Engine OEMs’ profit drivers are in direct opposition to those of Boeing and Airbus—everyone is in the same boat, but they are rowing in different directions.
Boeing and Airbus's 2025 O+D numbers illustrate very different stories, but neither should assume their respective performances will continue into 2026.
Bouyed by full-year 2025 production numbers, manufacturers are cautiously optimistic that a steadily upward trend is emerging, but more challenges await.
The part that failed and triggered the engine separation at the heart of the Nov. 4, 2025, crash of a UPS MD-11 was flagged for inspections by Boeing in 2011.
Henil Patel, a 2025 20 Twenties winner, is a Boeing manufacturing engineer on the 777-9 program. The award sharpened his focus and opened industry doors.
The inadvertent inflight opening of a retrofitted main cargo door on a converted Boeing 757 freighter revealed a perfectible design, Germany’s BFU says.
As 2026 beckons, engine-makers position themselves for the industry’s most valuable prize: a place on the next-gen Airbus and Boeing single-aisle aircraft.
