Last week, the A320 celebrated the 30th anniversary of its first flight. But it is the youngster of the mainline narrow-body fleet when compared with the venerable Boeing 737, which first flew more than 50 years ago and entered service…
As we all watch carefully while Boeing takes its deliberate steps towards unveiling its NMA, it is useful to see how the market has been behaving. Markets are not waiting for Boeing it seems, despite we may be hearing. …
French newsletter AeroDefenseNews this morning reported that the Boeing middle of the market aircraft launch (“7M7”) could take place as early as the Dubai Airshow (November 12-16), possibly with Emirates as the launch customer. The 797 (we assume) will fit…
[UPDATE – Boeing creates NMA Office] The “middle of the market” segment for single-aisle aircraft was defined by the Boeing 757 when it was introduced in 1982 as the growth aircraft to replace the 727-200. With its counterpart 767-200, Boeing…
At its pre-Paris press briefing, Boeing revealed additional details about its potential middle of the market aircraft, called NMA or more commonly 797. Boeing believes the 797 will be able to open new city paris that would be unprofitable with…
We continue our review the market for the MOM this week. Last week we explained that we see the replacement market at about 2,200 aircraft. This excludes any growth – we know the market will grow, but did not project…