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Boeing provides a mockup of AA 787
comments ()Boeing Co. has provided a look at what a Boeing 787 in American Airlines livery might look like. Well, good: for its billions of dollars it’ll spend, American should get a pretty picture or...
View ArticleMonday morning trivia
comments ()When the Boeing 787s start arriving (probably) in 2012, American Airlines will have owned all the major models of jet aircraft built by Boeing. But two models first arrived at the airline...
View ArticleGood times, bad times
comments ()As any student of airline history could tell you, American Airlines is getting the timing of this airplane order all wrong. A truism in the airline industry is: Airplanes are ordered in good...
View ArticleDreamliner to stay grounded until at least next year
comments ()Boeing is saying Tuesday that the Boeing 787, the Dreamliner wide-body jet under development, won’t take its first test flight until next year. Boeing blamed the machinists’ strike that...
View ArticleBoeing says “see you later” on Boeing 747-8 deliveries
comments ()Boeing announced Friday that first deliveries of its new Boeing 747-8 aircraft will be later than previously promised. Says Boeing: Delivery of the first 747-8 Freighter will move from late...
View ArticleHappy birthday to the big guy
comments ()We saw a story on the BBC web site about the Boeing 747, which began its test flights 40 years ago Monday. The story notes how 747 changed commercial aviation, both by lowering the per-seat...
View ArticleAmerican flies Boeing 767-300 with winglets on the wingtips
comments ()American Airlines on Sunday flew its first Boeing 767-300ER passenger flight with the newly installed winglets to give the airplane greater fuel efficiency. American said the aircraft flew...
View ArticleMonday morning trivia
comments ()So you know American Airlines’ airplanes? Then tell us: Which aircraft type is the oldest in American’s fleet? Bonus question: which of American’s airplanes are the youngest. Here are the...
View ArticleAmerican takes delivery of new Boeing 737-800s
comments ()American Airlines today is celebrating the delivery of its first new Boeing 737-800s since 2001, and its first new airplanes of any kind since 2006. What people may notice is the new...
View ArticleMaking sense of AA’s Boeing 737 purchase
comments ()Why, you might ask, is American Airlines buying new Boeing 737 airplanes when it is losing so much money? The answer is simply that it wasn’t losing money in March 2007 when it announced the...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines hopes smaller airplanes mean bigger profits
comments ()How can you reduce capacity on a route without reducing flights? The answer is that you put a smaller airplane on the route. That can become problematical when your smallest trans-Atlantic...
View ArticleUnited is looking to buy airplanes?
comments ()According to the Wall Street Journal, United Airlines has asked Boeing and Airbus to bid on the purchase of up to 150 airplanes. That’s an interesting development, given that United has been...
View ArticleQantas defers, cancels Boeing 787 orders
comments ()Qantas Airways announced Friday (Thursday afternoon in Dallas) that it was deferring delivery of 15 of its Boeing 787s for four years. It also canceled its order for 15 of the jets, saving...
View ArticleBoeing to snap up Vought’s 787 facilities?
comments ()King Blogger Jon Ostrower, he of many Boeing-related scoops, is reporting that Chicago-based Boeing is looking to buy up the 787 Dreamliner production facilities from Dallas’ Vought Aircraft...
View ArticleRumors confirmed: Boeing buys out Vought in S.C.
comments ()Sometimes the Interwebs are prescient: King Blogger Jon Ostrower broke this news last week, and now the parties have confirmed it. The deal, if completed, shuts a difficult chapter for...
View ArticleBoeing 737 airplane in incident was 15 years old
comments ()The Boeing 737-300 jet that developed the hole was delivered in 1994, with a registration date of May 13, 1994. That makes it, at age 15, on the younger side of the Boeing 737-300s that...
View ArticleCould 787 delays get any worse? Yes, paper says
comments ()My hometown Seattle Times has a nice scoop this morning about Boeing Co.’s Dreamliner, already two years behind schedule, is now looking at as much as six months more delay to fix the area...
View ArticleAA completes scratch inspections on 737s
comments ()Here’s a quick short on inspections that wrapped up last night: Fort Worth-based American Airlines Inc. completed inspections of 80 Boeing 737s in its fleet on Sunday night after examining...
View ArticleBoeing’s Scott Carson to retire at year’s end
comments ()You could put whatever spin you want on this, but Boeing announced Monday that Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Scott Carson will retire at year’s end and leave his top job at...
View ArticleDreamliner first flight up in a moment, allegedly
comments ()Here’s a link I’m watching if you want to watch as well, courtesy of the Seattle Times. They’re saying the flight could be at 12:10 Dallas time depending on weather. Try the TV station for a...
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