Airbus released its Global Market Forecast a few weeks ago. And, true to form, trying to compare it with Boeing’s Commercial Market Outlook is not easy. The two firms define the segments differently. This requires some editing liberty on the…
Today Teal Group VP Analysis, Richard Aboulafia, published his monthly newsletter. The September newsletter will be found here. In it Richard describes seven “good” things about such a deal and four “challenges”. Discussing these ideas with Richard are AirInsight’s Ernie…
Airbus and Boeing claim demand and record backlogs thousands of A320s and 737s requires them to boost production rates to record levels. There’s little doubt that this is true. But while the two OEMs also claim that there is no…
John Newhouse, of the New Yorker magazine, in his 1982 book The Sporty Game, described the “bet the company” decisions involved in developing commercial aircraft. In recent years, with the difficulties with the A380 and 787, his analyses once again…
Airbus has ticked another box in its A350XWB development program with the arrival of the first wings for first aircraft, which will be used for static testing. The A350 wing, which is manufactured in Broughton, England, is the largest single…
The aviation industry’s pricing process is generally opaque. Nobody pays retail, even though these are the only prices quoted, Take a look at this chart which is ranked in declining cost per seat. All prices apply to January 2012 and…