Feb. 1, 2026, © Leeham News: The Singapore Air Show begins on Feb. 3 local time (Feb. 2 in the US and Europe). LNA’s sister publication, AIN, is on site and will be reporting from the show. LNA will pick up selected stories. AIN’s coverage already is underway with some pre-show posts:

Guardian Flight crashed in 2019, 2022 & 2023; eleven people died.

Jan. 30, 2026, (c) Leeham News: Members of the engineers and technicians union at Boeing Wichita (the former Spirit AeroSystems plant) approved a 4.8 year contract 85.8% to 14.2%. "The contract was approved by a 671 to 111 vote of dues-paying members of SPEEA’s Wichita Technical & Professional Unit (WTPU)," the union announced tonight. “The average WTPU-represented worker will be making more than $117,000 a year when this contract is done in 2030.

Airbus is poised to start offering airlines and leasing firms a larger version of its A220 regional jet with a view to launching development later this year, industry sources said.

By Karl Sinclair Jan. 27, 2026, © Leeham News: The Boeing Company (BA) released its full-year 2025 results, and indications are that the company is headed in the right direction. However, some monumental tasks face the corporation in the short-to-medium term. Boeing Commercial Aircraft (BCA) is still in a loss-making position. BCA lost $7bn, compared with $8bn in 2024. Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) was near break-even.

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By Scott Hamilton Jan. 20, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing is preparing to activate its North Line for 737 production by mid-year, with 737-8s and 737-9s first to be assembled as a prelude to its intended...

By Scott Hamilton Jan. 20, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing is preparing to activate its North Line for 737 production by mid-year, with 737-8s and 737-9s first to be assembled as a prelude to its intended purpose: assembling the long-delayed 737-10. Boeing has been informally asking the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) a series of “what if” questions in advance of a formal request to activate the North Line.

Subscription Required By Tom Batchelor Jan. 19, 2026, © Leeham News: Having announced it was abandoning near-term development plans for a Short Take-Off and Landing (STOL) variant 12 months ago, ATR b...

By The Leeham News Team Jan. 16, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing won more orders than Airbus last year. Airbus delivered more airplanes, given its higher production rates and Boeing’s long, slow path to recovery. But a dissection of the numbers also shows positive results for Boeing. On top of Delta Air Lines’ breakthrough order for the 787-10, its first for any 787, United Airlines converted 56 787-9s to the 787-10.

Jan. 15, 2026, (c) Leeham News: Boeing and SPEEA, the engineers and technicians union, reached an agreement tonight for the Boeing Wichita operation. This is the former Spirit AeroSystems plant that was merged into Boeing last month. The labor contract was open during Spirit's last days, and negotiations were paused upon the merger and through the holidays. This is the first test of contract negotiations and SPEEA under Boeing's CEO, Kelly Ortberg.

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Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Jan. 15, 2026, © Leeham News: COMAC had a rough year in 2025. It’s unlikely that this year will be much better. COMAC is China’s state-owned commercial aerospace company. It builds the C909 regional jet (formerly known as the AVIC ARJ2i; AVIC is now part of COMAC). The C909 is a Douglas DC-9-10 look-alike with GE CF-34 engines, the same powerplant that’s on the Mitsubishi CRJ and Embraer E1 E-Jets.

By Scott Hamilton Jan. 13, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing delivered 600 airliners last year, its best year since 2018—the last normal year before the 737 MAX grounding began in March 2020. In 2018, Boeing delivered 813 airliners. The MAX grounding lasted 21 months. This was followed by the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in April 2020, lasting about two years. In October 2020, deliveries of most 787s were suspended due to a production flaw.

By the Leeham News Team  Jan. 13, 2026, © Leeham News: Deliveries for the Airbus A350 fell last year compared with 2024, reflecting supply chain challenges. Christian Scherer, the former CEO of Airbus Commercial Aircraft, said, “The ‘stagnation’ of A350 deliveries is not a lack of demand. There is a center section of the A350 fuselage that is being built by a company formerly known as Spirit Aerosystems.

By Vincent E. Bianco III FAA Veteran and Senior Aviation Safety Consultant Guest Column Jan. 13, 2026, © Leeham News: Presidential administrations and Congresses dating to the formation of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1957 have failed to adequately fund the agency and modernize the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. An insider examines why.—Editor. Introduction: A Crisis of Process Over Progress…

By Scott Hamilton Jan. 12, 2026, © Leeham News: Airbus confirmed today that it delivered 793 jetliners last year. This was on a target revised downward from 820 guided at the beginning of the year. A late 2025 quality issue involving fuselage panels on the A320 resulted in a reduced target. Officials also said that the number of engineless A320 “gliders” was reduced from a peak of 60 last year to a “manageable” small number.

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Budget airlines in the U.S. like Allegiant and Sun Country have faced a surge in costs following the pandemic and the increase in domestic capacity.

By Hanneke Weitering Science & Technology Editor AIN Jan. 10, 2026, (c) AIN: A consortium of Washington state legislators, research institutions, and local aviation industry leaders such as Boeing launched a joint initiative to rapidly scale the production and adoption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Announced on Thursday at Boeing Future of Flight, the museum located adjacent to Boeing’s Everett production facility, the Cascadia Sustainable Aviation Accelerator (CSAA) aims to ramp the region’s SAF production capacity to one billion gallons per year by 2035.

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton and Karl Sinclair Jan. 8, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing is on its way back. Not to its glory days of engineering prowess. This won’t happen until Boeing develops a new airplane, and just how advanced it will be. But it’s on its way back to returning to a profitable, reliable company that puts safety and quality first.

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Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Jan. 6, 2026, © Leeham News: Airbus is tweaking the marketing messaging for the A220 to boost sales for regional airline operations. Marketing for the A220 began as the C Series when Bombardier launched the program in 2008. Bombardier positioned the 100-seat CS100 as a replacement for the Airbus A318 and Boeing 737-500/600. The 130-seat CS300 was designed to replace the Airbus A319 and Boeing 737-700.