After more than 50 years, Boeing has finally announced plans to cancel the Boeing 737
https://crankyflier.com/2024/04/01/boeing-announces-new-797-to-replace-the-737-family/
Listen on Apple, Spotify, direct, or wherever you get your podcasts. Airplanes having problems? Seems like
What a week it’s been in the airline industry. First there was the Japan Airlines A350
The long-delayed 777X has long felt like something far off and irrelevant. I knew I’d
https://crankyflier.com/2023/12/07/boeing-gets-closer-to-delivering-its-new-flagship-the-777x/
As a general rule, if you need an act of Congress to make sure you
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen an airline put its full faith in
https://crankyflier.com/2022/02/07/qatar-bets-big-on-boeing-cargo/
The 737 MAX certification travesty quite literally has left blood on the hands of both
https://crankyflier.com/2022/01/11/boeing-is-in-regulatory-hell-struggling-to-deliver-new-aircraft/
Allegiant and Boeing announced last week that the airline would buy 50 737 MAX aircraft
By all accounts, next summer should be a barnburner of a travel season over the
https://crankyflier.com/2021/12/14/american-faces-a-widebody-shortage-cuts-summer-capacity/
This Week’s Featured Link President Biden Announces New Actions to Protect Americans Against the Delta and
The long-rumored new aircraft order is now official, and on the surface it may not
This week’s featured link SWISS temporarily reduces its Geneva flight operations to an absolute minimum
This week’s featured link Boeing’s MCAS on the 737 Max may not have been needed
This week’s featured link Boeing 737 MAX re-certification is not expected before October – AirwayDelays,
This doesn’t even need to be said, but I have to start this post somehow:
https://crankyflier.com/2020/04/28/boeings-golden-opportunity-will-probably-be-squandered/
Remember the good old days when we could just talk about how incompetent Boeing was
This weeks featured link Boeing’s new CEO needs to show commitment to deep overhaul –
This week’s featured link December 2019 Letter – richardaboulafia.comI keep wanting to write about the
This Week’s Featured Links Muilenburg: Returning Max to service ‘will be an international decision’ – Learmount.comBoeing
This week’s featured link: The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course – The AtlanticDon’t
This week’s featured link: Lufthansa to start flying to Ljubljana after Adria Airways’ collapse –
https://crankyflier.com/2019/10/11/3-links-i-love-filling-the-void-boeing-in-a-pickle-slots/
I received a note from a reader, Joel, asking for my thoughts on an article
https://crankyflier.com/2019/07/18/if-boeing-had-taken-a-different-path/
This week’s featured link: FAA and Boeing initially disagreed on severity of “catastrophic” 737 MAX
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It’s time for another edition of Ask Cranky and today, it provides a good excuse
In my post last Thursday, I laid out why I thought the 737 MAX shouldn’t
When the 737 MAX operating Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed on takeoff from Addis Ababa
This week’s featured link: US DOT terminates EAS availability at 21 communities – ch-aviation It’s
What American would do with its widebody fleet has been top of mind for a
This week’s featured link: This is Boeing’s NMA – JonOstrower.com If you haven’t heard, Jon
Last week’s announcement that Airbus would bring Bombardier’s C-Series program under its proverbial (and, I
https://crankyflier.com/2017/10/23/airbus-and-bombardier-trump-boeing/
219.63% If the decision from the Department of Commerce goes final, that’s the amount of
This week’s featured link: Featured Map for 22 September 2017: Cranky Flier’s Dorkfest 2017 –
This week is the Paris Air Show, the pinnacle of the air show circuit (alternating
This week’s featured link: United Looks at Boeing’s ‘Paper Plane’ and Likes What It Sees
This week’s featured link: Europe brings US to court for delaying cheap Cork to Boston
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In an internal memo last week, American explained that it was going to retire two
This week’s featured link: In strategy shift, Boeing backs 7 MAX: sources – Leeham News
After SilkAir’s delivery ceremony for the airline’s first new 737-800 and the dinner at the
https://crankyflier.com/2014/02/25/touring-boeings-737-factory-in-renton/
If you look at aircraft ordering trends in the US over the last few years,
https://crankyflier.com/2013/11/11/airlines-go-for-bigger-airplanes-to-bring-unit-costs-down/
It has not been a good few weeks for the 787 program. There have been
https://crankyflier.com/2013/01/15/about-those-787-problems/
While I was excited to ride Lufthansa’s A380 last year, I was secretly looking ahead
https://crankyflier.com/2012/12/18/lufthansa-brings-the-747-8-to-los-angeles/
Don’t get too excited. I didn’t actually get to fly on one. But I did
https://crankyflier.com/2012/03/15/onboard-a-boeing-787-dreamliner/
Boeing has now officially launched its 737 with new engines – it’s being called the
https://crankyflier.com/2011/09/02/topic-of-the-week-boeings-737-max/
It’s now official. Delta has decided to order a hundred 737-900ER aircraft. These aren’t the
https://crankyflier.com/2011/08/29/why-deltas-737-order-reminds-me-of-baseball/
In case you missed it, American has decided to buy an insanely large number of
https://crankyflier.com/2011/07/21/what-will-american-do-with-all-those-airplanes/
That’s the question. What will Boeing do? The Airbus A320neo has been a hot seller