Check out the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Boeing announced a 6 month delay in shipping the new Dreamliner series!
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Check out the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Boeing announced a 6 month delay in shipping the new Dreamliner series!
Will this new airplane improve Boeing's business metrics, revenue, and profit potential? Can Boeing leverage the Dreamliner to compete in the world markets for airplane orders?
Track Dreamliner orders and sales as well as general business news about Boeing.
Boeing Co. has started "final gauntlet" testing on its first 787 jetliner, an important step before the new plane makes its first flight. In an e-mail Wednesday to The Associated Press, a Boeing Commercial Airplanes spokeswoman said the static tests will last a couple of days and will verify the flight readiness of the aircraft. Technicians also are retesting changes made to the plane's software in recent months. When the tests are completed Boeing will run the plane through taxi tests... Read Full Story
United Airlines on Tuesday announced firm orders for 25 Airbus and 25 Boeing next-generation widebody aircraft in a bid to lower operating costs and expand international destinations. United said it ordered 25 Airbus 350 XWB aircraft and 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, and taken future purchase rights for 50 of each aircraft. The Chicago-based airline said it was "a significant investment in the company's future with a widebody aircraft order that will enable the carrier to reduce... Read Full Story
PARIS (Reuters) - United Airlines <UAUA.O> looked set on Tuesday to place a $10 billion-plus order for mid-sized wide-bodied jets that includes 25 A350 planes from European planemaker Airbus <EAD.PA>, industry sources said. The order is part of a request for up to 150 airliners of various sizes from the UAL Corp <UAUA.O subsidiary that marks a rare big-ticket deal in a depressed market and a long-awaited bounce in U.S. investment after years of airline restructuring. An industry source... Read Full Story
United Airlines unveiled Tuesday a mulitbillion-dollar aircraft order evenly split between Airbus and Boeing, a move to help the US carrier upgrade its aging fleet. The US airline said it expected to take delivery on 50 future twin-aisle, wide-body planes between 2016 and 2019 as it phases out older Boeing aircraft. United said it placed firm orders for 25 Airbus 350 XWBs and 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, and taken options on the purchase of 50 more of each aircraft. Analysts said United was... Read Full Story
United Airlines says it placed an order for 25 of Boeing's long-awaited 787 widebody jetliners and 25 of the A350 aircraft from Airbus. United Airlines said this summer it was seeking dueling proposals from Boeing and Airbus to replace the biggest jets that make up nearly half of its fleet. The orders come with future rights for 50 of each aircraft, United Airlines says. Financial terms were not disclosed. The airline says the new jets will reduce fuel burn and environmental impact, while... Read Full Story
By Kevin Meyer I was digging through some articles I'd saved and came across a a piece from a week ago in the WSJ on Oracle and Larry Ellison . What's the guy up to thee days? Racing another yacht? Building another villa? Plotting another takeover? No, he's insourcing. Larry, of all people. Larry Ellison is known for forward thinking. With his new business
model, though, the billionaire chief executive of software maker Oracle Corp. is taking a page from the past. "It is back to the... Read Full Story
SEATTLE — Boeing Co. has started “final gauntlet” testing on its first 787 jetliner, an important step before the new plane makes its first flight.
In an e-mail Wednesday to The Associated Press, a Boeing Commercial Airplanes spokeswoman said the static tests will last a couple of days and will verify the flight readiness of the aircraft. Technicians also are retesting changes made to the plane’s software in recent months. When the tests are completed Boeing will run the plane through... Read Full Story
U.S. markets close down Tuesday
NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. markets followed markets in Asia and Europe with a quick slide Tuesday, with the major boards in red ink through the day.
Weakness was widespread. Bank of America shares dropped 3.02 percent, while Citigroup shares gave up 2.98 percent. Shares of Sprint Nextel lost 6.46 percent. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer fell 1.66 percent, while General Electric shares lost 2.24 percent.
By close, the Dow Jones industrial average fell... Read Full Story
PARIS/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Engineers at Airbus and Boeing are racing against the clock to carry out long-awaited test flights and shore up ventures worth billions of dollars. Boeing says its next-generation 787 Dreamliner passenger jet will fly this month, and Airbus plans a maiden sortie for its A400M military transporter as early as next week. Both have set themselves a year-end deadline to end harrowing birth pangs. The sleek jet and rugged propeller plane could not look less like runners... Read Full Story
US aerospace giant Boeing said Wednesday it had fueled its new 787 Dreamliner in preparation for a first test flight planned this month. "We've already put the fuel into the airplane," Boeing spokeswoman Yvonne Leach told AFP, adding that the operation occurred in recent days. A static test of the fuselage was completed Monday and an analysis of the results could take about 10 days, she said. Boeing reaffirmed two weeks ago that its delay-plagued 787 Dreamliner remained on track for its... Read Full Story
