Turboprop review through 3Q17
Turboprops have had a good year in 2017. We take a look at the market and provide some insights to be found in the data. The turboprop market is big but not as exciting, perhaps, as the single-aisle market. We…
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City pairs explode
IATA released data showing that this year airlines across the world connected a record number of cities, with unique city-pair connections exceeding 20,000 for the first time. The annual percentage increase in the number of city pairs served was the…
Aircraft transactions through November
We took a look at deals for the year through November and found a few tidbits that are interesting. Please note these are transactions – new and previously owned aircraft are included. November saw the highest monthly number of deals…
Airbus and Bombardier move ever closer
This morning Bombardier announced that their Aerostructures and Engineering Services won a contract to supply P&W A320neo nacelles to Airbus. Their Belfast plant also won work to develop and manufacture a new thrust reverser to enable Airbus to offer…
Premium #253 – Making Boeing Great Again
Making Boeing Great Again should not be the goal of US trade policy. The trade action by Boeing against Bombardier appears, superficially, to fit well with President Trump’s campaign theme to Make America Great Again. President Trump campaigned against unfair…
A330-800 starts final assembly
Airbus reported this morning that the A330-800 assembly has begun. “Final assembly of the newest member of the A330neo Family, the A330-800, has started and is on track for the first flight planned in mid-2018. The A330-800 complements the A330-900,…