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Over the past two years we have seen a remarkable surge in orders for single aisle airplanes. Much of this has been driven by fuel prices. But there has also been an issue bubbling under - airplanes in many fleets are getting older. Pat Duggins (http://www.patduggins.com/) is an expert on aging airp...

Airbus has announced its NEO program and the market has responded. Two orders in two weeks - 170 airplanes in two weeks. But how does the program look? Boeing on the one hand is sticking to its guns of no big changes. And on the other hand we have Bombardier with everything new. Between them is...

The news this week that India's IndiGo had singed an MOU for 180 A320s was a great opening shot for aircraft orders in 2011. This was followed yesterday with news that Delta Air Lines has an RFP out for between 100-200 single aisle planes and up to 200 options. Delta is looking at replacing three a...

Jon Ostrower gives us a quick sense of how the P&W team and its engine are doing after his recent visit. The team is quietly confident - there are a number of opportunities they see to get back into a leading supplier role. Having missed a few in the past P&W knows what it means to not be an option...

The show closed today and a clearly exhausted Scott Hamilton shares his assessment of the show's news. The orders were a lot bigger than anyone expected. Airbus' John Leahy declared the recession over - and he has good reason to feel that way, as his recession is clearly over. For many others this i...

After a very long day, Scott Hamilton reports in from the show his update. More orders - and the numbers are clearly much higher than anyone expected. One particular shopper, a Californian named Udvar-Hazy, had another very good day collecting airplanes for his rapidly growing collection. Once agai...

It was a surprising opening day - much bigger than most people would have thought. Our colleague Scott Hamilton called in from the event and discussed the day's order news with us. 178 planes were ordered today. The leasing companies were the big players, ordering 151 of the planes. Tomorrow we exp...

One of interesting sides of the upcoming show is the business jet side - not as flashy as military and not as big commercial. Business jets have had a rough recession. Not only is this market hammered because of weaker demand, but the super wealthy have not been keen to attract attention. But the...

Just as everyone gets excited about the 100 seat jet market growing, with a bunch new planes in the offing, it would be a good idea to understand just how complicated these planes are making airline management and pilots lives. Its not all skittles and beer. There are those nasty scope clauses that...

Bombardier has bet big on the CSeries and Pratt & Whitney has bet even bigger on its geared fan PurePower engine. There is a lot new technology at work in the CSeries and more than a few voices wonder about the airplane. One voice that is clearly not worried about this is Nick Heymann, Director Glo...