Engine Market Share on Airbus Narrow-Body Aircraft




Producing aircraft requires millions of parts from many vendors scattered across the globe. The concept of Toyota’s “just in time” production is now a standard within aerospace. Parts are expensive because raw materials are expensive. Roll into this cocktail the…


We are still watching the elves at work, at least through yesterday. Nobody’s working today, as far as we can tell. Here’s an update from last night. Airbus : The spike in delivery days was caused by the much-delayed A350-1000…

Last summer, on the Sunday evening before the Farnborough airshow, we were at a “preshow” event hosted by Aibus. Several of the company’s senior leadership were present. Of the few speeches, one especially resonated. Christian Scherer told the assembled media…