The trend towards “right sizing” aircraft and “horses for courses” appears to be changing as we analyze the size of recent orders. But this growth and up-sizing appears to be confined to the narrow-body market. In 2019, for the first time, the A321 began to outsell...
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 appear that...
Data summarizing aircraft orders are in for the first 9 months of 2014, and show interesting results, as shown in the table below. Unfortunately, Boeing does not break out orders among the three variants of the 737MAX, making it more difficult to compare performance...
