Airbus announced that quality issues on the horizontal tailplane of the A330-900 resulted in no deliveries for the aircraft in June and July, 2026, with deliveries resuming in August. With Airbus currently producing 3-4 aircraft per month, with plans to…
Airbus’s July O&D numbers are in, and the gap over 2025 keeps widening. Orders: 204 gross, but 66 cancellations brought net to 138. The headline commitment was SMBC Aviation Capital’s 100-jet single-aisle order (35 A320neo / 65 A321neo), followed by…
Airbus today reported its first-half 2026 financial results, which were quite positive. The Numbers Revenues were up 12% year-over-year, at €33,176 million, up from €29,610 last year. EBIT was €2,745 million, up 70% over last year, and Net Income was…
JetBlue posted a $247 million net loss for 2Q26, wider than a year ago, on revenue of $2.7 billion, up 14.5%. That result moved the stock — shares jumped as much as 9% — because the loss itself beat expectations:…
Commercial aviation is a long game. Orders placed today might not be delivered for several years. Airbus and Boeing have a single-aisle backlog for over a decade into the future. It is well-documented that the industry does not face a…
In the recently published market forecasts of all three OEMs, two regions are of particular interest given recent events: the Middle East and Africa. The former is in the spotlight as tensions around Iran continue, while the latter is consistently…