A community portal about Boeing 737 with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Boeing 737 is the world's most popular medium-range, narrowbody commercial passenger jet aircraft. With over 6,000 ordered and over 5...
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A community portal about Boeing 737 with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Boeing 737 is the world's most popular medium-range, narrowbody commercial passenger jet aircraft. With over 6,000 ordered and over 5,000 delivered, it is the most ordered and produced commercial airliner of all time and has been continuously manufactured by Boeing since 1967. The 737 is now so widely used that at any given time, there are over 1,250 airborne worldwide. On average, one takes off or lands every five seconds.
New daily nonstop service between Atlanta and Honduras' capital city starts Dec.18, 2008 - - ATLANTA.— Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) will launch the first-ever nonstop dailyDelta 737-700 taking offflight... [WebWire - Thursday, July 24, 2008]
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Copa Airlines, a subsidiary of Latin American carrier Copa Holdings SA, said Tuesday it ordered two Boeing 737-800 planes, ...
Delays in two key programs, one in commercial airplanes and the other in defense, put a dent in Boeing’s results for the second quarter, which were reported Wednesday.
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines said its TechOps maintenance division has signed a $200 million contract to overhaul and repair engines for Alaska Airlines' Boeing 737-700 and 737-900 aircraft for seven years. The work will be performed in Atlanta, where Delta TechOps does all of its engine work...
In a free wheeling chat with ET, Boeing senior vice president sales (commercial airplanes) Dinesh A Keskar said, “More consolidation in the Indian private ...
Domodedovo Technik Enters Boeing 737 C-Check Market From July 14 till July 18 EASA audited Domodedovo Technik in order to certify the maintenance services of Boeing 737 in the form of C-Check including repair ...
Boeing Commercial Airplanes posted operating earnings of $777 million on revenue of $8.6 billion in the second quarter of 2008, a 6 percent drop from the $960 million operating profit reported for the year ...
No Wonder His Patriotism Gets Questioned
When John McCormick reported
Obama replaced his Boeing 737 campaign plane with a Boeing 757,
he noted the new aircraft had "a giant flag painted on its
tail."
In yet another display of his patriotism, Obama replaced the
American flag with the Obama...
Boeing has announced it has achieved power-on of the hydraulic systems for the first 787 , taking one small step closer to the scheduled first flight event in the fourth quarter.
Undeterred by the rising jet fuel prices, Zambezi Airlines announced this week that it is acquiring a Boeing 737-300 aircraft, in what it hopes to be a serious attempt to establish itself as a "regional player". Not sure adding one aircraft would do the job, but acquiring the 737-300 gives it some bragging rights, for now, because Zambian Airways fleet has 737-200s.
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The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] this week delivered a Next-Generation 737-800 to Toronto-based Sunwing Airlines.
The third new Next-Generation 737 to be delivered to Sunwing and the first to be operated on lease from lessor Aviation Capital Group (ACG), the airplane is equipped with performance-enhancing Blended Winglets, which improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions by up to 4 percent.
The delivery of this Next-Generation 737-800 enhances our fleet with the most cost-efficient...
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Boeing published a press release yesterday on the delivery of the first Boeing 737-900ER aircraft to GE Commercial Aircraft Services. GECAS will lease the planes to Futura International Airways. These two airplanes fly farther and more efficiently than all other 737 aircraft.
What is "deja vu" interesting to me is that the B737-900ER looks like and has similar lift and range capabilities to the original 707. The first B707-120 carried 179 passengers. The 737 started as a shortened...
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Spectrum Common Test System for Boeing 737-777 airplanes supports ... Boeing 737-767 LRUs. Name. LRU. Dash Number. WEU SIREN OWL. 285T0034- ...
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Though statistically flying is nowadays an extremely safe form of transportation, accidents do occur. The relative rarity of such incidents coupled with the often dramatic outcome, is definitely one reason why such incidents still make breaking news across the globe. Even though the odds of actually getting caught in a plane crash are nowadays distinctly low (the odds of dying on a commercial airline flight are as low as 9 million to 1!) compared to other means of transportation, the...
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