AvAnalysis
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For Emirates, fleet planning has always been an exercise in scale. The airline built its global network around very large aircraft, high-density routes, and long-term certainty from manufacturers. The Airbus A380 delivered that certainty for more than a decade. The Boeing 777X was meant to do the same for the next era. Instead, its prolonged…
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As 2025 comes to a close, we take a look at IndiGo and their inaugurated approach to long-haul flights. Despite constraints that have been ongoing throughout this year, the carrier has been able to make these flights a reality. It has very much been a new story for the airline in 2025, with this expected…
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For FedEx, the grounding of the McDonnell Douglas MD-11F is expected to cost them $175m, as disruption continues within the supply chain. When a major cargo airline removes a core aircraft type from service overnight, the effects ripple far beyond its own balance sheet. That is precisely what has happened following the grounding of the…
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It has been quite the 2025 for manufacturing duopolies Boeing & Airbus. Who was the winner this year? In commercial aviation, there are two numbers that matter more than any others: orders and deliveries. Orders measure confidence in the future—airlines committing billions of dollars to aircraft they may not see for years. Deliveries, by contrast,…
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Cancellation of flights can feel random, but in Europe, those pressure points have been getting worse. In reality, cancellations are usually a deliberate operational decision—made to stop a problem in one part of the system from snowballing across the entire network. And in Europe, those pressure points have been getting worse: higher demand, tighter airspace…