News Stories indicate that Willie Walsh, head of International Airline Group, parent of British Airways, Iberia, AerLingus, Veuling and Level, was upset with Airbus being late with deliveries of A320neo aircraft, and that was a factor influencing his controversial decision…
Lessors get an inordinate amount of attention when it comes to aircraft orders. Lessors play a crucial role in commercial aviation; they create market liquidity and have to squeeze in between the OEM and airline. Lessors can offer a small…
Market demand for wide-body aircraft has weakened over the last year, and the backlogs for wide body aircraft are beginning to shrink as production outpaces orders. With an 11 year and counting super-cycle for commercial aircraft, cracks have begun to…
Here is our updated model. Gross orders 1H19: 108. Including contractual/accounting changes: -119 net (-180 737’s). The lack of MAX deliveries really tells on page 4 – Delta took the most deliveries YTD, followed by the Tanker . The 787-9…
Sunday’s news that Saudi LCC flyadeal canceled its MAX order garnered a lot of attention. It should come as no surprise though. Airlines sell their schedule up to 360 days in advance. As we have seen with other aircraft program…
This model is open to all readers. We update the model after each month end. Note with the move of the Q400 program to De Havilland Canada, we have changed the program to reflect this new OEM. This is consist…