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Boeing Celebrates 500th Delivery of 737 with Boeing Sky Interior

Boeing’s popular passenger-inspired 737 Boeing Sky Interior today marked its 500th delivery and its second anniversary in service. The Next-Generation 737-800 was delivered to Newport Beach, Calif.-based leasing company Aviation Capital Group (ACG). Panama-based Copa Airlines will lease and operate the new airplane. “Our customers and their passengers tell us the 737 Boeing Sky Interior […]

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Copa Airlines to operate the Next-Generation 737-800

Boeing Celebrates 500th Delivery of 737 with Boeing Sky Interior Boeing’s popular passenger-inspired 737 Boeing Sky Interior today marked its 500th delivery and its second anniversary in service. The Next-Generation 737-800 was delivered to Newport Beach, Calif.-based leasing company Aviation Capital Group (ACG). Panama-based Copa Airlines will lease and operate the new airplane. “Our customers […]

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Boeing Delivers Royal Australian Air Force’s 6th C-17

Airlifter delivered 5 months after contract signing; will enhance Australia’s ability to provide humanitarian support and disaster relief Boeing delivered the sixth Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-17 Globemaster III today at the company’s final assembly facility in Long Beach. The airlifter will be assigned to No. 36 Squadron at RAAF Base Amberley near Brisbane, […]

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Ethiopian Dreamliner used to assist Black Lion Hospital

Ethiopian Airlines in partnership with Boeing and Seattle Anesthesia Outreach (SAO) delivers approximately 20,000 pounds (9,000 kilograms) of medical supplies to Black Lion Teaching and Referral Hospital – Ethiopia’s largest hospital. The delivery was made using Ethiopian third 787 Dreamliner, marking the first time a Dreamliner has been used as part of Ethiopian and Boeing’s […]

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Boeing’s WTO Default Prompts $ 12 Bn in Annual Sanctions

The EU today filed a request for the WTO to grant USD 12 Bn in annual sanctions, following Boeing’s failure to address the clear verdict it suffered in the WTO’s March 2012 final judgment. It is the largest WTO penalty ever requested and it follows the worst loss a party has seen in the history […]

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Boeing Projects High Demand for Aviation Personnel

Boeing  predicts the Asia Pacific region will require hundreds of thousands of new commercial airline pilots and maintenance technicians over the next 20 years to support airline fleet modernization and the rapid growth of air travel. The 2012 Boeing Pilot & Technician Outlook, a respected industry forecast of required aviation personnel, calls for 185,600 new […]

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Air Astana Launches Astana-Omsk Flight

  Air Astana will launch a new scheduled service from Astana to Omsk, Russia on 16th July. Flights to this major Siberian industrial and transportation center will be operated by Fokker 50 twice weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays. Flight KC279 departs from Astana at 07.55, arriving in Omsk at 10.30 local time. The return flight […]

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United Airlines’ First 787 Takes Flight

United Airlines’ first 787 Dreamliner has completed its first production flight as Boeing makes final preparations for delivering it to United at the end of September. The aircraft took off from Boeing’s Paine Field in Everett, Wash., on Sunday. Boeing pilots flew the 787 around the Seattle area for more than three hours as part […]

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Fuel costs are eating AA`s lunch

AMR Corp.’s American Airlines struck historic deals recently to buy, over the next 14 years, up to 925 Airbus and Boeing aircraft worth $38 billion, but it doesn’t ensure the Fort Worth carrier’s survival, industry analysts and observers say. With a 600-aircraft fleet averaging 15 years old – one of the oldest fleets in the […]

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Boeing seen posting profit with all eyes on commercial programs

Analysts expect Boeing Co to report a narrowed quarterly profit on Wednesday, but Wall Street will be looking for executive comments on its high-profile commercial airplane programs. The world’s largest aerospace and defense company is expected to post a second-quarter profit of 97 cents a share, according to analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. A […]