Insight Monday 27 January 2020: The 777X: Some good news for Boeing



The Boeing 777X first flight, which was postponed yesterday due to weather, is scheduled for 10am Pacific time today. You can watch the live stream of the flight here, embedded in an article about the new airplane by Dominic Gates at…
An interesting piece of advice from Steven Udvar-Hazy: “We’ve asked Boeing to get rid of that word Max,” Udvar-Hazy said. “I think that word Max should go down in the history books as a bad name for an aircraft.” What…

Pardon the delay of a few days. Here is our updated model that takes in all of Boeing’s Annus horribilis, 2019. The 787-9 was the cleanup player last year. But the 787-10 is going to come into its own. See…

With a recent data update from DoT and an idea from a reader, we took a look at how flight stage length, seat capacity, and fuel burn looked across the US airline fleet. The timing of this idea came up…