It is now 72 hours since a wrong report about Virgin Blue getting Boeing 777-200LRs in Air Transport World sent sites like Airliners.net into a frenzy of learned discussion.
This report also excited contacts in Qantas sufficiently for them to give it credence, and cause this report in Plane Talking. Except that I changed my [...]
Tag Archives: Boeing 737
Incorrect if not fanciful reporting about Virgin Blue
November 8, 2009 – 7:54 am
Air NZ chooses Airbuses to replace old Boeing 737s
November 3, 2009 – 11:38 am
Boeing can console itself with the near certainty of a large order for new jets from Virgin Blue in the coming weeks or months after this morning losing the contest to replace Air New Zealand’s aged fleet of Boeing 737-300s.
Air NZ has ordered 14 A320s to replace the 15 Boeings involved, and taken options on [...]
Solyent Green (the sci-fi flick for seniors) meets the Boeing 737
April 29, 2009 – 11:20 am
The Boeing 737 just became prettier and meaner at the same moment in Seattle today.
The ‘prettier’ bit is a new interior with fancy LED lights in the ceiling which will be delivered in new 737s from about now.
The ‘meaner’ parts, which the airline bean counters will also find very pretty, is a substantial package of [...]
Boeing drops hints of a new super green 737
April 18, 2009 – 9:44 am
Boeing may be close to launching a major upgrade to its 737 single aisle jet family if hints it dropped at the delivery ceremony for No 6000 to come off the line this week mean anything.
The 737 is the most flown jet ever and has been around since 1968 although technically everything in the early [...]
Boeing’s bad day out
November 5, 2008 – 11:59 am
If the news about the Dreamliner screw up this morning (in today’s Crikey) isn’t bad enough to warrant being sneaked out on US election day, there is also a further problem with its single aisle 737 assembly process in Seattle.
One of assembly lines was kept partially open during the recent 57 day machinists strike [...]
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