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Boeing claims 737MAX better than each NEO

Here is a very clever photo shop of the Boeing MAX colors.

Here is an expanded version of a story we did for Commercial Aviation Online:

Boeing launched its 737 re-engined airplane Tuesday, calling it the MAX (for “maximum” performance, capability, economics, etc) with the -700/800/900 renamed the -7/8/9 and claimed that each model is better than its corresponding Airbus A320neo competition.

Boeing’s press release and press conference focused on the 737 MAX-8 vs the A320neo, “the heart of the market,” according to Nicole Piasecki, VP of Business Development and Strategic Integration. Boeing claims the 737-8 “will have the lowest operating costs in the single-aisle segment with a 7% advantage over the competition. The airplane’s fuel burn is expected to be 16 percent lower than our competitor’s current offering and 4% lower than their future offering,” the company said.

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Posted on September 1, 2011 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries

737 MAX, A320NEO, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier

Replacing 757s; Bombardier’s Scott and Delta; pricing engines

AirInsight, in a burst of prolific writing, posted three pieces of note today:

An analysis of the cost of operating and maintaining Boeing 757s and why there is a move to replace this versatile aircraft;
Thoughts on the departure of Gary Scott as CEO of Bombardier’s aircraft division and leader of the CSeries effort, with additional thoughts about the decision by Delta Air Lines not to order the CSeries or the Embraer E-195 at this time; and
A think piece on the pricing competition between Pratt & Whitney and CFM for the new GTF and LEAP engines.

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Posted on August 25, 2011 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, AirInsight, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, CSeries, Pratt & Whitney

757, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, E-195, Embraer, Gary Scott

Odds and Ends: Delta’s small jet deferral and other things

Delta Air Lines deferred the highly anticipated order for the 100-150 seat airplane due to worries about taking on too much debt in the current economic environment. Multiple sources say Bombardier’s CSeries had been favored over the Embraer E-195.
Delta’s RFP from Boeing didn’t include the re-engined airplane because at the time of the RFP, the 737RE didn’t exist. But we are 99% certain conversion rights will be in the final contract.
The Airbus A321neo does have its promised EIS until 2017, and Airbus was unlikely to be able to offer production slots for this model until 2019. Delta wants all aircraft delivered by 2018 and Airbus couldn’t meet this with the A321 Legacy, either. Plus the price was higher.
At 10:50am PDT our readership YTD exceeded all of 2010.

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Posted on August 22, 2011 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer

737-900ER, A321, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, E-195, Embraer

Delta to order 737-900s, small airplane order deferred

Bloomberg News just tweeted Delta Air Lines is to order 100 Boeing 737-900s. WE have three sources saying the same, though without the number.

Boeing won the deal over the Airbus A320/320neo due to earlier delivery positions and price, we are told.

Update, 9:50am PDT: We heard last week that Delta may defer ordering the 100-150 seat airplane and while we’ve been working to confirm this, Flightblogger beat us to it.

UPDATE 12:46 PM ET: CONFIRMED – Delta will order 100 737-900ER aircraft, the largest single order for the type. Further, industry sources confirm that a selection of a smaller narrowbody that pitted the CSeries against the Embraer E-195 has been delayed, as the airline does not see the same level of urgency to replace its 757s starting in 2013. The airline’s aircraft evaluations excluded consideration of the re-engined narrowbodies from Airbus and Boeing. FULL STORY SHORTLY

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Posted on August 22, 2011 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer

737-900, A320/A320neo, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Delta Air Lines, E-195, Embraer

Embraer ponders new, 2,000nm airplane

Embraer is pondering a new, 2,000nm airplane in the 130-150 seat class. Here is the Flight Global story.

The interesting thing about this is that Bank of America’s Ronald Epstein characterizes the CSeries as having too much range with 2,950nm, which gives it US trans-continental operations. In fact, Bombardier offers two versions: the 2,950nm range XT and the 2,200nm standard.

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Posted on August 8, 2011 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer

Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Ronald Epstein

Analysts opine on Embraer, Bombardier

Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan issued notes this week that give some opinions on rivals Embraer and Bombardier:

Goldman Sachs: Embraer

July 31: We believe Embraer remains the best, yet most ignored, story in our commercial aerospace coverage. We highlight the following key incremental takeaways from the EPS report and conference call: (1) 2H regional jet new orders could equal or surpass 1H (even though 1H was a record) which would mean full-year 2011 book-to- bill would surpass 2.0X. We think demand for the E-190 right now is stronger relative to current supply than any aircraft in the world. (2) Tone on business jet was noticeably more positive for the first time in a while, with particular strength noted on the Phenom 300. We think ERJ can close to triple its business jet revenue between now and 2015. (3) Defense opportunities are occurring faster than expected. We continue to see very large upside potential in ERJ’s Defense segment given initiatives around the World Cup and Olympics and how large the KC-390 program will be. (4) Management sounds confident it can continue to expand margins despite the Real, and possibly meaningfully if the Real were to reverse. (5) Next-gen product strategy decisions are likely made by year-end, and it sounds like one of either a clean sheet or E-195 stretch / re-engine will occur (we believe the case for the latter increasingly makes sense).

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Posted on August 2, 2011 by Scott Hamilton

Bombardier, Embraer

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan

American is the launch customer for 737RE–but not the launch operator

American Airlines is the launch customer for the Boeing 737 re-engine, but it’s not the launch operator.

As American’s 10Q SEC filing revealed the day the order was announced, AA won’t take delivery of the first 737RE until 2018. EIS is planned for 2016 or 2017.

We asked American about this. Sean Collins, director of financial communications for the airline, confirmed American doesn’t want to be the first operator of the aircraft.’

“We don’t like to be the first in line for a new airplane,” he said. “There is a learning curve to be worked out. We like to let that process work its way out. That’s the approach we’ve taken.”

American’s status as the launch customer but not the launch operator is somewhat ironic. Bombardier came under a great deal of criticism for having launch customers but not launch operators for its CSeries (a point rectified at the Paris Air Show, with an unidentified network carrier placing an order to become the launch operator). In fact, Boeing’s Nicole Piasecki, VP of Business Development and Strategic Integration, made the same criticism toward BBD in Boeing’s pre-Paris Air Show press briefing.

While BBD’s critics point to the facts that the CSeries is an entirely new airplane, using new materials, production techniques and suppliers, the 737RE is intended to be a reasonable straight-forward derivative of a well-established airplane. That American is sufficiently wary of being the launch operator is a statement of some kind.

We’ll leave it to analysts and observers to make their own interpretations.

But American’s decision leaves Boeing in the position of being able to offer initial delivery slots to Southwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines. Southwest launched 737 derivatives -300, -500 and -700 and has been agitating for two years or more for Boeing to upgrade the 737 or, preferably, proceed with a new airplane. Delta is currently deciding on the 757 replacement, evaluating the 737-900ER and the A321neo. A re-engined -900ER should change the dynamics of this competition a bit.

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Posted on July 27, 2011 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries

737RE, A320NEO, Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, D, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines

For Boeing: when one door closes, another door opens

There’s a saying that when one door closes on an opportunity, another door opens. This is the case with Boeing’s decision to proceed with a 737 re-engine. We first wrote about this in a previous post. Max-Kinglsey Jones of Airline Business picked up the theme in his recent blog.

There’s no question Boeing’s march down the path to re-engining was driven by Airbus, it was embarrassing and it was messy. Having said that, the re-engine frees resources and money to concentrate on getting the 787-9 right, launching the 787-10 and deciding what to do with the 777-300ER to meet the competition of the re-defined A350-1000.

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Posted on July 23, 2011 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, CSeries, EADS, Embraer

737, A320, Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, CSeries, EADS, Embraer

US airlines ready orders

There has been a rash of articles this week breathlessly focusing on US carriers and the prospect they will order airplanes this year.

This is no revelation, nor is the prospect that Boeing customers might line up and buy from another manufacturer.

We’ve written about this in the past. It appears to be time to revisit the topic.

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Posted on July 1, 2011 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier

737, A320NEO, Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, Continental Airlines, CSeries, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines

The GE Powerhouse and how it wins deals

Those of us who are intimately familiar with commercial aviation will find this as no news. For those who don’t deal in this business every day, this will provide a better understanding of how deals are won in aviation.

This is the story of the GE Powerhouse and how family ties combine to enable GE Aviation and CFM International to win deals that might otherwise go to competing engines.

None of what we’re about to tell you is to suggest that the GE/CFM engines are inferior (though, obviously, some might dispute this), because they are superb engines. But a telling comment came from CFM’s Sandrine Lacorre, product marketing director, who said at a UBM Aviation conference, “What we can’t do technically, we will do commercially.”

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Posted on June 29, 2011 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, AirInsight, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, Pratt & Whitney

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, GE Engines, GECAS, GTF, LEAP, Pratt & Whitney

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Boeing claims 737MAX better than each NEO

Replacing 757s; Bombardier’s Scott and Delta; pricing engines

Odds and Ends: Delta’s small jet deferral and other things

Delta to order 737-900s, small airplane order deferred

Embraer ponders new, 2,000nm airplane

Analysts opine on Embraer, Bombardier

American is the launch customer for 737RE–but not the launch operator

For Boeing: when one door closes, another door opens

US airlines ready orders

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