All Analysis – Page 24
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Pandemic heaps fresh pressure on Boeing as 737 Max grounding continues
The coronavirus pandemic, combined with the 737 Max grounding, could leave Boeing facing challenges more significant than it has experienced in perhaps 50 years, say some aerospace analysts.
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Europe’s airlines brace for survival battle
The shutdown of transatlantic markets to European airlines is plunging the continent’s airlines into crisis and could threaten a wave of bankruptcies across the sector, analysts warn.
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How Airbus has optimised its Beluga operation
Before Airbus introduced the A300-600 Super Transport, or BelugaST, in 1995, there was an industry aphorism that presumably resonated in Seattle: every Airbus had its first flight on a Boeing wing.
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Finnair lays out ambitious new sustainability strategy
Finnair has pledged to make environmental protection a core company value and halve its net carbon emissions by 2025, versus last year, under a new sustainability strategy.
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Covid-19’s full impact on global aviation still unknown
More than eight weeks after the world first learnt the term “coronavirus”, the outbreak has spread beyond Asia, with Europe, the Middle East, and even North America now on high alert. Closer to the epicentre in China, Asia-Pacific airlines have been grappling with the shock to air traffic demand, but ...
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What Flybe’s demise means for the Dash 8
Flybe’s collapse is a serious blow for De Havilland Canada’s Dash 8-400 programme as the UK regional carrier was the turboprop’s largest operator.
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Dassault chief Trappier on new business jet bets and joining the Germans in defence
The French manufacturer’s Eric Trappier has switched partners from BAE Systems to Airbus on a future European UCAV while it looks to rebuild its fortunes in corporate aviation with not one but two Falcons in the works
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Boeing’s new leaders may have what it takes to lead turnaround: analysts
In the year since the second 737 Max crash, Boeing has overhauled much of its top leadership, including naming of David Calhoun as new chief executive and Stan Deal as chief of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Those changes have largely been viewed positively by aerospace analysts. They are optimistic Boeing’s new leaders have skills needed to move the company toward recovery.
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New and revamped models trigger surge in business jet shipments
The business jet market is riding high. After four years of very modest annual delivery hikes, the sector in 2019 recorded its strongest output for a decade, and its highest year-on-year increase in shipments since the market boom of 2008.
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Airbus wins all of January’s new airliner orders
Airbus made a strong start to 2020, accounting for all of the new commercial aircraft orders recorded during January. Boeing secured no fresh business, highlighting the continuation of its struggle with returning the grounded 737 Max to operational use.
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Can Rolls-Royce win back confidence in 787 engine market?
Pressure builds on Trent 1000 as All Nippon becomes latest customer to flip to rival GE powerplant
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Trump administration flip-flops on C919 de-engining idea
The Trump administration may (or may not) be considering blocking the sale of CFM International Leap-1C engines and other technology for the developmental Comac C919. A Wall Street Journal report on 16 February surprised the aerospace community, with sources telling the newspaper that the administration was contemplating not approving GE ...
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Asia-Pacific sees subdued deliveries in January
Asia-Pacific carriers took 21 of the 55 commercial aircraft delivered globally in the first month of of the new decade, followed by European carriers with 17 deliveries and North American carriers with just 10. While January is particularly weak for deliveries after airframers’ traditional push in December, global deliveries for ...
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Coronavirus to hit harder than SARS
The coronavirus outbreak may be costing the aviation sector more than the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) did in 2003, even as the world is just coming to terms with the new strain.
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How Boeing’s battle with Airbus could shape up as 777-9 testing gathers pace
Still much to play for in fight for large widebody market sector with A350-1000
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US DoD sees signs of progress with Afghan air force
A US government report has highlighted improvements in the Afghan air force (AAF), as well as areas that are still proving challenging.
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E-Fan X hybrid project edges towards system integration
Airbus has started preparing a BAE Systems Avro RJ100 for installation of an experimental hybrid-electric propulsion system later this year, as part of the joint E-Fan X technology project with Rolls-Royce.
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Embraer turboprop go-ahead hinges on EU probe into Boeing joint venture
Embraer is on course to decide on the launch of an all-new advanced turboprop airliner within the next year but warns that the decision hinges on the approval of its joint venture with Boeing.
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Airliner deliveries soar to 13,000 aircraft through 2010s
Shipments rise through 10-year period but Boeing 737 Max crisis dampens decade-end peformance
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Why Flybe’s market role created a UK political quandary
Struggling UK regional carrier Flybe operates more than a third of the country’s domestic flights and carries more than a quarter of domestic passengers, Cirium schedules data shows.