Company Watch - Boeing.Mar 12, 2007 Air Canada will begin taking delivery next month of eight 777s coming this year and plans to use them to launch daily Vancouver-Sydney flights on Dec. 14, the first nonstop service between Canada and Australia. Air New Zealand Parameter not given Error... ''Template needs its first parameter as beg[in], mid[dle], or end. Parameter not given Error... will codeshare. A 270-seat 777-200LR will replace the -300ER from Feb 1. Mar 7, 2007 Air Canada said it suspended plans to fly to Australia via Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . It will introduce the 777 on its Toronto-London Heathrow service in April. Subsequent introductions will be on Toronto-Frankfurt and Toronto-Tokyo Narita in June, Vancouver-NRT in July and Toronto-Hong Kong in August. It has 18 777s on order. Mar 7, 2007 China gains from aircraft manufacturers' competition Airbus and Boeing have established manufacturing plants in China as part of an effort to win orders from Chinese carriers. "China is the fastest-growing aircraft market in the world by far," said Neil Sims, a project manager who oversees work at the Xi'an Aircraft factory for Airbus. "The Chinese have said to us, 'Give us some of your technology, and we guarantee we will purchase some of your aircraft.' We have to get our share of the cake." Mar 9, 2007 All Nippon Airways accelerated its fleet rationalization program with an order for four more 777-300ERs announced yesterday and the sale of three 747-400s to Oasis Growth Income and Investments for operation by Oasis Hong Kong Airlines Oasis Hong Kong Airlines Limited (Traditional Chinese: 甘泉香港航空有限公司 . The 777s are worth $1 billion at list prices. ANA operates eight 777-300ERs and the new order brings its commitment for the type to 17. It operates 23 747-400s. It sold six to Iceland's Avion Aircraft Trading last summer. Two of the newly sold -400s will leave the fleet this year and the remainder will head to Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. in 2008. Mar 7, 2007 Boeing has sent engineers to supplier firms to help them stay on schedule as the planemaker works toward a May 2008 first delivery of the 787 to Japan's All Nippon Airways. Mar 7, 2007 American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the will consider 737-800 American Airlines Chief Financial Officer Tom Horton says the carrier will consider Boeing 737-800s to replace its fleet of Boeing/McDonnell-Douglas MD-80s. He says American plans to make an announcement about its fleet-replacement plans "in the near future." Mar 9, 2007 Boeing Says 787 On Track For July Roll-Out Boeing chief executive Jim McNerney said development of the lanemaker's new 787 model was on track and the company did not expect the US government to cancel a USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. $15 billion helicopter deal it had won. Mar 8, 2007 Strong demand boosts margins for Boeing, executive says Market conditions are helping Boeing meet its goal of boosting margins by 10%, Boeing Chief Financial Officer James Bell said Wednesday. Prices for commercial jets were affected by production problems at European jetmaker Airbus, but they have since stabilized, Bell noted. Mar 8, 2007 Boeing is having to compete a second time for a major US mid-air refuelling re·fu·el v. re·fu·eled also re·fu·elled, re·fu·el·ing also re·fu·el·ling, re·fu·els also re·fu·els v.tr. To supply again with fuel. v.intr. plane deal after a scandal in 2004 led to the resignation of a senior Air Force arms buyer and a Boeing executive and scuppered a USD$23.5 billion plan to lease and buy Boeing 767s. Mar 7, 2007 Boeing named Integrated Defense Systems Integrated Defense Systems may refer to:
Boeing topped Airbus in new plane orders in 2006 for the first time since 2000, helped by continued strong demand for its smallest model, the single-aisle 737. Despite strong sales currently, analysts expect Boeing with its 737 and Airbus with its competing A320 series to offer successors to those models some time around 2014, but Boeing chief executive McNerney said the situation remained fluid. Mar 7, 2007 Boeing said yesterday it reached agreement with express cargo operator DHL DHL abbr. 1. Doctor of Hebrew Letters 2. Doctor of Hebrew Literature on an order for six 767-300ER freighters valued at $894 million. It chose General Electric CF6-80C2B C2B Consumer to Business (consumers naming their price for various products or services) C2B Command and Control Battlelab C2B Consulting to Business C2B Commerce to Business C2B Customer to Business C2B Client to Business 7Fs valued at more than $120 million to power the aircraft. DHL Express CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. John Mullen said the aircraft will be delivered beginning in 2009 and likely will be dedicated to US routes. A DHL spokesperson said it is undecided which of the company's affiliated contract carriers will operate the freighters. Astar Air Cargo ASTAR Air Cargo is an American cargo airline based in Miami, Florida, USA. It operates regularly secheduled cargo charter services to over 34 US airports and nine international airports, as well as worldwide charter freight services. and ABX Air are its largest US subservice carriers and it is the process of finalizing a deal to acquire a 49% equity interest and a 25% voting interest in Polar Air Cargo Polar Air Cargo is an American cargo airline based in Purchase, New York, USA. It operates scheduled all-cargo services to Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Americas. Its main base is John F. . Mar 9, 2007 Singapore Technologies Aerospace and Boeing announced that ST Aero's ST Aviation Services Co. was selected to perform "certain passenger-to-freighter conversions" under the 767-300 Boeing Converted Freighter program, with ANA as its first customer. ANA launched the 767-300BCF BCF Billion Cubic Feet BCF Bioconcentration Factor BCF British Chess Federation BCF British Coatings Federation BCF Breast Cancer Fund BCF Bank Credit Facility BCF Bulked Continuous Filament BCF British Cycling Federation BCF Boeing Converted Freighter program in 2005. SASCO SASCO ST (Singapore Technologies) Aviation Services Co. SASCO South African Students Congress SASCO Sudanese Aeronautical Services Co. Ltd will perform conversions on five firm aircraft with two options. The initial ANA commitment was for three firm and four options. SASCO is the second conversion center chosen by Boeing for the 767-300 after Aeronavali of Italy. Boeing Commercial Airplanes Boeing Commercial Airplanes is a unit of The Boeing Company, based in Renton, Washington consisting of the Seattle-based former Boeing Airplane Company (the civil airliner division), as well as the Long Beach-based Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas VP-Freighter Conversions Marco Cavazzoni explained Wednesday that Aeronavali is "very busy" on the 767-200 conversion program. The first aircraft arrives in Singapore in October with redelivery expected in June 2008. ST Aero President Tay Kok Khiang said the company expects successive conversions to take around 120 days. ST Aero valued the agreement with Boeing at S$208 million ($136 million) over 10 years. The 767-300BCF will have "about the same cargo capability" as a production model 767-300F: Approximately 50 tonnes structural payload at a range of about 3,000 nm. and 412,000 lb. MTOW MTOW Maximum Take-off Weight MTOW My Type Of Woman . Mar 8, 2007 CIT n. 1. A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; - used contemptuously. Which past endurance sting the tender cit. - Emerson. Aerospace placed a $200 million engine order for General Electric GEnx-1B64s to power three Boeing 787s and GE CF6-80E1s to power four Airbus A330s. The lessor will take delivery of the aircraft in 2008-13. Mar 9, 2007 Emirates will lease five 777-300ERs from GECAS GECAS General Electric Commercial Aviation Services to bridge the gap created by the A380 delay. Delivery is scheduled for the second half of next year. Emirates operates 23 of the type and has firm commitments for 36, including this week's order Mar 7, 2007 Indonesian safety standards questioned following Garuda crash that kills 22 Indonesia's air safety record was under intense scrutiny yesterday following a second fatal 737-400 accident in 10 weeks, this one involving a Garuda Indonesia aircraft that skidded off a runway upon landing in Yogyakarta and caught fire in an adjacent rice field, killing 21 of 133 passengers and one of seven crewmembers. Mar 8, 2007 Garuda Plane's Front Exit Didn't Open The main front left exit of the Garuda Indonesia plane that crashed this week failed to open after landing, preventing some of the passengers from escaping, a leading crash investigator said on Friday. Mar 9, 2007 Garuda Indonesia 737-400 en route from Jakarta caught fire upon landing in Yogyakarta late yesterday. A local official told Reuters that "it happened when it overshot overshot protruding. overshot fetlock see knuckling over. overshot jaw See brachygnathia. Called also parrot mouth. beyond the runway and burst into flames." There reportedly were 133 passengers and seven crew onboard. Indonesian Transport Minister Hatta Rajasa told local television that 76 people were rescued, according to Bloomberg News. Witnesses reported fatalities. An airport official told local radio that he "saw many bodies, dozens of bodies badly burnt near the exit," according to Fox News in Australia. Indonesia still is dealing with the aftermath of January's crash of an Adam Air 737-400 that killed 102 and was considering banning all aircraft older than 10 years. No further information on the aircraft involved yesteday was available and Garuda's website was not functioning. Mar 7, 2007 Gulf Air grounded its nine 767-300ERs Friday after detecting traces of corrosion on one plane during a routine maintenance check. The airline said there was no immediate risk to the aircraft but that it opted to order a thorough check of the entire -300ER fleet. It expects significant delays as it repositions aircraft throughout its network but said the 767s should return to service within days. Mar 5, 2007 03/12/2007 Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. Mar 5, 2007 |
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