The FAA is unwilling to certify the Boeing 777X. The regulatory agency has informed Boeing that it won’t give Boeing Type Inspection Authorization (TIA) for the 777-9 unless the airframer provides evidence that it has conclusively solved a number of software…
Airbus hosted a Virtual Commercial and & Program Update for the media yesterday. In the absence of what could have been Day 2 at PAS 2021, the event was an overview of Airbus’ current aircraft types and comments on the…
Boeing CEO David Calhoun is careful with rate increases. He isn’t willing to announce increases that go too far into the future. A wrong signal to suppliers might backfire on Boeing if predicted numbers fall short, Calhoun said on June 3…
On two occasions, on January 27 and again today on April 28, Boeing’s Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith warned analysts of the need of taking a reach-forward loss on the 787. But even now, with Dreamliner production being hampered by…
Boeing reported a first-quarter net loss of $-561 million compared to $-641 million in the same quarter last year, it said on April 28. The Group’s operational loss was $-83 million versus $-1.353 billion in 2020. Revenues were lower as…
News: On NBC’s Today show, Boeing CEO David Calhoun made a bold prediction that a major US airline will go out of business by the end of the year, and that it will take up to five years before the…