March 5, 2015: A350 Launch Aid: Boeing and the US Trade Representative got in a big twist around 2006 when Airbus said it would accept more than $1bn in launch aid from Germany for the A350. At that… Read More
Posted on March 5, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, GE Aviation, ISTAT, Malaysian Airlines, MH370, Rolls-Royce
747-8, 777-9, 777X, 787, A350, A380neo, Airbus, Akbar Al-Baker, Boeing, Bombardier, CS300, Emirates Airline, Engine Alliance, GE Aviation, George Hamlin, ISTAT, Malaysia Airlines, MH370, Qatar Airways, Richard Aboulafia, Rolls-Royce, U-Turn Al, World Trade Organization, WTO
WTO to examine 777X tax breaks: Well, we predicted this in November 2013 when Washington State extended the Boeing 787 tax breaks to the 777X. And it’s happened. The World Trade Organization is going to take a look… Read More
Posted on February 23, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Dec. 21, 2014 Here’s a piece we did for CNN.com on the Year Ahead in Aviation for 2015. Qatar gets first A350-900: Unless U-Turn Al U-Turns again, Qatar Airways will take delivery of the world’s first Airbus A350-900… Read More
Posted on December 21, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
The European Union has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization over $8.7bn in tax breaks offered by Washington State to Boeing in exchange for locating the 777X assembly site and wing production plant in the state…. Read More
Posted on December 19, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Reuters is reporting that the European Union may challenge the $8.7bn in tax breaks Washington legislators voted to grant Boeing in return for locating assembly of the 777X and its wing in the state. Readers know we worried… Read More
Posted on May 16, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
EMB, BBD split American order: Embraer took the lion’s share of the long-awaited order from American Airlines for regional jets. EMB won 60 firm orders and 90 options for the E-175 and Bombardier won 30+40 CRJ-900s. Flight Global… Read More
Posted on December 12, 2013 by Scott Hamilton
We received an email from a Reader, who works for Boeing, about the details that emerged last week of Boeing’s Request for Proposals for the site location for the 777X: I went to your site today to see… Read More
Posted on December 9, 2013 by Scott Hamilton
Could Boeing face a new complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, this time over where the 777X assembly site will be placed? A Cornell University labor professor thinks it possible. The union-backed publication In These Times wrote… Read More
Posted on December 5, 2013 by Scott Hamilton
Update, Nov. 6, 10:00am PST: A summary by IAM 751 of the contract details is here. Original Post: Here’s our take on the news that the IAM and Boeing reached a tentative agreement leading to the selection of… Read More
Posted on November 5, 2013 by Scott Hamilton
Ethiopian 787: Remember that Boeing 787 fire at London Heathrow Airport some months back? It seems that Ethiopian Airlines, the owner, and Boeing, have finally reached agreement on how to fix the airplane–but nobody is saying how, according… Read More
Posted on October 17, 2013 by Scott Hamilton