A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it’s too late.

By Scott Hamilton * Editor at Large September 22, 2026 The Bargaining Unit Councils (BUCs) of SPEEA, the union representing Boeing’s engineers and technicians, recommended membership approval of two contracts offered by Boeing. The first contracts were rejected in a vote last month. Both current contracts expire on October 6. The BUCs, one for each group and contract, recommended approval late this afternoon.

By Scott Hamilton • Editor at Large  September 21, 2026 Union members' reaction to the second Tentative Agreement (TA) between SPEEA and Boeing is mixed on social media. SPEEA is the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, representing engineers and technicians. Each group has a contract with Boeing, negotiated by SPEEA. The current contract expires October 6. The first TA, endorsed by negotiators on both sides of the bargaining table, was overwhelmingly rejected by both union groups, and both endorsed a strike if they don’t reach a new contract before midnight on October 6.

Subscription Required  By Scott Hamilton * Editor-at-Large September 17, 2026 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today approved Boeing’s application in December last year to allow the production of 35 more 777Fs after December 31, 2027. This is the deadline the FAA adopted to implement a 2017 decision by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) limiting emissions and noise pollution after that date.

Free for nonsubscribers By Scott Hamilton Sept. 11, 2026, © Leeham News and Analysis: Controllers at Newfoundland's Gander International Airport had little warning about what was about to descend on them figuratively and literally following the airliner hijackings of 9/11. David Collenette was the Minister of Transport for Canada on September 11, 2001. Ironically, he was in Montreal that morning as a key speaker before 2,000 executives of airports across the world at the Airports Council International conference.

Free for nonsubscribers By Scott Hamilton Sept. 10, 2026, © Leeham News and Analysis: Gander, Newfoundland, had an important role in aviation long before 9/11. Pan American World Airways pioneered passenger air service over the Atlantic. On June 24, 1939, just months before World War II started, Pan Am launched a northern route between the U.S. and Europe via Gander and Ireland.

Free for nonsubscribers  By Scott Hamilton Sept. 9, 2026, © Leeham News and Analysis: The events of 9/11 impacted businesses across most industries and around the globe. That said, Leeham News and Analysis' focus is primarily on Airbus, Boeing, and related companies. For purposes of this series, we’re confining the impact assessment to the Big Two airframe companies 9/11 affected Airbus and Boeing, too.

By Scott Hamilton Sept. 8, 2026, © Leeham News: The events of 9/11 were disastrous for the airline industry. The immediate effect was the grounding of the airlines for four days while new, emergency security procedures were put in place. The airlines were losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day while their planes were idle. Wholesale bankruptcies were very real possibilities.

Free for nonsubscribers  By Scott Hamilton 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 Franklin D. Roosevelt died. I certainly remember where I was when the news was announced of the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Free for nonsubscribers  By Scott Hamilton  Aug. 31, 2026, © Leeham News and Analysis: Today is my last day as a full-fledged participant in Leeham News and Analysis (LNA). When LNA was sold to AIN Media Group in July 2025, a two-year contract for me was included, with a provision that AIN would strive to find my successor as editor within a year.

By Scott Hamilton Aug. 27, 2026, © Leeham News: SPEEA, the engineers and technicians union, and Boeing will meet on Monday to discuss where to go following last Friday’s rejection by both worker groups of contracts negotiated by negotiators from both sides. SPEEA, which stands for the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, spent most of this week surveying its members to obtain more specificity for the coming new round of contract talks.

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Aug. 26, 2026, © Leeham News: When Boeing was going through travails with the 787 program from 2007-2015, Airbus boasted it sold more A330s after the Dreamliner...

Aug. 26, 2026, © Leeham News: For nearly 20 years, beginning with the Potemkin-airplane 7-8-07 rollout of the 787, Boeing has stumbled from one miscue after another. The depths to which it bottomed out with the multi-year, multi-failures of the 737 Max program, were extended from March 2019 through mid-2024. Consider: The 787 was 3 ½ years late. It racked up more than $50 billion in deferred production and tooling costs and billions in customer compensation.

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Aug. 24, 2026, © Leeham News: Before the 737 Max was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in March 2019 for what would be 21 months, Boeing was in the process of boosting the production rate to 57 from 52 737s per month. The company was already thinking about a further rate increase to 63 per month.

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By Scott Hamilton Aug. 21, 2026, © Leeham News: Engineers and technicians represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) soundly rejected contracts their negotiating teams unanimously recommended after talks that the teams and Boeing praised for collaboration, civility and outcome. Engineers rejected the tentative agreement (TA) by a 64.3% vote. The technicians voted down the TA by 71.9%. 

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton and Bjorn Fehrm Aug. 20, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing’s strategy of filing a trade complaint against Bombardier in 2017 for alleged price dumping of its C Series was simple: kill the US market for the airplane, and that would kill the program worldwide. Given the weakened financial state of Bombardier, Boeing correctly understood that the Canadian company couldn’t withstand this blow.

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton and Bjorn Fehrm Aug. 13, 2026, © Leeham News: In 2017, Embraer faced what it thought was an existential crisis. Airbus agreed to buy 50.1% of the Bombardier C Series because of Boeing’s trade complaint against the Canadian company. If the purchase had been consummated (as it would be the next year), Embraer felt that its Commercial Airplanes division (ECA) could not compete with the C Series.

Aug. 12, 2026, © Leeham News: Lingering resentment over past contracts, comparisons with the 2024 IAM 751 contract, and poor communications appear to contribute to reasons the Bargaining Unit Councils (BUCs) of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) voted against the tentative agreement (TA) between the union and Boeing. SPEEA has two BUCs: one for the professional engineers and one for technicians whom SPEEA represents with Boeing.

Subscription required  By Scott Hamilton Aug. 11, 2026, © Leeham News: The first delivery of the Airbus A350F could be slipping from late 2027 to 2028, LNA has learned. LNA first reported this likelihood of later-than-expected delivery of the first A350F in October 2025. At the time, Airbus downplayed the possibility. Airbus is still sticking with its announced late-2027 delivery target.

By Scott Hamilton Aug. 6, 2026, © Leeham News: The Bargaining Unit Councils (or BUCs) of Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) today did not recommend approval of the new ...

By Scott Hamilton Aug. 6, 2026, © Leeham News: The Bargaining Unit Councils (or BUCs) of Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) today did not recommend approval of the new contract unanimously recommended by the negotiating teams that union members approve the contract negotiated with Boeing. A vote is expected before Aug. 21, the date by which some incentives in the contract to prompt a Yes vote expire.

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Aug. 5, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing’s 737 Max 7 finally obtained certification on Aug. 3. The company and airline customers hope certification of the Max 10 is not far behind. Certification of both aircraft was delayed for years following the eruption of the Max crisis in 2019. The second crash of a Max 8, five months after the first one, led to a 21-month grounding of the global fleet.

By Scott Hamilton Subscription required  Aug. 3, 2026, © Leeham News: The quick outcome of reaching a tentative agreement between Boeing and its engineers/technicians union, SPEEA, was done in lightning speed, as contract negotiations go: just four weeks, meeting every day. By the end of July, the meetings were about 14 hours a day. The current contract doesn’t expire until Oct.

Open to All Readers For daily Farnborough Air Show coverage, see out media partner AIN here. By Scott Hamilton July 22, 2026, © Leeham News: Airbus said yesterday that will begin testing its Wing of Tomorrow on an A321neo. This is the first time testing of the full-size wing will occur on a production airliner. “Airbus is launching a new flight-test campaign to evaluate the performance of high-span wings for next-generation single-aisle aircraft, marking the next phase of one of its largest research and technology programs, Wing of Tomorrow,” the company said in a statement.

Open to All Readers For daily Farnborough Air Show coverage, see out media partner AIN here. By Scott Hamilton July 22, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing faces a 787 “Terrible Teens” scenario with its early build 777-9s because of the large amount of change incorporation required across the 30+ 777-9s that have been built since 2019. These aircraft were assembled then put into storage as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initiated a deep-dive scrutiny following the two 737 MAX crashes in October 2018 and March 2019.

Subscription Required Open to All Readers By Scott Hamilton Background to a new series May 3, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing has more than 30 777-9s built and stored at the Everett (WA) Paine Field, wher...

Open to All Readers By Scott Hamilton July 21, 2026, © Leeham News: It’s a major change from the labor war that permeated contract talks in the past between Boeing management and its unions. Both sides are expressing optimism and a markedly improved atmosphere in early talks for the new contract for the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA).

Open to All Readers By Scott Hamilton July 21, 2026, (c) Leeham News: This year's Farnborough Air Show is subdued. Relatively few orders were announced yesterday, as expected. Perhaps more surprisingly, the static displays are very thin, especially compared with last year's Paris Air Show. There, the ramp at Le Bourget Airport was filled with the usual mix of commercial airliners, military tankers and transports, fighters, drones and other UAVs.

By Scott Hamilton July 17, 2026, © Leeham News/AIN: When rivals Pratt & Whitney and CFM International developed the Geared TurboFan (GTF) and the LEAP engines powering today’s single-aisle airliners, they pursued different technologies. Each naturally said their idea was better, and each downplayed the other company's concept. Today, each is developing the next generation of engines that will incorporate the technology they dismissed in the mid-2010s.

July 19, 2026, © Leeham News: LNA and its sister publication, AIN, are at the Farnborough Air Show, which opens tomorrow. LNA coverage may be found on this site. AIN coverage may be found here. LNA already posted many stories of pre-air show briefings by Boeing, GE Aerospace, JetZero and Pratt & Whitney. AIN has posted some pre-show stories as well. Be sure to check out LNA and AIN regularly.

By Scott Hamilton July 19,2026, © Leeham News: Boeing’s opening offer to its engineering and technicians union may come as early as this week, three people with knowledge of the company’s plans tell LNA. The opening offer also could come within two weeks. The situation is fluid, LNA is told. The current contract with The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) expires on Oct.

Subscription Required Open to all Readers By Scott Hamilton and Karl Sinclair May 19, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing hopes to finally gain certification of the 777X in the coming months. Deliveries shoul...

Open to All Readers By Scott Hamilton July 18, 2026, © Leeham News—Farnborough, England: Embraer, the third largest commercial airplane manufacturer in the world, forecasts demand for 8,500 jets in the below 150 market through 2045. The most commonly recognized aircraft in this sector are Embraer’s E-Jets and Mitsubishi’s CRJ jets. Only Embraer is currently producing jets in this market: the E175-E1, E190-E2 and E195-E2.

By Scott Hamilton July 16, 2026, © Leeham News/AIN: The president of Pratt & Whitney’s commercial engine unit is adamant that the engine powering the successor airplanes to the Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 MAX families will be a turbofan, not an open fan engine. Rick Deurloo’s position is hardly surprising. P&W is developing the NextGen2 Geared Turbo Fan (GTF) engine, which is not an open fan architecture like rival GE Aerospace is pursuing.

By Scott Hamilton July 15, 2026, © Leeham News/AIN: Ten years into the seemingly endless technical issues with its Geared TurboFan (GTF) engine, maker Pratt & Whitney’s investments in expanding MRO facilities is a critical component of fixing the engines. P&W has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in building, expanding, and licensing Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) facilities to fix durability problems with key engine components that have plagued the GTF, primarily on the Airbus A320neo family.

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Subscription Required By Karl Sinclair and Scott Hamilton July 8, 2026, © Leeham News: Airbus says it hasn’t made the decision yet whether to proceed with a stretch of the A220, but all signs point to doing so. The plane is unofficially called the A200-500 by many, including LNA, based on its original design designation, the CS 500. This is the designation by Bombardier, the designer of the C Series, that became the A220 when Airbus acqured the program in 2018.

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton July 7, 2026, © Leeham News: Airbus and Pratt & Whitney say that the problems that have ailed the A220 program are resolved and there won’t be any A220s grounded due to geared turbofan engines by the end of this year. Currently, only 2-3% of the grounded A220s are due to the engine problems that have plagued not only the A220, but also the A320neo family.

To our Readers: We've restricted comments for the last seven months, requiring moderation and approval before posting. For the most part, readers behaved. There have been some comments I sent directly to trash. For the month of July, with the Farnborough Air Show coming, I'm reverting to the policy in place from 2008 to December 2025: previously approved readers will be able to post, and their comments will appear within seconds (assuming no technical glitches).

Open to all readers. By Karl Sinclair July 5, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing officially activates its 737 North Line tomorrow, the first time in more than 50 years the company has assembled the 737 outside of its Renton, Washington factory. The North Line is in Boeing’s Everett widebody assembly plant in the space previously dedicated to 787 Line 1. Line 1 was closed during the Covid-19 pandemic and consolidated with Line 2 in Charleston (SC).

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton July 2, 2026, © Leeham News: JetZero, the developer of a family concept of Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft, is collaborating with the US Air Force to determine what engine will eventually power the production aircraft. The company has designed three BWBs: an aerial refueling tanker for use by the air force; an all-cargo version; and a commercial design called the Z4.

July 1, 2026, © Leeham News: Howard Hardee has been named Editor of Leeham News and Analysis, it was announced today by LNA’s owner, AIN Media Group. Scott Hamilton, the founder and editor of LNA, has been named Editor-At-Large, said Ruben Kempeneer, AIN Media Group president. Howard Hardee, left, has been named editor of Leeham News and Analysis effective today.