By Charlotte Bailey • AIN Staff Writer  October 1, 2026 Deutsche Aircraft this week opened the final assembly line at Leipzig Halle Airport in northeast ...

By Howard Hardee and Charles Alcock  September 29, 2026  The first flight of the Airbus A350 Freighter on September 29 signified more than the European ...

By Karl Sinclair • Contributing Writer September 28, 2026 Subscription Required  Buckle up, folks. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Soaring fuel costs are squeezing already-thin airline margins, and the ...

By Bjorn Fehrm • Aerospace Analyst September 24, 2026 Subscription Required  Jet fuel prices have doubled since January, and analysts forecast we might not have seen the peak yet (Figure 1). The ...

By Howard Hardee • Editor September 28, 2026 Subscription Required The trickle of oil escaping from the Strait of Hormuz and associated surge in jet fuel prices are unwelcome developments for all ...

September 11, 2026, © Leeham News: Last week we started looking at different automated methods to lay down composite dry fiber reinforcement that are later infused ...

By Vincent E. Bianco III • Contributing Writer  September 23, 2026 Subscription Required  New air traffic control automation increases controller workload before it reduces it, often for years. Having ...

Sept. 4, 2026, © Leeham News and Analysis: Last week, we looked at why the preferred method to produce composite would be dry fiber infusion if you want to avoid ...

Sept. 7, 2026, © Leeham News and Analysis: It has been said that those alive in 1941 and 1945 remember where they were when Pearl Harbor was bombed and President ...

Boeing’s admission that the long-delayed certification of the 777X is expected to slip into next year may not surprise many industry observers. For months, it has appeared that the airframer’s ...

Sept. 8, 2026, © Leeham News and Analysis: As the Iran war enters its seventh month, airlines are still pondering the best—or perhaps least bad—response to the ...

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has assured the market that FAA certification of the 737 Max 10 is nearly in hand, with deliveries of the most-stretched variant of the 737 family still expected to begin next ...