Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will reassess a possible program restart of the SpaceJet during the current financial year 2021, which runs until March 2022. The decision is marked as a ‘key activity’ in this year’s planning, the Japanese company said during…
The US airline industry faces a hurdle found nowhere else, a Scope Clause that limits regional airlines to protect pilots at the Big Three Network airlines, American, Delta, and United. While this limit is seen as a sort of tyranny…
There is a quiet shift taking place in the regional jet market. As you would expect with regional jets, this is occurring in the US. Let’s start with the E-170s American acquired recently. Its Envoy regional is getting six E-170s…
Mitsubishi’s recent aerospace efforts show mixed results. The SpaceJet was fumbled pretty badly and cost the company a lot of money. The program is now in limbo. As a follow up to that program, and as a way to end…
Without any prospect of a first delivery nor that of a first customer, US lessor Aerolease Aviation has had no option but to cancel its order for ten Mitsubishi SpaceJet M90s. Aerolease and Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation announced on January 8…
There are two sources for regional jets from Western sources. Embraer and, until recently, Mitsubishi. The latter has shrunk away from the market. Now what? Mitsubishi The Mitsubishi SpaceJet program has been plagued with upsets from the start. It has…