Southwest & Boeing – Some Thoughts
This past week we were part of Media Day at Southwest Airlines. It was a most pleasant visit. However, news reports coming out of the event bear some scrutiny. Views: 60
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Why the GTF will be a Winner for Pratt & Whitney: Economics
The PurePower P1000G engine, often referred to as the GTF or Geared TurboFan, from Pratt & Whitney (a division of United Technologies) will have significant economic benefits over existing aircraft engines as well as its new technology competition from CFM…
Will Aluminum-Lithium Beat Composites for Narrow Body Airliners?
This analysis was posted on GLG News October 18th, and is reproduced here for our readers. Views: 271
Rolls-Royce faces shrinking single-aisle airplane market-share
Rolls-Royce is facing major challenges in the future, including being shut out of the single-aisle engine market. In a syndicated article picked up today by the India Times (the original ran about two weeks ago out of London), the dilemma…
Nixing NEO?
(image: FlightGlobal) In a strange turn of events, it seems Airbus is backing away from or at least delaying its much awaited A320-family NEO. There was an expectation that this week we would hear all about the new airplane update.…
150, 190 seat models for CSeries?
The National Post of Canada reports that Bombardier has taken out trademarks for the CS500 and CS900, which might suggest a 150-seat and a 190-seat version of the CSeries could be in the hopper. Bombardier says it is merely taking…