Posts Tagged ‘Boeing’
Qatar Air Not Interested in Boeing 777X
Qatar Airways is not interested in ordering Boeing’s proposed 777X wide-body jet, its chief executive said. Asked whether the Gulf carrier was looking at ordering a revamped version of Boeing’s 777 mini-jumbo...
Korean Air To Buy Boeings Worth USD$3.77 Bln
Korean Air Lines said on Thursday it would buy KRW3.98 trillion won (USD$3.77 billion) worth of aircraft from Boeing. The South Korean flag carrier said in a regulatory filing that the purchase would include five Boeing ...
Boeing Slows Production Of 747-8
Boeing said on Friday it was notching down the production rate of its biggest aircraft, the 747-8, due to slack demand. The slowdown won’t affect financial forecasts for Boeing, analysts said, because production of...
Toilet Malfunction Forces JAL 787 To Turn Around
Japan Airlines was forced to turn around its Tokyo-bound flight from Moscow on Thursday due to a problem in the Boeing 787 jet’s lavatory, a spokesman for the Japanese carrier said. JAL spokesman Takuya Shimoguchi ...
Norwegian Takes Second 787 Out For Checks
Norwegian Air Shuttle plans to take its second Boeing Dreamliner out of operation for precautionary checks after repeated hydraulic and electrical faults led to the grounding of its other 787. The carrier said on Wednesd...
Norwegian Air CEO More Positive On 787
The chief executive of Norwegian Air Shuttle, Bjorn Kjos, said on Thursday that Boeing changed the design of a hydraulic pump that failed on its 787 Dreamliner in recent weeks, a failure that caused the plane to be taken...
