In the quarterly earnings report yesterday, Delta’s Glen Hauenstein announced the airline would base its first CS100 in New York. The idea is to relieve that hub of the 76-seaters which be moved elsewhere to replace the 50-seaters which will…
The ITC transcript makes for interesting reading, and there’s a lot to read, at 189 pages. Boeing was represented by Mr. Robert T. Novick, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. In his opening statement, Mr. Dorr stated: “If Bombardier’s practices…
On March 31, Airbus announced that they had added the A319neo to their test flight program. There are few orders (50) for the aircraft, and of these, 24% are for either governments or “Undisclosed customers” – perhaps a discreet way…
The last day of the first quarter brought three first flights of new aircraft – the Boeing 787-10, the Airbus A319neo, and the Antonov An-132D. The Boeing 787-10 successfully completed its maiden flight today in Charleston, South Carolina. Boeing provided…
New sales of the stalwart Airbus A319 and Boeing 737-700 have largely dried up, after amassing combined deliveries of 2,554 aircraft through June 30, 2012. Sales of the A319neo have been tepid and non-existent for the 737-7 MAX, and the…
Note: Plane Talking has this detailed story also about NEO v MAX. Boeing has been engaged in a campaign for months with the media, analysts and appraisers (and airlines, of course) that the 737 Next Generation is 8% more economical…