Markets react to Airbus & Bombardier
Here are the current charts. Never mind what everyone else is saying – this is the initial reaction of people with money on the table. Views: 24
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The shifting tectonic plates – Airbus and Bombardier
With news of Airbus creating a JV with Bombardier, a seismic industry event has occurred. Recall that Bombardier has previously tried (2015) to enjoin Airbus in the program, only to be rebuffed. With the impact still creating reverberations around the…
First MC-21 flown to Zhukovsky
IRKUT announced their first MC-21-300 flew from the Irkutsk Aviation Plant to Ramenskoye Airport (Zhukovsky, Moscow), to continue flight tests. Here is an image of its landing. The aircraft flew 4,500 km (6 hours nonstop) at 10,000 meters (~33,000 feet).…
Airbus and Bombardier Announce Joint Venture for CSeries
Airbus will be the white knight to rescue the C Series through a joint venture with Bombardier, announced earlier today. The agreement will include a second assembly line in Mobile, Alabama to produce C Series aircraft for the US market.…
Pondering the US DoC tariff on Bombardier
If one limits the active airline passenger fleet In the United States to between 100-150 seats, then as of 2Q17 there were 1,671 aircraft. Of these, 699 were Airbus, 794 were Boeing and 178 were Douglas. Please bear in mind…
Aircraft transactions through September
Here are the top twenty aircraft transactions for this year through September 2017. We list these in order of highest to lowest. Note the top twenty account for 617 out of 2,157 aircraft and sum to 28.6% of the total…