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Taiwan’s China Airlines to Buy 16 Boeing 787s in $4.6 Billion Deal
September 1, 2022
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Taiwan’s China Airlines Ltd said on Tuesday it would buy 16 Boeing Co 787 wide-body planes to replace its aging fleet of Airbus A330s following a widely watched contest held against the backdrop of regional tensions. The politically sensitive deal worth $4.6 billion at list prices was announced by the government-backed carrier weeks after a…
Boeing Receives Order for Eight More 767 Freighter Jets From UPS
Boeing Co. said on Monday package delivery giant United Parcel Services Inc. had placed an order for additional eight 767 freighter jets. The new order will bring UPS’s 767 freighter fleet to 108 jets, Boeing said, adding that deliveries of the new jets will begin in 2025, but without revealing the financial details of the…
Boeing Receives Order for 8 More 767 Freighter Jets From UPS
Boeing Co. said on Monday package delivery giant United Parcel Services Inc. had placed an order for additional eight 767 freighter jets. The new order will bring UPS’s 767 freighter fleet to 108 jets, Boeing said, adding that deliveries of the new jets will begin in 2025, but without revealing the financial details of the…
Boeing Astronaut Flight Off Until Next Year for More Fixes
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US FAA Issues New Safety Directive on Boeing 777 Airplanes
WASHINGTON—The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday issued an airworthiness directive for all Boeing 777 airplanes over safety concerns. The directive was prompted by high electrical resistance within the gust suppression sensor because of corrosion. The FAA said the gust suppression function is a non-essential feature that provides a minor improvement to ride quality during…
Over 2,000 Boeing Defense Workers to Go on Strike in August After Rejecting Contract Deal
Approximately 2,500 members of a union that represents three Boeing Co. defense locations in Missouri are set to go on strike next month after they voted to reject the plane maker’s contract offer. The International Association of Machinists (IAM) and Aerospace Workers District 837 confirmed the planned strike, which comes after weeks of bargaining, in a…
Boeing ‘Very Close’ to Delivering 787 Dreamliner After 2 Years
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Boeing Says ‘Lessons Learned’ From Costly Air Force One Deal
LONDON—Boeing’s defense chief said on Sunday it had learned lessons from a contract to supply the U.S. presidency with new Air Force One aircraft, which has cost the planemaker almost $1 billion in charges and is up to three years behind schedule. Ted Colbert did not give details of learnings, but said they had contributed…
Virgin Galactic Partners With Boeing’s Aurora to Develop New Motherships
Virgin Galactic announced Wednesday that Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences will help design and build its next-generation motherships. The mothership is a dual-fuselage aircraft carrier that takes off and carries the Virgin Galactic spaceship to its release altitude of around 50,000 feet, where the spaceship then launches from atop the mothership into space. The current…
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