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Embraer slides to second-quarter loss as deliveries fall
Embraer made a net loss of $99.4 million in the second quarter, after a positive result of $129 million in the same period of 2015, as deliveries of business jets declined and commercial output stagnated.
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Opinion
OPINION: Cracks appear as Airbus, Boeing workloads mount
There is no other way to describe it. The second quarter of 2016 marked a modern low-point in the history of the Airbus and Boeing duopoly.
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Rolls-Royce upbeat over large-engine transition period
Underlying profit for Rolls-Royce’s civil aerospace division was down by more than 90%, to just £31 million ($41 million), over the first half as revenues slipped by 5% to £3.2 billion.
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Boeing reviewing widebody production rates
A recent softening in demand for widebody aircraft has Boeing executives re-considering planned rate increases for the 787 and 747-8 programmes and questioning the sustainability of an already slower rate on the 777.
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Airbus: Delivery of P&W 'golden' A320neo engine imminent
Airbus is expecting first delivery of the revamped Pratt & Whitney PW1100G powerplant to Lufthansa this week, enabling the airframer to start putting deliveries of the A320neo back on track.
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Malaysia Airlines orders up to 50 737 Max jets
Malaysia Airlines has placed a firm order for 25 Boeing 737 Max aircraft, and taken options on a further 25.
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Opinion
OPINION: Why lessors didn't place huge orders at Farnborough
Airbus, Boeing and Embraer, combined, had nearly 90% fewer firm aircraft orders from lessors at the Farnborough air show compared with 2015's Paris air show.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: American aims to cut delivery bubble with A350 deferral
American Airlines appears to have worked for some time towards an agreement with Airbus to defer its A350-900 deliveries, reaching one less than a year before its first aircraft was due.
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737 Max will be 'game changer' for Ryanair costs: finance chief
Introduction to service of the Boeing 737 Max will be a "game changer" for Ryanair, argues the budget airline's finance chief Neil Sorahan.
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American defers A350 deliveries by more than two years
American Airlines has deferred the deliveries of all of the 22 Airbus A350-900s that it has on order, as it works to reduce its capital expenditures and manage capacity through 2018.
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Boeing reports $3bn pre-tax charge on 787, 747 and KC-46
Boeing will report nearly $3 billion in pre-tax charges in the second quarter financial results scheduled to be released on 27 July.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: India’s airlines in new aircraft buying spree
India’s orderbook for new aircraft appears to be continuing in an upward trajectory following last week’s agreement by GoAir to purchase 72 Airbus A320neos, doubling its firm commitments for the re-engined variant to 144.
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E190-E2 runs ahead of schedule, but no early deliveries
Embraer has no plans to rush the timeline for delivering the first E190-E2 regional jet in the first half of 2018, even the flight test programme remains ahead of schedule, a top executive tells FlightGlobal.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: UK aerospace ponders Brexit unknowns
While politicians, citizens and business people digest the shock of the UK’s 23 June referendum vote to leave the EU, one word crops up repeatedly in any attempt to anticipate the implications: uncertainty.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus 'has Boeing's MoM market' with A321LR – Leahy
Airbus's chief salesman John Leahy has dismissed Boeing’s view that there is a market opening up for an all-new aircraft in the so-called middle-of-the-market (MoM) sector.
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Opinion
OPINION: Is A380 rate cut beginning of the end for superjumbo?
At Farnborough, the Airbus A380 was once again a sight to behold as it manoeuvred almost silently, almost balletically through its aerial routine. More than a decade after its air show debut at Paris, the world’s largest airliner remains a whispering wonder of European engineering, as impressive as the Boeing ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Flight looks through its pages at 100 years of Boeing
We look back through our archives at the pivotal moments in the 100-year history of aerospace’s biggest company, from the early days of aviation to the space programme.
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China's HNA acquires SR Technics
China’s HNA Group is to take over Swiss-based maintenance firm SR Technics, with the acquisition of a majority shareholding from sole owner Mubadala.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Farnborough air show order tracker 2016 – summary
Aside from an AirAsia-fuelled jump on the second day, order activity at this year’s show was much lower than the deal announcements frenzies of recent years.
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FARNBOROUGH: Boeing details range-boosting 737-7 redesign
Remaking the smallest version of the 737 Max family to carry more passengers and fly further presents three options: Shrink the larger 737-8, stretch the smaller 737-7 or combine elements of both.