Chris Chadwick, chief executive officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), said the Navy's P-8 anti-submarine jet, based on the Renton-built 737, and the forthcoming Air Force KC-46 tanker, based on the Everett-built 767, will provide work here …
Lined up in a row like Roman columns are three struts of Boeing 757 landing gear embedded into the front of the building. Welcome to the Delta Flight Museum, home to some of … Yep, it's enough to make an aviation geek play hooky and get lost among …
To be fair, Boeing's lead reflects an advantageous point in time. Boeing had been taking commitments for its new 777X aircraft before it launched the jet development programme last November. As expected, airlines have turned many of those commitments …
Buying such a business would allow Chicago-based Boeing greater control over how its jet components find a second life. For now, the commercial aviation-services unit, which manages maintenance, repairs and spare-parts inventory for airlines around the …
Emirates had placed the order at the Dubai Airshow last November where the 777X program was first unveiled, part of what Boeing calls the largest product launch in commercial jetliner history. In addition to the 150 jets, Emirates has reserved purchase …
Boeing has been the center of the core, but potential changes on the horizon could bring new economic diversity to Paine Field. … The plan was to make money from regularly scheduled commercial air service, general aviation and business tenants …
But critics like Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at the Teal Group, an aviation consulting firm in Fairfax, Va., say the main problem is more fundamental: Airbus made the wrong prediction about travel preferences. … A little more than a …
Or, rather, the class between Economy and Business has been a popular addition to aircraft for many years now, every since Virgin Atlantic introduced it way, way back in 1992(!!), but some airlines have held off and, in turn, benefitted from the wait …
In contrast, because in the past two months Emirates canceled 70 Airbus A350 widebodies and Skymark canceled six A380 superjumbos, Airbus's net tally of widebody jet orders so far this year is negative – a deficit of 27 orders.