All Analysis – Page 29
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AnalysisCurrent-generation aircraft ready for cargo conversions
The worldwide grounding of aircraft during the passenger travel downturn has led to a shortage in capacity for air freight delivery, increasing the incentive for airlines to convert Boeing 777s, 737NGs and other newer generation aircraft for cargo flights.
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AnalysisGE Aviation and Embraer Commercial tap international sales experience with new CEOs
The new chief executives of GE Aviation and Embraer’s commercial aircraft division are well suited to help address the particular challenges facing those companies’ corners of the aerospace industry.
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AnalysisBoeing faces ‘critical few months’ amid pandemic: analysts
Aerospace industry analysts suspect regulators will re-certificate the 737 Max later this year, but they stress that the company’s challenges extend well beyond that programme.
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AnalysisUK spins up second phase of privatised search and rescue helicopter contract
In just over four years the UK could have three different firms running its search and rescue (SAR) operations using smaller helicopters than at present and calling on assets as diverse as unmanned air vehicles and high-altitude pseudo-satellites.
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AnalysisCoronavirus pandemic pummels first-quarter business and general aviation shipments
Worldwide shipments of fixed-wing business and general aviation aircraft fell in the first quarter of 2020 to their lowest level for a decade, with the sector’s poor performance almost entirely due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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AnalysisAmazon’s aviation plans will benefit from cargo’s rally
Amazon Air is one of the few airlines that has seen an uptick in demand amid the coronavirus pandemic as home orders for goods has increased from its namesake e-commerce website, leading analysts to debate how fast its fleet could grow through 2028. Amazon Air tells Cirium that by 2021 ...
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AnalysisPandemic puts thrust levers to idle for big jet engine makers
For Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, GE Aviation and CFM International, a long downturn means de-tuning plans to ramp up the power
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AnalysisChinese lessors look closer to home for deals
China’s leasing executives are now the jetsetters of the industry, while their counterparts elsewhere relinquish their road warrior status and adapt to work-from-home conditions due to lockdowns and travel restrictions. “I’m going to take off in several minutes,” says a Chinese leasing executive in a recent message to Cirium on ...
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AnalysisDelays, budget cuts, and then some: SpaceJet confronts new realities
Nearly a year after a high-profile rebranding, Mitsubishi’s SpaceJet programme faces an existential crisis of sorts. It has suffered a major budget cut, and development of a 76-seat variant has been put on the backburner. What does this mean for Japan’s flagship regional aircraft programme?
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AnalysisMainline deliveries slump by over 50% during first four months
Deliveries across the two mainline aircraft manufacturers’ production lines fell by more than half during the first four months to less than 200 aircraft, as the coronavirus pandemic began to have a major effect.
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AnalysisWhy hypersonic developers have narrow window to enact arms controls
A forthcoming generation of missiles capable of travelling at Mach 5 threaten to overwhelm defences and upset the global power balance.
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AnalysisThe lessors exposed to Hainan Airlines’ financial woes
In April HSBC contended that the Chinese airline market was ripe for another round of consolidation, nearly 20 years after it saw a massive shake-up.
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AnalysisMalaysia Airlines’ search for a strategic partner
Nearly six years after Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional rescued and privatised Malaysia Airlines, the carrier is still posting losses while its search for a strategic partner continues. Khazanah stated in 2014 targets for the airline to achieve break-even by the end of 2017 and return to profitability the ...
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AnalysisMeet the latest weapons in the war on wildfires
As the northern hemisphere wildfire season takes hold, agencies have an array of new and improved aerial firefighting aircraft to choose from. However, despite recent devastating blazes, is the public sector still reluctant to make the necessary investments in new-generation equipment?
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AnalysisIs Embraer-China tie-up an inevitable marriage or case of strange bedfellows?
The Brazilian government was quick to suggest Embraer cosy up to China, after a proposed partnership with Boeing fell through. Would such a relationship work, and what is at stake?
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AnalysisWhy Rolls-Royce is still powering ahead with hybrid-electric development
Despite the cancellation of the E-Fan X demonstrator it was developing with Airbus, Rolls-Royce believes hybrid-electric power can drive cleaner regional aviation in the future.
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AnalysisWhy Embraer’s breakup with Boeing highlights its solo struggles
The collapse of the Boeing-Embraer joint venture leaves Embraer more vulnerable as a standalone company than Boeing, raising questions about the Brazilian airframer’s ability to compete long term against Airbus, say two analysts.
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AnalysisAmid pandemic hit, whither Asia-Pacific’s mega airport projects?
Asia-Pacific is home to a number of mega airport projects, from Changi’s fifth terminal, to Hong Kong’s three-runway system. As the coronavirus outbreak continues to wreak havoc on the industry, is it time to give the mega airport concept a rethink?
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AnalysisWhy Boeing’s jilting leaves Embraer bitter and frustrated
Embraer’s fierce reaction to prospective suitor Boeing’s decision to bale from their intended commercial partnership is hardly surprising, given that the Brazilian airframer stands to lose heavily from the split. While the tie-up proposal, unveiled in late 2017, might have given the impression of a hastily-shoehorned response to Airbus’s audacious ...
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AnalysisEmbraer-Boeing tie up tenuous on merger deadline date
The planned merger of Embraer’s commercial aircraft business with Boeing is hanging by a thread as the coronavirus crisis brings into sharp relief some of the problems with a transaction that seemed like a foregone conclusion just a few months ago.