Two years ago, on January 27, 2020, the Preliminary Information Memorandum for the acquisition of Air India was published by the Government of India’s Department of Investment and Public Asset Management. This was the third attempt at the privatization of…
About eight years ago, Singapore Airlines and India’s Tata Group joined hands to launch an airline together. While the corporate entity is called TATA-SIA airlines, reflecting the brand of both the shareholders, the airline was named Vistara. Last weekend, Vistara…
Embraer is between the proverbial rock and hard place. It has an excellent aircraft in the E2 jets but is unable to effectively compete with Airbus given the ability of the latter to combine multiple aircraft types, including the competing…
Boeing certainly hopes that 2022 will be better than 2019, 2020, and 2021, each of which had major disasters for Boeing. Between the MAX, pandemic, and 787 and KC-46 quality issues, Boeing’s mantle of industry leadership disappeared, as has its…
If we were Airbus, these would be our resolutions for 2022 to ensure a long-term competitive advantage over Boeing.
UPDATE – After four years and seven months to the day of its first flight, the Russian Irkut MC-21-300 has received its type certificate on December 28. The Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsiya awarded the basic certificate after the MC-21…