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Leeham News and Comment was launched in February 2008, primarily concentrating on news, events, and analysis related to Airbus and Boeing. This platform is a natural extension of a section that was part of our corporate site, Leeham.net, which was established in 2005.

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RTX Q1 2025 Earnings: GTF Talk Takes A Back Seat To Tariffs

2 days ago | leehamnews.com | Chris Sloan

By Chris SloanApril 22, 2025, © Leeham News: The chorus of tariff-dominated earnings season calls continued as RTX took its turns at bat. President and Chief Executive Christopher Calio aligned with other CEOs to demonstrate that aerospace is in sync with the presidential administration in correcting the trade deficit.
Tariffs Tumult Takes Over GE Aerospace Q1 2025 Earnings Call

2 days ago | leehamnews.com | Chris Sloan

By Chris SloanApril 22, 2025 © Leeham News: GE Aerospace’s above consensus beat for Q1 2025 earnings was overshadowed by the administration’s fluid reciprocal tariffs policy in its first earnings call. “We support promoting free and fair trade that ensures the continued strength of the U.S. aerospace industry.
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1 week ago | leehamnews.com | Bjorn Fehrm

April 18, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a Corner series about the state of developments to improve the emission situation for Air Transport. We try to understand why development has been slow. We examine the non-CO2 effects of Air Transport that contribute to global warming. Over the last weeks, we have looked at contrails, which have the largest impact on global warming, larger than CO2, Figure 1. NOx is a smaller contributor, but it contributes about 20% of the total to Global Warming.
Natilus: Composite BWB, entry-into-service by 2029, 570 on order

1 week ago | leehamnews.com | Karl Sinclair |Scott Hamilton

Subscription RequiredBy Karl SinclairApril 17, 2025, © Leeham News: California-based Natilus is on target to begin delivering its first aircraft for service in 2029, a Blended Wing Body (BWB) turboprop cargo aircraft, according to CEO Aleksey Matyushev. The pusher-type cargo aircraft Kona will soon be followed by a larger turbofan passenger version, the Horizon, in the early 2030s.
China bans Boeing, US parts imports in tariff war

1 week ago | leehamnews.com | Scott Hamilton

April 15, 2025, © Leeham News: It was inevitable: China has banned its airlines from accepting deliveries of Boeing airplanes. The move is in retaliation against President Donald Trump’s boosting tariffs on Chinese goods to 145%. Beijing placed retaliatory tariffs on US goods to 125%. During the first Trump administration, the president placed tariffs of 25% on Chinese goods imported to the US. Beijing has allowed delivery of very few Boeing jets since then.
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1 week ago | leehamnews.com | Bjorn Fehrm

Subscription requiredBy Bjorn FehrmApril 14, 2025, © Leeham News: The COMAC C919 is finding its first customers outside China. At the same time as COMAC has started work on shorter and longer versions of the C919, work on a widebody C929 has been going on for the last 14 years. If the development of more family members for the single aisle C919 is straightforward, the widebody C929 development has presented several challenges. Figure 1. The C919 COAMC widebody aircraft. Source: COMAC.
Leeham News and Analysis

2 weeks ago | leehamnews.com | Bjorn Fehrm

April 11, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a Corner series about the state of developments to improve the emission situation for Air Transport. We try to understand why development has been slow. We now examine the non-CO2 effects of Air Transport that contribute to global warming. Of these, contrails have the largest impact, Figure 1. In the last Corner, we described encouraging results from airline flight trials with warming contrail avoidance.
Uncertainty plagues airline, aerospace, lessor industries over tariffs

2 weeks ago | leehamnews.com | Scott Hamilton

Uncertainty plagues airline, aerospace, lessor industries over tariffs Subscription RequiredBy Scott HamiltonApril 10, 2025, © Leeham News, Seattle: The airline and aerospace industries are plagued by uncertainty over the global tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on April 2. The 90-day pause on nearly all tariffs announced yesterday doesn't resolve the uncertainties. For the moment, they are only postponed. Airbus's A320 production plant in Hamburg, Germany. Credit: Leeham News.
Boeing at far greater risk of tariff impacts than Airbus

2 weeks ago | leehamnews.com | Scott Hamilton

Subscripton RequiredBy Scott HamiltonApril 7, 2025, © Leeham News: Tariffs against the rest of the world announced by US President Donald Trump last week threaten retaliatory tariffs against Boeing at a far greater level than Airbus faces, an analysis by LNA shows. Trump exempted no part of the world from tariffs where Boeing isn’t at risk for retaliatory tariffs. Airbus faces tariffs only in the US.
Leeham News and Analysis

3 weeks ago | leehamnews.com | Bjorn Fehrm

April 4, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a Corner series about the state of developments to improve the emission situation for Air Transport. We try to understand why development has been slow. We now examine the non-CO2 effects of Air Transport that contribute to global warming. Of these, contrails have the largest impact.