With the first delivery of the E2 Jets family to Widerøe on 4 April 2018, AirInsight had an opportunity to meet with a number of engineers at Embraer, take a technical walk through of the airplane, and obtain a technical…
In 2Q17 there were 1,365 A319s in the market as the table lists. Only about 1% were parked. The fleet is also rather young. We do know that Airbus favors the C Series over its slow-selling A319. Airbus cannot play…
If one limits the active airline passenger fleet In the United States to between 100-150 seats, then as of 2Q17 there were 1,671 aircraft. Of these, 699 were Airbus, 794 were Boeing and 178 were Douglas. Please bear in mind…
In the quarterly earnings report yesterday, Delta’s Glen Hauenstein announced the airline would base its first CS100 in New York. The idea is to relieve that hub of the 76-seaters which be moved elsewhere to replace the 50-seaters which will…
Embraer’s E2 flight test program has been a rather quiet affair. The OEM announces milestones but there is scant third-party program tracking. Embraer reported that the flight test fleet accumulated more than 650 flight hours after its first flight in…
The ITC transcript makes for interesting reading, and there’s a lot to read, at 189 pages. Boeing was represented by Mr. Robert T. Novick, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. In his opening statement, Mr. Dorr stated: “If Bombardier’s practices…