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Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 20, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus and Boeing face a challenge that is good news and bad news. The good news: Demand for most of their airplanes is high. The bad news: neither can meet the demand. Delivery slots are sold out for the A320neo and 737 MAX families into the next decade. Widebody delivery positions are also increasingly scarce.

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 16, 2026, © Leeham News: GE Aerospace has begun dust ingestion testing of its RISE Open Fan engine, the earliest it’s ever done so. The company told the media in advance of the Paris Air Show that this was coming—and now it’s here. This is much more significant than the layman would understand. Colloquially, there’s dust and then there’s dust.

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 13, 2025, © Leeham News: As the commercial airliner industry sprints to the end of this year, Boeing remains the champion in the widebody, twin-aisle sector with a commanding lead over Airbus. Figure 1 But the European manufacturer is the blow-out victor in the more important narrowbody, single-aisle sector where between 80% and 85% of the sales are made.

Oct. 7, 2025, (c) Leeham News: Boeing's decline into the existential crisis that befell the company in March 2019 was decades in the making. The 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas Corp. is pegged as the tripping point. But the foundation pre-dated the merger. In Scott Hamilton's new book, The Rise and Fall of Boeing, and the Way Back, takes a deep dive into Boeing's rise from its 1916 birth through the piston era and the dawn of the jet age, when Boeing's "family" approach to airplanes thrust it past the Douglas Aircraft Co., despite nearly losing its advantage.