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Three Points: Non-Farnborough, predicting traffic, BA sunsets 747

Jon Ostrower·July 20, 2020

There was supposed to be an air show in Farnborough this week. And even if there was, Americans wouldn't be able to attend. Our Travel Sentiment model is reliably predicting the ups, downs and stagnation of the U.S. air traffic recovery. Here's an update. British Airways decommissions its 747 fleet, another in a series of the long goodbye to the Queen of the Skies. It's hard out there for big airplanes.

A set of main landing gear for the Boeing 777 in Everett, Wash., made from titanium components provided by VSMPO in Russia.

Russian titanium avoids the crossfire between east and west

Jon Ostrower·April 10, 2022

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A question of profitability again hangs over Boeing’s 787

Jon Ostrower·July 27, 2021

Dogged by languid demand for twin-aisle aircraft and a spate of inspections, rework and manufacturing quality issues on already-built 787s, a question of the program’s long-term profitability hangs over Boeing. In its decade of deliveries, Boeing has earned back about half of the more than $28 billion in 787 production costs it has consistently reassured Wall Street it will recover.

Boeing to open 737 Max line at Everett plant

Jon Ostrower·January 30, 2023

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Boeing will consolidate 787 assembly operations to South Carolina

Jon Ostrower·October 1, 2020

Assembly of Boeing's long-range 787 will be done exclusively in South Carolina by mid-2021.

Colliding interests will force engine makers into a new business model

Jon Ostrower·July 23, 2020

You can only blame so much on a pandemic. Like a pre-existing condition that can make a case of COVID-19 deadly versus asymptomatic, the business model governing engine makers and their relationship to aircraft manufacturers made them exceptionally vulnerable. The collapse of global commercial aviation merely revealed the fundamental weakness baked into the relationship.

With hundreds ordered, United wonders when its new fleet will arrive

Jon Ostrower·December 13, 2022

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Flight 1282’s postscript is prologue for Boeing’s Kelly Ortberg

Jon Ostrower and Will Guisbond·August 9, 2024

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Inside the strained union of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems

Jon Ostrower·May 2, 2023

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The Airbus A330 is lost in the pandemic’s economic Twilight Zone

Courtney Miller·March 17, 2021

The A330, Airbus's venerable twin, is stuck between aircraft that are better at being old and those that are better at being new.

Freight boom and delays accelerate Boeing’s 777 converted freighter plan

Jon Ostrower·June 20, 2022

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Widebody aircraft rebound awaits a powerful catalyst that may not arrive

Courtney Miller·October 3, 2022

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