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United announces largest widebody aircraft order ever placed by a U.S. carrier
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — United Airlines today announced the largest widebody order by a U.S. airline in commercial aviation history: 100 Boeing 787 Dreamliners with options to purchase 100 more. United expects to take delivery of the new widebody planes between 2024 and 2032 and keeps the right to choose among the 787-8, 9, or 10 models. (www.airlinerwatch.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If each aircraft burns an average of 4 tonnes of kerosene per flight and does 5 flights per day.. 4 x 5 x 200 airplanes = 4000 tonnes per day.... is that a lot of pollution released into the atmosphere each day? Just putting it out there.
787 is a great airplane and makes sense. 737(of any vintage) doesn't make sense.
Maybe the 737 doesn’t make sense, but it makes dollars, euros, etc. The 737 MAX is and will continue to be a moneymaker for the airlines which operate it, though probably not for Boeing when all is said and done.
As a former B777 pilot, I was always proud of that airliner. The triple seven was the first aircraft to be designed entirely by computer CAD and never had a mock-up made before production. Delta was on track to do away with its small fleet of 777s but began refurbishing the 400s in 2017. The refurbished models were great aircraft and had that right off of the assembly line smell when you entered the flight deck. But shortly after the pandemic hit and airlines stacking up planes anywhere they could find room, the Delta 777s were taken out of service never to return.
The Max and the Dreamliner are appropriate aircraft to to take on the future of modern airliners. As an ATP, my days of flying will soon come to an end as I reach that day of the midnight of my 65th birthday. After 34 years of flying mostly Boeing aircraft, I’m glad to see Boeing moving ahead with such a tremendous order. I have nothing against Airbus but I have never liked the idea of a flight management system (computer) having more say so than the PIC. Now we hear talk of a single pilot (can you say flight manager?j on the flight deck in the near future! Time to retire…
The Max and the Dreamliner are appropriate aircraft to to take on the future of modern airliners. As an ATP, my days of flying will soon come to an end as I reach that day of the midnight of my 65th birthday. After 34 years of flying mostly Boeing aircraft, I’m glad to see Boeing moving ahead with such a tremendous order. I have nothing against Airbus but I have never liked the idea of a flight management system (computer) having more say so than the PIC. Now we hear talk of a single pilot (can you say flight manager?j on the flight deck in the near future! Time to retire…
Best of all, they're buying an American product!
funny post!