Interesting question, travelhound, thanks! I've had this question in mind and been checking orders and deliveries now and again. The B772 has just about been discontinued, but the 777ER (including freighters) gathered no less than 92 new orders last year - which looks like the highest annual total e...
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Jump to postSo sorry to hear this - a great guy, great entertainer, and so unassuming......... Had the luck to see him 'live' a couple of times. This has to be one of the best live performances anyone ever made anywhere................. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EJ1kZ0yBzg" target="_blank">http:/...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tortugamon" class="quote" target="_blank">tortugamon</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i> If this becomes the plan do yo...
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Jump to postHas to be pointed out, too, that Boeing are still selling the current 777ER and the freighter version - no less than 98 deliveries last year, the highest ever. And the <acronym title="DHL Worldwide Express (Belgium)">ER</acronym> only entered service in 2004, it's still quite a 'new' design. Indeed,...
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Jump to postTurns out that the NTSB has already had a hearing. Looks as if it was 'pilot error,' and Boeing are in the clear................ <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_24700728/sfo-asiana-flight-214-hearing-begins-prevent-repeat" target="_blank">http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-wo...-2...
Jump to postWe have to bear in mind that (as far as I recall) three people were killed and about 180 injured? To my mind it is entirely appropriate that all the circumstances of the crash should be examined and a class action in court is an entirely appropriate way of doing that; probably the only way to establ...
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Jump to postVery good points, IMO, seabosdca. There is a very noticeable 'gap' between the A320s/B737s and the B787s/A350s. And another one is developing, between the B787s/A350s and the forthcoming 'up-graded' B778/9s........ And I further agree that, in the absence of any true new 'mid-sizes' even being thoug...
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Jump to postI see 'interesting times ahead.' One has to remember that the two firms adopted differing approaches - Boeing started with the smallest type, and provided for two stretches; Airbus started 'in the middle' with the A359. So Boeing seem virtually to have captured the market for the B788 size, but the ...
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Jump to postOK, see the problem. My figure is from 'deliveries,' not 'orders'............
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Jump to postI'd say 8,200nms. is 'ultra' enough for most of us, KarelXWB.
But anyway, how, in your view, will Airbus compete with them? Just stick to the A380?