Boeing Rolls Out the First 787-9
Aircraft August 24, 2013
The second member of the Boeing 787 family rolled out of the Everett, Washington, final assembly line on August 24 bound for the flight line, where teams are preparing it to fly later this summer.
Read morePainting of First Boeing 787-9 is Completed
Aircraft July 27, 2013
Becoming the first 787 to wear the new Boeing Commercial Airplanes livery, the first Boeing 787-9 rolled out of the paint hangar at Boeing’s Everett final-assembly facility overnight on the night of July 26-27, 2013.
Read moreBoeing has completed the firm configuration of the 737 MAX 8, a milestone which the manufacturer says marks completion of the major trade studies to define the capabilities of the 737 MAX family.
Read moreThe Turkish flag-carrier has exercised options on five Boeing 777-300ER widebodies that were revealed in December 2012 as part of a previous firm order for 15 777-300ERs.
Read moreBy June 20 at the 2013 Paris Air Show, Boeing has won orders and commitments for 442 commercial aircraft in transactions which the manufacturer values at more than $66 billion at list prices.
Read moreThe June 19 finalizing of the Ryanair deal brings the total number of Boeing 737 aircraft ordered since production began in the mid-1960s to more than 11,000. Boeing currently has unfilled orders for more than 3,400 737s, all of them either 737NGs or 737 MAX aircraft.
Read moreBoeing has announced that first delivery of a 737 MAX, a 737 MAX 8 for launch customer Southwest Airlines, will be made three months earlier than originally scheduled – in the third quarter of 2017 instead of in the fourth quarter.
Read moreBoeing values the deal at approximately $3.6 billion at current list prices. Korean Air is the only airline in the world to order both the passenger and freighter variations of the Boeing 747-8.
Read moreCustomer launch commitments for the Boeing 787-10 include Air Lease Corporation, with 30 aircraft; GE Capital Aviation Services, with 10; International Airlines Group/British Airways, with 12 subject to shareholder approval; Singapore Airlines, with 30; and United Airlines, with 20.
Read moreAccording to Boeing, the two aircraft on firm order give Qatar Airways a Boeing 777 firm-order backlog of nine aircraft. When the airline signs a firm order for the additional seven 777-300ERs to which it committed on June 17 at the Paris Air Show 2013, the backlog will rise to 16 777s, increasing Qatar Airways’ 777 fleet eventually to 51 aircraft.
Read moreGE Capital Aviation Services), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of General Electric, has announced at the 2013 Paris Air Show a commitment to order 10 Boeing 787-10X Dreamliners equipped with GEnx engines, subject to Boeing launching the 787-10 program.
Read moreTokyo-based Skymark Airlines has announced its intent to select the Boeing 737 MAX as its next single-aisle aircraft type, making it Japan’s first airline to do so. Skymark Airlines’ announcement came on the first day of the Paris Air Show 2013.
Read moreBoeing Begins Final Assembly of the First 787-9
Aircraft June 2, 2013
The newest member of the Boeing 787 family began taking shape on schedule May 30 at Boeing’s widebody final-asembly facility in Everett, Washington, when Boeing started joining large sections of the first flight-test 787-9.
Read moreThe firm commitment by TUI Travel PLC includes 40 Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets and 20 737 MAX 9s. The deal also includes options on another 60 737 MAX jets at the same terms as the first 60 aircraft and purchase rights on an additional 30. Deliveries of TUI Travel PLC’s first 60 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are due to begin in January 2018 and continue until March 2023.
Read moreSingapore Airlines has agreed to order 30 more Airbus A350-900s and 30 Boeing 787-10Xs in deals the carrier values at more than $17 billion at list prices. The A350 deal includes options for 20 more, which can be converted to A350-1000s. The 787-10X deal makes SIA the launch customer for the planned new 787 stretched version.
Read moreLufthansa, the launch customer of the Boeing 747-8 passenger version, took delivery of the milestone 747-8 almost a year after the first revenue flight of the 747-8 Intercontinental.
Read moreThe aircraft’s Performance Improvement Package includes improvements to its GEnx-2B engines and to the software for its flight management computers.
Read moreSouthwest, which was the launch customer for the Boeing 737 MAX program, becomes the first airline to order the 737 MAX 7 by converting existing orders for 30 Boeing 737NGs into orders for 737 MAX 7s.
Read moreTurkish Airlines has finalized a firm order for 40 Boeing 737 MAX 8s, 10 Boeing 737 MAX 9s and 20 Boeing 737-800s. The deal also includes options for an additional 25 Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets and is the largest Boeing order in Turkish Airlines’ history.
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