Company Watch - Boeing.May 21, 2007 Air Astana Air Astana is an airline based in Astana, Kazakhstan. It is the national carrier of Kazakhstan and operates scheduled domestic and international services. Its main bases are Astana International Airport and Almaty International Airport[1]. , the Kazakhstan flag carrier, celebrated its fifth anniversary with the delivery of its second Boeing 767-300ER. Its fleet also includes four 757s, two A321s, five A320s and five F50s. The 767s are operated on routes to Amsterdam, Beijing, Bangkok, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hannover and Seoul as well as on domestic trunk routes from Almaty to Astana and Atyrau. May 18, 2007 Hawaiian Airlines Hawaiian Airlines is the 11th largest commercial airline in the United States. It is the largest airline based in the State of Hawai'i and is commonly referred to by the acronym "HAL". is contracting with Air New Zealand Parameter not given Error... ''Template needs its first parameter as beg[in], mid[dle], or end. Parameter not given Error... to maintain Hawaiian's fleet of Boeing 767-300 aircraft in Auckland, a newspaper reported Monday. May 14, 2007 Boeing has secured over 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. $10 billion of plane orders from Arab carriers in the last three years fueled by growth in passenger traffic and an economic boom, a senior company official said on Sunday. The plane manufacturer was also engaged in negotiations with undisclosed Arab carriers for major orders this year, Monson (Lee Monson, senior vice president, Middle East and Africa) said, declining to give details. Boeing also made a deal last week worth USD$2.26 billion with the Kuwaiti aircraft leasing firm Alafco to sell 12 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner planes, and six Boeing 737-800 planes, he said. May 20, 2007 Boeing Business Jets today announced, at Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. [sup.1]s EBACE EBACE European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition Business Aviation show, it has won seven new orders this year, bringing total program sales to 135 jets. The new orders are worth $478.5 million at list prices. The new orders are for six BBJs, high-performance derivatives of the commercially popular Next-Generation Boeing 737-700, and one 787-9 VIP jet. The 787 VIP jet is based on the most successfully launched commercial airplane, the 787 Dreamliner. May 20, 2007 Boeing took delivery of the final section of the first 787 Wednesday in Everett, Wash. The piece, the center fuselage including the center wing box, was assembled and delivered by Global Aeronautica in South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. via the Dreamlifter freighter. The forward and rear fuselage sections were delivered earlier in the week, along with the aircraft's wings, which were manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagoya May 18, 2007 Boeing said three large 787 composite fuselage sections, one forward and two aft, arrived Friday at its Everett plant, where final assembly of the Dreamliner will take place. The all-composite forward section, 21 ft. in diameter and 42 ft. long, was manufactured by Spirit AeroSystems Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. ("Spirit" NYSE: SPR), based in Wichita, Kansas, is the world's largest first-tier aerostructures manufacturer. The company builds several important pieces of Boeing aircraft, including the fuselage of the 737, portions of the 787 fuselage, and the in Wichita. Its landing gear is installed. The two aft composite sections were manufactured and joined by Vought Aircraft Industries in Charleston, S.C. One section is 23 ft. long and 19 ft. in diameter while the other is 15 ft. long and 14 ft. in diameter. The sections were delivered via the Dreamlifter. VP-787 Airplane Definition and Production Scott Strode said the delivery "represents more than 40% of the 787's fuselage structure." May 17, 2007 Boeing said on Wednesday it reached a tentative agreement for a three-year contract with its workers' union The Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1929. See also
Boeing said the composite wings for the 787 were delivered to its final assembly plant in Everett yesterday. Manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagoya, each wing is 98 ft. long. May 16, 2007 Boeing today announced orders for 11 787-8 Dreamliners and 50 Next-Generation 737s with TUI tui: see honeyeater. (Telephone User Interface) The combination of Touch-tone input from the telephone keypad coupled with speech output from the connected voicemail or IVR application. Group, Europe's largest integrated-tourism and shipping company. The orders were previously recorded on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries Web site as unidentified. The value of the orders is approximately $4.7 billion at list prices. Two of the airplanes have since been delivered and identified. May 16, 2007 Boeing was awarded a $7.39 million U.S. Navy contract to redesign circuits used in F/A-18E/F E/F Educator/Facilitator radar. The order, a modification to a previously awarded contract, calls for the redesign of five monolithic microwave integrated circuits used in the F/A-18E/F AN/APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array An Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA), also known as active phased array radar is a type of radar whose transmitter and receiver functions are composed of numerous small transmit/receive (T/R) modules. (AESA AESA Active Electronically Scanned Array AESA ATM End System Address AESA Agence Européenne de la Sécurité Aérienne (French: European Aviation Safety Agency) AESA Association of Educational Service Agencies ) radar. May 16, 2007 Boeing announced that it has reached a tentative agreement for a new three-year contract with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is an AFL-CIO/CLC trade union representing approx. 646,933 workers as of 2006 in more than 200 industries. District 837. Once ratified by the union membership, the contract will provide approximately $24,000 in additional compensation over the term of the agreement. May 16, 2007 Boeing Company announced that its 777 jetliner fleet has completed its 1 millionth flight under regulations for extended operations (ETOPS ETOPS Extended Twin (Engine) Operations ETOPS Extended-Range Twin-Engine Operational Performance Standards ETOPS Extended Twin-Engine Over-water Operations ETOPS Engines Turn(ing) ). Based on reported and projected 777 fleet data, Boeing estimated the 1 millionth 777 ETOPS flight occurred on May 11. May 14, 2007 GKN GKN Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds (British global engineering company) GKN Global Knowledge Network GKN Gemeenschappelijke Kernenergiecentrale Nederland GKN Global Korean Network GKN Iks Gorkon (Star Trek novel Series) Aerospace was selected by Aviation Partners Boeing to produce blended winglets for Boeing 767-300ERs and 737-300s/500s. The agreement covers the supply of up to 300 767-300ER and 200 737-300/-500 shipsets. May 15, 2007 Singapore Technologies Aerospace's SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. Component subsidiary was selected by Martinair to continue its support of the airline's six Boeing 767s under its material supply program for another three years in a deal valued at [euro]18 million ($24.3 million). May 17, 2007 Boeing and Royal Jordanian Royal Jordanian Airlines (Arabic: الملكية الأردنية; transliterated: al-Malakiyah al-Orduniyah) is an airline based in Amman, Jordan, operating scheduled international services over four today announced an order for Boeing's highly sought-after Boeing 787 Dreamliner, confirming two unidentified customer purchases previously listed on Boeing's Orders & Deliveries Web site. The announcement was made at the World Economic Forum, an event sanctioned by the Jordanian royal family and held at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center on Jordan's Dead Sea. Royal Jordanian is the first Middle East airline to announce an order for Boeing's 787. The airline also intends to take an additional eight Boeing 787s on lease. May 20, 2007 Boeing Gets USD$4.7 Bln Order From German Travel Group TUI. Boeing said it has received orders for 11 787-8 Dreamliners and 50 Next-Generation 737s from German shipping and tourism group TUI. The orders, valued at about USD$4.7 billion at list prices, were previously recorded on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries web site as unidentified. May 17, 2007 Kenya Airways 737 Crash Pilot Took Off Despite Storm Warning. The pilot of a Kenya Airways plane that crashed in Cameroon this month decided to take off in stormy weather while other flights waited for conditions to improve, Cameroon's civil aviation chief said on Tuesday. Cameroon has launched an investigation into the crash of the six-month-old Boeing 737-800, which crashed into swampy jungle not far from Douala Airport shortly after taking off around midnight on May 4-5. All 114 people on board were killed. 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