Editorial: The re-engining game

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The setting: Airbus and Boeing have successful narrowbodies already in production, the 737 Next-Generation family and the A320 family, respectively. Bombardier, a regional manufacturer from Canada, upsets the duopoly enjoyed by the big two manufacturers by introducing a large regional jet, fitted with new engine technology, mid-decade. Airlines are facing environmental and noise taxes and regulations that are making it more difficult to be profitable, in a business in which profitability is rarely possible at the best of times, and Airbus and Boeing continue to rake in the cash with their single-aisle aircraft product lines with a combined order backlog of about 4,500 jets.

This shows no sign of slowing. But a re-engined aircraft threatens to disrupt the harmony enjoyed by Airbus and Boeing for their narrowbody products, a harmony not enjoyed on their most recent ventures with......


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