As US airlines race to prepare for returning traffic, there is a scramble for capacity. It is the nature of this business that one has to always have extra capacity to deploy quickly. When an opportunity appears, first-mover advantage is…
UPDATE – The FAA has identified another manufacturing quality issue on the Dreamliner. The Boeing 787 has a new nose issue in the pressure bulkhead area. It has been found in undelivered Dreamliners during inspections, the regulatory agency confirmed on…
Last Friday we had an opportunity to catch up with Airbus Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer. As the global commercial aviation industry starts to climb out from the pandemic, Mr. Scherer is a very busy man and we fortunate to get…
One swallow doesn’t make a summer, but if reports from Bloomberg on July 9 are correct, better days are coming again for the Boeing MAX in China. The news agency cites unnamed sources that the Chinese regulators are opening up…
Boeing is fighting multiple battles on competitive, regulatory, political, legal, media, and internal issues across almost all of its product lines. Let’s examine some of the battles the company is currently fighting, and how they might impact the near-term and long-term…
Future airliners could have even lighter composite structures if new lessons on structural health data are applied. Current aircraft like the Boeing 787 or Airbus A350 are ‘structurally overdesigned’ and their successors could lose weight without compromising structural integrity, the…