Michael Bruno
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Podcast: Will M&A Heat Up in 2023?
Dealmaking slowed down in the second half of 2022, but the year ended with a bang. → Read More
Aerostructures Market To Grow 8% Through 2032, Report Says
Spirit AeroSystems is the market leader, according to the consultancy’s December report. → Read More
Podcast: Boeing’s Latest NMA Plan—No More Aircraft
Aviation Week editors are skeptical of CEO Dave Calhoun’s new commercial airliner timeline. → Read More
Podcast: Boeing’s Latest NMA Plan—No More Aircraft
Aviation Week editors are skeptical of CEO Dave Calhoun’s new commercial airliner timeline. → Read More
Podcast: The Price of Sustainability
As the aerospace industry gathers in Montreal, the challenges of getting to net-zero are laid bare. → Read More
Podcast: What’s Disrupting Aerospace Programs—Inflation, Lead Times And Workplace Envy
Program managers are in the middle of the maelstrom, wrestling with issues many have never dealt with in their careers. Aviation Week editors discuss what they heard at the 2022 Program Excellence Evaluation Team meeting in August. → Read More
Astra Eyes Bigger Rocket, Satellite Offering, But Rapid Cash Burn
Astra Space, a small rocket startup that became a publicly traded company last year via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) but which has struggled with successful missions, plans to add turnkey satellite busses to its offering in 2023. → Read More
Who Wins, Who Loses In The Coming Supersonic Business Boom?
A new type of passenger aircraft looks to shatter the placidness with sonic and business booms alike. → Read More
Why Airbus And Boeing May Need To Cut Production More
Most observers agree that aircraft manufacturers are still too optimistic with regards to demand for new aircraft. → Read More
L3Harris Eyes Foreign Defense Expansion, Shakes Off Commercial Dip
L3Harris leaders say their focus remains carrying out their prior plans for their merger of equals. → Read More
Embraer Commercial Eyes Corporate Realignment, Shelves Turboprop
Embraer’s commercial operation has shifted focus to realign with the rest of the company and conserving cash, with new-product development—including a notional turboprop—put on hold while the business regains its footing amid the Boeing deal collapse and coronavirus crisis, Embraer Commercial Aviation president and CEO John Slattery said. → Read More
The Art Of An Aircraft Deal: Is WTO Resolution Possible?
The next three months could be decisive in the 16-year World Trade Organization dispute between Airbus and Boeing. → Read More
Aerospace Analysts See Growing 737 MAX Costs For Boeing
Boeing stakeholders may find out more information about the costs of the 737 MAX fiasco during the company’s Jan. 29 report on 2019 financial results. While Boeing previously identified $5.6 billion in pretax customer compensation for aircraft operators, and added $3.6 billion to the 737’s program accounting block-cost, financial analysts, consultants and others see those figures as just a… → Read More
Stormy Beginning to 2020 Sees Commercial Aerospace Slowing
Companies are laying off workers, and forecasts for commercial aerospace are being revised downward. It was not supposed to be this way. → Read More
Embraer posts profit in 2Q; on track to split commercial ops to Boeing
Embraer posted 2019 second-quarter net profit of $7.2 million, reversed from a $131.4 million loss in the 2018 2Q. → Read More
Analysts revise MAX outlook on extended grounding, delivery halts
Momentum from the Paris Air Show is fading, and Wall Street analysts are quickly taking a sobering financial view of the Boeing 737 MAX issue now that an extended grounding of the aircraft and halt in deliveries could drag into the fourth quarter, at least. → Read More
Calio to succeed Leduc as Pratt & Whitney president
Senior United Technologies (UTC) aerospace executive Christopher Calio will succeed Bob Leduc as president of Pratt & Whitney in early 2020, UTC said June 25. → Read More
Calio to succeed Leduc as Pratt & Whitney president
Senior United Technologies (UTC) aerospace executive Christopher Calio will succeed Bob Leduc as president of Pratt & Whitney in early 2020, UTC said June 25. → Read More
Bombardier sells CRJ program to Mitsubishi for $550 million
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Bombardier have struck a deal on the sale of the Canadian manufacturer’s Canadair Regional Jet program for $550 million and assumption of some debt. → Read More
PARIS 2019: Spirit Aero shows new production technologies
Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems unveiled new production methods for carbon fiber composite materials that the company said will lower costs and increase production volumes on future aircraft components. → Read More