airbus priced the deal accordingly. China accounted…
In March, AirInsight identified the CAAC as the mechanism behind Airbus’s China delivery freeze. This week, Reuters and Bloomberg confirmed it. Here’s what it means. What Actually Happened in China The “administrative hitch” that Guillaume Faury referenced in 1Q earnings…
Today, United Airlines took delivery of the first of 50 A321XLRs on order. Here’s a program update to provide some context. The chart illustrates how well Airbus is industrializing the program. Delivery days have nearly halved over the past two…
The beleaguered Boeing 777-X program is experiencing another delay, per FAA administrator Bryan Bedford, who spoke at the CAPA Airline Leadership Summit. He indicated the he expects the 737 MAX 7, followed by the MAX 10 to be certified before…
UPDATE – Qantas will have to wait another 10 months before it takes delivery of the aircraft, but the A350-1000ULR for Project Sunrise has completed its maiden flight on June 2. With just 12 on order, this variant remains a niche…
Parting out aircraft that are not even ten years old: it seems insane and beyond any logic, but it is happening more and more. The latest airline to join this trend is SWISS, which will tear down two Airbus A220-100s…